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Chief Operating Officer
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Genie Pusey
Managing Director
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Genie Pusey
Genie Pusey
Managing Director
California

Genie Pusey is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Institutional Capital Team. In her role, she focuses on supporting the firm's fundraising and initiatives for the Real Assets strategies as a Product Specialist.

Before joining Blue Owl, Genie was a Managing Director in the Real Estate group at Pretium. Prior to that, she was an Executive Director in the Real Estate Americas group at J.P. Morgan Asset Management. Genie began her career in various marketing and business development positions at Oaktree Capital Management and Paul Hastings.

Genie received her BA in English from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA). She is a member of the Board of Visitors for the UCLA English Department.

Ashley Putterman
Managing Director
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Ashley Putterman
Ashley Putterman
Managing Director
New York

Ashley Putterman is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Alternative Credit Investment Team. In her role, she is responsible for overseeing leverage strategy and execution for the firm’s Financial Assets business within Alternative Credit.

Before joining Blue Owl, Ashley was Head of Capital Markets for the Financial Assets business at Atalaya Capital Management, the predecessor firm to Blue Owl's Alternative Credit team. Prior to that, she was Head of Capital Markets at Fundbox, an embedded working capital platform for small businesses, and had previous capital markets roles at Kabbage and Spruce Finance. Ashley began her career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Miller Buckfire.

Ashley received a BS in Economics with a concentration in Finance from the Wharton School and a BSE in Systems Engineering, magna cum laude, as part of the Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology (M&T) at the University of Pennsylvania.

Kevin Raidy
Head of Healthcare Opportunities
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Kevin Raidy
Kevin Raidy
Head of Healthcare Opportunities
New York

Kevin Raidy is a Senior Managing Director at Blue Owl and the Head of Healthcare Opportunities. In this role, he oversees all private and public investment activity related to Healthcare Opportunities and sits on the Fund’s Investment Committee.

Previously Kevin was a founder and Managing Partner of Cowen Healthcare Investments, the predecessor to Blue Owl Healthcare Opportunities. Prior to his role at Cowen Healthcare Investments, Kevin was Cowen’s Head of Investment Banking and prior to that he was Co-Head of Cowen’s Equity Capital Markets Group. Before that Kevin was a Managing Director at Ramius LLC where he was responsible for direct investments and convertible bonds. Kevin’s sell side experience includes 10 years at Shipley Raidy Capital Partners, a boutique investment banking firm which he co-founded. Prior to founding Shipley Raidy, Kevin was an associate at Philadelphia First Group. He started his career at Cantor Fitzgerald before moving to Merrill Lynch as an analyst in the municipal finance group.

Kevin is a member of the Board of Directors of NodThera Ltd, Neuron23, Aro Biopharmaceuticals, Latigo Biotherapeutics, and Sundance Biosciences, while also a Board Observer at Delfi Diagnostics.

Kevin received a BS in Economics with a concentration in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Gomathi Ramalingam
Principal
Gomathi Ramalingam
Principal
New York

Gomathi Ramalingam is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Finance, Accounting & Operations Team. In her role, she focuses on advancing the firm’s data strategy and developing data and analytics capabilities to support performance reporting and decision-making across the firm.

Before joining Blue Owl, she was a Vice President at Left Lane Capital, a growth equity and venture capital firm, where she led the firm’s data strategy and developed analytics capabilities supporting investment sourcing, portfolio analytics, and firmwide decision-making. Earlier in her career, she held data and analytics roles at Candid and JetBlue.

She received an MS in Data Science from Northeastern University and a B.Tech from Anna University in Chennai, India.

Umar Rashid
Principal
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Umar Rashid
Umar Rashid
Principal
New York

Umar Rashid is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Finance, Accounting & Operations Team. In his role, he is a Principal at Blue Owl and a member of the Finance, Accounting & Operations Team. Based in New York, he focuses on supporting the firm’s Direct Lending business within the Credit platform.

Before joining Blue Owl, he was a Senior Fund Accountant at MGG Investment Group, where he worked in the Private Funds Direct Lending group. Prior to that, he worked at Headlands Asset Management as a Senior Accountant, where the firm’s strategy focused on performing and re-performing residential mortgage loans. Earlier in his career, he worked within the Financial Services Audit practice at Grant Thornton, specializing in audits of alternative investment funds.

He received a Bachelor of Science in both Accounting and Economics from Pennsylvania State University.

He is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in New York.

Matthew Rees
Senior Managing Director
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Matthew Rees
Matthew Rees
Senior Managing Director
Remote

Matthew Rees is a Senior Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the GP Strategic Capital Investment Team. Based in London, he focuses on managing Blue Owl's GP Strategic Capital relationships with investors and alternative asset management firms in Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Before joining Blue Owl, Matthew was the Global Head of Marketing for the NB Alternatives platform, a group of hedge fund and private equity businesses.

Matthew received his degree in accounting and economics from The Pennsylvania State University and holds an MBA from New York University.

Grace Reilly
Head of Global Client Marketing
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Grace Reilly
Grace Reilly
Head of Global Client Marketing
New York

Grace Reilly is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and the Head of Global Client Marketing. In her role, she leads the firm’s global client marketing strategy across its wealth and institutional businesses. She is responsible for translating business priorities into campaigns, content and experiences that elevate the Blue Owl brand, engage clients, and drive growth and fundraising globally.
 
Before joining Blue Owl, Grace was a Director in Marketing at BlackRock. She previously held roles in Global Consumer Marketing at Citi.
 
Grace received her BA in Political Science from Duke University.

Michael Reiter
Chief Operating Officer, Real Assets
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Michael Reiter
Michael Reiter
Chief Operating Officer, Real Assets
Short Hills

Michael Reiter is a Senior Managing Director at Blue Owl and the Chief Operating Officer, Real Assets. In his role, he is responsible for overseeing Blue Owl Real Assets' implementation and execution of capital markets, business development, investment and asset management activities. Michael is a member of the Blue Owl Real Estate Investment Committee and serves on the Board of Trustees of Blue Owl Real Estate Net Lease Trust, a private placement REIT, and Store Capital, a private REIT.

Prior to Blue Owl, Michael served as Managing Director in the Real Estate Investment Management division at Cantor Fitzgerald.  Michael was a member of the Board of Trustees of Plymouth Industrial REIT, Inc. and a Senior Vice President and Head of Capital Markets at VEREIT, Inc. and American Realty Capital, where he was responsible for real estate acquisitions, capital markets and business development. Michael commenced his career as a Certified Public Accountant at Ernst & Young as a Manager in the real estate advisory and assurance practices.

Michael received his BS in Economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and his MS in Accounting, cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame.

Eric Render
Managing Director
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Eric Render
Eric Render
Managing Director
New York

Eric Render is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Institutional Capital Team. In his role, he co-leads the firm’s efforts building and strengthening relationships with single family offices in the Americas.

Before joining Blue Owl, Eric was an original member of Dyal Capital Partners, the predecessor firm to Blue Owl’s GP Strategic Capital platform. While at Dyal, Eric was on the team's Business Services Platform – its strategic value creation unit – and focused on its Capital Strategy initiatives for 10 years. Prior to joining Dyal, Eric was a member of Neuberger Berman’s marketing department, focusing on International Equities, Emerging Markets and REITs. Prior to that, he was an analyst at MBG Expense Management, an IT and Telecom expense management consultant. Eric began his career as a writer at the UK news agency, Adfero.

Eric received a BA in English from The Pennsylvania State University and also studied contemporary UK politics at the London School of Economics’ Hansard Scholars Research Programme.

 

Jess Renner
Head of Corporate Operations & Strategy
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Jess Renner
Jess Renner
Head of Corporate Operations & Strategy
New York

Jess Renner is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and the Head of Corporate Operations & Strategy. In her role, she focuses on planning and execution of the firm’s corporate, strategic initiatives, including M&A diligence and integration, vendor management, global corporate real estate and more. She also provides leadership to the firm’s Corporate Sustainability initiatives, including our Citizenship efforts.

Before joining Blue Owl 's Corporate Operations & Strategy team, Jess was a Vice President on the Operational Advisory team within the GP Strategic Capital Business Services Platform. Prior to that, Jess was a member of the Corporate Strategy team at Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, an alternative asset management firm based in New York. Jess began her career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Deutsche Bank in the Real Estate, Gaming, Lodging, and Leisure Group.

Jess received her BBA, with high distinction, from the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.