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Greg White is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Real Estate Investment Team. In his role, he focuses on investments, loan origination, structuring securitizations, and the development and maintenance of client relationships.
Before joining Blue Owl, Gregory was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Prima Capital Advisors, an investment advisory firm which specialized in making real estate debt investments. Among his other roles at Prima, he acquired and expanded the investment management agreements held by previous entities. He previously was Managing Director at Salomon Brothers Inc and co-head of the firm's real estate finance, sales, and advisory businesses, where he originated, negotiated, and closed in excess of $10 billion of real estate financings, joint ventures and property sales. Prior to his work at Salomon, Mr. White was an Assistant Treasurer in the Real Estate Finance Department of the Chase Manhattan Bank.
Mr. White received his BS in Civil Engineering from Tufts University and earned a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance and Real Estate from The Wharton Graduate School of Business Administration. He is also Director of TPG Real Estate Finance Trust, a NYSE listed company that focuses on transitional commercial mortgage loans. As well as a member of PREA (Pension Real Estate Association) and CREFC (Commercial Real Estate Finance Counsel). Mr. White is a past member of the Board of Advisors for the School of Engineering at Tufts University.
![David Willemin David Willemin](/sites/default/files/styles/employee_directory_desktop_2x/public/employee-photos/100560.jpg?itok=fCDT9xDW)
David Willemin is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Finance, Accounting & Operations Team. Based in Short Hills, NJ, he is focused on the accounting, finance, financial reporting, and internal controls functions for the Blue Owl BDCs.
Before joining Blue Owl, David was a Senior Vice President of Internal Audit Finance at Citibank. Prior to that, he was an Accounting Associate at Fir Tree Partners. David began his career as a Senior Assurance Associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Alternatives group.
David received a BS in Finance and Accountancy, magna cum laude, from Villanova University.
![Patrick Willis Patrick Willis](/sites/default/files/styles/employee_directory_desktop_2x/public/employee-photos/100561.png?itok=bEqMXUO-)
Patrick Willis is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Private Wealth Team. In his role, Patrick serves as the Head of US Private Wealth Strategic Partnerships, leading the group responsible for managing the firm’s strategic distribution partnerships and platforms across Blue Owl’s US private wealth business.
Prior to joining Blue Owl, Patrick served in various fund management and distribution roles at CNL Financial Group across multiple product verticals. Prior to joining CNL, Patrick was Director of Finance for Core Realty, Inc.
Patrick received a B.A. in English and Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, magna cum laude, with Distinction in Philosophy, and a Certificate in Finance and Accounting from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Patrick currently sits on the board of the Institute for Portfolio Alternatives (“IPA”), where he serves on the finance and compensation committee. Patrick maintains Series 7, Series 24, and Series 63 registrations.
![John Wilson John Wilson](/sites/default/files/styles/employee_directory_desktop_2x/public/employee-photos/100960.png?itok=GE-yX3iw)
John Wilson is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and the Head of Americas, Institutional Business Development. Before joining Blue Owl John was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Prior to that, he spent most of his career at PIMCO in roles including Head of US Institutional Business, Head of Australia and Head of Global Consultant Relations. John began his career as a lawyer at Shearman & Sterling in New York.
John holds a BA and LLB from the University of Melbourne, MA from the University of New England and an LLM from Duke University.
John is a director of Queensland Treasury Corp, director of Ord Minnett and an Advisor to Brighter Super. He has previously been a director of QIC, LGIA Super, Eithad Stadium Melbourne, Rugby Australia, a Trustee of the University of New England Foundation and Chairman of the Investment Committee at the NSW ALC.
![Kyle Wilson Kyle Wilson](/sites/default/files/styles/employee_directory_desktop_2x/public/employee-photos/100895.png?itok=T1rBbXu0)
Kyle Wilson is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and the Head of Real Estate Credit Underwriting. As a member of the Real Estate Investment Team and Investment Committee, he focuses on evaluating tenant credit quality for new acquisitions and tenant portfolio management across all Blue Owl Real Estate funds. Kyle also provides support to investor relations and capital markets efforts.
Before joining Blue Owl, Kyle was a Senior Vice President at Antares Capital. Prior to that, he was in credit underwriting at GE Capital. Kyle began his career with General Electric completing the Financial Management Program and a two-year rotation in Corporate Audit.
Kyle received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and holds a BA in History from Vanderbilt University.
Sean Winchell is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Information Technology Team. Based in Chicago, Sean is focused on designing, building, deploying, and maintaining the firm’s information technology infrastructure.
Before joining Blue Owl, Sean was an Associate and Senior Systems Engineer at IA Interior Architects, a global design and architectural firm. Prior to that, he was a Systems Administrator at Brandmuscle, a technology based marketing firm.
![Shari Withem Shari Withem](/sites/default/files/styles/employee_directory_desktop_2x/public/employee-photos/100564.jpg?itok=yNegIry8)
Shari Withem is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Finance, Accounting & Operations Team. In her role, Shari serves as the Co-Chief Accounting Officer of OBDC II, OBDC III, OCIC and OTIC, and as the Co-Treasurer and Co-Controller of each of the Blue Owl BDCs.
Prior to joining Blue Owl, Shari was Vice President of Sixth Street Specialty Lending, Inc. (formerly TPG Specialty Lending, Inc.), a business development company traded on the NYSE (TSLX), where she was responsible for accounting, financial reporting, treasury and internal controls functions. Preceding that role, Ms. Withem worked for MCG Capital Corporation, a business development company formerly traded on the Nasdaq (MCGC) and Deloitte in the Audit and Assurance Practice.
Shari received a BS in Accounting from James Madison University and is licensed as a Certified Public Accountant in Virginia.
![Candy Wong Candy Wong](/sites/default/files/styles/employee_directory_desktop_2x/public/employee-photos/101038.png?itok=QlsVVRsT)
Candy Wong is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Information Technology Team. In her role, she focuses on requirements gathering, business analysis, and solutions implementation to support the technology needs of the Operations and Finance teams.
Before joining Blue Owl, Candy was the Director of Product Management at Saphyre, a fintech company that harnesses automated intelligence and creates memory around account data and documents to optimize account onboarding and related trade processes for financial institutions. Prior to that, she was Senior Vice President at iCapital. Candy’s professional journey began at BlackRock, where she started as a business analyst for the BlackRock Solutions business and swiftly advanced to prominent roles in product management, business integration, and systems implementation.
Candy graduated summa cum laude from Binghamton University with a BS in Management Information Systems and Finance.
![Kirsten Wright Kirsten Wright](/sites/default/files/styles/employee_directory_desktop_2x/public/employee-photos/100566.png?itok=lHVU2mQA)
Kirsten Wright is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Finance, Accounting & Operations Team. Kirsten serves as a Controller for the Business Development Companies (BDCs).
Prior to joining Blue Owl in 2017, Kirsten was a Senior Audit Associate at Crowe Horwath, where she focused primarily on financial service industries.
Kirsten received a BS in Accounting from The College of New Jersey and is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in New Jersey.
Matthew Xirinachs is a Principal at Blue Owl and member of the Investment Grade Private Lending Investment Team. Before joining Blue Owl, Matthew was a Director at Kuvare Asset Management, the predecessor firm to Blue Owl Insurance Solutions, focused on direct private credit investing and origination for insurance companies. Prior to that, he was an Associate at Blackstone where he worked in Blackstone Credit (formerly, GSO Capital Partners), was a member of the firm’s Corporate Development team, and helped launch the firm’s Insurance Solutions business.
Matthew received a BA in Finance and International Business with a concentration in international studies from Fairfield University.