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Doug Ostrover
Co-Chief Executive Officer
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Marc Lipschultz
Co-Chief Executive Officer
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Alan Kirshenbaum
Chief Financial Officer
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Andrew Polland
Chief Operating Officer
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Sean Ward
Senior Managing Director
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Directory

Ankur Nigam
Managing Director
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Ankur Nigam
Ankur Nigam
Managing Director
Greenwich

Ankur Nigam is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Structured Products and Fund Finance Team. He is responsible for managing, structuring, negotiating, and executing the Credit platform’s private bank financings, CLO warehouse financings, as well as other asset backed financings. He is also involved in strategic financial planning for the Credit platform. 

Before joining Blue Owl in 2019, Ankur was Senior Vice President at H/2 Capital Partners responsible for debt/equity capital markets and portfolio management modeling. 

Ankur received a BA in Accounting from the University of Connecticut and a Masters in Accounting from the University of Hartford.

Chris Nilan
Managing Director
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Chris Nilan
Chris Nilan
Managing Director
Chicago

Chris Nilan is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Net Lease Investment Team. In this role, Chris is responsible for the origination, evaluation, and execution of investments for Blue Owl's Real Assets platform.

Chris has spent 15+ years in various investing and financial roles. Prior to joining Blue Owl, Chris spent over a decade working for Sam Zell at Equity Group Investments and numerous related portfolio companies. In that role he originated and monitored private and public equity investments and served on the boards of portfolio companies. Chris also worked as an investment banker at Bank of America in the leverage finance division.

Chris received a BS in Finance from Wake Forest University.

Keitaro Nishiyama
Principal
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Keitaro Nishiyama
Keitaro Nishiyama
Principal
Tokyo

Keitaro Nishiyama is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Private Wealth Team. In his role, he focuses on fundraising covering Japanese private wealth investors.

Before joining Blue Owl, Keitaro was at PGIM Japan, focused on fundraising mainly covering pension clients. Prior to that, he was a relationship manager at BlackRock, responsible for delivering technology solutions (Aladdin) to clients. Keitaro began his career at Nomura Asset Management.

He earned bachelor of economics degree from the University of Tokyo.

Mark Nixdorf
Managing Director
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Mark Nixdorf
Mark Nixdorf
Managing Director
New York

Mark Nixdorf is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Legal Team. In his role, he focuses on providing legal counsel in connection with the firm’s investments, fund formation, and strategic transactions.

Before joining Blue Owl, Mark was a Vice President and Senior Counsel at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, where he was responsible for covering alternative investment strategies including private credit, renewable power, and growth equity. He also advised Goldman Sachs Asset Management on strategic acquisitions. Prior to that, he was an Associate at Allen & Overy LLP and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP. Mark began his career as a Senior Associate at KPMG LLP.

Mark received his JD from Brooklyn Law School and holds a BS in Accounting from Tulane University.

Jim Noll
Principal
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Jim Noll
Jim Noll
Principal
Short Hills

Jim Noll is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Finance, Accounting & Operations Team. In his role, he focuses on accounting and reporting for alternative credit funds.

Before joining Blue Owl, Jim was an Assistant Controller at Atalaya Capital Management, the predecessor firm to Blue Owl’s Alternative Credit team. Prior to that, Jim was an Accounting Manager at SEI, a fund administrator where he focused on private credit funds.

Jim received a BS in Accounting from the University of Scranton.

Moises Numa
Principal
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Moises Numa
Moises Numa
Principal
Chicago

Moises Numa is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Net Lease Investment Team. In his role, Moises is responsible for the origination, evaluation, and execution of investments for Blue Owl's Real Assets platform.

Before joining Blue Owl, Moises was a Growth Equity Investor at Jump Capital and a Private Equity Associate at MPE Partners. He also held roles as an Investment Banking Analyst at William Blair and Senior Analyst at Analysis Group.

Moises received a BS in Business Administration and an MS in Accounting from Babson College and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Lynn O'Connell
Managing Director
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Lynn O'Connell
Lynn O'Connell
Managing Director
New York

Lynn O'Connell is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Institutional Business Development Team. In her role, Lynn focuses on developing partnerships with institutional investors. 

Before joining Blue Owl, Lynn was Senior Director at Atalaya Capital Management, the predecessor firm to Blue Owl’s Alternative Credit team. Prior to joining Atalaya, Lynn was a Senior Portfolio Advisor at Aksia, responsible for institutional investors’ private credit and hedge fund programs, including portfolio construction, risk management and manager evaluation. She began her career as an Operations Associate at CION Investments.

Lynn graduated from Binghamton University with a BS in Financial Economics. She holds the CAIA designation, is a member of Women in Private Credit, and was recognized as a Rising Star of Hedge Funds by Institutional Investor Magazine in 2017.

Antonia O'Connor
Managing Director
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Antonia O'Connor
Antonia O'Connor
Managing Director
London

Antonia O'Connor is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Institutional Business Development Team. Based in London, she serves as a Credit Product Specialist working closely with the regional institutional business development teams, helping to support and enhance their sales efforts and maximize asset raise and servicing across the Diversified Lending, First Lien, Technology and Opportunistic strategies.  

Before joining Blue Owl, Antonia worked at Magnetar for 10 years, where she led the EMEA Business Development and Investor Relations group.  Prior to Magnetar, she was Co-Head of Hedge Funds, Senior Investment Manager and Head of Fixed Income & Credit within the Investment solutions division of Aberdeen Asset Management, serving as the portfolio manager for the flagship Fund of Funds.  She joined Aberdeen through the acquisition of RBS Asset Management in 2010, where she served in similar roles. Antonia began her career at Coutts & Co. on the Alternative Investments team.   

Antonia holds a BSc (1st Class Honours) from University College London (UCL).

Darragh O'Flaherty
Managing Director
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Darragh O'Flaherty
Darragh O'Flaherty
Managing Director
New York

Darragh O'Flaherty is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Direct Lending Investment Team. In his role, he focuses on investments in the technology sector, including both traditional direct lending and growth equity.

Before joining Blue Owl, Darragh was an investor with Guggenheim Partners, a global asset manager, where he was also focused on investing in the Technology sector. Prior to that, he was an investment analyst at Allied Irish Banks, New York. Darragh began his career as the founder of Medibill.ie, a software business he developed to help automate medical billing for physicians in Ireland.

Darragh received a BSc in Business Information Systems and an MBS in Corporate Strategy, both from the University of Galway, Ireland as well as an MSc in Finance, from the Smurfit Business School, UCD, Ireland.

Meghan O'Hara Lynch
Principal
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Meghan O'Hara
Meghan O'Hara Lynch
Principal
New York

Meghan O'Hara Lynch is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Business Services Platform. In her role, she focuses on strategically planning and executing all events for the BSP Team, and offers event planning thought leadership and best practice consulting to the partner managers.

Before joining Blue Owl, Meghan was an Event Producer at David Stark Design and Production. Prior to that, she was an Associate Manager of Corporate Events at OppenheimerFunds. Previously, Meghan was a Manager of Special Events at Hospital for Special Surgery.

Meghan received her BA in Psychology from Bucknell University.