Sergio Valderrama is a Portfolio Manager and Managing Director at Bramshill Investments and a member of the Emerging Markets team, where he focuses on investment opportunities across the capital structure of emerging markets, with particular emphasis on Latin America and Africa. Prior to joining Bramshill, Mr. Valderrama spent 16 years at Lazard Asset Management, where he was a Director and Portfolio Manager/Analyst on the Emerging Markets Debt team, specializing in sovereign credit and hard-currency sovereign debt strategies. Before joining Lazard in 2010, Mr. Valderrama was a sovereign analyst at Moody’s Investors Service, where his responsibilities included sovereign credit analysis, country risk monitoring, the production of sovereign research, and participation in sovereign rating committees. Earlier in his career, he worked as an economist at IDEAglobal. Mr. Valderrama began his career in the investment industry in 1999.  Mr. Valderrama holds an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business and a BA from Ithaca College.