Mitchell Goldstein

Partner, Co-Head of Ares Credit Group & Co-Chief Executive Officer of Strategic Income Fund

Mr. Goldstein is a Partner and Co-Head of the Ares Credit Group. He serves on the Ares
Executive Management Committee. Additionally, Mr. Goldstein serves as Co-President of
ARCC, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Ares Strategic Income Fund and Vice President and
interested trustee of CION Ares Diversified Credit Fund. He is a member of Ares Credit Group’s
U.S. Direct Lending, Commercial Finance, Pathfinder and the Ivy Hill Asset Management
Investment Committees, the Ares Infrastructure Debt Investment Committee, and the Ares Asia
Direct Lending (Australia) Investment Committee. Prior to joining Ares Management in May
2005, Mr. Goldstein worked at Credit Suisse First Boston, where he was a Managing Director in
the Financial Sponsors Group. At CSFB, Mr. Goldstein was responsible for providing
investment banking services to private equity funds and hedge funds with a focus on M&A and
restructurings as well as capital raisings, including high yield, bank debt, mezzanine debt, and
IPOs. Mr. Goldstein joined CSFB in 2000 at the completion of the merger with Donaldson,
Lufkin & Jenrette. From 1998 to 2000, Mr. Goldstein was at Indosuez Capital, where he was a
member of the Investment Committee and a Principal, responsible for originating, structuring
and executing leveraged transactions across a broad range of products and asset classes. From
1993 to 1998, Mr. Goldstein worked at Bankers Trust. He also serves on the Board of Managers
of Ivy Hill Asset Management GP, LLC. Mr. Goldstein graduated summa cum laude from the
State University of New York at Binghamton with a B.S. in Accounting and received an M.B.A.
from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business