Our leadership

NuOrion Capital is an independent firm owned and managed by our partners.

Guy Phillips

Guy is the founder and Managing Member of NuOrion Capital

In addition to his role NuOrion Capital, Guy is also the Managing Partner of NuOrion Advisors, a Registered Investment Advisor that focuses on corporate activism and alternative investing. As part of NuOrion assignments, Guy will both join the board of a company and will also temporarily join a turn around management team.

Guy was formerly Global Head of the Entrepreneurs Coverage Group at UBS, which was responsible for all corporate finance activity with the firm’s entrepreneurs and families. Prior to that role, Guy was Global Head of the UBS Consumer Products & Retail Group and was a member of the Investment Banking Division Executive Committee. Guy was also EMEA Head of the UBS Private Equity Coverage Group.

Guy has extensive M&A and capital markets experience with large capitalization companies, entrepreneurs, hedge funds and private equity funds. Guy worked at UBS in both the New York and London offices and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School and Franklin & Marshall College.

Guy is Chairman of the Americas for Spayne Lindsay, an independent corporate finance advisor focused on the consumer sector.  He serves on the board of directors of Lummus Corporation (an industrial company), Carter Control Systems (an intralogistics company) and the advisory board of the Smithsonian Libraries.

Marie Katz

Marie is the Chief Financial Officer and FinOp of NuOrion Capital

Marie Katz brings a wealth of executive leadership through her years in senior roles across compliance, finance, and risk for premiere organizations, including AIG Global Capital Markets, Bank of America, GE Asset Management, Royal Bank of Scotland and The New York Stock Exchange. Marie has also worked directly for FINRA as a Senior Examiner and maintains involvement as a FINRA Arbitrator. Given Marie's background as an equity analyst, she is widely recognized for her ability to bridge corporate strategy with financial projections alongside regulatory and compliance requirements for best practice based infrastructure. Marie graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from Binghamton University and received her MBA from Fordham University.