Michael Arougheti

Michael J. Arougheti serves on the Investment Committee of our Manager. He is also one of our Class III directors and the non-executive Chairman of the Board.

He has served as Chief Executive Officer of Ares Capital Corporation since May 2013 and as a director since 2009. He previously served as Ares Capital Corporation’s President from May 2004 to May 2013.

Mr. Arougheti joined Ares in May 2004 and is the President of Ares. Mr. Arougheti is a Co-Founder and President of Ares. He is Co-Head and a Senior Partner of the Direct Lending Group and a member of the Ares Board of Directors and Management Committee.

Mr. Arougheti is also a member of the Investment Committees of Ares Capital Management LLC (the investment adviser of Ares Capital Corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of Ares Management), the Ares Management Direct Lending Group and Ares Management Europe Limited (through which Ares Management conducts its European direct lending and tradable credit businesses).

Mr. Arougheti may from time to time serve as an officer, director or principal of entities affiliated with Ares Management or of investment funds managed by Ares Management and its affiliates.

From 2001 to 2004, Mr. Arougheti was employed by Royal Bank of Canada, where he was a Managing Partner of the Principal Finance Group of RBC Capital Partners and a member of the firm's Mezzanine Investment Committee. At RBC Capital Partners, Mr. Arougheti oversaw an investment team that originated, managed and monitored a diverse portfolio of middle market leveraged loans, senior and junior subordinated debt, preferred equity and common stock and warrants on behalf of RBC and other third party institutional investors.

Mr. Arougheti joined Royal Bank of Canada in October 2001 from Indosuez Capital, where he was a Principal and an Investment Committee member, responsible for originating, structuring and executing leveraged transactions across a broad range of products and asset classes.

Prior to joining Indosuez in 1994, Mr. Arougheti worked at Kidder, Peabody & Co., where he was a member of the firm's Mergers and Acquisitions Group.

Mr. Arougheti also serves on the boards of directors of Investor Group Services, Riverspace Arts, a not-for-profit arts organization and Operation Hope, a not-for-profit organization focused on expanding economic opportunity in underserved communities through economic education and empowerment.

Mr. Arougheti received a B.A. in Ethics, Politics and Economics, cum laude, from Yale University.

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