Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc. announced that Justin Plouffe has been named Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately. This appointment follows the resignation of Aren C. LeeKong from the Company as Chief Executive Officer, effective March 1, 2024, to pursue other opportunities professionally. Justin Plouffe, 47, is a Managing Director and the Deputy Chief Investment Officer for Global Credit at Carlyle.

He focuses on investing across Carlyle?s credit strategies, capital formation as well as managing the overall Global Credit platform. Mr. Plouffe also serves as a Trustee and portfolio manager for Carlyle Tactical Private Credit Fund (CTAC), a closed-end investment company structured as an interval fund that invests across Carlyle Global Credit's various platform strategies. He sits on several investment committees within Carlyle?s Global Credit platform.

Since joining Carlyle in 2007, Mr. Plouffe has overseen CLO new issuance, led acquisitions of corporate credit management platforms, served as a portfolio manager for structured credit investments, developed proprietary portfolio management analytics, and negotiated a wide variety of financing facilities. Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Plouffe was an attorney at Ropes & Gray LLP. Plouffe received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was an editor of The Columbia Law Review.

He is a CFA charterholder, holds Series 7, 24, 57, 63, 79 and 99 licenses, and is the Chief Executive Officer of TCG Securities, L.L.C., the SEC-registered broker/dealer affiliate of Carlyle.