Bruce Karsh

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Mr. Bruce Karsh is a Co-Founder and serves as Co-Chairman, Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager for Oaktree's Global Opportunities, Value Opportunities and Global Credit Strategies at Oaktree Capital Management. He also is the Chief Investment Officer and serves as portfolio manager for Oaktree's Global Opportunities, Value Opportunities, and Global Credit strategies. Before co-founding Oaktree, Mr. Karsh was a managing director of TCW Asset Management Company and the portfolio manager of the Special Credits Funds from 1988 until 1995. Before joining TCW, Mr. Karsh worked as Assistant to the Chairman of SunAmerica, Inc. Before that, he was an attorney with the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers. Before working at O'Melveny & Myers, Mr. Karsh clerked for the Honorable Anthony M. Kennedy, then of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and retired Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Mr. Karsh holds an A.B. degree in economics summa cum laude from Duke University, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He went on to earn a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where he served as Notes Editor of the Virginia Law Review and was a member of the Order of the Coif. Mr. Karsh serves on the boards of several privately held companies. He is a member of the investment committee of the Broad Foundations. Mr. Karsh is a Trustee Emeritus of Duke University, having served as Trustee from 2003 to 2015, and as Chairman of the Board of DUMAC, LLC, the entity that managed Duke's endowment, from 2005 to 2014.