Karen Hager

Karen Hager is a Senior Managing Director at Blue Owl and the Chief Compliance Officer. She is also Chief Compliance Officer of each of the Blue Owl BDCs and each of the Blue Owl’s SEC registered investment advisers.

Prior to joining Owl Rock, the predecessor firm to Blue Owl’s Credit platform, in March 2018, Karen was Chief Compliance Officer at Abbott Capital Management, an SEC registered investment adviser specializing in private equity fund of funds based in New York, with offices in London. Prior to that, Karen was Senior Vice President, Director of Global Compliance of The Permal Group, an investment management firm with offices regulated in eight countries including the US, UK, Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, France, and Korea. Prior to that, she was Director of Compliance of Dominick and Dominick Advisors LLC, an SEC registered investment adviser based in New York. Karen began her career as a Securities Compliance Examiner with the US Securities and Exchange Commission based in the Branch of Investment Adviser Examinations in the SEC’s Northeast Regional Office.

Karen received a BS in Accounting from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, where she graduated with high honors.