Michael Patterson

Mr. Patterson is Co-President and a Founding Partner of HPS Investment Partners, where he is the Portfolio Manager for the HPS Specialty Loan Funds and the Core Senior Lending Funds. He is also the Chairman and CEO of the HPS Corporate Lending Fund and the HPS Corporate Capital Solutions Fund. In addition, Mr. Patterson is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee and a Senior Managing Director in the Private Financing Solutions (PFS) Executive Office, which leads BlackRock’s private credit, GP/LP solutions, and liquid and private credit CLO businesses. Mr. Patterson joined HPS at its inception in 2007, establishing the European business before returning to the United States in 2009. Before joining HPS, Mr. Patterson was with Silver Point Capital in the U.S. and Europe and the Goldman Sachs Principal Investing Area in New York. Prior to his investing career, Mr. Patterson served as an officer in the United States Navy. Mr. Patterson holds an AB in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College and an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.