Ben Spector is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Alternative Credit Investment Team. In his role, he serves as chief operating officer of the Financial Assets Team, managing day-to-day operations and overseeing strategic initiatives.

Prior to Blue Owl, Ben was a Director at Atalaya Capital Management, the predecessor firm to Blue Owl's Alternative Credit team, from 2015 to 2024. Prior to that, he was a Senior Associate at Tiger Bay Advisors, a boutique asset management consulting firm. Ben began his career as a Management Associate at Bridgewater Associates.

Ben received his BA in Public Policy Analysis and Biology from Pomona College.

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 primarily responsible for the planning and execution of strategic initiatives and oversees certain corporate governance functions for Blue Owl’s business development companies. Previously, she was a member of the BDC Investor Relations team where she focused on all aspects of public shareholder relations.

Before joining Blue Owl in 2020, Alexa was an Investment Banking Vice President at RBC Capital Markets. There, she held roles in the Equity Capital Markets and Industrial & Diversified Services groups working on equity and debt financings, and mergers and acquisitions.

Alexa received her AB in Economics and Hispanic Studies, cum laude, from Davidson College.

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.

Matt Stewart is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and the Head of BDC Strategy. In his role, he is responsible for strategy across Blue Owl's Business Development Companies (BDCs). Before joining Blue Owl, Matt was a Managing Director at Oaktree Capital for seven years and Chief Operating Officer of Oaktree’s BDCs since 2021. Before Oaktree's acquisition of the business, Matt was a vice president at Fifth Street Management. Matt began his career in restructuring as a senior associate at BDO Consulting before joining Knight Capital Group as a vice president. He became a director in the leveraged finance business of Stifel Nicolaus following their acquisition of Knight Capital’s fixed income business.

Matt received a BBA. in Finance and a BS in Accountancy from Villanova University. He is also a Certified Public Accountant and CFA charterholder.

Nicole Strange is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Human Resources Team. In her role, Nicole serves as the Head of HR for Institutional Capital.

Prior to joining Blue Owl, Nicole was a Senior HR Business Partner at Bloomberg covering Financial Solutions. Prior to that, she was a Vice President in HR at Goldman Sachs where she was a Senior HR Business Partner covering Wealth Management, and earlier Global Markets, Operations, and Technology. Nicole started her career working in Financial Aid at Boston University School of Law and Columbia University.

Nicole received her B.A. in International Relations and M.Ed. in Higher Education Policy, Planning, and Administration from Boston University.

Matthew Straut is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Private Wealth Team. In his role, he focuses on building and executing a strategy to grow Blue Owl's presence with the RIA & Family Office Channels.

Prior to joining Blue Owl, Matt was Chief Revenue Officer and a member of the Executive Leadership team at Clearnomics, an industry-leading financial technology platform. Prior to joining Clearnomics, he was Chief Distribution Officer at EQIS Capital Management and also ran MAAC Solutions, LLC, a consulting firm dedicated to the wealth and asset management industries. 

Prior to founding MAAC, Matt was Senior Vice President and Head of the Registered Investment Advisor and Personal Investing businesses at OppenheimerFunds. He joined Oppenheimer in 2014 to lead the effort to expand and strengthen OppenheimerFunds’ industry presence in the RIA, Multi Family Office, and Personal Investing Platforms channels.

Matt has more than 30 years of experience in sales, sales management, and business management roles in the asset management industry. He has a BS in Marketing from Providence College and has earned the Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA®) designation.

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.