Blair Faulstich is a managing director with Benefit Street Partners and is based in our New York office. Prior to joining BSP in 2011, Mr. Faulstich was a managing director and co-head of media and communications investment banking at Citadel Securities. Previously, he was a managing director in the media and communications investment banking group at Merrill Lynch. Mr. Faulstich held various positions at Deutsche Bank Alex. Brown in the media investment banking group. Before joining Alex. Brown in 1997, Mr. Faulstich spent three years at Arthur Andersen. Mr. Faulstich received a Master of Business Administration from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Arts from Principia College.

Ken serves as President and CEO of Churchill Asset Management, an affiliate of Nuveen, the asset management arm of TIAA, a Fortune 100 financial services company. He also serves as Chairman of the Board, President and CEO of Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending Corp., Churchill’s publicly registered business development company. Churchill currently manages over $46 billion in committed capital and focuses on providing senior, unitranche and junior debt financing and making equity co-investments and fund commitments to leading private equity investment firms and their portfolio companies. Churchill is among the most active private capital managers in the U.S., annually investing approximately $11 billion in over 375 distinct transactions. Throughout his over 35-year career in the investment industry, he has accrued a broad range of experience in leading private credit investment businesses. Previously, Ken served as a Managing Director of The Carlyle Group, where he also served as President and a Director of Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc. (Carlyle’s publicly traded business development company). Prior to that he founded and was President and CEO of Churchill Financial Group, served as Head of Leveraged Finance for Royal Bank of Canada and was Head of Indosuez Capital, a leading middle market merchant banking and asset management business in partnership with Credit Agricole Group. Ken was also a founder of the high yield finance business at Chase Securities (now JP Morgan Chase). He began his career in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Drexel Burnham Lambert. He regularly appears as a guest commentator on private credit markets on Bloomberg, CNBC, The Wall Street Journal and The Financial Times. Ken graduated with a B.S. in Business Administration, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University and a J.D. from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. He serves on the Pension Investment Advisory Committee for the Archdiocese of New York, the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Investment Committee of Canisius High School (a private Jesuit Preparatory school in Buffalo, NY) and the Advisory Board of Teach for America (Connecticut). Ken is a former member of the Board of Advisors and Adjunct Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University.

Mr. Mathew is senior managing director and Head of Asset Management for Antares Capital and is a member of the Antares Capital Executive Committee. He also is president of Antares Capital Advisers and a member of the Antares Capital Advisers Investment Committee. Prior to joining Antares Capital, Mr. Mathew was a managing director at J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, where he led the Global Primary CLO Business. Previously, Mr. Mathew was a vice president of Structured Finance at Deutsche Bank. Mr. Mathew received an A.B. in Economics from Harvard University. He has 23 years of industry experience and joined Antares Capital in May 2016.

Ian Fowler is Co-Head of Barings’ Global Private Finance Group, a member of the group’s North American, European and Asia-Pacific Private Finance Investment Committees and President of Barings BDC, Inc. (NYSE: BBDC). He is responsible for leading a team that originates, underwrites and manages global private finance investments. Ian has worked in the industry since 1988 and his experience has encompassed middle market commercial finance, including originating, underwriting and managing senior secured loans, mezzanine and co-investment transactions. Prior to joining the firm in 2012, he was a Senior Managing Director with Harbour Group and co-founded Freeport Financial LLC where he was a member of the Executive Credit Committee and responsible for all business development and capital market initiatives. While at Freeport, he helped build the company into one of the top 5 non-bank affiliated middle market Sponsor finance companies in the U.S. Before Freeport, Ian was Managing Director and Global Group Leader for GE Capital's Global Sponsor Finance Group. Prior to GE Capital, Ian held various leveraged finance and investment positions with NationsBank and Mellon Bank. Ian holds a B.A. (Honors) from the University of Western Ontario and is a member of the CFA Institute

Theodore L. Koenig, Chairman and CEO of Monroe Capital LLC. Mr. Koenig also serves as the Chairman, President and CEO of Monroe Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: MRCC), a publicly traded business development company (BDC); and as Chairman, Director and CEO of Monroe Capital Income Plus Corporation. Monroe Capital LLC (“Monroe”) is a premier boutique asset management firm specializing in private credit markets across various strategies including direct lending, asset-based lending, specialty finance, opportunistic and structured credit, and equity. Prior to Monroe, Mr. Koenig was President and CEO of Hilco Capital LP, a junior secured/mezzanine debt fund established in 2000. He is a graduate of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University (B.S.) in accounting with high honors and Chicago-Kent College of Law (J.D.) with honors.

Sandrine brings over 25 years of asset management experience. She joined Generali Investments Partners in 2022 from Muzinich, where she steered the European and French senior secured and private debt strategy in senior leadership roles. Prior to that, she covered senior roles at AXA Investment Managers, including leading the private debt investment team, and at Exane. Sandrine holds CAIA (Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst) and CFAF (Centre de Formation à l’Analyse Financière) certifications, an Independent Administrator Executive Master from EM LYON, and a diploma from the Institut Supérieur de Gestion (ISG) Business School.