Nicole Drapkin is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Direct Lending Investment Team. In her role, she serves as co-head of Opportunistic Credit and shares responsibility for the Blue Owl Opportunistic Lending Fund.

Previously, Nicole served as a member of Owl Rock Capital Advisors’ Originations team. Prior to joining Blue Owl, Nicole was a Principal in the Principal Credit Investments Group at the CPP Investment Board, where she focused on sourcing and evaluating credit investments across the gaming, consumer retail, software and healthcare sectors. Prior to that, Nicole was a Vice President in the Leveraged Finance Group at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York.

Nicole currently serves on the board of directors of the Marlene Meyerson JCC of Manhattan. Nicole received a BA, with Honors, from Princeton University.

Joseph Goldschmid serves as a Managing Director with a primary focus on stressed, distressed and special situations investments at Oak Hill Advisors (OHA), an alternative investment firm with over $60 billion under management across performing and distressed credit related investments in North America, Europe and other geographies. Prior to joining OHA, Mr. Goldschmid was a Director in the Distressed & Special Situations Group at Angelo Gordon. During his career, Mr. Goldschmid has led numerous high-profile restructuring cases and served on many official and ad hoc creditor committees. Before joining Angelo Gordon, Mr. Goldschmid worked in the Restructuring and Special Situations Group at The Blackstone Group and PJT Partners. He began his career as an analyst at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Goldschmid currently serves on the Board of Directors for Valaris Limited (NYSE: VAL) and previously served on the Board of Directors for Expro Group. In addition, Mr. Goldschmid serves on the Board of Trustees of Riverdale Country School and is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and the American Bankruptcy Institute. Mr. Goldschmid holds a B.S. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a James Kent Scholar.

Aaron Peck, Partner, Managing Director & Co-Head and Co-Portfolio Manager, Opportunistic Private Credit. Mr. Peck is a Managing Director, Co-Portfolio Manager and Co-Head of Monroe Capital’s Opportunistic Private Credit investment vehicles. He is responsible for deal origination, structuring, and portfolio management, as well as overseeing the opportunistic business and its team. As part of the opportunistic business, Mr. Peck co-leads the firms’ investments in real estate, specialty finance and corporate special situations. He joined the firm in 2012 and is a member of Monroe’s Investment Committee. Mr. Peck has over 30 years of experience in credit, lending, opportunistic finance, high yield and distressed credit. Prior to Monroe, Mr. Peck was Co-Chief Investment Officer at Deerfield Capital Management and was responsible for the investment teams at Deerfield which managed over $10 billion in AUM in bank loans, middle market credit, mezzanine debt, credit default swaps, commercial real estate loans, asset-backed securities, and residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities. Mr. Peck was also chief portfolio manager for Deerfield’s publicly-traded specialty finance mortgage REIT and in that capacity, was the key point of contact for all institutional and retail investors, investment banking research analysts, lenders and investment bankers. Prior to Deerfield, he worked in leveraged credit and opportunistic finance at several investment firms including AEG Investors, Black Diamond Capital, Salomon Smith Barney (Citibank), and ESL Investments. Mr. Peck earned his M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting with Honors from The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and his B.S. in Commerce from The University of Virginia, McIntire School of Commerce.

Ben Radinsky, Principal, HighVista Strategies

Ben is a Principal at HighVista Strategies focused on our Opportunistic Credit and Special Situations investing. Ben brings 20+ years of relevant experience including some 13 years of credit investment experience, most recently at Crescendo Asset Management. Ben received a B.A. in Biology from Yeshiva University and an MBA in Finance and Statistics from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Gary Creem is a Corporate partner, co-head of The Private Credit Group and a member of the Finance Group.

Gary focuses his practice on complex corporate finance transactions, including leveraged sponsor buyouts, acquisition financings and recapitalization transactions. Gary routinely represents an array of leading institutional investors in direct, club and syndicated financing transactions in the middle market and upper middle market, often involving cross-border components. His clients include leading investment banks, institutional investors, direct lenders, private debt funds, business development companies, and technology focused investors. Gary advises these clients on a range of credit products across the capital spectrum, including: senior and senior stretch loans; unitranche facilities (straight and bifurcated); second lien financings; mezzanine debt; subordinated notes; and other innovative financial products. Gary also advises clients on structuring software and other technology-based financings, including recurring revenue-based transactions.

Gary is recommended by Chambers USA where clients note he is “the go-to guy for those types of transactions [private credit]”, “particularly good at weighing the positives and negatives of any deal to strike a good balance” and “just what we need to get the deal done.” He is often quoted in industry publications, including Private Debt Investor.

A significant part of Gary’s practice is spent counseling institutional investors in complex inter lender arrangements, including agreements among lenders, intercreditor agreements and subordination agreements. Gary frequently advises clients on debt restructurings and out-of-court workouts, including forbearance matters, debt-for-equity exchanges, restructuring support agreements and Article 9 remedies. Gary has deep experience with non-traditional equity transactions, including debt-like preferred equity as third party financing, equity kickers and co-investments for private credit investors and debt for equity swaps involving troubled companies.

Outside of his law career, Gary sits on the board of Families First in Massachusetts.