Jarvis Buckman, Neighbor

Jarvis Buckman is a finance professional with expertise in distressed credit, structured credit, derivatives, investment solutions, investment strategies, real estate acquisition and finance. In his time as a structured product professional, Jarvis collaborated with close to one hundred accounts, executing over $30 billion in transactions and working across numerous client segments. While the largest segment was Hedge Funds, a solid 18% of his historic account activity was with Banks/Insurance/Pension accounts, while the remaining 2% was with Monolines/Derivative Product Companies. Jarvis is now a Managing Partner of Leste Determinant Capital. Leste Determinant Capital offers compelling investment opportunities that are uniquely skewed to high returns with minimal chance of principal loss.

In addition to his professional career, Jarvis Buckman is also a well-rounded advocate for financial literacy and education. He became increasingly interested in providing opportunities for others as he worked his way up in his own career. Jarvis realized that most of the challenges he had to overcome were results of circumstances beyond his control; they had nothing to do with who he was as a person. He is inspired by his belief that there are many people that can rise to great occasions but simply need an opportunity to develop and a chance to prove themselves.

During his tenure as a Distressed Credit Analyst at Credit Suisse, Jarvis Buckman decided to help students understand how to succeed in the aggressive and fast-paced arena of Wall Street. After some searching, he partnered with Renaissance Charter High School for Innovation. He worked with Nicholas and Rita Tishuk, the school’s founders, to create a curriculum for the “Wealth and Citizen Workshop.” Jarvis Buckman designed a 10-week workshop where he and some of his colleagues from Credit Suisse shared their insights, walking students through the practical and technical concepts that affected their own wealth and that of society in general. Jarvis Buckman’s long-term goal is to create a nonprofit organization that benefits exceptional teachers, paying annual bonuses correlated with the lifetime impact they make on the lives of the students they teach.