Team

Andrew C. Rose

  • Over 25 years of fine art and secured lending experience.
  • Prior to founding Art Finance Partners, spent two years at small specialty finance firm spearheading its turnaround from a failing business into a profitable and successful enterprise.
  • Spent 10 years at Sotheby's and Christie's after devoting over a decade to private banking at CitiBank (specializing in asset-based lending to owners of fine art and thoroughbreds), Chase Manhattan, and The Boston Company.
  • Managed over 500 transactions totaling over $1 billion of aggregate lending.
  • Board of Trustees, Winterthur Museum and Andalusia Foundation.
  • BA in Economics, Princeton University.

Christopher D. Krecke

  • Over 5 years of fine art and secured lending experience.
  • 12 years of investment banking and asset management experience, including raising capital for and providing financial advisory services to early stage and middle market companies.
  • Prior to joining Art Finance Partners, spent two years as CFO/COO of a small specialty finance firm, working closely with Mr. Rose to turn it from a failing business into a profitable and successful enterprise.
  • Former Principal, Bryant Park Capital; Vice President, Joseph Gunnar & Company; Associate, AIG Risk Finance Group.
  • Trustee, Montrose Park Historic District Association (South Orange, New Jersey)
  • MBA Finance/Economics, NYU Stern School of Business; BS Finance, George Mason University.

Meghan A. Carleton

  • Over 4 years of fine art and secured lending experience.
  • Prior to joining Art Finance Partners, was an Associate at a small specialty finance firm and at International Management Group (IMG), London, in Sponsorship and Advertising.
  • Researched, wrote, edited features for the Weekend section of The Telegraph, London.
  • Treasurer, POWArts (The Professional Organization of Women in the Arts)
  • Cambridge International Examinations Diploma, Christie's Education, 2003, London.
  • BA in Art History, Tufts University.