Fred supports all aspects of the decision-making process of the Private Credit Team, including sourcing, structuring, reviewing, and negotiating deal opportunities.

Prior to joining Adams Street, he was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs. In this role, he focused on investing capital out of various private debt vehicles, including the firm's first Business Development Company (BDC), as well as managing initial credit reviews, structuring the financing, business due diligence, participating in Investment Committee approval, negotiating deal terms, and coordinating legal documentation. 

Fred’s other experience includes a Vice President role at Fifth Street Asset Management, an Associate role at Greenhill & Co. and Golden Arc Capital, and an Analyst position at Banc of America Securities. He commenced his career at Lehman Brothers, as an Analyst within the Credit Derivatives team.

He is a member of Adams Street’s Private Credit Investment Committee. 

Brent Humphries joined AB in 2014 as a founding member and President of AB Private Credit Investors, where he has primary responsibility for overseeing all aspects of the business, including chairing the investment committee, fundraising, investor relations, investment originations, structuring and underwriting, as well as ongoing portfolio management and compliance. He previously held the same position with Barclays Private Credit Partners. Prior to joining Barclays, Humphries served as group head, generalist financial sponsor coverage for Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group, and later led its structured private equity initiative. Before that, he served as a partner and managing director of the Texas Growth Fund, a middle market private equity firm. Humphries previously worked in leveraged finance with NationsBank and J.P. Morgan, and as a financial analyst with Exxon. He holds a BBA in finance with an emphasis in accounting from the University of Oklahoma and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Location: Austin

Marc Strauss, Senior Managing Director at Crestline

Mr. Strauss joined Crestline in 2019 and focuses on US Corporate Credit. Prior to joining Crestline, Marc worked at LStar Capital and FS Investments, where he was responsible for deal sourcing, execution and asset management for unitranche, junior capital, and special situation debt investments. In addition to his investing experience, Mr. Strauss provided debt advisory and capital raising services while working at Jefferies Financial Group and Rothschild & Co. Mr. Strauss has a BA from the University of Rochester, a JD from the University of Virginia, and a MBA from Columbia Business School.  Mr. Strauss currently serves on the Board of Directors of ClareMedica, Genuine Health Group and Upperline Health.

Mr. Shantz is the Managing Director of Credit and Hedge Funds for the $42 billion Employee Retirement System of Texas. He transformed its core-plus style fixed income portfolio into distinct Rates and Credit mandates and simultaneously developed its internal high yield management capacity. In 2022 he took the additional responsibility of leading the Hedge Fund team. Prior to ERS Mr. Shantz was a Managing Director and Investment Committee member for the Lockheed Martin Investment Management Company where he implemented a similar fixed income format utilizing liability driven investing and additionally created its internally managed hedge fund portfolio. Before Lockheed he was the senior fixed income portfolio manager at the Tennessee Consolidated Retirement System. Mr. Shantz has additionally served on the investment committee for Sandia National Laboratories, The Long Center Investment Committee, is a former president of the Nashville Society of Financial Analyst, is a Chartered Financial Analyst since 1996, performed his Ph.D. studies in Finance at the University of Tennessee, and graduated with honors in Economics and Business Administration from Rhodes College.