Mr. Arougheti is a Co-Founder of Ares and the Chief Executive Officer and President, as well as a Director of Ares Management Corporation. He is a member of the Ares Executive Management Committee, the Ares Enterprise Risk Committee and is on the Board of Directors of the Ares Charitable Foundation. He additionally serves as Co-Chairman of Ares Capital Corporation ("ARCC"), Co-Chairman of Ares Acquisition Corporation ("AAC") and as a director of Ares Commercial Real Estate Corporation ("ACRE"). Mr. Arougheti also is a member of the Ares Credit Group's U.S. Direct Lending and Pathfinder Fund Investment Committees, the Ares Equity Income Opportunity Strategy Portfolio Review Committee and the Ares Operations Management Group. Prior to joining Ares in 2004, Mr. Arougheti was employed by Royal Bank of Canada ("RBC") from 2001 to 2004, where he was a Managing Partner of the Principal Finance Group of RBC Capital Partners and a member of the firm's Mezzanine Investment Committee. Mr. Arougheti oversaw an investment team that originated, managed and monitored a diverse portfolio of middle-market leveraged loans, senior and junior subordinated debt, preferred equity and common stock and warrants on behalf of RBC and other third-party institutional investors. Mr. Arougheti joined RBC in October 2001 from Indosuez Capital, where he was a Principal and an Investment Committee member, responsible for originating, structuring and executing leveraged transactions across a broad range of products and asset classes. Prior to joining Indosuez in 1994, Mr. Arougheti worked at Kidder, Peabody & Co., where he was a member of the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions Group. Mr. Arougheti also serves on the board of directors of Operation HOPE, a not-for-profit organization focused on expanding economic opportunity in underserved communities through education and empowerment. Additionally, he is a member of the PATH Organization Leadership Council. Mr. Arougheti received a B.A. in Ethics, Politics and Economics, cum laude, from Yale University.

Kamaron Leach is a next-generation media personality and journalist from Atlanta, Georgia. Residing in New York City, he currently work as a reporter for Bloomberg News contributing on and off camera covering current events, business and entertainment news. But Kamaron's presence has also been seen on a variety of other news outlets, including: BET, ABC and CBS Television owned stations, The Grio, MSNBC and more. Known for his charming southern personality and approachability amongst Hollywood’s biggest stars, Kamaron has scored a number of high-profile interviews spanning the entertainment and news industry. His journey into the business began to brew with a high school internship at People TV, a Comcast-owned public access channel back home in Atlanta. From there Kamaron went on to attain a Bachelor of Arts degree in Broadcast Journalism and Economics from Howard University, where he also became a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. It was out of these countless opportunities that Kamaron founded his company — Leach Media Ventures — at the age of seventeen. In such a competitive industry, he truly believes that 10,000 hours is only the standard and not the bar.