James E. Keenan, CFA, Managing Director, is Chief Investment Officer and Global Head of Private Debt for BlackRock, and Chairman and interim Chief Executive Officer of the BlackRock Capital Investment Corporation.

Mr. Keenan leads BlackRock's Private Debt platform that includes infrastructure, real estate debt, private credit, asset-based lending, and securitized credit ranging from investment grade, performing, and opportunistic & mezzanine strategies. He oversees both business and investment strategy across the platform including investment committees, investment processes, risk management & performance.

For nearly 20 years with BlackRock, Mr. Keenan has been instrumental in expanding investment solutions for clients across liquid leveraged finance, private credit, hedge funds, and multi-alternative strategies. Prior to his current role Mr. Keenan was the CIO and Global Head of Credit for BlackRock Alternatives. He previously built and led the firm’s public market credit and leveraged finance business and has been a portfolio manager across a range of liquid, private, hedge funds and multi-strategy credit funds since 2004 alongside private credit businesses.

Mr. Keenan is a member of BlackRock's Global Operating Committee, Portfolio Management Group Executive Committee, and the investment subcommittee of the firm’s Global Executive Committee. He serves on the Investment Committee for BlackRock’s Private Equity Partners, Long-Term Private Capital, and Transition Capital, alongside all the Private Debt strategies.

Mr. Keenan began his career in credit research and trading with UBS Global Asset Management and Columbia Management Group. He earned a BBA in finance from the University of Notre Dame in 1998. He is a member of Notre Dame's Wall Street Committee, its Athletic Advisory Council, and the Board of Directors of Good Shepherd Services, a service and advocacy partnership in New York City.

Jeff Cucunato is the lead portfolio manager for the Multi-Strategy Credit platform within BlackRock's Global Credit group. Mr. Cucunato is responsible for managing portfolios that allocate to opportunities across the global credit markets. He also chairs the credit platform's Investment Strategy Group, which focuses on evaluating investment opportunities across global investment grade, high yield, bank loans and illiquid credit.

 
Previously, Mr. Cucunato was Head of Investment Grade Credit where he lead the firm's U.S. fundamental investment grade credit effort for over 10 years and spent 15 years as the lead portfolio manager for BlackRock's investment grade credit and long duration portfolios. He began his investment career in 1997 focusing on interest rate products, including management of BlackRock's inflation-linked bond portfolios. Mr. Cucunato joined BlackRock in 1995 as an analyst in the Institutional Client Business group, working with international clients and alternative investments. 
 
Mr. Cucunato earned a BA degree, cum laude, in history from Dartmouth College in 1995.

David Delbos, Managing Director, is the Co-Head of U.S. High Yield within BlackRock's Global Credit team. He is also responsible for managing Global High Yield strategies.

Mr. Delbos joined BlackRock in 2002 as a credit research analyst in the Leveraged Finance Group. He transitioned to a portfolio management role in 2012. 

Prior to joining the Leveraged Finance team at BlackRock in 2002, Mr. Delbos was an analyst at Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

Mr. Delbos earned a BA degree, Magna Cum Laude, in history from Tufts University in 2000.

Patrick Wolfe, Managing Director, is a member of Blackrock's Global Credit Platform. He is a portfolio manager responsible for US Direct Lending funds, BlackRock Credit Strategies Fund (CREDX), and Middle-Market CLOs in the US. Patrick joined BlackRock through the acquisition of Tennenbaum Capital Partners ("TCP").

At TCP, Patrick launched the Middle-Market CLO platform taking the business to over $1 billion of assets. He also co-led led the development of the firm's proprietary private credit software platform (Symbeo) and was one of the creators of the Direct Lending Insurance Solutions fund.

Prior to TCP, Mr. Wolfe was in structured credit at Deutsche Bank for six years focusing on the structuring, issuance, and management of CLOs and other credit strategies. He began his career in 2006 as an accountant at KSJG LLP focused on mortgage banking.

Mr. Wolfe earned a B.S. in Accounting from San Diego State University in 2006.