Our Team

Our team of 250+ employees, including 90+ investment professionals, is defined by its work ethic, discipline and commitment to excellence on behalf of our clients. We have 9 Partners, more than 40 Managing Directors and over 60 employees who have been at the Firm for at least a decade and are members of what we call the King Street 10 Year Club.

Our people are our greatest asset and we strive to attract and retain the best talent by operating as a meritocracy where each employee can achieve their highest potential. 

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Brian Higgins

Founder, Managing Partner, Co-Portfolio Manager, Global Investment Committee

Brian Higgins is the Founder and Managing Partner of King Street Capital Management, a $29 billion global investment firm he started in 1995. Over 30 years, Brian has grown King Street into a leading global alternative asset manager with a platform spanning public and private credit, structured credit and real estate. The firm combines rigorous fundamental research with tactical trading and differentiated sourcing to identify dislocations across assets classes and geographies, up and down the capital structure. Today Brian continues to drive the firm’s strategy and investments as chair of the Management Committee, Global Investment Committee and Real Estate Investment Committee. He also serves on the firm’s Risk Committee.

Brian is also Chairman of the Board of Managers of Colovore LLC, a liquid-cooled data center company founded in 2011 and designed from the ground up to support AI and high-density computing in a compact and environmentally friendly footprint. Colovore provides mission-ready infrastructure for edge computing where latency and security matter most.

Prior to King Street, Brian began his career at First Boston in the firm’s Merchant Banking and Distressed Securities Groups, then helped form the First Boston Special Situations Fund. Brian earned a B.S. in Business Administration from Villanova University in 1987.

Outside work, Brian is a trustee of Harlem Children’s Zone, an organization focused on ending intergenerational poverty in Central Harlem and leading the way for other long-distressed communities nationwide to do the same.