Gregory Margolies

Mr. Margolies is a Partner and Vice Chair of Ares and is on the Board of Directors of the Ares Charitable Foundation, which he helped form. He began his career at Ares in 2009 as Head of the Ares Capital Markets Group (now Liquid Credit) and served on the firm's Executive Committee, contributing to the strategic direction and overall management of the firm. In 2011, he helped start and manage the Alternative Credit Group and, together with Kipp deVeer, helped run the firm's Credit business for several years. More recently, he jointly developed and managed the firm's diversified credit fund strategies. Prior to joining Ares in 2009, Mr. Margolies served as a Managing Director and Global Head of Leveraged Finance and Capital Commitments at Merrill Lynch & Co. and was a member of the Executive Committee for Merrill Lynch's Global Investment Banking Group. Previously, Mr. Margolies was Co-Head of the DB Capital Mezzanine Fund. Mr. Margolies serves on the Board of Directors for the International Organization for Women and Development, the Advisory Council for University of Michigan's Life Science Institute and is a member of the University of Michigan's Provost's Advisory Committee. Mr. Margolies holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan in International Economics and Finance and an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business.