The U.S. Private Credit Industry Conference on Direct Lending

Brendan McGovern is a Senior Partner and the Head of Direct Lending at 26North, and is President and Chief Executive Officer of 26North BDC, Inc. Prior to joining 26North in 2022, Mr. McGovern was a Partner and the Head of GSAM PCG, and chaired the GSAM PCG investment committee from 2013 to 2021. He was also the Co-Head of the GSAM Credit Alternatives investment team. At GSAM, Mr. McGovern helped launch and lead the firm's BDC platform, as President and CEO of GSBD and four other private BDCs. Under Mr. McGovern's leadership, GSAM PCG deployed over $14 billion in capital into private credit investments. Prior to joining GSAM in 2006, Mr. McGovern served as a Managing Director in the Global Investment Group at Amaranth Advisors, where he focused on a variety of corporate credit investment opportunities, including private placements of debt and equity-linked securities, stressed and distressed investing and merger arbitrage. Mr. McGovern received a BS from Villanova University and an MBA from the Stern School of Business at New York University. He is a member of the board of directors for MN8 Energy, one of the largest independent solar energy producers in the United States. He serves on the Board of Directors at the Oxalosis and Hyperoxaluria Foundation, a non-profit organization focused on a rare liver and kidney disease affecting children.

Tim is Chief Executive Officer of Antares Capital. He is a member of Antares’ Investment Committee as well as Antares’ Board of Directors.

Previously, Tim served as chief operating officer at Antares Capital. He was responsible for leading the company’s sponsor coverage and capital markets activities, operations and technology functions, as well as marketing and enterprise risk.

Tim was head of Asset Management for Antares from August 2015 through April 2018. Previously, he was a senior managing director at GE Antares where he was the commercial leader for two joint ventures including the Senior Secured Loan Program and the Middle Market Growth Program. He also led West Coast sponsor coverage activities for Antares and GE from 1996 through 2011, and was a member of the GE Antares Investment Committee. Tim also worked in GE Capital’s merchant banking group and Heller Financial’s corporate finance group. He is a founding partner of Antares.

Tim graduated from the University of Illinois with a bachelor’s degree in economics and earned his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Executives’ Club of Chicago and on the Dean’s Business Council at Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Mr. Hunt joined Apollo Global Management, Inc. in 2021 in Credit and serves as CEO of Apollo Debt Solutions and co-head of Credit Secondaries. Prior to joining Apollo, Mr. Hunt was a Partner in the Global Markets division at Goldman Sachs where he was responsible for strategic client coverage. He also served as a member of the Goldman Sachs's Partnership committee and Global Markets Operating
Committee. Previously, Mr. Hunt was co-head of U.S Distressed and Par Loan sales at Goldman Sachs.
Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in 2015, Mr. Hunt worked at Citi for 11 years, where he was a director in Leveraged Finance sales. Mr. Hunt is a member of the Board of Trustees of Brown University. Mr. Hunt earned a BA in Economics from Brown University.

Mr. Miller is a Partner, Portfolio Manager and Co-Head of U.S. Direct Lending in the Ares Credit Group. Additionally, he serves as President of Ares Capital Corporation, President of Ares Strategic Income Fund and is a member of the Ares Credit Group's U.S. Direct Lending Investment Committee. He also serves on the Ares Sports, Media and Entertainment Investment Committee and acts as a co-lead for the strategy. As part of this strategy, he currently serves as a board member for Atletico de Madrid. He may from time to time serve as an officer, director or principal of other entities affiliated with Ares Management or investment funds managed by Ares Management and its affiliates. Prior to joining Ares in 2006, Mr. Miller was a Vice President at Silver Point Capital, where he focused on building its sponsor finance business, which led the firm's middle market financing and principal investing. Previously, Mr. Miller was a Vice President at GE Capital, where he was responsible for a variety of investing and investment banking services to private equity funds including high yield, bank debt, mezzanine debt and rescue financing. Mr. Miller holds a B.A. from Fairfield University in Economics and an M.B.A. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business.

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.

Rakesh (Rick) is a Partner and the Global Head of Private Credit at Pantheon. Since joining the firm in 2019 to build and lead the firm’s dedicated private credit strategy, the business has grown to become one of the largest providers of secondary solutions capital to private credit fund managers and investors globally. Throughout his career prior to Pantheon, Rick gained experience as a direct credit investor across a range of strategies, including unsponsored and sponsored direct lending, special situations and distressed, asset-based finance, specialty finance, mezzanine, and control/minority private equity. Previous roles include as a Managing Director and investment committee member at private credit firms including Stone Tower Capital (acquired by Apollo), Green Brook Capital, Star Mountain Capital and Citigroup Alternative Investments. Rick began his career in the Financial Institutions Group at Morgan Stanley. A native of Toronto, Rick received a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Finance from McGill University.