New York-based Serengeti Asset Management is founded by Jody LaNasa in 2007. Serengeti invests in distressed debt, structured finance and equities and it had more than $2 billion of assets under management in 2015. The fund was co-managed by LaNasa and Vivian Lau until 2015 when Lau left the firm to launch her fund One Tusk Investment Partners. Prior to launching Serengeti, LaNasa worked at Goldman Sachs Group Inc (NYSE:GS) for nine years.