John Aylward is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Sona Asset Management. He has 22 years of experience in the credit market and founded the firm in March 2016. John’s career began back in 2002 at Deutsche Bank (DB). There he gained broad credit experience in a variety of roles before being appointed as the head of high yield trading. In May 2010, John left DB to join Claren Road Asset Management, a long/short credit manager, where he headed up their European corporate credit strategy. He joined Highbridge Capital, a multi-strategy firm, in April 2014, to run their European credit business. John graduated from Trinity College in Dublin with an LLB Law.