Bennett Rosenthal is a Co-Founder of Ares, a Director and Partner of Ares Management Corporation and Chairman of the Ares Private Equity Group. Mr. Rosenthal serves as the Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ares Capital Corporation (ARCC) and is a member of the Ares Private Equity Group's Corporate Opportunities Investment Committee, the Ares Credit Group’s Opportunistic Credit Investment Committee and the Ares Sports, Media and Entertainment Investment Committee, in addition to other Ares related investment committees. Mr. Rosenthal joined Ares in 1998 from Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. where he served as a Managing Director in the Global Leveraged Finance Group. He currently serves on the boards of directors of City Ventures, LLC, and the parent entities of TAG (the Aspen Group), CHG Healthcare Holdings L.P., Duly Health and Care, LaserAway, Press Ganey Associates, Inc., TricorBraun and Unified Women's Healthcare. Additionally, Mr. Rosenthal is the Lead Managing Owner and a Director of the Los Angeles Football Club, where he also serves on the board of the LAFC Foundation. Mr. Rosenthal also currently serves as Chair of the Graduate Executive Board at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he received both a B.S. in Economics and his M.B.A.