Interested Directors

Douglas I. Ostrover, Co-CEO

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Douglas I. Ostrover 

is a Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Blue Owl Capital Inc., a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and the chairman of the firm’s board of directors. Mr. Ostrover is also a Co-Founder of Owl Rock and is a member of the Owl Rock Investment Committees. In addition, Mr. Ostrover served on the boards of ORCC and ORCC II from 2016 to 2021, on the board of ORTF from 2018 to 2021 and on the boards of ORCC III and ORCIC from 2020 to 2021.

Prior to co-founding Owl Rock, Mr. Ostrover was one of the founders of GSO Capital Partners (GSO), Blackstone’s alternative credit platform, and a Senior Managing Director at Blackstone until 2015. Prior to co-founding GSO in 2005, Mr. Ostrover was a Managing Director and Chairman of the Leveraged Finance Group of Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB). Prior to his role as Chairman, Mr. Ostrover was Global Co-Head of CSFB’s Leveraged Finance Group, during which time he was responsible for all of CSFB’s origination, distribution and trading activities relating to high yield securities, leveraged loans, high yield credit derivatives and distressed securities. Mr. Ostrover was a member of CSFB’s Management Council and the Fixed Income Operating Committee. Mr. Ostrover joined CSFB in November 2000 when CSFB acquired Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (“DLJ”), where he was a Managing Director in charge of High Yield and Distressed Sales, Trading and Research. Mr. Ostrover had been a member of DLJ’s high yield team since he joined the firm in 1992.

Mr. Ostrover is actively involved in non-profit organizations including serving on the boards of directors of the Michael J. Fox Foundation and the Mt. Sinai Health System, and the Leadership Council for Memorial Sloan Kettering. Mr. Ostrover also serves on the investment committee of the Brunswick School. Mr. Ostrover received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from New York University Stern School of Business.

Marc S. Lipschultz, Co-CEO

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Marc S. Lipschultz is a Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Blue Owl Capital Inc., a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and a member of the firm’s board of directors. Mr. Lipschultz is also a Co-Founder and President of Owl Rock, serves as the Co-Chief Investment Officer of each of the Owl Rock Advisers and is a member of the Investment Committees of each of the Owl Rock Advisors.

Prior to co-founding Owl Rock, Mr. Lipschultz spent more than two decades at KKR, and he served on the firm’s Management Committee and as the Global Head of Energy and Infrastructure. Mr. Lipschultz has a wide range of experience in alternative investments, including leadership roles in private credit, private equity, infrastructure and direct-asset investing. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Lipschultz was with Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he focused on mergers and acquisitions and principal investment activities.

Mr. Lipschultz serves on the board of the Hess Corporation and is actively involved in a variety of non-profit organizations, serving as a board member of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Michael J. Fox Foundation, Mount Sinai Health System, Riverdale Country School, Stanford University Board of Trustees and the 92nd Street Y. Mr. Lipschultz received an A.B. with honors and distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, from Stanford University and an M.B.A. with high distinction, Baker Scholar, from Harvard Business School.

Craig W. Packer, Co-President

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Craig W. Packer is a Co-Founder and Co-President of Blue Owl Capital Inc., a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and a member of the firm’s board of directors. Mr. Packer is also a Co-Founder of Owl Rock Capital Partners, serves as Co-Chief Investment Officer and a member of the Executive Committees of the Owl Rock Advisers and President and Chief Executive Officer of each of the Owl Rock BDCs and is a member of the Owl Rock Investment Committees. In addition, Mr. Packer has served on the boards of the Owl Rock BDCs.

Prior to co-founding Owl Rock, Mr. Packer was Co-Head of Leveraged Finance in the Americas at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Mr. Packer joined Goldman, Sachs & Co. as a Managing Director and Head of High Yield Capital Markets in 2006 and was named partner in 2008. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Mr. Packer was the Global Head of High Yield Capital Markets at Credit Suisse First Boston, and before that he worked at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

Mr. Packer serves as Treasurer and member of the Board of Trustees of Greenwich Academy, Co-Chair of the Honorary Board of Kids in Crisis, a nonprofit organization that serves children in Connecticut, Board Member of the University of Virgina Athletics Foundation and on the Board for the McIntire School of Commerce Foundation, University of Virginia. Mr. Packer earned a B.S. from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Michael Rees, Co-President

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Michael Rees is a Co-Founder and Co-President of Blue Owl Capital Inc., a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and a member of the firm’s board of directors. Mr. Rees also serves as the Head of Dyal Capital, a division of Blue Owl, which he founded when it was a division of Neuberger Berman Group. Prior to founding Dyal Capital, Mr. Rees was a founding employee and shareholder of Neuberger Berman Group, transitioning from Lehman Brothers as part of the management buyout transaction in May 2009, and was the first Chief Operating Officer of Neuberger’s alternatives business. Mr. Rees was an employee of Lehman Brothers from April 2001 through May 2009. He had numerous roles at Lehman Brothers and was responsible for strategic acquisitions for the Investment Management Division at Lehman Brothers. From 2003 through 2006, he was Head of Asset Management Strategy. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, he was an associate at Marakon Associates.

Mr. Rees received a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a master’s degree in Technology Policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Rees currently serves on the boards of directors of The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and The Opportunity Network, an education focused non-profit that supports underserved students with postsecondary and career readiness education. Mr. Rees received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh.

Marc Zahr, Co-President

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Marc Zahr is Co-President of Blue Owl Capital Inc. and the Co-Founder and the President of Oak Street, a division of Blue Owl, a member of the Blue Owl Capital Inc.’s Executive Committee, and a member of the firm’s board of directors. In his role, Mr. Zahr is responsible for the overall direction and leadership of the real estate division. He manages and oversees the real estate division’s investment activities which include sourcing, underwriting and negotiating all acquisitions. Mr. Zahr also leads the real estate Investment Committees and new product development, and serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Oak Street Net Lease Trust, a private REIT, and serves on the Board of Trustees of Store Capital, a private REIT. Mr. Zahr was honored as one of Crain’s Chicago Business’s 40 Under 40 for 2018.

Prior to Blue Owl, Mr. Zahr served as Vice President at American Realty Capital where he was responsible for the analytics and acquisition activities within the company’s real estate portfolios. Mr. Zahr also served as a Fixed Income Trader at TM Associates and an Associate at Merrill Lynch. Mr. Zahr received a B.A. in Communications from the University of Dayton.

Sean Ward

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Sean Ward is a Senior Managing Director of Blue Owl Capital Inc., a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and a member of the firm’s board of directors. Mr. Ward also serves as a member of the Dyal Capital Partners Investment Team. Previously a Vice President at Lehman Brothers, Mr. Ward held several roles at Neuberger after it became an independent firm, including Senior Counsel for Neuberger’s alternatives business. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, he was an associate at Covington & Burling LLP, where his practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings and credit transactions. Prior to Covington & Burling LLP, Mr. Ward worked at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York and London.

Mr. Ward received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the Duke University School of Law and holds a B.A., magna cum laude, in Diplomatic History and Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves on the Leadership Council of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, a nonprofit focused on human rights issues and a “social good” approach to business and investment. Mr. Ward is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Museum.

Andrew S. Komaroff

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Andrew S. Komaroff is the Chief Operating Officer of Neuberger Berman Group LLC and joined the predecessor firm in 2001. Mr. Komaroff’s responsibilities include oversight of the firm’s client coverage and distribution channels as well as information technology and operations. Mr. Komaroff also served as the interim Chief Financial Officer immediately following the firm’s employee-led buyout in 2009.

Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Komaroff was a management consultant at McKinsey & Co., a principal at Ripplewood Holdings, a New York and Tokyo-based private equity firm, and the Executive Vice President of the Equavant Group, an internet exchange acquired in 2001. Mr. Komaroff serves on the Board of Trustees for the Writing Revolution, a national not-for-profit organization dedicated to teaching students to think clearly and reflect that thinking in their writing. Mr. Komaroff is a Member of Stanford Associates, selected by the University for top 1% of alumni volunteers.

He has served on the board of directors of the Company since May 2021.

Mr. Komaroff received a BA from Williams College where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and a JD from Stanford Law School where he was a member of the Order of the Coif.

Independent Directors

Dana Weeks

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Dana Weeks is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MedTrans Go, a B2B healthcare technology start-up based in Atlanta, GA. Prior to MedTrans Go, Dana co-founded the Black Angel Tech Foundation, created to support and increase the number of underrepresented minorities in technology, and served in her role as President from April 2016 to September 2019. Dana has also held positions at AT&T, Pfizer, and in several innovative entrepreneurial ventures. Dana also applies her leadership, interest and skills to a wide range of other organizations in the community. Dana is a Trustee of The Westminster Schools of Atlanta, the Treasurer of the Atlanta Chapter of Jack & Jill, a Board Member for the Alliance Theater, and an advisory board member for Stride: Win Your Way, a sports optimization platform for coaches and athletes. Dana currently serves on several Task Forces and committees at both Stanford and Columbia Business School, including as a co-chair of the Stanford LEAD Council, a founding member of the Women’s Circle at Columbia Business School, and as a member of the Stanford Humanities & Sciences Council.

Dana has served on the board of directors of the Company since May 2021 and is a member of the Company’s audit committee.

Dana earned a BA in Anthropology with Honors from Stanford University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Claudia Holz

Claudia Holz is a certified public accountant in the State of New York. Ms. Holz previously served as an audit partner for KPMG LLP, where she performed and supervised audits of the financial statements and internal controls of public and private companies. During her career at KPMG, she held numerous leadership positions, including serving as partner-in-charge of the New York office investment management audit practice. In September 2017, she retired from KPMG after more than 35 years. She has served on the Audit and Compliance Committee for American Beacon funds since April 2018. In that capacity, she oversees and assesses the performance of the annual audits by the funds’ auditors.

She has served on the board of directors of the Company since May 2021 and is the chair of the Company’s audit committee.

She earned a BS in Accounting, magna cum laude, from Syracuse University.

Stacy Polley

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Stacy Polley is a former partner of Goldman Sachs, where she gained over 25 years of experience in finance and commercial leadership from August 1994 to March 2019. Ms. Polley served as a member of Goldman Sachs’ Partnership Committee from 2008 to 2016 and was a founding member of Goldman Sachs’ Client and Business Standards Committee (CBSC) formed in response to the 2008 financial crisis and served as the Co-Chair of the Securities Division of CBSC from 2008 to 2015. She also served as the Global Head of Client Relationship Management & Strategy from September 2014 to December 2018 and as a member of the Americas Diversity Committee from 2012 to 2015.

Previously, Ms. Polley worked as a Consultant in the Information Technology Practice of EY from August 1989 to July 1992. Ms. Polley is currently a board advisor of HighPost Capital, a consumer-focused growth equity firm, where she has served since November 2019, as well as fintech startup Bumped, where she has served since January 2021. She has also served on the board of New York City Center since September 2012.

She has served on the board of directors of the Company since May 2021 and is a member of the Company’s audit committee.

Ms. Polley earned a BS in Finance and Management Information Systems from State University of New York at Albany and an MBA in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.