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Kaelyn is a Partner and Portfolio Manager for ArrowMark’s securitized credit investment strategies, including regulatory capital relief/significant risk transfer. In this role, Kaelyn leads the sourcing, structuring, and ongoing management of investments on behalf of the firm’s private funds and institutional separately managed accounts. Kaelyn was also the lead analyst for the firm’s participation in the original Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility (“TALF”) program. Prior to joining ArrowMark in 2008, she was an analyst at Janus Capital Group where her areas of focus included residential and commercial mortgage-backed securities, asset-backed securities, and interest rates (2004-2008). Previously, Kaelyn worked at Great-West Life where she was Assistant Portfolio Manager of $5.5 billion in separate account, general account, and total return assets with a focus on high quality fixed income securities (1998-2004). Kaelyn graduated from Illinois State University with a bachelor’s degree in Economics and earned an MBA from Indiana University.

Rob Brown leads ArrowMark’s commercial real estate finance business and is the Portfolio Manager for ArrowMark CRE Structured Credit Fund. Additionally, he is a member of ArrowMark’s CRE Investment Committee. Mr. Brown oversees the platform’s day-to-day operations including capital relationships, as well as sourcing, pricing, structuring, and asset management of new investments. Prior to joining ArrowMark, Mr. Brown was a Managing Director for JCR Capital where he built the firm’s Bridge Loan Program and other structured finance strategies. In addition to managing the day-to-day operations of the CML debt platform, he was a member of JCR’s Senior Management Team. Prior to joining JCR, Mr. Brown was a member of Deutsche Bank’s Commercial Real Estate Group from 2006-2014 where he worked on their US and European commercial real estate financing platforms. He began his career in the Real Estate Capital Markets Group at Prudential Financial. Mr. Brown earned a bachelor’s degree in American History from the Washington and Lee University.

Charlie writes primarily on private capital markets in the Americas. Before Preqin, he was the data editor at Pensions & Investments, with prior experience in investment consulting. Charlie has a BBA from the University of Iowa and a Masters in Data Science from Northwestern University.