Blake Eger
Head of Private Credit
Blake Eger is the Head of Private Credit and a Senior Portfolio Manager at Saluda Grade. Ms. Eger joined Saluda Grade in February 2022 and is the lead portfolio manager on its income-focused strategy. Ms. Eger has extensive experience in residential housing and structured credit. Prior to joining Saluda Grade, Ms. Eger worked at Paloma Partners as a portfolio manager of structured products. Before that, she served as Head of Strategic Investments at Redwood Trust, where she developed and managed a strategy to source, structure, and deploy capital in investments secured by housing and mortgage credit. Prior to Redwood, Ms. Eger co-managed a $1 billion fund at Structured Portfolio Management that invested non-agency RMBS and derivatives, and its associated hedges. She also previously managed a $1 billion balance sheet dedicated to non-agency RMBS at Merrill Lynch and began her career at Bear Stearns on the securitized products desk. Ms. Eger earned a BA in Philosophy from Colgate University.