Senior Partner

Mr. Smith joined Ares in May 2004 and serves as a Senior Partner in the Private Debt Group of Ares and a member of the Investment Committee of Ares Capital Management. Prior to joining Ares, Mr. Smith was a Partner at RBC Capital Partners, a division of Royal Bank of Canada, which led the firm's middle market financing and principal investment business. Mr. Smith joined RBC in October 2001 from Indosuez Capital, where he was a Vice President in the Merchant Banking Group. Previously, Mr. Smith worked at Kenter, Glastris & Company, a private equity investment firm specializing in leveraged management buyouts and at Salomon Brothers Inc. in their Debt Capital Markets Group and Financial Institutions Group. Mr. Smith received a BS in Business Administration, cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame and a Masters in Management from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

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