James Hunt - Ares Dynamic Independent Director

Mr. James Kelso Hunt is Independent Director of the Company. Mr. Hunt has significant experience as an investment principal focusing on high yield debt. Mr. Hunt most recently was the Managing Partner and CEO of the Middle Market Credit platform at Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors LLC. Previously, Mr. Hunt was the founding Chairman, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of THL Credit, Inc., a business development company, and THL Credit Advisors LLC, an investment manager of direct lending and tradable credit strategies. Mr. Hunt served as the President of SunAmerica Corporationrationrate Finance and as an Executive Vice President of SunAmerica Investments, Inc., with responsibility for highyielding investments including Collateralized Loan Obligation management, private placements, acquisition financing, term loans and portfolio purchases, structured finance and specialty finance corporate acquisitions. Mr. Hunt joined SunAmerica from Davis Companies, a private investment firm. Prior to that, Mr. Hunt worked at CiticorpCitibank, where he held a variety of leveraged lending, credit and finance positions, culminating in the role of Senior Credit Officer and Vice PresidentArea Head for the Far West U.S. leveraged lending group. In addition to serving as an Independent Director and chairman of the Audit Committee of ARDC, Mr. Hunt serves as an independent trustee and chairman of the Audit Committee of CADEX. Mr. Hunt currently serves as lead independent director on the board of directors of PennyMac Financial Services, Inc. and as lead independent director on the board of directors of Hunt Companies, Inc. He is also currently on the boards of directors of the National Forest Foundation and the Jackson Hole Historical Society Museum. He has previously served on the boards of directors of several public and private companies