Clay Smith is an aviation financial professional with 25 years of experience as a portfolio manager and a banker/broker.  He has successfully led early-stage company financings, corporate bond issuances, restructurings and bankruptcies, and structured credit transactions.  In his time as a distressed fund manager, he was directly responsible for structured aviation assets worth over $1 billion.  He spent over 10 years in senior asset management roles at AIG, American Express and Deephaven Capital Management.  In 2019, Clay became a partner at Split Rock Aviation, an aviation consultancy and financial service provider.