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Ettore Spezzotti is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Net Lease Investment Team. In his role, he focuses on sourcing and securing financing for Blue Owl's Real Assets strategies, while managing and growing relationships with lenders.
Prior to joining Blue Owl, Ettore was Head of Debt Capital Markets, US, at GLP Capital Partners, responsible for the company’s financing and hedging strategies in the US. Before that, he worked at Eastdil Secured as a Director advising real estate sponsors on their financing needs. Ettore started his career in the Real Estate Banking Group at Wells Fargo.
Ettore holds a BS in Business Administration from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, with an Emphasis in Real Estate Finance.

Matthew Spiro is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Alternative Credit Investment Team. In his role, he is responsible for sourcing, structuring and executing opportunistic credit investments across the Alternative Credit platform, including corporate debt/structured equity opportunities, litigation driven investments, and portfolio purchases. Additionally, Matt is responsible for various strategic initiatives across the Alternative Credit platform. He sits on the Investment Committee for several funds on the Alternative Credit platform, including the Special Opportunities Fund.
Prior to joining Blue Owl, Matt was a Managing Director at Atalaya Capital Management, the predecessor firm to Blue Owl's Alternative Credit team, where held a similar role. Prior to this, he was an analyst with the Candlewood Investment Group LP and an executive director with JPMorgan Alternative Asset Management.
Matt received a BS with University Honors in Computational Finance from Carnegie Mellon University and is a CFA Charterholder.

Lukas Spiss is a Senior Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Direct Lending Investment Team. In his role, he serves as the Co-Head of Origination and is responsible for deal origination and structuring as well as providing ongoing oversight of the portfolio.
Prior to joining Blue Owl in 2016, Lukas spent almost ten years at Partners Group, where he focused on sourcing and underwriting credit investments in North America. From 2015 to 2016 he also served as member of Partners Group’s Private Debt Investment Committee. Prior to that, in 2006, he was an Analyst at Lehman Brothers’ Investment Banking Division in Switzerland.
Lukas received a Doctorate in Banking and Corporate Finance from the University of St. Gallen (HSG) and an MA (Hons) in International Business from the University of Edinburgh.

Alexa Stanley is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Finance, Accounting & Operations Team. In her role, she is focused on public investor engagement for Blue Owl's Business Development Companies (BDCs).
Before joining Blue Owl, Alexa was a Vice President in the Equity Capital Markets Group at RBC Capital Markets, covering the Energy and Power & Utilities sectors.
Alexa received a BA in Economics with a double major in Hispanic Studies from Davidson College, where she graduated with honors.

Eli Stein is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Information Technology Team. In his role, he focuses on supporting the Credit business and their Technology needs.
Before joining Blue Owl, Eli was a Vice President at Barclays. In that role, he headed technology teams for Securitized Products and for the Credit business. Prior to Barclays, he provided leadership to the technology team aligned with the Correlation Trading desk at UBS.
Eli received his BA in Computer Science from New York University.

Barbara Stevens is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Legal Team. In her role, she focuses on enterprise vendor contracting, data privacy and security, technology, corporate real estate and intellectual property across Blue Owl’s global affiliates.
Before joining Blue Owl, Barbara was a Vice President and Corporate Counsel at Prudential Financial. Prior to that, she was an Associate General Counsel at MetLife and an Assistant General Counsel at UBS.
Barbara received her JD from NYU School of Law. She also holds an MS in Adult Healthcare Management and a BSN from the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing.
Johan Stromberg is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Institutional Capital Team. In his role, he focuses on building the firm’s footprint and asset base in the Nordic region for the Institutional Capital team.
Before joining Blue Owl, Johan was Head of Business Development, Nordics at Arcmont Asset Management, a leading European Direct Lending firm. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director at Bank of New York Investment Management and CEO of the Swedish Branch. Johan began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst at HSBC.
Johan received his MSc in Financial Economics from the University of Lund in Sweden.

Bharath Subramanian is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Alternative Credit Investment Team. In his role he is responsible for sourcing, underwriting, executing, and managing asset and equity investments in financial services businesses.
Prior to joining Blue Owl, Bharath was at Atalaya Capital Management, the predecessor firm to Blue Owl's Alternative Credit team. Prior to that, Bharath was a senior investment professional at Bayview Asset Management focused on private equity and special situations investing, and was an initial senior hire to support the firm's expanded mandate. Previously, he was a Partner at Capital Z Partners where he completed multiple financial services private equity transactions across the US, UK, and Bermuda and served on the Board of several portfolio companies. He began his career as an Investment Banker in the FIG team at HSBC Securities.
He holds a BA in Economics, summa cum laude, from Vanderbilt University

Lauren Sullivan is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Digital Infrastructure Investment Team. In her role, she is responsible for overseeing STACK Americas' data center portfolio, including capital deployment, construction, asset management, and monetizations. Lauren is also a Board Member of STACK Infrastructure.
Before joining Blue Owl, Lauren was a Managing Director at IPI Partners, the predecessor firm to Blue Owl's Digital Infrastructure strategy. Prior to that, she was a Vice President at Chicago Pacific Founders, a healthcare-focused private equity fund based in Chicago. Before joining Chicago Pacific Founders, Lauren was an Associate at Sterling Partners, a multi-strategy private equity fund where she spent some of her time focused on investments in the data center sector. Lauren began her career as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Consumer & Retail Investment Banking Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Lauren received her BBA in Finance, magna cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame.

Sean Sullivan is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Net Lease Investment Team. In his role, Sean is a member of the Investment Committee and focuses on sourcing and structuring net lease investments. Sean also contributes to due diligence and capital markets efforts.
Before joining Blue Owl Sean was a Vice President at Piper Sandler. Prior to that he was an Associate at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, an investment bank focused on providing M&A and capital markets advisory to companies that operate in the financial services sector.
Sean received a BS in Business Administration from Babson College as well as a master's degree in Real Estate from Georgetown University.