Steve Pasko co-founded 777 Partners in 2015 as part of the management buyout of SuttonPark Capital from PennantPark. Prior to joining PennantPark in 2008, he held Managing Director positions at Natixis Capital Markets and Bankers Trust (now part of Deutsche Bank) where he was responsible for asset securitizations and interest rate products. Mr. Pasko also held leadership positions pioneering specialty finance at Salomon Brothers and Drexel Burnham Lambert. He has a B.A. in Business Administration from Rutgers College and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Pasko serves as CEO of SuttonPark Capital and is the controlling shareholder of Brickell Insurance Holdings.

Josh Wander co-founded 777 Partners in 2015 as part of the management buyout of SuttonPark Capital from PennantPark. Prior to founding 777, he held executive roles at SuttonPark Capital, First Sustainable LLC, and Structured Asset Funding where he sourced, structured, and financed alternative assets. Mr. Wander directs strategy and investment at 777, chairing the firm’s investment committee, and sits on the boards of F3EA holdings, Signal Legal, and First Sustainable. He has a B.S. in Finance from the University of Florida.

Prasad was Chief Transformation Officer at Bridgewater Associates where he oversaw a broad portfolio of operational and growth-focused responsibilities. Immediately prior to joining 777 Prasad was Senior Vice President of Genpact Digital, leading the Oasis Entity (a Bridgewater Associates Shared Services Joint Venture). He has held leadership roles at Strategy/Turnaround Consulting firms like AlixPartners, Ariba and A.T. Kearney.

Prasad’s work and educational experience has spanned four continents. These experiences imparted a natural open-mindedness, intellectual curiosity to seek out and value diversity of individuals, thought, and team makeup. Prasad holds an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management, and graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst with a B.S. degree in Hotel, Restaurant, and Airline Management.

Damien Alfalla joined 777 Partners in 2017. Prior to joining 777, Mr. Alfalla was the controller for PennantPark Investment Administration, LLC. He previously held roles at Bank of America, Fortress Investment Group and CCMP LLC (f/ka JPMorgan Partners, LLC).

Mr. Alfalla received a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Manhattan College and is a Certified Public Accountant.

John Jeffery joined 777 Partners as Managing Director and Head of Europe in 2022. Prior to 777 Partners, John accumulated over 12 years experience in Private Equity investing, first with KKR in their Special Situations Group, and then with Apax Partners, both in London. John is a CFA Charterholder, as well as holding two degrees from Trinity College Dublin

Scott Sidell joined 777 Partners in 2017 as Head of Renewable Energy and Project Finance. Before joining 777, Dr. Sidell founded and served as the CEO of First Sustainable. Previously, Dr. Sidell was a proprietary debt arbitrage trader at Chase Manhattan Bank, Chemical Bank, Societe Generale, Greenwich Capital Markets (now RBS) and Millennium Partners.

Dr. Sidell received his Ph.D. and M.A. from Cornell University, and BA from Boston College, and was a visiting scholar in the Department of Economics at Harvard University where he conducted his Ph.D. thesis. He is the author of two books and three articles appearing in leading academic journals.

Jonathan Lutzky joined 777 Partners in 2021 as Operating Partner in Media and Entertainment. Prior to joining 777, he was General Counsel of Translation Enterprises, an independent marketing and technology company in New York, where he managed the legal operations of both Translation and their distribution arm, UnitedMasters. Previously, Jonathan served as the first General Counsel of VICE Media, leading a global legal department of over 50 lawyers across 10 business lines. Under VICE’s executive team, Jonathan raised more than $1B of investment yielding a $5B+ valuation for the company.

Jonathan holds a B.A. in Communications from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Juris Doctorate from New York Law School.

Adam Weiss joined 777 Partners in 2015. Prior to joining 777, he was with SuttonPark Capital in Securitization Underwriting, M&A, and Business Development. Before that, Weiss worked at Cross Keys Capital in Investment Banking and at Shevlin Atkins as an attorney concentrating on Corporate, Transactional, and Real Estate law.

He has a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D./M.B.A from the University of Miami.

Aaron joined 777 Partners in early 2018. Prior to joining 777, he was a Vice President at Comvest Partners, a middle market private equity and credit investment firm, where he was responsible for all aspects of the investment process including originating, transaction execution and structuring, post-closing growth strategies and portfolio management. Aaron began his career in the Restructuring and Recapitalization Investment Banking group at Raymond James in New York.

Aaron received a B.S. in Economics with concentrations in both Finance and Accounting from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.