William J. Gallagher is the President of CFGMS. Prior to becoming the President of CFGMS, Mr. Gallagher was the Chief Credit Officer of CapFlow Funding Group where he was responsible for all aspects of underwriting and credit risk management.
Prior to co-founding CapFlow Funding Group, Mr. Gallagher was a Managing Director at Hudson Castle Group, a financial services company which provides debt financing solutions to the global financial institutions sector where he was head of capital markets and treasury management, responsible for managing the daily funding of five asset-backed finance companies with $20-25 billion outstanding. Prior to joining Hudson Castle Group, he served as a Director in the Fixed Income Division at Barclays Capital, heading the front-end high grade corporate bond and credit trading group, specializing in the analysis and trading of the short-term debt of global financial institutions. In this capacity, Mr. Gallagher advised senior management and corporate clients on front-end credit market trends, debt issuance and liability management.
From 1991 to 2004, Mr. Gallagher held various institutional trading positions in the Fixed Income Division at Lehman Brothers in New York City, including senior trader on the high grade credit and commercial paper trading desks. As a Senior Vice President on the institutional commercial paper trading desk, Mr. Gallagher was responsible for leading a team of traders in the new issuance and secondary trading of investment-grade corporate bonds, floating rate notes and commercial paper.
Mr. Gallagher received his B.A. in economics from Villanova University in 1989.
