Senior credit

Devon is a senior managing director, responsible for managing Manulife Investment Management’s senior credit business. He joined Manulife Investment Management PE&C in May 2016 and has 29 years of experience. Prior to joining Manulife, Devon spent 12 years at Madison Capital Funding, a middle market direct lending platform, where he served as a leader and member of the executive and investment committees and was responsible for strategic and capital market activities, including loan syndications, third-party asset management, and joint ventures for Madison Capital’s mezzanine and unitranche credit products. Prior to joining Madison Capital, Devon spent 9 years at Banc of America Securities, where he served as a senior structurer in the sponsor leveraged finance group and a loan syndications structurer supporting the middle market group and the media/telecommunications group.

• Education: B.A., Economics and Political Science, M.B.A., Indiana University
• Joined the company: 2016
• Began career: 1994

Mike is a senior managing director, responsible for managing Manulife Investment Management’s senior credit business. He joined Manulife Investment Management PE&C in January 2017 and has 29 years of experience. Prior to joining Manulife, Mike was head of the loan products group at BMO Global Asset Management, where he was primarily involved in credit selection, portfolio management, and fund raising, taking AUM from $0 to $1 billion across three separate middle market CLO vehicles. Prior to BMO, Mike spent nearly 20 years in key senior credit management roles at leading middle market debt providers, including Pangaea Asset Management (founder), GE Antares, Antares Capital, PPM America, and First National Bank of Chicago. He was an investment committee member at both BMO and Pangaea. 

• Education: B.A., Economics, Marquette University; M.B.A., Finance, DePaul University
• Joined the company: 2017

Joe is primarily responsible for managing the marketing and origination functions of the senior credit business. Prior to joining the firm, he spent over 8 years at American Capital, where he served as a managing director in the sponsor finance group. Before that, he spent 4 years as a director in the Goldman Sachs Specialty Lending Group and 13 years in the sponsor finance units of GE Capital and Heller Financial. Joe also spent over 2 years at the start of his career with KPMG Peat Marwick on the audit staff.

• Education: B.S., Accounting, Illinois Wesleyan University; Masters, Finance, Northwestern University–Kellogg Graduate School of Management
• Joined the company: 2017
• Began career: 1989

Eric is responsible for originating and evaluating investment opportunities in support of the acquisition and growth capital needs of the firm’s private equity clients. He has spent over 20 years evaluating and structuring investment opportunities across a variety of asset classes, including senior, mezzanine, and equity. Prior to joining the firm, he served in the origination and underwriting functions at Crescent Capital and NewStar Leveraged Finance, and before that, he was the head of portfolio management and research for Mesirow Investment Management Partners, where he helped lead the formation of a joint venture between Mesirow Financial and Mubadala Development Company in the United Arab Emirates. Earlier in his career, Eric held investment positions at CapX Partners and Deutsche Bank Asset Management.

• Education: B.A., Mathematics, Illinois State University; M.B.A., The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
• Joined the company: 2017
• Began career: 1997

Brendan is responsible for originating and evaluating investment opportunities in support of the acquisition and growth capital needs of the firm’s private equity clients. Prior to joining the firm, he served in the origination and underwriting functions at CapitalSource, with a focus on healthcare and generalist industry verticals, and before that, he held several positions at GE Antares, which included underwriting and portfolio management as well as structuring and syndicating middle market leveraged loans. Brendan began his career in the financial management program at GE Capital.

• Education: B.B.A., Finance, University of Massachusetts Amherst; M.B.A., Northwestern University–Kellogg School of Management
• Joined the company: 2018
• Began career: 2004

Jeff is responsible for leading transaction underwritings and portfolio management for the senior credit business. Prior to joining the firm, he was a senior vice president at Antares Capital (and its predecessors), where he spent over 12 years underwriting middle market leveraged loans to private equity-owned companies.

• Education: B.A., History, Wake Forest University
• Joined the company: 2017
• Began career: 2000

Ryan is responsible for leading transaction underwritings and portfolio management for the senior credit business. Prior to joining the firm, he was a director in the sponsor finance group at CIT Group, where he spent 10 years underwriting senior credit for private equity-sponsored transactions. Ryan holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

• Education: B.S., Finance, University of Colorado at Boulder; M.S., Finance, Villanova University
• Joined the company: 2017
• Began career: 2007

Maila is a Director, responsible for leading the firm’s capital markets activities including structuring, pricing, and executing transactions; lender and co-investor relationship management; and market research and reporting. Prior to joining Manulife, Maila spent nine years in the capital markets team of Antares Capital, where she was responsible for structuring and syndicating leverage loan transactions for middle market PE-owned businesses. Prior to Antares, Maila was with the bank loan group of GE Capital, where she was focused on underwriting broadly syndicated cash flow deals. She began her career as a fixed income research analyst at GE Asset Management.

• Education: B.B.A., Finance, Loyola University Chicago
  
• Joined the Company: 2022
• Began career: 2005