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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

Rich Peperone
Managing Director
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Rich Peperone
Rich Peperone
Managing Director
New York

Rich Peperone is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Institutional Business Development Team. In his role, he leads GP Strategic Capital Fundraising and Client Service in the US. Prior to his current role, Rich was a senior member of the Business Services Platform within the GP Strategic Capital platform.

Before joining Blue Owl, Rich was Head of Business Development for North America at LIM Advisors, LLC, an Asian based alternative investment firm. Prior to that, he was the first Director of Marketing and Investor Relations at Chicago Fundamental Investment Partners, LLC and was Vice President of Marketing and Investor Relations at Andor Capital Management. Rich began his career at Lazard, where he worked with both institutional and family office clients in the asset management division. 

Rich received his BS in Finance from Syracuse University's Whitman School of Management.

Isabel Pereira
Principal
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Isabel Pereira
Isabel Pereira
Principal
Short Hills

Isabel Pereira is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Compliance Team. In her role, she focuses on the compliance review of marketing and communications materials across the firm.

Prior to joining Owl Rock, the predecessor firm to Blue Owl’s Credit platform, in January 2020, Isabel was a Director and Head of the Registered Principal team for UBS Global Wealth Management, and previously Assistant Vice President and Registered Principal for Morgan Stanley’s Communication Review Group, a predecessor firm of Smith Barney. Prior to Smith Barney-Morgan Stanley succession, she worked as the Operations Manager for the Citigold Unit of Citigroup. Isabel began her career as a Branch Manager for Continental Federal Credit Union.

Isabel received her A.A.S. in Business Management from Union County College.

JD Perone
Principal
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JD Perone
JD Perone
Principal
New York

JD Perone is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Direct Lending Investment Team. In his role, he is focused on operational risk management across the Blue Owl direct lending platform, with a particular concentration on deal closing and loan administration.

Before joining Blue Owl, JD was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs, a global investment bank based in New York, where he supported the Leveraged Finance and Structured Credit businesses across multiple risk management functions including Product Control and Middle Office.

JD received a BS in Mechanical Engineering, magna cum laude, from Rutgers University.

Sana Petersen
Managing Director
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Sana Petersen
Sana Petersen
Managing Director
New York

Sana Petersen is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Commercial Real Estate Team. In her role, she focuses on commercial real estate asset management which includes annual, quarterly and monthly financial reporting of all commercial real estate investments.

Before joining Blue Owl, Sana was a Managing Director at Kuvare Asset Management, the predecessor to Blue Owl Insurance Solutions. Prior to that, she was a Director at Citigroup in Commercial Real Estate Capital Markets & Warehouse Lending. Sana has also held roles at CWCapital, GMAC Commercial Mortgage and Deloitte.

Sana received her MBA in Finance from Cornell University and holds a BBA, magna cum laude, in Accounting from Georgia State University.

Matt Petrucci
Managing Director
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Matt Petrucci
Matt Petrucci
Managing Director
New York

Matt Petrucci is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Finance, Accounting & Operations Team. Based in New York, he is a Fund Controller in the Direct Lending Private Credit Business.

Prior to joining Blue Owl in 2018, Matt was a Senior Fund Accountant at Guggenheim Partners Investment Management, where he worked in the Private Commingled Fund Accounting Group and was responsible for the accounting and reporting for various Alternative Investment Funds and CLOs. Prior to that, Matt worked within the Financial Services practice of PwC where he specialized in audits of alternative investment funds.

Matt received a MS in Accounting from Binghamton University and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in New York.

Ryan Phelan
Managing Director
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Ryan Phelan
Ryan Phelan
Managing Director
Chicago

Ryan Phelan is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Real Estate Investment Team. As a member of the Real Estate Investment Team, he focuses on the operational performance of the real estate assets along with overseeing day-to-day tenant communications.

Before joining Blue Owl, Ryan was the Chief Operating Officer and Head of Asset Management at Logistics Property Company, focusing on developing and executing the strategic business plans of the real estate portfolio.  Prior to that, Ryan held finance and fund management roles with IndCor (a Blackstone portfolio company) and GLP US Management.

Ryan earned his MBA, with distinction, from DePaul University and holds a BS in Accounting from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Drew Phillips
Managing Director
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Drew Phillips
Drew Phillips
Managing Director
New York

Drew Phillips is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Alternative Credit Investment Team. In his role, he’s focused on helping inculcate Blue Owl’s Alternative Credit business into the broader Blue Owl platform and augmenting Blue Owl’s brand as an innovative and trusted leader in asset-based finance.

Before joining Blue Owl, Drew was a Partner and the Chief Operating Officer of Atalaya Capital Management LP, the predecessor firm to Blue Owl's Alternative Credit team, where he oversaw all non-investment functions at the firm. Prior to joining Atalaya, Drew co-founded Tiger Bay Advisors, a boutique asset management consultancy. Previously, he ran the Fund and Client Legal Group at Bridgewater Associates and was the assistant General Counsel at The Rohatyn Group. He began his legal career at the law firm Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft.

He is currently on the Board of Directors of GOSO (Get Out and Stay Out), a New York based organization that partners with people impacted by arrest and incarceration to plan for successful reentry into society, Breakthrough New York, a tuition free, ten-year educational program focused on enabling motivated students from low-income backgrounds to graduate from college and pursue fulfilling careers, and the Children’s Cancer and Blood Foundation, where he has served as Board President. Drew holds a BA in Economics from Columbia University and a JD from Georgetown University Law Center.

Janine Phillips
Principal
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Janine Phillips
Janine Phillips
Principal
London

Janine Phillips is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Institutional Business Development Team. In her role she focuses business development and client service in Europe for the Institutional client base.

Before joining Blue Owl, Janine was a Director at Pollen Street Capital, a private equity and credit manager focused on financial and business services based in London. Prior to that, she was a Senior Marketer at Anavio Capital Partners, a Cross-Asset Event Driven Fund. Janine began her career as an Analyst at Morgan Stanley in Emerging Market Fixed Income and thereafter as an Associate in the European Equity sales team.

Janine received her BSc in Accounting & Finance, from London School of Economics. She has also completed Level I of the CFA programme.

Marc Pillemer
Managing Director
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Marc Pillemer
Marc Pillemer
Managing Director
New York

Marc Pillemer is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the GP Strategic Capital Investment Team. In his role, Marc focuses on sourcing and underwriting minority equity investments and financing transactions and strategic initiatives across the GP Strategic Capital platform.

Before joining Blue Owl, Marc was a Managing Director at Blackstone where he had a senior role on the Investment Team of Blackstone's GP Stakes platform based in New York. In this role, his responsibilities included sourcing, negotiating, and executing transactions and managing relationships with partner GPs. Marc also led the GP Strategic Support Team, which provides strategic benefits to partner GPs. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Group within the Investment Banking Division at Goldman, Sachs & Co., advising alternative asset managers on M&A and capital raising transactions, and on strategic initiatives. Marc began his career serving in various roles in the Securities Division and the Investment Management Division at Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Marc received his BCom in Actuarial Studies and Finance from Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

Tracy Poulter Hart
Chief Human Resources Officer
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Tracy Poulter
Tracy Poulter Hart
Chief Human Resources Officer
New York

Tracy Poulter Hart is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and the Chief Human Resources Officer. Before joining Blue Owl, Tracy was CHRO of York Capital Management, a multi-strategy hedge fund, from September 2011 to April 2021. Prior to that, she was an Executive Director in HR at UBS where she was an HR Business Partner covering Equity Sales and Trading, Equity Derivatives, IT, Operations and was Head of HR for Latin America. Tracy started her career in roles at JP Morgan and Prudential.

Tracy received her BA in Business Management from Western CT State University.