Mary Shaifer is the head of CLO business development and a Senior Portfolio Manager for the U.S. Bank Loan team at Columbia Threadneedle Investments. In this role, she is responsible for analyzing and monitoring investments in the leveraged loan and high yield bond markets. In addition, she is involved in CLO structuring, origination, and investor relations. She joined one of the Columbia Threadneedle Investments legacy firms in 2005 and has been a member of the investment community since 1998. She was previously employed as a senior analyst at Centre Pacific, where she was responsible for analyzing and monitoring high yield and investment-grade debt issuers in a variety of industries.

Prior to joining Centre Pacific, she was a vice president at Alcentra, covering high yield issuers. She began her career at JP Morgan Chase in the investment bank training program.

She received a B.A. from Vassar College and an MBA from Cornell University.