Mr. R. K. deVeer is a Chief Executive Officer & Director at Ares Capital Corp., a Director & Partner at Ares Management Corp, and at Ares Management Corp., a Partner & Co-Head of Credit Group at Ares Management LLC, a Chairman at MVL Group, Inc., a Partner at Ares Credit Group and a Partner at Ares Management GP LLC. He is on the Board of Directors at Ares Capital Corp., Ares Management Corp. and Ares Partners Holdco LLC. Prior to joining Ares in 2004, Mr. deVeer was a partner at RBC Capital Partners, a division of Royal Bank of Canada, which led the firm's middle market financing and principal investment business. Mr. deVeer joined RBC in October 2001 from Indosuez Capital, where he was Vice President in the Merchant Banking Group. Mr. deVeer has also worked at J.P. Morgan and Co., both in the Special Investment Group of J.P. Morgan Investment Management, Inc. and the Investment Banking Division of J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. Mr. deVeer received a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.