Vida Capital (Vida), a portfolio company of RedBird Capital Partners and Reverence Capital Partners, has appointed David Shapiro as a managing director. He will be based in New York and report to David Gussmann, senior managing director.

In this role, Shapiro will be responsible for continuing to grow Vida’s alternative asset strategies across the capital spectrum and asset types.
 
Shapiro joins Vida from Monarch Alternative Capital, a special situations hedge fund, where he was a vice president focused on investments in financials, structured credit, and real estate across the capital structure in both the United States and Europe. At Monarch, Shapiro’s responsibilities included the sourcing, underwriting, structuring, trading, and financing of positions. Prior to Monarch, Shapiro spent time as an analyst in Real Estate at The Blackstone Group and in the Investment Banking Division at Goldman Sachs.