David Markus, CFA, Partner. Mr. Markus is a Partner at Turning Rock where he is responsible for deal sourcing and execution as well as oversight of the investment team. Prior to joining Turning Rock, Mr. Markus was a Managing Director at Fortress Investment Group where he spent 5 years. While at Fortress, Mr. Markus was responsible for credit and event driven investments for the Fortress Partners Fund. During his tenure at Fortress Partners Fund, Mr. Markus served on the Investment Committee and helped oversee investments across the alternative landscape including hedged equity, private equity, real estate, distressed and other hard assets. Prior to joining Fortress, Mr. Markus was part of the team that launched and ran Voras Capital, a multi-strategy investment manager based in New York with offices in Hong Kong and London. Prior to Voras, Mr. Markus was the co-portfolio manager at Boone Capital Management and Delaware Street Capital, multi-strategy credit hedge funds with several hundred million dollars in assets under management. Mr. Markus has also worked as a senior high-yield and distressed debt research analyst at Amroc Investments and Salomon Brothers, and as an associate in the private placement group of TIAA-CREF. He received a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Wharton School where he was on the Directors Honor List.