Gregory Park is the Head of Lending Ark and also Chairman of the Investment Committee. Based in Hong Kong since 1997, Mr. Park has over 25 years of experience in secured private debt financing, structured credit, and securitisation. He previously served as a Managing Director and the Head of Asia Structured Credit for The Carlyle Group LP (“Carlyle”). Before joining Carlyle, Mr. Park was a Founder and Managing Partner of Northstone Peak Investment Advisors Limited (“Northstone Peak”), an alternative credit manager focused on secured private debt financing for government agencies, banks, non-bank finance companies, and corporates across the Asia-Pacific region. Prior to Northstone Peak, Mr. Park was a Managing Director and the Head of Asia Securitised Products for Deutsche Bank. Mr. Park has contributed to the development of the Asian credit markets pioneering the first international credit card-backed asset backed securities (“ABS”) transaction for LG Card in South Korea, the first cross-border residential mortgage-backed securities (“RMBS”) transaction for Hsin Hchu Bank in Taiwan, and the first consumer/SME loan-backed financings for leading financial technology (“FinTech”) alternative lenders. He was named by Institutional Investor magazine as a top 10 “Global Securitization Rising Star” in 2008. Mr. Park received a BA cum laude from Dartmouth College in the United States.