Stuart is the Head of Europe and APAC Private Credit and Capital
Solutions. He currently chairs the Capital Solutions investment
committee and is a member of several firm investment committees
including Europe Private Credit, North America Private Credit, APAC
Private Credit, European High Yield and MassMutual Ventures Europe
& Asia fund. Stuart joined Barings in 2002 and has extensive
investment experience encompassing the sub-investment grade
public and private credit markets, restructuring and special situations
investments. Prior to joining Barings, he worked in the Business
Recovery Services team in London at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He is
currently a board member of Trafalgar Entertainment and has
extensive experience of working closely with a number of businesses
whilst at Barings. Stuart holds a B.Sc. in Chemistry from Keble College,
Oxford and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in
England & Wales.

Marion Buten is a Managing Director and the Chief Operating Officer for
European Private Credit in Blackstone Credit and Insurance (BXCI) based
in London. In this role, she focuses on portfolio and team management,
and leverage for European direct lending strategies. In her prior roles at
Blackstone, she was involved in the origination, structuring and
monitoring of various European direct lending deals and was also a
member of the European and US CLO franchise. Before joining Blackstone
in 2003, she worked at UBS as an Associate Director within the Leveraged
Finance and Corporate Finance teams in Zurich, London and New York.
Ms. Buten received a master’s degree with distinction from the European
School of Management, where she completed a three year master’s
program in Paris, Oxford and Berlin.