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Scouting report · AMG

Dava E. Ritchea

  • Chief Financial Officer, AMG since 2024-04src

Hedge-fund CFO (BlueMountain, Sculptor); AMG CFO since April 2024

—thin record

Not ranked yet

Scouting sheet

as of 24 Sep 2026
Delivers guidance—no promises on the record yet
Answers the question—no call reviewed yet
Capital allocation—company not reviewed yet
Pay design73ebitda, eps, tsr, relative tsr, roic, strategic, roe · 97.9% for · 0.57% of net income
Skin in the game—no holding or price on file
Age
41src
In the role
2 yr
Promises scored
0
Hit rate
—
Dodges / 100 answers
—
Airtime on calls
—
Every promise, oldest firstno scored promises yet

What to weigh

Watch 2

  • Owned 309 AMG shares on 2026-04-06. The guideline is 7x salary within five years of becoming an officer; unvested and performance awards do not count toward itsrc
  • Her May 2024 make-whole performance awards ($3.5m) still deliver 50% of the shares if three- or five-year average ROE is 11% or lowersrc

In their favour 2

  • No open-market trades in the last twelve months; her only Form 4 covers a vesting and the shares withheld for taxsrc
  • Joined from outside AMG after the CFO post had been filled internally since at least 2011 (Horgen, then Wojcik)src

Career

  1. 2024 – now
    Affiliated Managers Groupsrc
    Chief Financial Officer
  2. 2021 – 2024
    Sculptor Capital Managementsrc
    Chief Financial Officer; member of the Partner Management Committee
    Sculptor was listed until Rithm Capital's acquisition, completed 2023-11-17 (WS-sculptor)
  3. 2017 – 2021
    Assured Investment Management (formerly BlueMountain Capital Management)src
    Chief Financial Officer; partner from 2019-01-01
    Partnership date from WS-pehub
  4. 2013 – 2017
    BlueMountain Capital Managementsrc
    Role before CFO not described
    Joined in 2013 per WS-pehub

Undated in the sources

  • Credit Suissesrc, Vice President, Hedge Fund Advisory Group
  • Lehman Brothers; Barclays Capitalsrc, Corporate strategy and investment banking roles

Not located: BlueMountain role 2013-2017 before she became CFO not described; years at Credit Suisse, Barclays Capital and Lehman Brothers not dated in any source searched

Achievements

  • CFO of two alternative managers for seven years before AMG: BlueMountain/Assured (2017-2021) and listed Sculptor (2021-2024)src
  • Made partner at BlueMountain effective 2019-01-01src
  • Hired as AMG CFO in April 2024 at a $500,000 salary with a $3.5m make-whole equity grant for pay forfeited at Sculptorsrc
  • 2025 incentive of $4.5m from the same 134% company scorecard as the CEO; total 2025 SCT pay $4.1msrc

Education

  • Carnegie Mellon University, BS Business Administrationsrc

Background

  • Family AMG's appointment 8-K states no familial relationships with any AMG director or executive officer and no Item 404(a) transactionssrc
  • Other Was Sculptor's CFO through its 2023 sale to Rithm Capital, which co-founder Daniel Och contested and sued over before Rithm raised its bid; the deal closed 2023-11-17src
  • Investing Invested $250,000 (including unfunded commitment) in an Affiliate's fund through assignment of part of AMG's own commitment, on senior-professional terms with no management fee; Audit Committee approvedsrc

The promise ledger

No promise on the record yet: the research routine has not scored this company's guidance.

Sources

8
  1. Filing Affiliated Managers Group DEF 14A (accession 0001628280-26-025798) · 2026-04-17
  2. Filing AMG 8-K Item 5.02, Ritchea appointed CFO; letter agreement terms (0001193125-24-076041) · 2024-03-25
  3. Filing AMG 8-K Item 5.07, 2026 annual meeting results (0001193125-26-245324) · 2026-05-28
  4. Filing SEC XBRL companyconcept us-gaap/NetIncomeLoss, CIK 1004434 (FY2025 10-K, 0001628280-26-008665) · 2026-02-17
  5. Filing Form 4, Dava Ritchea (reporting CIK 1840457), vesting and grant of 2026-03-05 (0001004434-26-000029) · 2026-03-09
  6. Web search result WebSearch: PE Hub, 'BlueMountain promotes two to partner' (Jan 2019): Ritchea partner from 2019-01-01, BlueMountain CFO, joined 2013 from Credit Suisse's Hedge Fund Advisory Group, earlier Lehman Brothers and Barclays Capital · 2026-09-24
  7. Web search result WebSearch: Sculptor press release, 'Rithm Capital Corp. Completes Acquisition of Sculptor Capital Management' (2023-11-17) · 2026-09-24
  8. Web search result WebSearch: Bloomberg, 'Dan Och Sues Sculptor, Rithm Over Proposed Deal Terms' (2023-10-17) · 2026-09-24