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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.
Adam Tope advises secondaries firms, investment fund sponsors, and investors on fund formation and GP-led transactions. Having completed more than 100 secondaries transactions in his career, Adam has developed class-leading processes for managing tender offers and pooled sale/purchase transactions for clients.
Adam's represents lead investors in connection with GP-led and other complex secondary transactions. He brings a global perspective to his practice, having represented managers and investors in dozens of jurisdictions.
Adam's sponsor-side clients include prominent private equity and hedge fund managers, real estate managers, and venture capital sponsors. He advises in multiple areas, including the drafting of offering memoranda, negotiations with investors and Investment Advisers Act and Investment Company Act compliance. Adam also draws on his computer programming experience to advise fund managers forming cryptofunds.
Adam has worked with spin outs from Apollo, Carlyle, Riverstone, Summit Partners, and others. He has a deep understanding of how principal compensation is structured and can guide principals in negotiating vesting arrangements, key person/for cause removal rights, and rights to carried interest/promote.
Adam’s investor-side clients include family offices, funds of funds, endowments, sovereign wealth funds and royal families. He has represented these investors in hundreds of transactions in nearly every jurisdiction.
Adam is a former entrepreneur and served as the president and CEO of one of the 500 largest online companies – giving him an entrepreneurial perspective useful to first time funds, startups and venture-backed organizations.
Alex is Americas co-head of Private Credit within Goldman Sachs Asset Management. He was named co-chief executive officer and co-president of Goldman Sachs BDC, Inc. in 2022. He is a member of the Asset Management Private Credit Investment Committee, Specialty Lending Group Investment Committee and BDC Investment Committee. Alex also serves on the Americas Inclusion and Diversity Committee, is the head of the Asian Network in the Americas and the firmwide recruiting captain for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Prior to joining Goldman Sachs Asset Management, he worked in the Financial and Strategic Investors Group (FSIG) within the Investment Banking Division from 2006 to 2019, where he managed the firm’s relationships with private equity and related portfolio company clients. From 2000 to 2006, Alex was in Leveraged Finance, where he originated and executed leveraged loan and high yield financings for sponsor and corporate clients across all industries. From 1997 to 2000, he was based in Hong Kong, working on mergers & acquisitions, debt and equity financings, privatization and restructuring assignments for clients across Asia Pacific. Alex joined Goldman Sachs in 1994 as an analyst and spent his first three years at the firm across the Information Technology, Fixed Income Capital Markets and Leveraged Finance groups. He was named managing director in 2006 and partner in 2012.
Alex serves on the Board of Directors for the JED Foundation and the Korean American Community Foundation.
Alex earned a BS from MIT in 1994.
Amir Madden is Senior Portfolio Manager on the Alternative Credits team at APG Asset Management US. He has over 25 years of investment experience. Amir is currently responsible for the selection and monitoring of external managers with a focus on the US markets. Before joining APG US, Amir Madden was a Portfolio Manager and Investment Committee Member at GAM USA working on the Alternative Investments Solutions (AIS) team. His responsibilities include overseeing private credit, event driven and US equity investments and managing both diversified and strategy focused portfolios for clients. Prior to joining GAM in August 2002, he spent two years at JP Morgan Private Bank in the multi-manager investment advisory group performing manager due diligence, having previously worked at Jennison Associates LLC. Amir Madden holds an MBA in Banking and Finance from Hofstra University and a BBA in International Finance and Marketing from the University of Miami. He is based in New York.
APG is one of the largest pension services providers in the Netherlands. APG manages €569 (year-end 2023) on behalf of Dutch pension fund clients, investing globally in the public and private markets. As a long-term investor, APG aims to achieve both financial and societal returns for the funds served so that their 4.6 million participants can enjoy a good pension in a livable world. APG has offices in Amsterdam, Heerlen, and Brussels, and asset management subsidiaries in New York (APG US), Hong Kong and Singapore (APG Asia).
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.
Chris Sullivan is a Senior Managing Director and the Global Head of Sponsor Coverage for Private Credit Strategies in Blackstone Credit and Insurance (BXCI) based in New York. Mr. Sullivan focuses on developing and deepening our overall relationships with private equity firms and M&A advisory firms, as well as originating and executing credit investments across a diverse range of industries for the various funds at BXCI.
Prior to joining Blackstone in 2021, Mr. Sullivan spent over 20 years at Barclays/Lehman Brothers, most recently as the Global Head of Financial Sponsor Coverage and a member of the Investment Banking Operating Committee. He led the business responsible for all the firm's activities with private equity clients, including the origination, structuring and execution of transactions across leveraged finance, M&A and equity.
Mr. Sullivan graduated with a B.A. in Economics & Accounting from the College of the Holy Cross, and earned his MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.
Chrissy Lamont Svejnar is a Partner in the Ares Secondaries Group, where she focuses on credit secondaries. Ms. Lamont Svejnar serves on the Ares Secondaries Group's Credit Investment Committee. Additionally, Ms. Lamont Svejnar serves on the Ares Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council. Prior to joining Ares in 2006, Ms. Lamont Svejnar was an Analyst at GE Capital Global Media & Communications, where she focused on providing debt financing to mid-market media firms. Previously, Ms. Lamont Svejnar participated in the GE Capital Financial Management Program and completed roles in risk portfolio analytics and financial planning analytics. Ms. Lamont Svejnar holds a B.A. from Michigan State University's Eli Broad College of Business in Finance.
Chris leads Ontario Teachers’ North American Private Credit team and has 24 years of experience in the finance industry on both the buyside and sellside. Chris joined Ontario Teachers' in 2014 as a senior member of Ontario Teachers’ Credit team, focusing on fundamental investments in both public and private credit.
Chris started his career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley (Toronto, New York, London), with a focus on high yield and leveraged loan transactions. Transitioning to the buyside in 2004, Chris was responsible for investment decisions for a number of strategies including fundamental credit and equity investing, convertible arbitrage, and merger arbitrage.
He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University of Toronto and is a CFA Charterholder.
David Scudellari
Senior Executive Managing Director, Head of International Investment
David Scudellari joined AIMCo in 2023 as Senior Executive Managing Director, Head of International Investment, reporting to the CEO.
David has more than 30 years of leveraged finance and capital markets experience across North America. Most recently, at the Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP Investments), he was Global Head of Credit Investments and Private Equity. Prior to joining PSP Investments, he held leadership roles at Barclays and Goldman, Sachs & Co., including as Global Head of Finance and Risk – Canada for Barclays in New York. He also spent two years in Calgary, where he served both as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for North West Upgrading Inc., and as a Board member at Teine Energy.
David holds a Master of Business Administration from Pace University – Lubin School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University at Albany, SUNY.
Partner, CIO of Coller Credit Secondaries
Ed is Chief Investment Officer for Coller Credit Secondaries, beyond his day-to-day origination activity, and is based in the firm’s New York office.
Prior to joining Coller Capital in 2009, Ed was a Managing Director at GSO Capital Partners’ London and New York offices where he had responsibility for debt origination. He has also worked at Credit Suisse as a Director of its Investment Banking division.
Ed has a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Fran Blair is Managing Director, Credit Investments at the Public Sector Pension Investment
Board (PSP Investments). He heads PSP Investments’ Distressed Credit and Rescue Finance
direct investing business and is responsible for debt financing in complex restructuring
situations.
Fran has over 25 years of experience in distressed investing, restructuring, debt trading and
leveraged finance. Prior to joining PSP Investments in 2018, he was a Partner at Milford
Sound Capital, a newly formed distressed and credit opportunities fund. From 2007 to 2016,
he was a Managing Director and Senior Distressed Research Analyst at Solus Alternative
Asset Management where he played a key role in some of the firm’s largest investments.
Prior to Solus, Fran held increasingly senior positions in the financial sponsors group, the
restructuring group, and in the credit trading group at Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. and its
predecessor Bankers Trust Company. Fran holds a B.A. in Economics from Hamilton College.
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.
| George Coles is a Senior Director, Corporate Credit, based in the New York office. He develops strategic partnerships with key market participants in the United States. He also supports the implementation of the Private Credit portfolio’s strategy. Before joining CDPQ New York in December 2021, Mr. Coles was a Managing Director at Credit Value Partners, where he originated and executed stressed and distressed credit investments. Previously, he was a Director at CVC Credit Partners and an Associate at Leveraged Finance. He began his career at Lincoln International in the Restructuring and Special Situations group. Mr. Coles holds an MBA in finance from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts with a double major in Economics and French, from the University at Albany, State University of New York. |
Greg serves as Managing Director, Deputy Chief Investment Officer, and Head of Credit at Runway Growth Credit, LLC (“Runway”), the Investment Advisor for Runway Growth Finance Corp. In his role, Mr. Greifeld leads the team that is responsible for due diligence, performance monitoring, and deal structure of both prospective borrowers and portfolio companies. He holds a seat on the firm’s investment committee, amendment committee, and first deal review committee. He was included in the 2020 Rising Stars list by the Venture Capital Journal and the 2020 Rising Stars list by Private Debt Investor. Prior to joining Runway, Greg held several positions at J.P. Morgan and HPS Investment Partners.
Ms. Parekh is a Managing Director at HPS Investment Partners and Co-Head of North American Core Senior Lending. Prior to joining HPS in 2020, Ms. Parekh spent over twelve years as a Partner and Managing Director at The Carlyle Group. During her tenure at The Carlyle Group, Ms. Parekh was a founding member of the Direct Lending platform, served as Head of Origination for Illiquid Credit, and was a member of the Investment Committee for the Direct Lending business. Prior to joining The Carlyle Group in 2007, Ms. Parekh was an Investment Banking Associate at JPMorgan where she was responsible for originating, structuring and executing high yield bond and leveraged loan transactions. Ms. Parekh holds a BS in Finance and Information Systems from the Stern School of Business at New York University.
Jay Ramakrishnan joined AB in 2014 and is a founding member, Head of Originations, and a member of the investment committee of AB Private Credit Investors. In addition, she is responsible for business initiatives such as technology-focused growth capital solutions, oversees investments in the healthcare/HCIT sectors, and covers select East Coast financial sponsors with an emphasis on technology, healthcare and business services. Previously, Ramakrishnan was a managing director with Barclays Private Credit Partners, and as a founding member of the business was involved in various aspects of business launch, transaction sourcing and execution. Prior to joining Barclays, she was a vice president at Goldman Sachs, in the Specialty Lending Group in New York, and in London, where she oversaw a European leveraged-loan portfolio and managed restructurings. Before that, Ramakrishnan was in investment banking at Goldman Sachs and Bear Stearns, and she started her career as an associate consultant for Bain & Company. She holds a BA (Hons) in economics from the University of Cambridge, England, and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Location: New York
Jim joined GTCR in 2017 and is currently a Managing Director of the firm. Prior to joining GTCR, Jim was a Managing Director and Co-Head of the North American Leveraged & Acquisition Finance Group at Morgan Stanley. Jim also functioned as the Head of the North American Syndicate Desk. Prior to Morgan Stanley, he was an analyst in the Equity Capital Markets and Asset Management Groups at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Jim holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a BS in Business Administration summa cum laude from Northeastern University.
Jim is head of GTCR’s Capital Markets Group. In this role, Jim leads the firm’s capital markets activities as part of the transaction teams and manages key financing and banking relationships.
John M. Timperio, a partner in Dechert's global finance practice and a member of the firm’s Policy Committee, has more than 25 years of experience working with some of the world's largest asset managers and investment banks on various types of structured finance solutions, including CLOs and structured loan facilities. Mr. Timperio leads Dechert’s Structured Credit and CLO team, which has not only been ranked one of the most active in the CLO market since it restarted but also one of the most distinguished in terms of industry awards for best CLO law firm. He is also actively involved in creating various permanent capital solutions for various of the firm's 50 plus asset manager clients who currently manage CLOs, including US and EU risk retention compliant structures.
Mr. Timperio is recognized by Law360 as a 2020 MVP of the Year for Structured Finance. Mr. Timperio is ranked as a leading lawyer for securitization and CLOs by Chambers USA, recognizing his expertise on middle market CLO transactions. Mr. Timperio is cited in Chambers USA as "the quintessential managers' lawyer in CLOs, he is at the forefront of development and is a pleasure to work with." Mr. Timperio is also a recommended lawyer for Structured Finance by The Legal 500 (U.S.), where he was described as "very prolific" and "well known" for his work in the middle market CLO sector. Since 2012, he has been ranked in The Best Lawyers in America as a leading lawyer in banking and finance law. Mr. Timperio is a frequent author and speaker on the topic of CLOs and risk retention.
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.
Kenton Freitag joined BCI in 2010 as a Senior Credit Analyst and has covered investment grade debt, high yield debt, and project finance debt across most industries. He is currently the Senior Managing Director for the Principal Credit Fund. With $233.0 billion of gross managed assets as of March 31, 2023, BCI is one of Canada’s largest institutional investors within the global capital markets.
Prior to joining BCI, his previous experience in credit included nine years at Standard & Poor’s in Toronto and seven years with Export Development Canada in Ottawa.
He has a master’s in economics from UBC and a B. Comm from Queen’s University and is a CFA® charterholder.
Kunal Soni is a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley and the Head of the Western Region and Direct Lending Technology for Morgan Stanley Private Credit, where he serves as a member on the Investment Committee and focuses on originating and executing investment opportunities. Mr. Soni joined Morgan Stanley in 2019 and has over 23 years of relevant industry experience. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Soni was Head of the Western Region for the Direct Lending Platform of the Carlyle Group. Prior to Carlyle, Mr. Soni has worked in various credit-focused senior investment professional roles in the asset management industry since 2007. Mr. Soni was also a Principal at Bison Capital Asset Management focusing on growth investments in middle market companies and worked at J.P. Morgan and KPMG LLP. Mr. Soni graduated from Emory University in 1998.
Kyle Asher, Partner, Managing Director & Co-Head and Co-Portfolio Manager, Opportunistic Private Credit. Mr. Asher is a Managing Director, Co-Head and Co-Portfolio Manager 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. Asher co-leads the firms’ investments in real estate, specialty finance and corporate special situations. He joined the firm in 2009 and is a member of the Opportunistic Private Credit Fund’s Investment Committee. He serves as the Co-Chair of the firm’s Strategic Planning Committee. Mr. Asher has over 15 years of investment experience and has led the underwriting of over $5 billion of debt and equity transactions, across a variety of opportunistic private investments. Prior to Monroe, he was an Analyst with Chicago-based Calder Capital Partners, a direct and fund-of-funds private equity firm partly owned by Goldman Sachs and Ares Capital (formerly Allied Capital), where he performed due diligence on various direct and fund-of-fund investments, sourced transactions and assisted in capital raising. Mr. Asher began his career as an Equity Analyst for MindShare Capital, an institutional money-manager where he focused on the valuation and trading patterns of small-cap growth companies. Mr. Asher earned his M.B.A. in Finance and International Business from Northwestern University and his B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from Northwestern University.
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.
Omer Masud is Managing Director, Head of Sponsor Finance Origination at Raymond James. Mr. Masud was previously the Head of Origination and Capital Markets at Onex Falcon as well as President of the Onex Falcon BDC and member of the senior investment committee. He helped lead the development of the firm’s senior strategy and managed sponsor, advisor and partner relationships for the entire firm. Prior to Onex, he was a Managing Director in the Financial Sponsors Group at Macquarie Capital, where he was responsible for managing relationships with private equity clients. In prior roles at UBS and Citi’s sponsor coverage groups his responsibilities included delivering the leveraged finance, equity and M&A franchises to private equity firms and their portfolio companies. Prior to that, Mr. Masud worked at Bear Stearns in the Acquisition and Leveraged Finance Group, where he was responsible for structuring and executing middle market private equity and leveraged finance transactions. Mr. Masud serves on the Alumni Board and Finance Advisory Board of the Fisher College of Business at the Ohio State University. He received an M.B.A and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Ohio State University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Florida Institute of Technology.
Peter Gingold is currently a Managing Director at Francisco Partners serving as a senior group member helping oversee the firm’s Credit and Structured Solutions business. In this role, Peter focuses on making investments that provide a broad spectrum of capital solutions for leading technology companies, ranging from traditional credit financings to flexible growth structures. Prior to joining Francisco Partners, Peter was at Angelo Gordon, where he served as a senior member of the corporate credit investment team. Peter oversaw the firm’s investments in the technology sector across multiple portfolio strategies including performing, distressed and opportunistic credit. He was also a member of the Firm’s investment committee for the European Performing Credit Funds. Peter holds a B.S. in Applied Economics from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from the Columbia Business School.
Phil Tseng, Managing Director, is a member of BlackRock's Global Credit Platform and President and COO of BlackRock TCP Capital Corp (NASDAQ: TCPC). He is Co-Head of US Private Capital and is the Investment Committee Co-Chair for BlackRock's US Private Capital (USPC) business. He is responsible for co-leading the platform, originating and executing investment opportunities, and maintaining relationships with key deal sources and intermediaries across the US. He is also Co-Chair of the Management Operating Committee for US Private Capital and a member of the Private Credit Executive Committee for Global Credit.Prior to joining BlackRock, Mr. Tseng served on the Management Committee and was a Managing Partner at Tennenbaum Capital Partners (TCP). TCP managed more than $9 billion in committed capital and was acquired by BlackRock in 2018. In addition to managing the growth and build out of TCP, he was responsible for sourcing, evaluating, structuring and executing private debt and equity investments. Prior to TCP, he held roles in equity research and investment banking at Credit Suisse First Boston and Deutsche Banc Alex Brown. Mr. Tseng currently serves as a Director on the Board of Connexity Inc., and previously on First Advantage, ITC DeltaCom, and Anacomp, Inc.Mr. Tseng also serves on the Board of Trustees for the California Science Center Foundation and as a Director of the United States Tennis Association (USTA) Southern California.Mr. Tseng received his A.B. with honors in Economics from Harvard College and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School
Rick is a Partner and Global Head of Private Debt. Rick is a member of the International Investment Committee and the Global Credit Committee. Prior to joining Pantheon, Rick was a Managing Director and an Investment Committee Member at Star Mountain Capital, a middle-market private credit manager. Rick previously held several senior investment positions across asset managers and boutique investment firms including Stone Tower Capital, Green Brook Capital and Citigroup Alternative Investments and Morgan Stanley. Rick received a B.Com in Economics and Finance (Hons.) from McGill University. Rick is based in New York.
Randy Schwimmer
Vice Chairman, Co-Head of Senior Lending
Randy is Vice Chairman and Co-Head of Senior Lending and oversees senior lending origination and capital markets for Churchill Asset Management, an investment specialist of Nuveen.
Randy has broad experience in middle market finance and is widely credited with developing loan syndications for middle market companies. Prior to joining the firm, Randy served as a senior managing director and head of capital markets and indirect origination at Churchill Financial. In those positions, he took responsibility for all loan capital markets activities and for managing the firm's indirect origination platform. Before that, he worked as managing director and head of leveraged finance syndication for BNP Paribas. He spent 15 years at JP Morgan Chase in corporate banking and loan syndications, where he originated, structured and syndicated leveraged loans.
Randy graduated with a B.A., cum laude, from Trinity College and an M.A. from the University of Chicago.
Sarosh G. Nentin, Director, is a Portfolio Manager for BlackRock Private Debt’s Global High Yield Infrastructure Debt (GID) business in New York. His responsibilities include the development and execution of the high yield infrastructure debt strategy as well as the origination, structuring and underwriting of high yield Infrastructure transactions. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2021, Mr. Nentin was a Vice President at First Reserve Corp. in both the High Yield Credit and Alternative Capital vehicle in Stamford, CT, where he focused on power & utilities, renewables, infrastructure, energy, and middle-market business services and industrials, and the Private Equity Capital Markets team. Prior to First Reserve, he was a Vice President in the Investment Banking Power & Renewables coverage group at Credit Suisse, where he closed on over $20 billion in M&A and financing transactions. Earlier, he served as an Associate in the Project Finance & Infrastructure team at CIBC World Markets in New York.
Sarosh earned a BS in Finance and Economics from the Wallace E. Carroll School of Management at Boston College, and his MBA from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.
Thomas Dobleman is a corporate partner in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP. He concentrates his practice principally in the areas of debt financing transactions, with an emphasis on leveraged buyouts, highly leveraged financings, work-outs, restructurings, liability management transactions and other special situation transactions. He represents private equity sponsors, private and public companies, hedge funds and alternative capital sources. The transactions that he has handled include complex secured and unsecured financings, leveraged buy-outs, debtor-in-possession and exit financings, bridge-debt facilities, asset-based financings, first-lien, second-lien, unitranche, mezzanine and subordinated debt financings and have ranged in size from billion dollar transactions to middle market and lower middle market transactions.
Todd is a leveraged finance and private debt partner in A&O Shearman's New York office. He advises a wide variety of financial institutions and investment funds across a broad range of domestic and international finance transactions. He regularly counsels commercial and investment banks, alternative asset managers and private credit funds, as well as borrowers and other market participants, on secured and unsecured loans, leveraged and acquisition financings, asset-based loan facilities, debtor-in-possession financings, bridge loans, restructurings and recapitalizations, and general corporate finance and banking matters. His practice spans the syndicated loan and “direct lending” markets and ranges from middle-market to large cap transactions across multiple asset classes, including U.S. domestic and Latin American digital infrastructure.
Todd leads A&O Shearman’s annual Leveraged Finance Training Camp and has published articles in a number of media outlets, including The Banking Law Journal, The Banker and the International Comparative Legal Guide to Lending & Secured Finance. He is a frequent contributor to industry conferences and podcasts, such as Debtwire’s U.S. Private Credit Forum and the ABF Journal and 9fin podcasts, among others.
Todd received his BBA from The University of Georgia and his JD and MBA from Vanderbilt University.
Zeshan Ashfaque is a Senior Managing Director and a Senior Credit Officer at Man Varagon. Zeshan has extensive experience investing in middle market credit and has originated, executed, and managed investments across a variety of structures, industries, and strategies, including performing, opportunistic, and stressed/distressed credit. Prior to Man Varagon, he worked in credit investing at HPS Investment Partners, TPG Sixth Street Partners, and Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group. He earned a BBA from Emory University and an MS from The University of Virginia.