Michael Smith Email & Phone Number

Michael is a Partner and Co-Head of the Ares Global Credit Group as well as a member of the Ares Executive Management Committee. He is a Co-CEO of the Ares Strategic Income Fund (“ASIF”), a Portfolio Manager of CION Ares Diversified Credit Fund ("CADEX"), and a Director of Ares Capital Corporation (Nasdaq: ARCC). He previously served as Co-President of Ares Capital Corporation from July 2014 to October 2022 and Executive Vice President from May 2013 to July 2014. He is also a member of the Ares Credit Group's U.S. Direct Lending and Ares Opportunistic Credit Investment Committee, the Ares Secondaries Group's Private Equity Investment Committee, and Ares Infrastructure Group's Climate Infrastructure Partners and Infrastructure Debt Investment Committees. Michael serves on the Board of Directors of the University of Notre Dame's Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunity (LEO), which helps service providers apply scientific evaluation methods to better understand and share effective poverty interventions.

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  Co-Head Of Global Credit

  Ares Management Corporation

  2004 - Present