Dominick Ruggiero

Global Co-Head of Asset-Based Finance

Dominick Ruggiero is a Managing Director and Global Co-Head of Asset-Based Finance, based in New York. Mr. Ruggiero jointly oversees teams leading Fortress’s investments in asset-based credit, asset-backed securities, legal assets, residential assets, and transportation and infrastructure.

Prior to joining Fortress in 2006, Mr. Ruggiero was a Vice President at DZ Bank where he was responsible for originating and structuring revolving credit facilities for the bank’s asset backed commercial paper conduit. Prior to DZ Bank, Mr. Ruggiero was a Managing Director and co-founder of the Structured Finance Group at Descap Securities Inc., focusing on the structuring and placing of term securitizations, warehouse lines and subordinated debt. Before Descap, Mr. Ruggiero was with ContiFinancial Services where he structured and placed over $2 billion of private placement and 144A securitization transactions for many first time issuers. Mr. Ruggiero started his career at Lehman Brothers, where he was on the mortgage backed securities trading desk.

Mr. Ruggiero received a B.A. in Economics from St. Lawrence University.