Brad Pattelli is a former vice president of Angelo, Gordon & Co, an arbitrage firm headquartered in New York City, New York . He is currently serving as President of LC Advisors, a subsidiary of Lending Club

Lending Club

Lending Club is headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its CEO is Renaud Laplanche. Lending Club was the first peer-to-peer lender to register its offerings as securities with the SEC, completing its SEC registration in October 2008. As of July 18, 2011 Lending Club has originated a total of...

, an online platform for investing in personal loans.

Pattelli was the managing director on several of Angelo, Gordon & Co.'s investments in the largest newspaper bankruptcies across the country. He headed Angelo, Gordon & Co.'s efforts into becoming one of the main secured creditors in the bankruptcies of the Tribune Co.

Tribune Company

The Tribune Company is a large American multimedia corporation based in Chicago, Illinois. It is the nation's second-largest newspaper publisher, with ten daily newspapers and commuter tabloids including Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Hartford Courant, Orlando Sentinel, South Florida...

, parent company of the Los Angeles Times

Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper published in Los Angeles, California, since 1881. It was the second-largest metropolitan newspaper in circulation in the United States in 2008 and the fourth most widely distributed newspaper in the country....

and Chicago Tribune

Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...

; Minneapolis' Star Tribune

Star Tribune

The Star Tribune is the largest newspaper in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is published seven days each week in an edition for the Minneapolis-Saint Paul metropolitan area. A statewide version is also available across Minnesota and parts of Wisconsin, Iowa, South Dakota, and North Dakota. The...

; as well as Philadelphia Newspapers L.L.C., parent company of the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News

Philadelphia Daily News

The Philadelphia Daily News is a tabloid newspaper that serves Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The newspaper is owned by Philadelphia Media Holdings which also owns Philadelphia's other major newspaper The Philadelphia Inquirer. The Daily News began publishing on March 31, 1925, under...

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Early life and education

Pattelli holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Notre Dame

University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame du Lac is a Catholic research university located in Notre Dame, an unincorporated community north of the city of South Bend, in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States...

 and earned an M.B.A. degree from Columbia Business School

Columbia Business School

Columbia Business School is the business school of Columbia University in Manhattan, New York City. It was established in 1916 to provide business training and professional preparation for undergraduate and graduate Columbia University students...

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Career

Patelli has formerly served on the board of directors for Dade Behring Holdings , and Thermadyne Holdings Corporation. He is currently on the board of directors for American Media Operations, Inc., a major publisher of supermarket tabloids in the United States.