Joel Lankford is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Alternative Credit Investment Team. In his role, he is responsible for sourcing, underwriting, executing, and managing investments, primarily within the specialty finance and fintech space.

Prior to joining Blue Owl, Joel was a Vice President at Atalaya Capital Management, the predecessor firm to Blue Owl’s Alternative Credit team. Prior to that, he was an Associate on the Asset-Backed Securitization team at KeyBanc Capital Markets, where he focused on structuring and placing a variety of public and private securitizations of consumer and commercial assets.

Joel holds a BS in Finance from Carnegie Mellon University.

Michael Lascher is a Senior Managing Director at Blue Owl and the Head of Capital Markets and Asset Management. In his role, Michael oversees all financing, transaction management and asset management activities of the Real Assets business.
 
Prior to joining Blue Owl, Michael was the Global Head of Real Estate Debt Capital Markets at Blackstone, where he was involved in over $500 billion of financings. Before joining Blackstone, Michael was a Managing Director with the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy estate, where he asset managed a portfolio of real estate investments. From 2004 until the company's bankruptcy, Michael was a member of Lehman’s Global Real Estate Group where he focused on the origination of CMBS financings. He previously was an associate in the real estate group of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.
 
Michael received a BA in History and Communications from The University of Pennsylvania and a JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

Lily Lau is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Finance, Accounting & Operations Team. In her role on the Investment Operations team, she focuses on Data Integrity for the Direct Lending business within the firm's Credit platform.

Before joining Blue Owl, Lily was Assistant Vice President at CIFC Asset Management, LLC where she focused on Loan Administration and Data Integrity in the Middle Office Operations team.  Prior to that, she was Associate Director in the Bank Loan Service Team focused on Closing/Trade Settlement at SS&C Technologies, Inc., a FinTech company supporting buyside clients in Middle Office Operations and Software.  Lily began her career as a Trade Assistant and Operations Analyst at Guggenheim Partners Asset Management, LLC.

Lily received her Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance and Investments from Baruch College/CUNY.

Andrew Laurino is a Senior Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the GP Strategic Capital Investment Team. In his role, he focuses on a broad set of responsibilities across the Investment Team. Andrew also serves as Executive Sponsor of BOP’N, Blue Owl’s Pride Network.
 
Prior to joining Dyal Capital, the predecessor firm to Blue Owl’s GP Strategic Capital platform, Andrew 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, he was an M&A advisor at Lehman Brothers, Compass Advisors, and Prudential Securities.
 
Andrew received a BS in Foreign Service with a concentration in International Economics from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Matt Laurino is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Credit Finance & Capital Markets Team. In his role, Matt co-leads the team’s capital markets effort and has a primary focus on securitized private credit formation. Based in New York, Matt spearheads the firm’s Private Credit CLO and Rated Bank Financing businesses and has a key focus on structuring other credit transactions including structured insurance solutions along with sourcing third party capital markets transactions for insurance accounts. 

Before joining Blue Owl in 2019, Matt was a Deputy Portfolio Manager and Structurer at UNTL Capital LLC, a macro product focused managed account fund. Prior to that, he was an Associate at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in its Global Capital Markets Division where he started his career as an Analyst in its Derivative Origination and Solutions Group. 

Matt received a BA in Finance from Villanova University and MBA from Cornell University.

Tola Lawal 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 chemical and energy sectors.

Before joining Blue Owl, Tola was a Credit Analyst at Littlejohn & Co., a middle-market private equity fund based in Greenwich, CT. Prior to that, he was a Research Analyst at Covenant Credit Partners. Tola began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst at J.P. Morgan in the Corporate Finance Advisory Group.

Tola received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Patrick Lawler is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Digital Infrastructure Investment Team. In his role, he focuses on supporting the firm's investments within the Digital Infrastructure strategy.

Before joining Blue Owl, Patrick was a Director at GI Partners, a middle-market private equity firm making investments in data centers and other real estate sectors. Patrick began his career in Investment Banking, most recently with Deutsche Bank's Technology Group in San Francisco.

Patrick received his BA in Economics from Stanford University, and his MBA from The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

Derek Lawshe is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Finance, Accounting & Operations Team. In his role, he focuses on operations supporting the Direct Lending business on the firm’s Credit platform.

Before joining Blue Owl, Derek was a Vice President at Anchorage Capital Group, LLC., a distressed credit-focused investment advisor based in New York City. Derek began his career as a Loan Operations Analyst at JP Morgan Chase.

Derek received his BS in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance, from Susquehanna University.

Daniel Lee is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Investor Operations Team. In his role, he is responsible for investor operations projects and technology initiatives in partnership with the Information Technology team. His work focuses on driving operational efficiency and implementing innovative solutions to enhance investor operations.

Before joining Blue Owl, he was a Principal Product Manager at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) for 10 years, where he led transformational technology processes and tools across client onboarding, client experience, and compliance initiatives. He began his career at J.P. Morgan Chase within the Private Bank Risk Technology group, where he focused on building and optimizing risk management systems.

He received a Master of Engineering in Systems Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Engineering in Systems Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.

James Lee is a Senior Managing Director at Blue Owl and the President of Asia, Institutional Capital. In his role, he focuses on capital raising and fund formation in Asia and overseeing all aspects of the Hong Kong office as the regional hub.

Before joining Blue Owl, James was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ascentium Group, which was acquired by Blue Owl in 2021. Prior to that, James was a Managing Director and Head of Asia Marketing in the Private Fund Group (PFG) at Credit Suisse (Hong Kong) Limited. Prior to PFG, James was a Managing Director in Investor Relations & Business Development at the Blackstone Group Hong Kong Limited and was involved with marketing for various Blackstone fund products, primarily with respect to Korea. Preceding that, James was a Managing Director and Head of Asia Marketing at GSO Capital Partners (GSO), Blackstone’s alternative credit platform. Prior to GSO, James was a Managing Director and Head of the Structured Credit Product Group at Citigroup Global Markets Asia in Hong Kong where he was responsible for transaction origination, structuring and marketing. Before joining Citigroup, James was a Director in the Leveraged Finance Group/ Collateralized Debt Obligation Group at Credit Suisse First Boston Inc. (CSFB), Hong Kong. James joined CSFB when it acquired Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) where he was Head of Asia Fixed Income Sales in Hong Kong and Co-Head of International Institutional Fixed Income Sales in New York. Prior to joining DLJ, James was a Vice President in International Institutional Fixed Income Sales at Lehman Brothers Inc in New York. James began his career as a Vice President in International Institutional Fixed Income Sales at Kidder, Peabody & Co in New York.

James received his BA in Economics and Japanese Studies from the University of California, Berkeley.