Our Philosophy

Ares Management Corporation's ("Ares") philosophy of offering our clients diversified investment solutions is made possible by our devoted team of investment and business professionals. Each of Ares’ investment platforms is led by a dedicated group of senior investment professionals. In addition to serving in their primary discipline, some of our professionals participate on the investment committees of and/or have responsibilities with our other investment teams. This practice ensures a consistent approach to asset management while promoting the sharing of ideas, knowledge and networks across all of our investment platforms.

First Name	Last Name	Corporate Title	Category	Business Line	Location

Employees
First Name	Last Name	Corporate Title	catname	Business Line	Location
Mark	Affolter	Partner, Co-Head of U.S. Direct Lending	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	Chicago
Mark	Affolter	Partner, Co-Head of U.S. Direct Lending	Ares Credit Group's U.S. Direct Lending Investment Committee	Credit	Chicago
Steven	Alexander	Managing Director	Ivy Hill Asset Management Professionals	Credit - Ivy Hill	New York
Tara	Arens	Vice President	Investment and Other Professionals	Credit	Los Angeles
Michael	Arougheti	Co-Chairman and Executive Vice President of Ares Capital Corporation; Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and President of Ares	Board of Directors of Ares Capital Corporation	Strategy	New York
Michael	Arougheti	Co-Chairman and Executive Vice President	Officers of Ares Capital Corporation	Strategy	New York
Michael	Arougheti	Director, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and President of Ares	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Strategy	New York
Michael	Arougheti	Director, Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and President of Ares	Ares Credit Group's U.S. Direct Lending Investment Committee	Strategy	New York
Ann Torre	Bates	Director	Board of Directors of Ares Capital Corporation	Director	-
Michael	Bedore	Principal	Ivy Hill Asset Management Professionals	Credit - Ivy Hill	New York
Joshua	Bellet	Principal	Investment and Other Professionals	Infrastructure and Power	New York
Joshua	Bloomstein	Vice President; General Counsel and Secretary	Officers of Ares Capital Corporation	Legal	New York
Jon	Blum	Managing Director	Ivy Hill Asset Management Professionals	Credit - Ivy Hill	New York
Kevin	Braddish	President and Head of Ivy Hill Asset Management	Ivy Hill Asset Management Professionals	Credit - Ivy Hill	New York
Ryan	Brauns	Managing Director	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	New York
Damayra	Cacho	Managing Director	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Investor Relations	New York
Joseph	Carvalho	Managing Director	Investment and Other Professionals	Credit	Los Angeles
Stephen	Chehi	Principal	Investment and Other Professionals	Credit	New York
Andrew	Chen	Managing Director	Investment and Other Professionals	Credit	Los Angeles
Rajiv	Chudgar	Managing Director	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	Chicago
Shelly	Cleary	Managing Director	Ivy Hill Asset Management Professionals	Credit - Ivy Hill	New York
Karen	De Castro	Partner	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	New York
Kipp	deVeer	Director and Chief Executive Officer of Ares Capital Corporation; Director, Partner, Head of Ares Credit Group	Board of Directors of Ares Capital Corporation	Credit	New York
Kipp	deVeer	Director and Chief Executive Officer	Officers of Ares Capital Corporation	Credit	New York
Kipp	deVeer	Director, Partner, Head of Credit Group	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	New York
Kipp	deVeer	Director, Partner, Head of Credit Group	Ares Credit Group's U.S. Direct Lending Investment Committee	Credit	New York
Daniel	DiBona	Principal	Investment and Other Professionals	Credit	New York
Michael	Dieber	Partner	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	New York
Michael	Dieber	Partner	Ares Credit Group's U.S. Direct Lending Investment Committee	Credit	New York
Dan	Dirscherl	Principal	Investment and Other Professionals	Credit	New York
Carl	Drake	Partner, Head of Public Investor Relations and Communications	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Investor Relations	Atlanta
Joseph	Ehardt	Vice President	Ivy Hill Asset Management Professionals	Credit - Ivy Hill	New York
Brooke	Epstein	Principal	Investment and Other Professionals	Credit	New York
Joan	Fang	Principal	Investment and Other Professionals	Infrastructure and Power	New York
Adam	Ferrarini	Managing Director	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	New York
Ian	Fitzgerald	Managing Director, Associate General Counsel, Credit	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Legal	New York
Greg	Galligan	Partner	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	New York
Vishal	Gandhi	Principal	Investment and Other Professionals	Credit	Los Angeles
Brian	Goldman	Partner	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	New York
Mitch	Goldstein	Co-President	Officers of Ares Capital Corporation	Credit	New York
Mitch	Goldstein	Partner, Co-Head of Credit Group	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	New York
Mitch	Goldstein	Partner, Co-Head of Credit Group	Ares Credit Group's U.S. Direct Lending Investment Committee	Credit	New York
James	Granello	Managing Director	Investment and Other Professionals	Credit	Los Angeles
Kara	Herskowitz	Principal	Investment and Other Professionals	Investor Relations	New York
Owen D.	Hill	Managing Director	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	Dallas
Bruce	Hodges	Principal	Investment and Other Professionals	Credit	New York
Andrew	Hua	Principal	Investment and Other Professionals	Private Equity	New York
Adam	James	Managing Director	Ivy Hill Asset Management Professionals	Credit - Ivy Hill	Atlanta
Mary	Jurgensen	Vice President	Ivy Hill Asset Management Professionals	Credit - Ivy Hill	New York
Daniel	Katz	Partner	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	New York
Daniel G.	Kelly, Jr.	Director	Board of Directors of Ares Capital Corporation	Director	-
Andrew	Kenzie	Principal	Investment and Other Professionals	Credit	Chicago
Andrea	Kim	Principal	Investment and Other Professionals	Credit	New York
Brian	Kim	Managing Director	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	Los Angeles
Amy	Klemme	Principal	Investment and Other Professionals	Credit	Chicago
Miriam	Krieger	Vice President	Officers of Ares Capital Corporation	Compliance	Washington D.C.
Neil	Laws	Managing Director	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	Los Angeles
Scott C.	Lem	Chief Accounting Officer, Vice President and Treasurer	Officers of Ares Capital Corporation	Finance, Accounting and Operations	Los Angeles
Philip	LeRoy	Managing Director	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	New York
Mark	Liggitt	Partner	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	New York
Jana	Markowicz	Partner, Head of Product Management and Investor Relations, U.S. Direct Lending	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Investor Relations	New York
Steve	McKeever	Director	Board of Directors of Ares Capital Corporation	Director	-
Jim	Miller	Partner, Co-Head of U.S. Direct Lending	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	New York
Jim	Miller	Partner, Co-Head of U.S. Direct Lending	Ares Credit Group's U.S. Direct Lending Investment Committee	Credit	New York
Arjun	Misra	Principal	Investment and Other Professionals	Credit	New York
Brian	Moncrief	Managing Director	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	Chicago
Lisa	Morgan	Chief Compliance Officer	Officers of Ares Capital Corporation	Compliance	Washington D.C.
Brian	O'Connor	Partner	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Infrastructure and Power	New York
Peter	Ogilvie	Partner	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Strategy	New York
Jason	Park	Partner	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	Los Angeles
Michael K.	Parks	Director	Board of Directors of Ares Capital Corporation	Director	-
Ankur	Patel	Vice President	Investment and Other Professionals	Credit	Chicago
Penni	Roll	Chief Financial Officer	Officers of Ares Capital Corporation	Finance, Accounting and Operations	New York
Rob	Rosen	Director	Board of Directors of Ares Capital Corporation	Director	-
Bennett	Rosenthal	Co-Chairman of Ares Capital Corporation; Co-Founder and Partner of Ares and Co-Chairman of Ares Private Equity Group	Board of Directors of Ares Capital Corporation	Private Equity	Los Angeles
Mike	Roth	Managing Director	Investment and Other Professionals	Infrastructure and Power	New York
Naseem	Sagati Aghili	Vice President	Officers of Ares Capital Corporation	Legal	Los Angeles
Adam	Schatzow	Managing Director	Investment and Other Professionals	Credit	New York
Kort	Schnabel	Partner, Co-Head of U.S. Direct Lending	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	Los Angeles
Kort	Schnabel	Partner, Co-Head of U.S. Direct Lending	Ares Credit Group's U.S. Direct Lending Investment Committee	Credit	Los Angeles
Dave	Schwartz	Partner, Co-Head of U.S. Direct Lending	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	New York
Dave	Schwartz	Partner, Co-Head of U.S. Direct Lending	Ares Credit Group's U.S. Direct Lending Investment Committee	Credit	New York
Damian	Sclafani	Managing Director	Investment and Other Professionals	Credit	New York
Stephanie	Setyadi	Managing Director	Ivy Hill Asset Management Professionals	Credit - Ivy Hill	New York
Craig	Shirey	Partner	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	New York
Molly	Shulman	Principal	Investment and Other Professionals	Investor Relations	New York
Eric B.	Siegel	Director	Board of Directors of Ares Capital Corporation	Director	-
Michael	Smith	Co-President	Officers of Ares Capital Corporation	Credit	New York
Michael	Smith	Partner, Co-Head of Credit Group	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	New York
Michael	Smith	Partner, Co-Head of Credit Group	Ares Credit Group's U.S. Direct Lending Investment Committee	Credit	New York
John	Stilmar	Managing Director	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Investor Relations	Atlanta
Matthew	Stoner	Principal	Investment and Other Professionals	Credit	Los Angeles
Chrissy	Svejnar	Managing Director	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	New York
Matthew	Tworecke	Principal	Investment and Other Professionals	Credit	New York
Joe	Urciuoli	Principal	Investment and Other Professionals	Credit	New York
Nick	Walters	Managing Director	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	New York
Michael	Weiner	Vice President	Officers of Ares Capital Corporation	Legal	Los Angeles
Chris	York	Managing Director	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	New York
Michael	Zugay	Partner	Partners and Other Senior Professionals of Ares Capital Management	Credit	Los Angeles

Our Team

Our Philosophy