Mr. Arougheti is a Co-Founder, the Chief Executive Officer and a Director of Ares Management Corporation. He is a member of the Ares Operating Committee, the Ares Enterprise Risk Committee and is Co-Chairman of the board of directors of the Ares Charitable Foundation. He additionally serves as a Director and Executive Vice President of Ares Capital Corporation. From April 2021 to September 2025, Mr. Arougheti served as Co-Chairman of the board of directors of Ares Acquisition Corporation II and from January 2021 to November 2023, he served as Co-Chairman of the board of directors of Ares Acquisition Corporation. From 2011 to 2024, Mr. Arougheti served as Director of Ares Commercial Real Estate Corporation. Mr. Arougheti also is a member of the Ares Credit Group s Pathfinder Investment Committee, the Ares Equity Income Opportunity Strategy Portfolio Review Committee and the Ares Sports, Media and Entertainment Investment Committee. He may from time to time serve as an officer, director or principal of other entities affiliated with Ares Management or investment funds managed by Ares Management and its affiliates. Prior to joining Ares in 2004, Mr. Arougheti was employed by Royal Bank of Canada ( RBC ), where he was a Managing Partner of the Principal Finance Group of RBC Capital Partners and a member of the firm s Mezzanine Investment Committee. Mr. Arougheti oversaw an investment team that originated, managed and monitored a diverse portfolio of middle-market leveraged loans, senior and junior subordinated debt, preferred equity and common stock and warrants on behalf of RBC and other third-party institutional investors. Mr. Arougheti joined RBC in October 2001 from Indosuez Capital, where he was a Principal and an Investment Committee member, responsible for originating, structuring and executing leveraged transactions across a broad range of products and asset classes. Prior to joining Indosuez in 1994, Mr. Arougheti worked at Kidder, Peabody & Co., where he was a member of the firm s Mergers and Acquisitions Group. Mr. Arougheti also serves on the board of directors of Operation HOPE, a not-for-profit organization focused on expanding economic opportunity in underserved communities through education and empowerment and on the board of trustees of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Mr. Arougheti received a B.A. in Ethics, Politics and Economics, cum laude, from Yale University. Mr. Arougheti s knowledge of and extensive experience in investment management, leveraged finance and financial services give the Board valuable industry-specific knowledge and expertise on these and other matters and, in addition to his service as a director of other public companies, position him well to serve on the Board.