THANK YOU TO OUR ADVISORY COMMITTEE

Ms. Lamont Svejnar is a Partner in the Ares Secondaries Group, where she focuses on credit secondaries. Ms. Lamont Svejnar serves on the Ares Secondaries Group's Credit Investment Committee. Additionally, Ms. Lamont Svejnar serves on the Ares Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council. Prior to joining Ares in 2006, Ms. Lamont Svejnar was an Analyst at GE Capital Global Media & Communications, where she focused on providing debt financing to mid-market media firms. Previously, Ms. Lamont Svejnar participated in the GE Capital Financial Management Program and completed roles in risk portfolio analytics and financial planning analytics. Ms. Lamont Svejnar holds a B.A. from Michigan State University's Eli Broad College of Business in Finance.

Ms. Padula is a Principal in the Ares Investor Relations Group, where she focuses on credit product management and investor relations. She previously worked on the Public Markets IR and Corporate Communications Group at Ares. Prior to joining Ares in 2017, Ms. Padula was a Senior Audit Associate at Ernst & Young LLP, where she focused on financial statement audits within the banking and capital markets space. Ms. Padula holds a B.S., cum laude, from the University of Delaware Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics in Finance and Accounting.

Fran Beyers, Managing Director, is the Head of Capital Markets at Cliffwater, an investment advisory and asset management firm specializing in alternative investments, including private equity, private debt, hedge funds, real assets, and real estate.   
Fran is also a portfolio manager for the firm’s $13.0 billion flagship interval fund, Cliffwater Corporate Lending Fund (CCLFX).  Fran is responsible for sourcing middle market lending opportunities and maintaining manager relationships to support Cliffwater’s rapidly growing multi-manager private debt asset management business.
Prior to joining Cliffwater, Fran served as the Head of Analysis for Middle Market Loans at Refinitiv LPC.  While in this role, she provided data and analytics on the direct lending market, while also developing innovative web-based products such as Refinitiv’s BDC Collateral, a comprehensive resource for analyzing BDC holdings and performance. Prior to that, she held positions at Churchill Asset Management focused on middle market leveraged financings for private equity portfolio companies. She began her career at J.P. Morgan, with roles including Ratings and Capital Structure Advisory and Credit Portfolio Management.  
Fran has been acknowledged as a thought leader for her research, commentary, analysis and data collection for the direct lending and middle market asset class for over a decade and is frequently cited by media outlets.  
Fran received her B.S.B.A. from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis.

Erica Frontiero is a senior financial executive and advisor with over 20 years of deal experience in M&A, leveraged finance and capital markets, having raised over $200BN in public and private debt and equity financing, including LBOs and IPOs.  

She is a leading expert in direct lending and private capital markets, and has served on several industry boards, numerous panels and as a representative to government and regulatory agencies worldwide. With deep deal acumen, client management, and sales and trading expertise, Erica has also helped build growth strategies and business plans with an eye on driving revenue, costs, regulatory compliance and ESG for financial services businesses. 

Most recently, Erica was a Managing Director and the Chief Operating Officer of Carlyle Global Capital Markets and the Head of Capital Solutions, a $60MM business within Carlyle, and previously the head of Debt Capital Markets and a member of Investment Committee for Direct Lending within Global Credit at Carlyle, a $350BN Global Investment Firm. Prior to joining Carlyle, Erica spent 12 years with Antares/GE Capital and began her professional career at Banc of America Securities (Bank of America Merrill Lynch) in New York and London. She honed her corporate communication and negotiating skills working at NBCUniversal in national sales and business development. Currently, Erica serves as a Senior Advisor and Strategic Consultant to fund managers and fund investors, trade organizations, and others, in private capital, including new credit and direct investment product/platform launch and private business CEOs on operational and M&A growth strategy, capitalization and valuation. 

Passionate about diversity and inclusivity, Erica has been an active leader in several professional organizations and initiatives driving improvement in gender parity and diversity in finance and was recognized for these efforts as a recipient of the inaugural Women of Wall Street Award in 2019 and a Carlyle DEI Award in 2021 which recognized employees who went above and beyond to contribute to progress in DEI. 

In line with that, Erica currently serves on the Board of Directors of Dress for Success, a global charity focused on getting women back to work and is a member of both the finance and strategy committees and served on the succession committee to identity and appoint the new CEO. She served as a member of the Governance Board of the Wall Street Woman’s Alliance (WSWA) a network dedicated to promoting women to c-suite roles. Erica was elected to two-terms of the Board of Directors of the LSTA (Loan Syndications and Trading Association), the leading advocate for the U.S. syndicated loan market, and was a Co-Chair for the Investor Manager Committee for ACC (Alternative Credit Council); a division of AIMA, (Alternative Investment Management Association) the global representative of the alternative investment industry and served as a leading part of the ESG committees of each; helping to establish standardized industry metrics and drive impact.  

Erica holds a B.A. in Economics from Wake Forest University with minors in Politics and International Studies and Series 24, 7, and 63 securities licenses. She resides in Manhattan and grew-up in Gloucester, MA.