Ms. Lynn Baranski, Managing Director, is Global Co-Head and Chief Investment Officer of Private Equity Partners (“PEP”) within BlackRock's Equity Private Markets group. Ms. Baranski chairs PEP's Internal Investment Committee and Exit committee and is a member of PEP's Executive Investment Committee. Ms. Baranski is also a member of the investment committees of the Secondary Liquidity Solutions Funds I and II, the Global Credit Opportunity Fund II, and the BlackRock Impact Opportunity Fund. Lastly, Ms. Baranski serves on the Executive Oversight Committee of the Direct Private Opportunities Group. Overall, Ms. Baranski has over 33 years of private equity and related experience.

Ms. Baranski's service with the firm dates back to 1997, including her years with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (“MLIM”), which merged with BlackRock in 2006. Prior to her current leadership role, Ms. Baranski was PEP's Global Head of Investments with primary responsibility for all aspects of PEP's investment process including sourcing, due diligence, and monitoring as well as portfolio construction and strategy. Before joining PEP in 2001, she worked as a high yield portfolio manager and research analyst in the fixed income division. She joined MLIM from Bank of America Securities, Inc. (formerly NationsBank), where she was a member of the Financial Sponsor Advisory group.

Ms. Baranski currently serves on the advisory boards of certain funds managed by Certares LLC, Black Diamond, Tailwind Capital Partners, 1315 Capital and Z Capital Partners. Additionally, she is currently on the board Internova Group and Guardian Alarm. She previously participated on the boards of Juweel Holdings, Amex Global Business Travel, TowerCo, Canbriam Energy, and Evenflo.

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 led 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.

Mr. Arslan Mian, Managing Director, heads the Americas Investment team at BlackRock Private Equity Partners (“PEP”) within BlackRock Equity Private Markets. He is a member of PEP's Executive Committee, Investment Committee, Portfolio Construction & Allocation Committee, Valuation Committee, and Finance Committee. He is also a member of BlackRock’s Transition Capital Investment Committee.

Mr. Mian's service with the firm dates back to 2005, including his years with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (“MLIM”), which merged with BlackRock in 2006. He was a Principal at MLIM at the time of the merger. Prior to joining MLIM in 2005, he was a Vice President with the Private Equity Group at UBS Capital Americas, LLC. ($1.5B middle market fund, focused on Americas), where he oversaw all stages of the private equity investment and post-investment value creation processes and had board responsibilities for a few portfolio companies. Earlier, Mr. Mian was a Vice President with TD Securities Financial Sponsors Group. Prior to that, he was with UBS Investment Bank in the Financial Sponsors & Leveraged Finance Group in New York and M&A Group in London, UK.

Mr. Mian currently serves on the advisory boards of several private equity funds including AE Industrials, BDCM, CD&R, Greycroft, and Mason Wells. Mr. Mian also serves on the Board of Directors of the following portfolio companies: 365 Datacenters, Grupo Axo, Triarc, Serena and Lily, HealthChannels, and Kellstrom Industries. Previously he served on the Boards of: Alpenglow Rail, Aim Aerospace, Coating Excellence, Inc., J.D. Power, Sabre Industries, The Ritedose Corporation, and Independent Insurance Investments, Inc.

Mr. Mian earned an MBA from the Said Business School at the University of Oxford, UK in 1997, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He also earned a BEng, with distinction, in Avionics from N.E.D. University, College of Aeronautical Engineering, Pakistan in 1994.

Mr. John Seeg, Managing Director, is Global Co-Head of BlackRock Private Equity Partners (“PEP”) within Equity Private Markets (“EPM”). With over 28 years of Private Equity experience, he is a member of BlackRock's Global Operating Committee, EPM's Executive Committee and PEP's Management Committee, Investment Committee and Executive Investment Committee.

Mr. Seeg’s service with the firm dates back to 1999, including his years with Merrill Lynch Investment Managers (“MLIM”) which merged with BlackRock in 2006. During his tenure at PEP, Mr. Seeg was the head of PEP’s London office and responsible for private equity investments across EMEA as well as regional business development. He was also previously a member of the EMEA Executive Committee for BlackRock Alternatives. From 2003 until 2007, Mr. Seeg was based in the US as a principal on the investment team of PEP and also managed the team's product strategy and investor relations activities in the Americas.

Before joining MLIM in 2003, Mr. Seeg was a Vice President at Merrill Lynch where he held several roles in wealth management, corporate strategy, and venture capital investments. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch in 1999, Mr. Seeg was an Associate at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (“DLJ”) in global equities research.

Mr. Seeg earned a BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He also attended the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, where he completed the Advanced Management Program.