Our Team

Doug Ostrover is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Blue Owl Capital Inc. a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and a member of the firm’s board of directors. Mr. Ostrover is also a Co-Founder of Owl Rock and is a member of the Owl Rock Investment Committees. In addition, Mr. Ostrover served on the boards of ORCC and ORCC II from 2016 to 2021, on the board of ORTF from 2018 to 2021 and on the boards of ORCC III and ORCIC from 2020 to 2021.

Prior to co-founding Owl Rock, Mr. Ostrover was one of the founders of GSO Capital Partners (GSO), Blackstone’s alternative credit platform, and a Senior Managing Director at Blackstone until 2015. Prior to co-founding GSO in 2005, Mr. Ostrover was a Managing Director and Chairman of the Leveraged Finance Group of Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB). Prior to his role as Chairman, Mr. Ostrover was Global Co-Head of CSFB’s Leveraged Finance Group, during which time he was responsible for all of CSFB’s origination, distribution and trading activities relating to high yield securities, leveraged loans, high yield credit derivatives and distressed securities. Mr. Ostrover was a member of CSFB’s Management Council and the Fixed Income Operating Committee. Mr. Ostrover joined CSFB in November 2000 when CSFB acquired Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (“DLJ”), where he was a Managing Director in charge of High Yield and Distressed Sales, Trading and Research. Mr. Ostrover had been a member of DLJ’s high yield team since he joined the firm in 1992.

Mr. Ostrover is actively involved in non-profit organizations including serving on the Board of Directors of the Michael J. Fox Foundation and the Mt. Sinai Health System. Mr. Ostrover is also a board member of the Brunswick School. Mr. Ostrover received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from New York University Stern School of Business.

Marc Lipschultz is a Co-Founder and the Co-President of Blue Owl Capital Inc., a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and a member of the firm’s board of directors. Mr. Lipschultz is also a Co-Founder and President of Owl Rock, serves as the Co-Chief Investment Officer of each of the Owl Rock Advisers and is a member of the Investment Committees of each of the Owl Rock Advisors.

Prior to co-founding Owl Rock, Mr. Lipschultz spent more than two decades at KKR, and he served on the firm’s Management Committee and as the Global Head of Energy and Infrastructure. Mr. Lipschultz has a wide range of experience in alternative investments, including leadership roles in private equity, infrastructure, and direct-asset investing. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Lipschultz was with Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he focused on mergers and acquisitions and principal investment activities.

Mr. Lipschultz serves on the board of the Hess Corporation and is actively involved in a variety of non-profit organizations, serving as a board member of the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, Michael J. Fox Foundation, Mount Sinai Health System, Riverdale Country School, Stanford University Board of Trustees and the 92nd Street Y. Mr. Lipschultz received an A.B. with honors and distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, from Stanford University and an M.B.A. with high distinction, Baker Scholar, from Harvard Business School.

Michael Rees is a Co-Founder and the Co-President of Blue Owl Capital Inc., a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and a member of the firm’s board of directors. Mr. Rees also serves as the Head of Dyal Capital, a division of Blue Owl, which he founded when it was a division of Neuberger Berman Group. Prior to founding Dyal, Mr. Rees was a founding employee and shareholder of Neuberger Berman Group, transitioning from Lehman Brothers as part of the management buyout transaction in May 2009, and was the first Chief Operating Officer of Neuberger’s alternatives business. Mr. Rees was an employee of Lehman Brothers from April 2001 through May 2009. He had numerous roles at Lehman Brothers and was responsible for strategic acquisitions for the Investment Management Division at Lehman Brothers. From 2003 through 2006, he was Head of Asset Management Strategy. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, he was an associate at Marakon Associates.

Mr. Rees received a master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering and a master’s degree in Technology Policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research and on the Board of the Opportunity Network, an education focused nonprofit that supports underserved students with postsecondary and career readiness education. Mr. Rees received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh.

Alan Kirshenbaum is the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer of Blue Owl Capital Inc. and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Mr. Kirshenbaum is also Executive Vice President of ORCC, ORCC II, ORCC III, ORTF, ORTF II, ORCIC and ORTIC, serves as the Chief Financial Officer and the Chief Operating Officer of the Owl Rock Advisers.

Previously, Mr. Kirshenbaum served as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of ORCC and ORTF, and as Chief Operating Officer of ORCC II and ORCC III. In addition, Mr. Kirshenbaum served on the boards of ORCC and ORCC II from 2015 to 2021, on the board of ORTF from 2018 to 2021 and on the boards of ORCC III and ORCIC from 2020 to 2021 and currently serves on the boards of ORTIC and ORTF II.

Prior to Owl Rock, Mr. Kirshenbaum was Chief Financial Officer of Sixth Street Specialty Lending (fka TPG Specialty Lending, Inc.), a BDC traded on the NYSE (TSLX). Mr. Kirshenbaum was responsible for building and overseeing TSLX’s finance, treasury, accounting and operations functions from 2011 through 2015, including during its initial public offering in March 2014. From 2011 to 2013, Mr. Kirshenbaum also was Chief Financial Officer of TPG Special Situations Partners. From 2007 to 2011, Mr. Kirshenbaum was the Chief Financial Officer of Natsource, a private investment firm and, prior to that, Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of MainStay Investments. Mr. Kirshenbaum joined Bear Stearns Asset Management (“BSAM”) in 1999 and was BSAM’s Chief Financial Officer from 2003 to 2006. Before joining BSAM, Mr. Kirshenbaum worked in public accounting at KPMG and J.H. Cohn.

Mr. Kirshenbaum is actively involved in a variety of non-profit organizations including the Boy Scouts of America. Mr. Kirshenbaum also is a member of the Rutgers University Dean’s Cabinet. Mr. Kirshenbaum received a B.S. from Rutgers University and an M.B.A. from New York University Stern School of Business.

Andrew Polland is the Chief Operating Officer of Blue Owl Capital Inc., a non-voting member of the Executive Committee, the Chief Operating Officer of the Blue Owl Advisors and Co-Chair of the firm’s Operating Committee. Prior to Blue Owl, Mr. Polland was the Chief Operating Officer of Dyal Capital, when it was a division of Neuberger Berman. Prior to Dyal Capital, Mr. Polland was the Chief Operating Officer, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Hoplite Capital Management, L.P. Prior to Hoplite, Mr. Polland was the General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of MSD Partners, L.P. and the Chief Compliance Officer of MSD Capital, L.P. Prior to MSD, Mr. Polland served as the Deputy Chief Compliance Officer and Head of Litigation of Fortress Investment Group LLC, and the Chief Compliance Officer of its affiliated broker-dealer (Fortress Capital Formation LLC). Prior to that, he was a litigation associate at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. He began his career as a federal law clerk to United States District Court Judge Charles P. Sifton.

Mr. Polland received a J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. (with honors) in Industrial Labor Relations from Cornell University.

Andrew Laurino is a Senior Managing Director of Blue Owl Capital Inc. and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Mr. Laurino also serves as a member of the Dyal Capital Partners Investment Team. Prior to joining Blue Owl Capital, Mr. Laurino provided strategic and financing advice to leading alternative asset managers at a number of firms, including Tiger Bay Advisors, Credit Suisse and Lehman Brothers. Earlier in his career, Mr. Laurino was an M&A advisor at Lehman Brothers, Compass Advisors and Prudential Securities.

Mr. Laurino earned a B.S. in Foreign Service with a concentration in International Economics from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Craig W. Packer is a Co-Founder and Senior Managing Director of Blue Owl Capital Inc., a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and a member of the firm’s board of directors. Mr. Packer is also a Co-Founder of Owl Rock, serves as Co-Chief Investment Officer and a member of the Executive Committees of the Owl Rock Advisers and President and Chief Executive Officer of each of the Owl Rock BDCs and is a member of the Owl Rock Investment Committees. In addition, Mr. Packer has served on the board of the Company since 2016, on the board of Owl Rock Technology Finance Corp. since 2018, on the boards of Owl Rock Capital Corporation III and Owl Rock Core Income Corp. since 2020, and on the boards of Owl Rock Technology Income Corp. and Owl Rock Technology Finance Corp. II since 2021.

Prior to co-founding Owl Rock, Mr. Packer was Co-Head of Leveraged Finance in the Americas at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he served on the Firmwide Capital Committee, Investment Banking Division (“IBD”) Operating Committee, IBD Client and Business Standards Committee and the IBD Risk Committee. Mr. Packer joined Goldman, Sachs & Co. as a Managing Director and Head of High Yield Capital Markets in 2006 and was named partner in 2008. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Mr. Packer was the Global Head of High Yield Capital Markets at Credit Suisse First Boston, and before that he worked at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

Mr. Packer serves as Treasurer and member of the Board of Trustees of Greenwich Academy, and Co-Chair of the Honorary Board of Kids in Crisis, a nonprofit organization that serves children in Connecticut, and on the Board for the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia. Mr. Packer earned a B.S. from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Neena Reddy is a Managing Director, the General Counsel and the Secretary of Blue Owl Capital Inc., the General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer of the Blue Owl Advisers and a member of the firm’s Operating Committee. Ms. Reddy also serves as Vice President and Secretary of each of the Owl Rock BDCs. Prior to joining Owl Rock from 2010 to 2019, Ms. Reddy was associate general counsel at Goldman, Sachs & Co LLC, dedicated to Goldman Sachs Asset Management L.P. (“GSAM”), where she was responsible for GSAM managed direct alternative products, including private credit. Prior to GSAM, Ms. Reddy practiced as a corporate attorney at Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP and at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. Prior to becoming an attorney, Ms. Reddy was a financial analyst in the private wealth division at Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Ms. Reddy received a B.A. in English, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.

Sean Ward is a Senior Managing Director of Blue Owl Capital Inc., a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and a member of the firm’s board of directors. Mr. Ward also serves as a member of the Dyal Capital Partners Investment Team. Previously a Vice President at Lehman Brothers, Mr. Ward held several roles at Neuberger after it became an independent firm, including Senior Counsel for Neuberger’s alternatives business. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, he was an associate at Covington & Burling LLP, where his practice focused on mergers and acquisitions, public and private securities offerings and credit transactions. Prior to Covington & Burling LLP, Mr. Ward worked at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York and London.

Mr. Ward received his J.D., magna cum laude, from the Duke University School of Law and holds a B.A., magna cum laude, in Diplomatic History and Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves on the Leadership Council of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, a nonprofit focused on human rights issues and a “social good” approach to business and investment. Mr. Ward is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Brooklyn Museum.

Marc Zahr is the Founder and the President of Oak Street, a division of Blue Owl, a member of the Blue Owl Capital Inc.’s Executive Committee, and a member of the firm’s Board of Directors. Mr. Zahr also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Oak Street Net Lease Trust, a private REIT. As the Head of the Blue Owl Real Estate division, Mr. Zahr is responsible for the overall direction and leadership of all real estate related activities. He manages and oversees the firm’s investment activities which include sourcing, underwriting and negotiating all acquisitions. Mr. Zahr also leads the real estate Investment Committees and new product development. Mr. Zahr was honored as one of Crain’s Chicago Business’s 40 Under 40 for 2018.

Prior to Blue Owl, Mr. Zahr served as Vice President at American Realty Capital where he was responsible for the analytics and acquisition activities within the company’s real estate portfolios. Mr. Zahr also served as a Fixed Income Trader at TM Associates and an Associate at Merrill Lynch. Mr. Zahr received a B.A. in Communications from the University of Dayton.