Zach Viders

Zachary Viders is a Managing Director and member of the Investment Committee for the Global Credit Opportunities fund, focusing on private debt investments in special situations/direct lending and secondary markets. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2016, Zachary was a Managing Director and Head of Distressed Investing for CCMP Capital, an $8+ billion private equity firm where he helped launch a distressed-for-control investment mandate. He served in a similar role for Kohlberg & Co, a middle market private equity firm, where Zachary also completed several traditional buyouts, from 2008 through 2013.

Earlier in his career, Zachary was a credit analyst at Gradient Partners, a stressed/distressed hedge fund, and began his career as a restructuring banker at the Blackstone Group.

Zachary earned a Bachelors degree in Economics from Harvard in 1999 and a Columbia MBA in 2005. He resides in Katonah, NY with his wife, Daphne, and three children, Emmy (12), Judah (10) and Maye (9).