Board of Directors

Mr. Draut serves as the Company’s Lead Independent Director, and is a member of the Audit Committee, Governance and Compensation Committee, and the Joint Transactions Committee. The Board benefits from Mr. Draut's nearly thirty-year career in accounting. Mr. Draut completed a twenty-year career at Unitrin, Inc. (renamed Kemper Corporation in 2011) in 2010, serving the last nine years as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and a member of its board of directors. Mr. Draut also held positions at Unitrin, Inc. as Group Executive, Treasurer and Corporate Controller. Prior to joining Unitrin, Inc., Mr. Draut was Assistant Corporate Controller at Duchossois Industries, Inc. and at AM International, Inc. Mr. Draut began his career as an Audit Manager at Coopers and Lybrand. Mr. Draut is a Certified Public Accounting, received an M.B.A. in finance and operations from J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a B.S. in accountancy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, graduating with High Honors. Mr. Draut currently serves as a Director of Thrivent Financial (a Fortune 500 Financial Services Company), and volunteers with Lutheran Social Services of Illinois where he is Chairman of the Board of Directors. Previously, he served as a Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Intermec, Inc. Mr. Draut's knowledge of financial and accounting matters, and his independence from the Company and the Adviser, qualifies him to serve as a member of the Company's Audit Committee.

* Lead Independent Director
Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Joint Transactions Committee
Member of the Governance and Compensation Committee

Ms. Leets is a Director, member of the Company's Audit Committee, member of the Governance and Compensation Committee and the Joint Transactions Committee Ms. Leets is Senior Vice President and Treasurer of Baxter International, Inc., a multinational healthcare company, and holds a CPA license in Illinois. She brings significant global public company financial expertise to the Board, with experience on senior management teams responsible for corporate strategies, financial reporting, and enterprise risk management. In all, she has 20 years of corporate governance and board experience. This includes five years on the Board of Lutheran Social Services of Illinois, where she served as executive board vice chairman and audit committee chair. Ms. Leets earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and an MBA from Indiana State University’s Scott School of Business.

Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Joint Transactions Committee
Member of the Governance and Compensation Committee

Ms. Petro is a director, Governance and Compensation Committee member, Audit Committee member and Joint Transactions Committee member. Ms. Petro is an independent consultant providing advice for lenders in the specialty commercial and consumer finance sectors. She served as Managing Director and Group Head of the Specialty Commercial Finance Group of Waterfall Asset Management from June 2018 through February 2020. Ms. Petro previously worked at Wells Fargo Capital Finance from December 2000 to December 2017 as the Executive Vice President and Group Head of the Lender Finance Division and Supply Chain Finance Division. Ms. Petro currently serves as a member of the MS Finance Advisory Board of the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and as a member of the board of directors of the Secured Finance Network (formerly known as the Commercial Finance Association (“CFA”)). She also served as the President of the CFA from 2016 to 2017 and currently serves as a member of the Secured Finance Foundation board of directors. Ms. Petro holds a Master of Business Administration degree in finance from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas and a Bachelor of Arts degree with a concentration in Russian and Soviet Studies from Kent State University.

Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Joint Transactions Committee
Member of the Governance and Compensation Committee

Mr. Reiss is a Director, Chair of the Company’s Audit Committee, member of the Governance and Compensation Committee and member of the Joint Transactions Committee. Mr. Reiss has over 30 years of experience in strategic planning, M&A due diligence, cash management, forensic accounting and valuation. Mr. Reiss retired from his role as a senior managing director at FTI Consulting Corporate Finance practice in 2013. Prior to joining FTI, he was a partner and west region leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Reiss is currently on the board of trustees for the Baruch College Fund, chairman of the audit committee and independent board member for Contech Engineered Solutions, Ares Dynamic Allocation Credit Fund and Managing Member of Variant Holdings LLC. Mr. Reiss was an independent director and member of the audit committee of Tennenbaum Capital Partners’ Special Value Opportunities Fund. He was also an independent director and chair of the audit committee for Liberty Medical Group and Brundage Bone Inc. Mr. Reiss holds an M.B.A. from City College of New York’s Baruch College and a B.B.A. from City College of New York’s Bernard Baruch School of Business. He is a certified public accountant in New York and California. Mr. Reiss is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and has completed the Director Education and Certification Program at the John E. Anderson School of Management at UCLA

Chair of the Audit Committee
Member of the Joint Transactions Committee
Member of the Governance and Compensation Committee

Mr. Schwab is a Director, Chair of the Company’s Governance and Compensation Committee, member of the Audit Committee and member of the Joint Transactions Committee. Mr. Schwab was the chairman and CEO of Wells Fargo Capital Finance, the asset-based lending units of Wells Fargo and Wachovia (the business units formerly known as Wachovia Capital Finance, Wells Fargo Business Credit, Wells Fargo Foothill, Wells Fargo Retail Finance, and Wells Fargo Trade Capital). Wells Fargo Capital Finance is the leading provider of traditional asset-based lending, specialized senior secured financing, accounts receivable financing and purchase order financing to companies nationwide. Mr. Schwab also served on the Wells Fargo Bank Management Committee. A 39-year veteran of the asset-based lending industry, he joined Foothill Capital Corporation in 1983, becoming its president and chief operating officer in 1986. Norwest Corporation then purchased the company in 1995. In 2000, he was named chairman and chief executive officer of Wells Fargo Foothill, and in 2006 he took the position of group head of the Asset-Based Lending Group, now known as Wells Fargo Capital Finance. Prior to joining Foothill Capital Corporation, Mr. Schwab was vice president of business development with Barclaysamerican Business Credit. He started his career as a business development officer at the National Acceptance Company of California. He earned his bachelor’s degree in education from California State University, Northridge and his master’s degree in education administration from California State University, Los Angeles. Mr. Schwab serves on the board of advisors for the Entrepreneurial Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles Anderson School of Business, is a board member for the Cardiovascular Research Foundation of Southern California., a board member of Gibraltar Business Capital, a board member of West Coast Sports Associates and a board member of Brentwood Country Club. He has served on the board of directors of The School of Business at the California State University, Northridge, and he has also served as chairman and president of the Commercial Finance Association.

Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Joint Transactions Committee
Chair of the Governance and Compensation Committee

Mr. Vig serves as BlackRock TCP Capital Corp’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and is a member of Blackrock's Global Credit Platform.

Prior to joining BlackRock, Mr. Vig was a Managing Partner at Tennenbaum Capital Partners (TCP), where he was also Chairman of the Investment Committee and a member of the Management Committee. Prior to TCP, Mr. Vig held roles within Investment Banking, Debt Capital Markets and the Structured Solutions Group at Deutsche Bank Securities from 1999 through 2006.

He currently chairs Blackrock Private Credit's Investment Committee and is a member of the Credit Oversight Committee. He also serves on the Los Angeles Board of the Posse Foundation.

• M.B.A. in Finance from New York University
• B.A. (magna cum laude) in Economics from Connecticut College