Mr. Hobbs leads Oaktree’s Sourcing and Origination group, which focuses on private credit sourcing and deal origination for the firm’s U.S. Private Debt, Global Private Debt, Special Situations and Global Opportunities strategies. He also serves on the investment committee for Oaktree’s Direct Lending platform. Prior to joining the firm in 2013, Mr. Hobbs was an executive director at Natixis Securities focused on building the high yield sales and trading franchise. Prior thereto, he spent five years at Goldman Sachs as a vice president in leveraged finance origination and sales. Before joining Goldman Sachs in 2007, Mr. Hobbs was a director in Leveraged Finance at Deutsche Bank Securities, which he joined in 2000. Additional experience includes regional account management focused on fleet financing at GE Capital Corporation and controller for Leveraged Finance at Bank of America. Mr. Hobbs received his M.B.A. from Columbia Business School and a B.S. degree in accounting from Rutgers University.

Clark Koury is a managing director and Head of the Product Specialist group. In this role, he supervises Oaktree’s product management activities globally across Credit, Equity, and Real Estate. In addition, he serves as a product specialist focused on Oaktree’s credit strategies, and is responsible for various aspects of product marketing, strategy updates, client communications and product development. He currently oversees the efforts for Oaktree’s private credit strategies, but has led initiatives across the performing and opportunistic credit businesses. Mr. Koury joined Oaktree in 2016 from the Investment Banking Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he was most recently a vice president in the Leveraged Finance department. Prior experience includes work at Barclays in the firm’s Leveraged Finance and High Yield Capital Markets groups. Mr. Koury graduated with a B.A. degree in economics and political science from Columbia University.