Credit at a Crossroads: Navigating Risk and Opportunity in Today’s Lending Landscape

Martin Zorn joined Kamakura Corporation in January 2011 and was its President and COO and a member of the Board prior to the acquisition by SAS in June 2022.  Following the acquisition, he became responsible for building the Risk Data and Analytics business within SAS as well as completing the integration of Kamakura into SAS.

Mr. Zorn is a twenty-one-year veteran of Wachovia Bank where he was in corporate banking and capital markets.  Mr. Zorn has been involved in financial advisory engagements including structuring and arranging growth capital, financing mergers and acquisitions and hedging interest rate risk.  He created an emerging growth and technology practice while he was in the Research Triangle and was active with an early-stage life science venture fund.  His clients have ranged from global leaders to technology start-ups. 

After Wachovia he was with two small cap mid-cap turnarounds where he served as the CFO and COO and was a member of the adjunct faculty at the University of Southern Indiana where he was an instructor in investments and business finance.

He serves as the Chairman of the Board of the Arcadia Family of Companies in Honolulu.

Mr. Zorn is a graduate of Vanderbilt University where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in economics.   He completed the executive management program at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.