Aaron Bendikson

Managing Partner

Oaktree Capital Management, L.P.

 

Mr. Bendikson is an investment professional in the Global Principal Group. He is responsible for sourcing, analyzing, and executing transactions and monitoring portfolio companies in the industrial (including capital goods, transportation and aerospace defense) and insurance/specialty finance sectors.

 

Prior to joining Oaktree in 2005, Mr. Bendikson served as a Principal with Soros Fund Management's private equity affiliate, where he focused primarily on executing and sourcing leveraged/management buyouts, expansion capital investments and corporate restructurings. Before joining Soros in 1999, Mr. Bendikson spent three years at J.P. Morgan & Co. as a Financial Analyst in the mergers and acquisitions department.

 

Mr. Bendikson received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. degree cum laude in Economics and History from the University of California at Los Angeles, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He has served as a member of the board of directors of numerous companies in a broad range of industries.