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Chief Operating Officer
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Fabienne Chantelot
Head of Luxembourg Operations
Fabienne Chantelot
Head of Luxembourg Operations
Luxembourg

Fabienne Chantelot is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and the Head of Luxembourg Operations. In her role, she leads the Luxembourg office operations related to the Luxembourg Funds and SPV investing in EMEA. In addition, Fabienne is a Director on the Boards of the Luxembourg entities.

Previously Fabienne led the Luxembourg office of Stack Infrastructure. Before joining Stack, she was a Managing Director at PwC Luxembourg, where she gained a wide range of experience. She started her career as an auditor in the real estate industry and later moved to accounting, financial reporting, and tax compliance. She was also a key member of the risk management and compliance teams.

Fabienne has a master’s degree from ICN School of Management of Nancy, France. She also holds the diploma of Expert Comptable in Luxembourg.

Joe Check
Managing Director
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Joe Check
Joe Check
Managing Director
Chicago

Joe Check is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Real Assets Team. In his role, he focuses on capital markets, arranging all of the financing needs of the firm and managing relationships with the lending community.

Before joining Blue Owl, Joe was Head of US Capital Markets at Heitman. Prior to that, he was a Vice President in the Real Estate Merchant Banking Group at Wells Fargo.

Joe received a BS in Finance from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and earned his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Dane Chodos
Principal
Dane Chodos
Principal
San Francisco

Dane Chodos is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Digital Infrastructure Investment Team. In his role, he focuses on acquisitions, development, and managing customer relationships.

Before joining Blue Owl, Dane was a Vice President at IPI Partners, the predecessor firm to Blue Owl's Digital Infrastructure strategy. Prior to that, he was an Associate at Digital Realty (DLR), a real estate investment trust that owns and operates data centers globally, where he focused on portfolio management. Dane began his career as an Associate at Barrington Capital.

Dane received his BS in Business Administration from the University of Southern California.

Nick Chong
Principal
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Nick Chong
Nick Chong
Principal
Greenwich

Nick Chong is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Liquid Credit Investment Team. In his role, he focuses on investments in broadly syndicated non-investment grade leveraged loans within the technology and software sectors.

Before joining Blue Owl, Nick was a Senior Credit Analyst at Littlejohn & Co., a middle-market private equity fund based in Greenwich, CT. Prior to that, he was a Vice President at Golub Capital on the Direct Lending team in Chicago. Prior to that, Nick was a Vice President in the Leveraged Finance Group at RBC Capital Markets. Nick began his career at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in its Leveraged Finance Group.

Nick received his BA in Government from Cornell University.

Notae Chong
Managing Director
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Notae Chong
Notae Chong
Managing Director
Short Hills

Notae Chong is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Finance, Accounting & Operations Team. In his role, he focuses on the financial reporting function, which includes SEC and management reporting.

Before joining Blue Owl, he served as a Director in Finance at Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (Annaly), where his responsibilities included oversight of financial reporting, corporate accounting and financial controls functions. At Annaly, he also served as the Head of Inclusion, where he focused on efforts to create a more diverse, equitable and inclusive workplace. Prior to Annaly, he served in a number of senior roles at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc. and Stifel Financial Corp., including Senior Vice President, Director of SEC Reporting and Accounting Policy, and financial controllership roles. He began his career at Deloitte LLP and provided assurance and advisory services to clients in the financial services industry, including alternative asset managers, publicly traded business development companies and private real estate entities.

Notae graduated from Rutgers University with a BS in Accounting.

Julio Cifuentes
Principal
Julio Cifuentes
Principal
Dallas

Julio Cifuentes is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Investment Grade Private Credit Investment Team. In his role, he is responsible for supporting the management and implementation of the firm’s investment grade corporate credit strategies.

Prior to joining Blue Owl, Julio was a member of the Corporate Credit team at Rimrock Capital Management, where he focused on sourcing and evaluating credit opportunities for investment across the healthcare, consumer cyclical, aerospace, and media sectors. Julio also previously held credit underwriting positions at Bardin Hill Investment Partners and Highland Capital Management. He began his career in Frankfurt, Germany as an analyst with a fund affiliate of Cerberus Capital Management. 

Julio holds a BBA in Finance from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Ryan Clark
Managing Director
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Ryan Clark
Ryan Clark
Managing Director
New York

Ryan Clark is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Institutional Capital Team. In his role, he focuses on building and strengthening Blue Owl's relationships with investment consultants, OCIOs, and asset managers.

Prior to joining Blue Owl, Ryan was a Senior Vice President at PIMCO. Prior to that, he was a Vice President at Octagon Credit Investors.

Ryan serves as a Trustee of the College Men’s Club of Westfield, which provides scholarships to promising and deserving graduates from Westfield High School in New Jersey.  Ryan graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Economics.  He is a CFA Charterholder.

James Clarke
Global Head of Institutional Capital
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James Clarke
James Clarke
Global Head of Institutional Capital
New York

James Clarke is a Senior Managing Director at Blue Owl and the Global Head of Institutional Capital. James has 23 years of asset management experience and oversees the business development and client service for Blue Owl’s institutional investors including public and corporate pensions, sovereign wealth funds, foundations and endowments, healthcare plans and large family offices globally.

Prior to joining Blue Owl, he worked for PIMCO, GoldenTree Asset Management and Landmark Partners.

Originally from Australia, James has a BA from the University of Sydney.

Scott Clifford
Managing Director
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Scott Clifford
Scott Clifford
Managing Director
New York

Scott Clifford is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Direct Lending Investment Team. In his role, he is focused on originating and structuring investment opportunities for the Direct Lending business.

Before joining Blue Owl, Scott was a Principal within the Credit Platform of Apollo Global Management, a leading alternative asset manager based in New York. Prior to that, he was an Investment Banking Analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in the Leveraged Finance Group.

Scott received a BA in Economics from Davidson College, where he graduated magna cum laude.

Michelle Colacurto
Managing Director
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Michelle Colacurto
Michelle Colacurto
Managing Director
Short Hills

Michelle Colacurto is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Human Resources Team. Michelle serves as the HR Business Partner for Finance, Accounting, and Operations.

Prior to joining Blue Owl, Michelle was the Chief Administrative Officer at Atalaya Capital Management, the predecessor firm to Blue Owl’s Alternative Credit team.  In her role, she was responsible for managing a variety of functions including corporate accounting, human capital, and office management.  Prior to joining Atalaya, she worked at MatlinPatterson Global Advisers LLC and The Carlyle Group where she focused primarily on fund and management company accounting.  Michelle began her career as an auditor with PwC.  

Michelle holds a BS in Accounting from the Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics at the University of Delaware and is a New York State Certified Public Accountant.