Paul Horvath is the CEO and Founder of Orchard Global. Orchard provides lending and risk-transfer solutions across a range of private and public markets strategies. Prior to Orchard, he held leadership roles in credit, structured credit, alternative assets, and derivatives at J.P Morgan and Merrill Lynch. While there, he helped to create and grow: the Credit Derivatives, Credit Correlation, Structured Credit and Bank Regulatory Capital Relief markets, helping banks manage the capital exposure through repeated economic downturns. Horvath also helped to create non-dollar high yield, the non-dollar ABS, the Trust Preferred and the Alternative Tier One capital markets in Europe and America. Horvath started his career with positions at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Bear Stearns, where he monitored the Mortgaged-Backed Securities sector as well as the Bank and Thrift industry. Horvath maintains close contacts on both sides of the aisle, including current and former Speakers of the House, Senate Majority and Minority Leaders, Treasury Officials, and former U.S. Presidents; along with a strong commitment to the North Atlantic Alliance through his board work with the American Friends of MSC. He proudly serves on the boards of: Washington National Cathedral, Georgia O'Keefe Museum, Johns Hopkins Joint Krieger Advisory Board Executive Committee & Physics and Astronomy Council, and the Board of Regents for Georgetown.