Dadong is Head of Barings Portfolio Finance and chair of the Portfolio Finance Investment Committee. He is responsible for leading a global team that originates, underwrites, and manages investment grade portfolio finance investments. Dadong was previously Head of Alternative Investment Solutions at MassMutual where he built strategic partnerships with alternative asset managers globally and originated bilateral private portfolio finance opportunities. Prior to joining MassMutual, Dadong was an investment professional with experience investing across the capital structure in both public and private asset classes at Blackstone, Altai Capital, and Coatue Management. Previously, he was an investment banking professional at J.P. Morgan in the Financial Institutions Group. Dadong graduated magna cum laude from the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business and LSA Honors College with a triple major in business, biophysics, and honors German, where he was a Martin Haller Award recipient.
Mr. Thomas is an executive vice president and portfolio manager in the New York office. He is responsible for liability management of PIMCO’s private strategies globally as well as fund finance investing. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2018, he worked for Goldman Sachs in its FICC division, holding a variety of positions in structured products trading and client financing. He has 21 years of investment experience and holds an undergraduate degree in economics from Dartmouth College.
Jeffrey Hobbs is the chief investment officer of fixed income at Voya Investment Management. In this role, Jeff is directly responsible for oversight of public and private fixed income teams and leads Voya’s fixed income investment teams. Previously at Voya, he served as Voya’s head of insurance portfolio management, where he was responsible for developing and implementing full-service customized investment solutions across all asset classes for Voya’s proprietary general account as well as Voya’s external insurance clients. He is also a member of Voya IM’s Fixed Income Investment Committee governing the broader platform and acts as chair of the Voya IM Credit Committee. Prior to that at Voya, Jeff served as an insurance portfolio manager focused on the management of proprietary U.S. insurance assets and multi-sector insurance accounts for third party insurance clients. Prior to joining Voya, he was a portfolio manager at 40|86 Advisors, the investment management subsidiary of CNO Financial Group. Jeffrey earned an MBA from the University of Chicago with concentrations in analytic finance, corporate finance and economics, and a BBA in finance with honors from the University of Oklahoma. He serves on the Emerging Leaders for Children’s board at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, supporting pediatric healthcare initiatives in our community. Jeff is a member of the Insurance Board of AIF Global, and is a CFA® Charterholder.
Jeremy Deutsch is a Managing Director and Investment Professional at Neuberger Berman. Prior to joining Neuberger Berman Private Equity in 2019, Mr. Deutsch worked in Financial Sponsors Investment Banking at Barclays, where he advised Private Equity clients and their portfolio companies on M&A and financing transactions. Prior to Barclays, Mr. Deutsch worked as an Investment Associate at Neuberger Berman on the Multi-Asset Class team, where he focused on investment research and portfolio management across global asset classes. Mr. Deutsch began his career in business development at AQR Capital Management. He received an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a BA in Economics and Environmental Studies from Amherst College.
Mr. Landsberg is a Partner at 26North and the Chief Financial Officer of 26North’s Direct Lending platform. He is also the Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of 26North BDC, Inc. Before joining 26North in 2023, Mr. Landsberg was a Managing Director at Barings LLC, a global investment management firm, which he joined in 2018. He served as an executive officer across Barings’ BDC franchise, including Chief Financial Officer of Barings BDC, Inc. (NYSE: BBDC) and Barings Capital Investment Corporation, and President and Chief Financial Officer of Barings Private Credit Corporation. Mr. Landsberg was formerly a board member and served on the Investment Committee of Eclipse Business Capital, a leading asset-based lending platform that provides financing to middle-market borrowers in the U.S. and Canada. He also served on the investment committee of the Barings Global Private Structured Finance Group. Further, Mr. Landsberg held positions in several BDC-affiliated joint ventures, including Principal of Jocassee Partners LLC, and board member of Banff Partners LP, Thompson Rivers LLC, and Waccamaw River LLC. Prior to joining Barings in 2018, Mr. Landsberg was a Fixed Income Research Analyst at Wells Fargo Securities, covering the bank and specialty finance sectors. He also spent eight years at Merrill Lynch/Bank of America in roles across debt origination and syndicated lending. Mr. Landsberg holds BA degrees in Engineering Sciences and Economics from Dartmouth College, and he is a member of the CFA Institute.
Lindsay Trapp is a partner in Kirkland’s New York office and a co-head of the Structured Capital & Insurance Solutions team. Her practice focuses on complex credit fund formation and insurance solutions for global private fund sponsors, handling fund structuring, compliance and distribution matters. She has extensive experience in rated funds and other structures for capital-efficient insurance investing; structuring funds for tax-efficient global fundraising; captive CLO equity funds with EU risk retention compliant manager originators; levered private funds utilizing captive CLOs; collateralized fund obligations (CFOs); evergreen illiquid asset funds; liquid multicredit funds; and funds of closed-end funds. Lindsay is frequently quoted by industry press including Ignites Europe and Creditflux, where she has been quoted about matters affecting rated funds, insurance investors, private funds, CLOs and their managers in the U.S. and Ireland. Most recently, Lindsay was recognized by Best Lawyers®: Ones to Watch in 2026. She was recognized as a Rising Star Partner in IFLR1000 in the area of private equity funds in 2024 and 2025.
Michael Timms joined Bayview in 2025 as Managing Director, Co-Head of Fund Finance. Prior to joining Bayview, Michael was a Managing Director at 17Capital, where helped lead the firm’s U.S. investment business. In this role, he led the origination and execution of over $1.5bn of preferred equity and NAV loan investments with U.S. based alternative asset managers and funds. Prior to 17Capital, Michael spent 8 years helping build a market leading Fund Finance business at Wells Fargo. He began his career as an Equity Sales trader at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in 2009. Michael earned a BS in Economics from the University of Virginia, and a MS in Commerce from the McIntire School of Commerce.
Mr. Titolo is a Managing Director and serves as Head of Insurance and Investment Grade Alpha ("IGA") at Hunter Point Capital.
Prior to joining HPC, Mr. Titolo was a Managing Director and Head of Direct Private Investments at MassMutual Life Insurance Company, where he founded and led the company’s Direct Private Investments business, now known as Barings Portfolio Finance.
Growing the business to $26 billion AUM, he led a 30 person global team that originated capital-efficient, investment-grade portfolio loans and minority GP equity investments for the MassMutual general account. Prior to joining MassMutual, Mr. Titolo held alternative investment roles at Hartford Investment Management, Credit Suisse, and United Technologies corporate pension.
Mr. Titolo earned his B.S. from Boston College and his J.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Connecticut. He is also a C.F.A. charterholder.
Pramit Sheth joined Dawson in 2023 and has 18 years of credit experience in the structured and fund finance industry. Prior to joining Dawson, Pramit spent 12 years with Kroll Bond Rating Agency as a Senior Managing Director. In his most recent role there, Pramit was accountable for all new and existing Investment Funds debt ratings globally. Prior to that he was a senior member of the CMBS Structured Finance Ratings team, where he helped develop various methodologies and was part of the analytical credit team. Pramit holds a Bachelors Degree in Finance.
For over 15 years, Richard has been advising fund sponsors and lenders, in both an advisory and principal capacity. Prior to co-founding FFP, Richard was the General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and a Director of a $3 billion asset manager investing debt and equity in lower middle-market companies. During his ten-year tenure, Richard executed numerous capital markets initiatives on behalf of the firm’s investment vehicles and oversaw fund formation activity, developing comingled funds, SMA concepts, a NASDAQ-listed BDC, and joint ventures. Richard also executed financings for the foregoing, including but not limited to subscription facilities, corporate and SPV revolvers, total return swaps, hybrid and NAV credit facilities, GP/asset manager lines of credit and securitizations of credit assets. Richard’s breadth of asset management experience presents valuable, innovative expertise to fund sponsors dealing with fundraising, investor relations, compliance, financing, and portfolio management challenges and opportunities. Richard began his career as an attorney with two large law firms, representing Fortune 500 companies, privately held entities and alternative asset managers with M&A and capital markets activities, and financial institutions in the execution of leveraged finance and securitization transactions.
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