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Derek O’Leary is a Managing Director of Owl Rock Capital Partners, the President of Owl Rock Securities and serves as the Head of Investor Relations and Business Development. Prior to joining Owl Rock in 2016, Mr. O’Leary served as President of CION Securities, the dealer manager for CION Investment Corporation, a non-traded business development company sub-advised by Apollo Investment Management. Prior to Mr. O’Leary’s role as President, he served as the Executive Vice President Head of Distribution for CION Securities. In this role, Mr. O’Leary supervised and expanded the internal and external sales force, national accounts team, and marketing group. Before joining CION Securities, Mr. O’Leary spent approximately a decade in the asset management business with Merrill Lynch, Salomon Brothers Asset Management and Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Mr. O’Leary earned a B.A. from Seton Hall University.

Brandon Sun is an investment banker at Deutsche Bank who focuses on SPACs, permanent capital, specialty finance and alternative asset management. He helps lead the Deutsche Bank SPAC franchise and advises financial sponsors on raising SPACs as platform extensions and premier private companies go public through SPACs. Over his career, Brandon has completed 50 SPAC IPOs representing ~$20bn in equity capital raised as well as 35+ closed / announced de-SPAC (SPAC M&A) transactions representing $80bn+ in combined enterprise value.