Josh Baumgarten is Angelo, Gordon’s Deputy Chief Investment Officer and a member of the four-person Management Committee responsible for the management of the firm. He is also co-portfolio manager for AG Super Fund and multi-strategy portfolios. Prior to joining Angelo, Gordon in 2016, Josh was a Senior Managing Director at Blackstone and focused on Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, the firm’s hedge fund solutions business. At BAAM, which he joined in 2007, Josh oversaw credit investing and worked closely with some of the most well-regarded credit investors around the globe. He played a key role in Blackstone’s global co-investment business. Prior to Blackstone, Josh was a Portfolio Manager and trader at Blackrock, which he joined in 2000. His principal focus was on Blackrock’s high-yield portfolios. Josh started his career at Jefferies in investment banking and also spent time early in his career in venture capital investing. Josh is a member of the Children’s Board at Columbia (Columbia University Medical Center). He received a B.S. degree in Economics with concentrations in Finance and Accounting from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Grant Haggard joined Angelo, Gordon in 2015 as a Managing Director in the firm’s middle market direct lending loan business. Prior to joining Angelo, Gordon, Grant had been with Ares Management LLC for the previous year. Prior to Ares, Grant was with Madison Capital Funding LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of New York Life Investors, from 2008 to 2014.  Grant’s primary responsibilities at Ares and Madison Capital included client relationship management and new business development, where he focused on originating and structuring transactions with middle market private equity sponsors. Prior to joining Madison Capital, Grant held various positions in originations, loan underwriting and portfolio management at Linsalata Capital Partners and Antares Capital Corporation. Grant received a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Cincinnati and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Garrett Ryan is the Head of Capital Markets for the firm’s middle market direct lending loan business. Garrett has extensive knowledge of middle market LevFin, institutional/high yield as well as asset based lending.  Prior to joining Angelo, Gordon in 2017, he spent 8 years at Fifth Third Bank as Head of Healthcare Debt Capital Markets.  Prior to that Garrett was with the finance company, CapitalSource, and prior to that was with LaSalle Bank.  He has 18 years of experience in capital markets. He received his finance degree from University College Dublin and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.