Elizabeth Legunn is a Managing Director in the Ares Credit Group, where she focuses on CLO investments. Prior to joining Ares in 2019, Ms. Legunn was an Assistant Vice President at AllianceBernstein, where she focused on structured credit investing. Ms. Legunn holds a B.A., with distinction, from Amherst College in Mathematics and Economics. Ms. Legunn is a CFA Charterholder.

Arlene Shaw is a Managing Director and Treasurer.  Ms. Shaw is responsible for structuring and executing collateralized loan obligations, lines of credit and other financing for the firm.   Ms. Shaw joined Brightwood in February 2016.   Prior to Brightwood, Ms. Shaw was a Senior Associate at Schulte Roth and Zabel LLP in the corporate finance group, where her practice was focused on, middle market credit facilities, acquisition financing and liquidity facilities for hedge funds and private equity funds, including warehouse lines, leveraged finance vehicles, capital call facilities, CLOs and fund-of-fund loans.   Ms. Shaw holds a BA, summa cum laude, from the State University of New York at Albany and a JD, cum laude, from Tulane University Law School. Ms. Shaw is committed to philanthropic works and serves on the Water Board for the City of New York Department of Environmental Protection and the board of Inherent Foundation.

Mr. Mezyk joined DoubleLine in 2016 as an Analyst focusing on CLOs and other structured products, later transitioning to his role as Portfolio Manager. Prior to DoubleLine, he was a Structured Products Analyst at American Capital where he invested in CLOs for their Leveraged Finance Group. Previous to American Capital, Mr. Mezyk was an Analyst in PNC Financial Services’ Asset Backed Finance group where he focused on structuring different ABS transactions. He holds a BBA from the University of Notre Dame and is a CFA® charterholder.

• Mr. Horowitz is a Partner in the Fortress Credit Funds Business and the Head of Structured Liabilities
• Prior to joining Fortress in 2022, Mr. Horowitz was a Managing Director and portfolio manager in the Chief Investment Office of J.P. Morgan where we was responsible for $45bn of CLOs and consumer ABS

• Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Mr. Horowitz was a Managing Director in the CDO business at Morgan Stanley as Head of U.S. CDO Capital Markets and co-head of U.S. CDO Structuring and Origination

• Mr. Horowitz received a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business

Ian Gilbertson is Managing Director, Co-Head of US CLOs, and Senior Portfolio Manager for Invesco’s Global Private Credit team. In this role, he is responsible for the structuring and management of CLO (collateralized loan obligation) funds, as well as trading and investing in CLO securities of third-party managers. Additionally, Mr. Gilbertson is Co-Lead Portfolio Manager for Invesco’s US CLO franchise.

Mr. Gilbertson joined Invesco in 2008 as a credit analyst for the Senior Secured Management group and was promoted to junior portfolio manager in 2016. In 2019, he took on portfolio management responsibilities for CLOs, as well as management of Invesco’s CLO note strategies. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Gilbertson worked in market data at Fidelity Investments.

Mr. Gilbertson earned a BBA degree in finance and accounting from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.

Sean Griffin is the CEO & Executive Director of the LSTA, the trade association for the multi-trillion dollar corporate loan market in the United States.

Prior to joining the LSTA in April 2024, Mr. Griffin spent 23 years at JPMorgan where he was a Managing Director and held various roles within its global markets division, including deputy head and co-head of JPMorgan’s Global Primary CLO business.  Mr. Griffin’s experience covers cash flow and market value securitization products and spans multiple asset classes focusing on corporate credit and bank loans.

While at JPMorgan, Mr. Griffin worked with various issuers and investors, including private equity, hedge funds, asset & money managers, banks and insurance companies.  Mr. Griffin utilized CLO/CDO technology to provide clients with access to capital and address their business goals, whether it be the growth of AUM via traditional CLO/CDO issuance, balance sheet relief and more specialized bespoke financing solutions.

Mr. Griffin received a BA in Mathematical Economics from Brown University.  He resides in Westport, CT with his family where he is actively involved with youth sports, including football, soccer and rugby.

Edwin Wilches, CFA, is a Managing Director and Co-Head of PGIM Fixed Income’s Securitized Products team. Mr. Wilches is also a portfolio manager for dedicated CLO Tranche portfolios as well other dedicated securitized products funds. Mr. Wilches oversees securitized product security selection across the firm’s multi-sector, investment grade, high yield, LDI, money market and general account strategies. He plays an active leadership role in PGIM’s Racial Equity Initiative via participation in multiple workstreams, and is a member of the Latinx Executive Leadership Team for both PGIM and PGIM Fixed Income. Mr. Wilches is an active member in multiple trade associations across the US and European markets seeking to represent our client’s best interests and to help promote a functioning market structure. Prior to assuming his current responsibilities, Mr. Wilches was responsible for managing and trading the Firm's investments in CLO tranches, supporting the Dryden CLO platform's business development and investor relations efforts, and analyzing off-the-run alternative fixed income opportunities. Earlier, Mr. Wilches was a member of PGIM Fixed Income’s CDO analyst team, Business and Product Development Team and Fixed Income Operations team. Mr. Wilches joined the Firm in 2003. He received a BA in Economics from Rutgers University and an MBA from New York University. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation. 

Christopher Terry joined AB in 2017 and is a Managing Director of AB Private Credit Investors, where he is responsible for structuring, negotiating and executing structured credit transactions, including private credit collateralized loan obligations (CLOs), recurring revenue loan asset-backed securities, warehouse facilities and other long term portfolio finance solutions. Previously, he was an associate at Garrison Investment Group, where he managed near-term liquidity for all investment funds, with a special focus on the firm’s structured finance platform. Prior to that, Terry served as a credit analyst and CLO analyst at Monroe Capital. He began his career at LaSalle Bank as an account manager within the Global Trust Services Group. Terry holds a BA in economics from the University of Michigan. Location: New York

Dagmara is Co-Chief Investment Officer for Tetragon Credit Partners. She joined the group in early 2007 and prior to that was an Associate in Morgan Stanley’s Securitized Products Group working on the structuring desks in New York and London. At Morgan Stanley, she was involved in the structuring and execution of CDO and CLO transactions across multiple underlying asset classes and structural types. Dagmara holds an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. She is based in New York.