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Private Credit Connect East 2026 Agenda

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  1. America’s resilient response to private credit disquiet
    19-Oct-2026
    Leonard Klingbaum, Partner, Head of Capital Solutions Group - Dechert LLP
    Grishma Parekh, President, HPS Corporate Lending Fund and Co-Head Core Senior Lending - HPS Investment Partners
    Marc Pinto, Managing Director, Global Head of Private Credit - Moody's Ratings
    Tyler Gately, Head of North America Direct Lending - Barings
    Susan Kasser, Head of Private Debt - Neuberger Berman
  2. Opening Remarks
    19-Oct-2026
    Kenneth Young, Partner and Co-Chair, Corporate and Securities Practice - Dechert LLP
  3. LP Lunch - Invite-only
    19-Oct-2026
  4. Less is more: Flexible funding solutions for the Lower Middle Market and the next generation of corporate issuers
    19-Oct-2026
    Emily Fasold, Editor and Head of US Deal Origination - Octus
    Ted Denniston, Co-Head and Senior Managing Director of NXT Capital - NXT Capital
    Andre Hakkak, Founder, Managing Partner & Chief Executive Officer - White Oak Global Advisors
    Alexander Prokopenko, Senior Manager, Business Development and Operations - Egan-Jones Ratings Co.
  5. State of the Market: The expanding universe of American asset-backed finance
    20-Oct-2026
    How the US asset-backed finance market has shifted from niche lenders to become an essential finance tool for issuers to maximise leverage of their resources.
    Chirag Domadia, Partner, Complex Securitizations Practice Group - Kirkland & Ellis
    Avi Korn, Global Co-Head of Asset Based Finance - KKR
    Kevin Alexander, Partner & Co-Head of Alternative Credit - Ares Management
    Aaron Fink, Senior Managing Director, Head of Asset Based Finance - Centerbridge
    Elizabeth Burton, Chief Strategist - Fortress
    Jennifer Marques, Managing Director and Head of Strategy and Structuring - Oaktree Capital Management
    Weili Chen, Managing Director, North American Asset-Backed Securities - Fitch Ratings
  6. Keynote Fireside Chat - Opportunistic Credit: Where Eagles Dare
    20-Oct-2026
    Sujeet Indap, Wall Street editor - Financial Times
    Vinay Kumar, Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer - Silver Rock Capital Partners
    Anant Bhalla, CEO & Co-Founder - 1823 Partners
  7. Navigating Liquidity & Alignment: LP-GP Solutions in the Evolving Private Credit Landscape
    20-Oct-2026
    Understand the motivations and mindsets from the nation’s most active investors Why has confidence in institutional capital remained high, while retail confidence collapsed?  What process do CIOs unde ...
    Tim Deal, Principal - PWC
    Peggy Huang, Chief Investment Officer - CC Capital/Ceres Life
    Cesar Estrada, Head, Private Markets - Arcesium
  8. From funding to functionality: The role of AI across the private credit ecosystem
    20-Oct-2026
    Jen Press, Chief Client Officer - RiskSpan
    Dan Pallone, Managing Director - SS&C Technologies
    Anastasia Amoroso, Managing Director & Chief Investment Strategist - Partners Group
    Deanna Leighton, Head of Allocation & Strategy—Insurance - AllianceBernstein
    Don Muir, Chief Executive Officer & Founder - F2 AI
  9. Made in the USA: financing the America’s growth ambitions
    20-Oct-2026
    How faster, more flexible private lending to asset-heavy industries is spurring on a new era of manufacturing and industry in North America.  Which non-digital asset-heavy industries will prove crucia ...
    Ed Cong, Partner & PM, Asset-Based Lending & Structured Credit - CVC Marathon
  10. FT Keynote Interview - How private credit is shaping the AI ecosystem
    20-Oct-2026
    A high-level dive into the rise of opportunistic funds and how they are taking advantage of market dislocations.
    Victoria Chant, Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Capital Markets and Bank Relations - Blackstone Credit and Insurance (BXCI)
  11. Cocktail Reception
    19-Oct-2026
  12. Networking Break
    20-Oct-2026
  13. Esoterics Interviews
    20-Oct-2026
     (4x 15min interviews) Explores the wide world of esoteric or specialty financiers, and how they approach the market. In three successive interviews, we hear from experts on their approaches to valuin ...
    Michael Chen, Managing Director & Head of US Investments - Viola Credit
    Bill Cisneros, President - Primary Wave IP Investment Management
    Kyle Asher, Partner & Co-Head and Co-Portfolio Manager, Monroe Capital Alternative Credit Solutions - Monroe Capital
  14. Lunch
    20-Oct-2026
  15. Core workout: the lasting strength of America’s Middle Market
    19-Oct-2026
    Sheel Patel, Partner, Head of New York Private Credit - Mayer Brown
    Michael Ewald, Partner and Global Head of the Private Credit Group - Bain Capital
    Natalie Garcia, Managing Director, Head of Underwriting - Deerpath Capital
    Matthew Harvey, Managing Director and Head of Direct Lending - PGIM
    Jason Dillow, Co-Head of US Private Credit & Head of US Opportunistic Credit - Man Group
    Javier Casillas, Chief Investment Officer - Whitehorse Capital
  16. LP Perspectives: the evolving role of private credit investors into direct lending
    19-Oct-2026
    Reed Van Gorden, Managing Director, Head of Origination - Deerpath Capital
    Tod Trabocco, Head of Private Debt Advisory - StepStone Group
    Richard Grimm, Head of Global Credit and a Managing Director for the Retirement, Insurance & Government Practice - Cambridge Associates
    Roman Hederer, Head of Portfolio Management - Legal & General
  17. Marriage of convenience: NAV, Fund Finance, Secondaries and provision of capital across the value chain
    20-Oct-2026
    Howard Schickler, Partner and Co-Chair, Structured Finance and Securitization Department - Katten
    Sara McGinty, Partner - Ares Management
    Deborah Newman, Managing Director, Analytical Manager - S&P Global Ratings
    Nicole Lawrence, Managing Director, Asset Management Strategy - Moody's
  18. FT Keynote interview with fund CEO & pension fund CIO
    19-Oct-2026
    James Fontanella-Khan, US finance editor - Financial Times
    Vivek Bantwal, Global Co-Head of Private Credit and Co-CEO, Goldman Sachs BDC - Goldman Sachs Asset Management
    Daniel Garant, Executive Vice President & Global Head, Capital Markets & Credit Investments - British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI)
  19. Lunch
    19-Oct-2026
  20. Sponsor solutions: solving private equity's portfolio funding demands
    19-Oct-2026
    Ryan Moreno, Partner and Co-Chair, Leveraged Finance and Co-Head, Private Credit and Fund Finance - DLA Piper
    Michelle Handy, Senior Managing Director & Chief Investment Officer, Direct Lending - Napier Park Global Capital
    Gregory Hardiman, Managing Director and Head of GP-LP Solutions - Crescent Capital
    Michael Perez, Managing Director - Stone Point Capital
    Betsy Booth, Partner - TPG Twinbrook
  21. Networking break
    19-Oct-2026
  22. Future architecture of the financial system: How private credit redefined corporate debt issuance
    19-Oct-2026
    Amit Seru, The Steven and Roberta Denning Professor of Finance and Senior Fellow - Hoover Institute - Stanford Graduate School of Business
    Joe Engelhard, Head of US Private Credit and Asset Management Policy & Regulation - Alternative Investment Management Association
    Damien Dwin, Chief Executive Officer - Lafayette Square
    Elizabeth Perenick, Head of Portfolio Management, Investment Grade Private Credit - Wellington
    Tom Kramer, Chief Executive Officer - CREDITspective
    Jason Young, Head of U.S. Corporate Private Placements and Private Asset Based Finance, Private Fixed Income - MetLife Investment Management
  23. The Debt-Equity Equilibrium: How Rated Debt Structures Are Reshaping the Private Credit-Insurance Relationship
    20-Oct-2026
    A discussion with industry leaders on how they approach origination and deployment of capital to unique markets
    Belinda Ghetti, Managing Director, Head of Structured Credit Solutions and Alternative Investments - Fitch Ratings
    Naz Majidi, Founder - Pand Capital
    Alexandra Cooley, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer - Nuveen Green Capital
    Sarah Milam, Partner - Akin Gump
    Daniel Lepore, Managing Director, Head of Liability Management - Cliffwater
    Chris Duerden, Partner - Dechert
  24. Coffee and Networking Break
    20-Oct-2026
  25. Day Two Welcome Remarks
    20-Oct-2026
  26. Registration & Breakfast Networking
    20-Oct-2026
  27. Day 1 Closing Cocktail Fireside Chat - American Direct Lending Outlook
    19-Oct-2026
  28. Coffee & Networking
    19-Oct-2026
  29. ABS EAST & PCC EAST WELCOME DRINKS
    18-Oct-2026
    Join us on the Ocean Lawn at the Fontainebleau Miami Beach for pre-conference welcome drinks
  30. 12:00 EARLY ARRIVAL REGISTRATION & BADGE COLLECTION
    18-Oct-2026
  31. Registration & Breakfast Networking
    19-Oct-2026
  32. Keynote Fireside Chat
    19-Oct-2026
    Jay Alicandri, Partner - Dechert
    Jared Parker, Managing Director and Co-Head of North America - Oaktree Capital Management
    Jeff Levin, Head of Credit - Thoma Bravo
  33. Retail therapy: Re-thinking the liquidity conundrum for private credit BDCs
    19-Oct-2026
    Gurvinder Singh, Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder - Indus Valley Partners
    Brian Hong, Head of Retail and Regulatory Services - Gen II
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