Brett Pearlman, a partner at Cleary Gottlieb, focuses on private credit, special situations direct lending, workouts, restructurings, and liability management transactions. He has extensive experience in various financing transactions, including asset-backed, unitranche, second lien, PIK-holdco, mezzanine, debtor-in-possession, and rescue financing. He works with sponsored and non-sponsored companies, leveraging his extensive network of sponsor, bank, direct lending, hedge fund, advisory, and intermediary relationships.

Previously, Brett was a principal at an independent investment firm focused on providing financing solutions to middle-market companies. Before that, he served as a senior vice president at a global private equity firm, overseeing its private debt portfolio of over 150 companies and serving as a director on several portfolio company boards across various asset classes.

Jiri Honajzer is a Vice President in Brookfield’s Infrastructure Credit Group. In this role, Mr. Honajzer focuses on sourcing, structuring, and managing infrastructure debt investments across Brookfield’s infrastructure debt strategies in North America with a focus on digital infrastructure.

Prior to joining Brookfield in 2020, Mr. Honajzer worked for a leading investment and project finance bank, structuring and raising debt capital for energy and infrastructure projects in the U.S. and Latin America.

Mr. Honajzer holds a Bachelor of Science degree from New York University.

Rashad is a Credit Partner and Managing Director with Stonepeak. Before joining Stonepeak, Rashad was a co-Founder and Partner at Boundary Street, focusing on lower middle market digital credit opportunities. Prior to Boundary Street, Rashad was a Director of Communications Infrastructure at Pacific Western Bank. Prior to Pacific Western Bank, he worked at CapitalSource and Protiviti in lending and consulting roles.

Rashad received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the College of William and Mary. He also earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation from the CFA Institute.

Horace Zona is a Managing Director, Credit at DigitalBridge. Mr. Zona has over 30 years of experience in the Communications, Media and Technology sectors with over 25 years of direct experience sourcing transactions in Digital Infrastructure. Prior to joining DigitalBridge, Mr. Zona was a Managing Director and Group Head of the Technology, Media Telecommunications Investment Banking Group at Truist Securities (formerly SunTrust Robinson Humphrey). Mr. Zona founded the business de novo and built the 60 person team over 14 years by expanding into Digital Infrastructure, Digital Media, FinTech and Software practices, utilizing strategic client dialogue to deliver unique solutions in M&A and Debt and Equity Capital Markets. Prior to Truist, Mr. Zona held several senior positions focused on Digital Infrastructure at Wachovia Securities (formerly First Union Securities) and TD Securities. Mr. Zona received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and English Literature from Boston College.