Steve Shenfeld is President of MidOcean Credit Partners and responsible for the strategic development activities of the Firm. Steve is Chairman of the Management Committee, Chairman of the Risk Committee and a member of the Investment Committee. Steve has 34 years of experience both investing in credit markets and financing non-investment grade companies. Prior to joining MidOcean Credit Partners at its inception in 2009, Mr. Shenfeld was a General Partner and Founder of a private equity fund (MD Sass Macquarie Financial Strategies, LP) for MD Sass, a widely recognized investment management organization. As General Partner, he was responsible for directing all origination, investment and structuring of acquisitions. Prior to MD Sass, Mr. Shenfeld was a General Partner at Avenue Capital Group LLC, where he invested in distressed debt, credit and special situations utilizing a broad range of investment techniques including capital structure arbitrage, event driven credit, secured lending, and bankruptcy advocacy. Mr. Shenfeld has also worked at Banc Boston as a Managing Director and Group Head for Debt and Capital Markets and Leveraged Finance, and was a Partner at Bankers Trust where he ran the global capital markets sales and trading organization, which included high-yield, distressed debt and credit derivatives. Mr. Shenfeld also worked as a high-yield trader at both Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette and at Salomon Brothers where he began his career in 1983. Mr. Shenfeld earned his MBA from University of Michigan Business School and his undergraduate degree from Tufts University.

Sylvia oversees the implementation of Private Credit portfolios across Aksia’s global base of LPs. As Aksia’s Global Private Credit Strategist, she advises the firm’s clients with respect to portfolio construction, investment selection, pacing, risk, performance monitoring, benchmarking, co-investment programs, structuring, tactical plans and board presentations. She is also a member of the firm’s Private Credit Investment Committee. Sylvia has partnered with prominent industry organizations to increase awareness of Private Credit as an asset class, including spearheading the development of ILPA’s Private Credit Specialist Series, where she is one of the lead instructors for the course. In addition, she speaks regularly at industry conferences about the challenges of building Private Credit portfolios and has contributed to articles including Preqin’s Future of Alternatives Series and Institutional Allocator Magazine. Prior to joining Aksia in July 2016, Sylvia spent nearly a decade in the private market space, working with both investors and GPs across Private Equity, Real Assets and Private Credit selection and positioning. She began her career in 1992 at Goldman Sachs in Chicago, where she oversaw the Midwest Convertibles business and then moved to New York to co-lead the institutional synthetics convertibles business. Sylvia graduated from the University of Southern California with a BA in Economics and East Asian Studies and completed her MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Sylvia is a founding board member of the Private Equity Women Investor Network (PEWIN), an invitation only group founded in 2008 and that currently has 550 members globally, consisting of women at the most senior levels of their respective firms.

Rush Harvey is a Director of Investments at Texas A&M Foundation, where he has served since 2018. He is primarily responsible for sourcing, diligence, hiring/firing recommendations, and monitoring of current and prospective public and private managers across all global asset classes. Previously, he was a Director of Investments at the Kansas State University Foundation. Prior to that, he was Vice President at Envestnet and a Research Analyst at MQ Capital. He holds a master's degree in Security Analysis and Portfolio Management from Creighton University and a bachelor's degree in Finance from Oklahoma State University. He is a CMT and CAIA charterholder.

Meghna Desai is a Director of Investments at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and is primarily responsible for the hospital's Private Markets’ investments. Prior to joining NYP in 2017, Meghna was the Head of Private Markets & Credit at the New Jersey Division of Investment, where she led investments and asset management of a $15 billion private equity and credit portfolio and a $8 billion real asset portfolio. Prior to 2012, Meghna held multiple roles at ETF trading and equity research firms. Meghna graduated from New York University, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biochemistry, magna cum laude. She received her CFA in 2011.

Mr. Bevill currently serves as Senior Investment Officer for the Teachers’ Retirement System of the State of Illinois. Mr. Bevill is responsible for all global fixed income ($8 billion), short-term ($2.5 billion) and real return ($4.5 billion) portfolios for the $46 billion Illinois Teachers' pension fund. Mr. Bevill has been with TRS over 23 years and currently performs a number of roles outside of the global income and real return asset classes; however, remains extremely passionate about the debt markets. A native southerner, Mr. Bevill graduated from Illinois College with a B.S. in Economics/Business and received his M.A. in Economics from the University of Illinois.

Mr. Pulisic is the Head of Alternative Credit for the Bureau of Asset Management (BAM), Office of the NYC Comptroller. He works with external managers to enhance the risk-adjusted return of NYC pension assets through sub-investment grade public and private, performing and non-performing credit-oriented investment strategies. Exposures include bank loans, high yield, direct lending, preferred equity, distressed, special situations and structured products. Prior to his current role, Mr. Pulisic assisted in managing both traditional and opportunistic fixed income mandates. Mr. Pulisic earned a BA with honors and distinction in Sociology from UNC Chapel Hill and an MA in International Finance and Business from Columbia University, where he studied under a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship. Mr. Pulisic also studied transition economics in Slovenia through the Fulbright program. He holds the CFA designation and is a member NYSSA.