BlackRock Global Long/Short Credit Absolute Return Credit
Biographies
Josh Tarnow, Managing Director, is the is the lead PM of BlackRock's Aviation funds, manager of the Bank Loans & CLO businesses, and
a member of Global Credit.
Prior to joining BlackRock in 2009, Mr. Tarnow was a Senior Partner and head of Aviation and Private Investment at R3 Capital. Prior to
R3, he was a Managing Director and head of the Aviation Group for Lehman Brothers' Global Principal Strategies team, which he joined in
2006. He built a unique business model that included a fleet of corporate and commercial aircraft, private equity investments, and a trading
platform with positions in the credit, equity, and structured volatility markets of the aerospace sector. In 2003, Mr. Tarnow formed the
Aviation Finance Group within the firm's Fixed Income Division. Earlier in his 17-year career at Lehman Brothers, Mr. Tarnow was a
member of the Corporate Bond Trading Desk and traded in sectors including Industrials, Utilities, and Transportation.
Mr. Tarnow earned a BA degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990.
Jose Aguilar, Managing Director, is a senior portfolio manager in Global Credit. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2009, Mr. Aguilar was a
senior research analyst at R3 Capital Partners focusing on Leverage Finance and Special Situations. He began his career at Lehman
Brothers in 2005 in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group covering Financial Institutions and subsequently moved to Global Principal
Strategies (GPS).
Mr. Aguilar earned degrees in business administration and law from Universidad Pablo de Olavide in Seville, Spain.
Stephen Gough, Director, is a senior portfolio manager in Global Credit. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2014, Mr. Gough was a portfolio
manager for cyclical and industrial companies at Goldentree Asset Management. Earlier he was with Claren Road Asset Management
where he was a senior analyst for European corporates. He joined Claren Road from UBS, where he was a publishing credit analyst.
Before taking on that role, he was a chartered accountant with Moore Stephens in London.
Mr. Gough earned a BA degree in geography from the University of Oxford in 2000.
Carly Wilson, Director, is a senior Portfolio Manager in Global Credit. Previously she focused on bank loan strategies. Prior to joining
BlackRock in 2009, Ms. Wilson was an Associate and trader in at R3 Capital Partners. From 2004-2008 she was with Lehman Brothers, in
Equity Trading and then the Global Principal Strategies team, focusing on capital structure arbitrage across sectors.
Ms. Wilson earned a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business in 2004.
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