Dean DAngelo - Stellus Capital Director

Mr. Dean DAngelo is a Director of Stellus Capital Investment Corporationration Mr. DAngelo is a founding partner of Stellus Capital Management, LLC, the external investment manager of the Company, and cohead of its Private Credit strategy and serves on its investment committee. He has over 22 years of experience in investment banking and principal investing. From August 2005 to January 2012, Mr. DAngelo was a director in the Direct Capital Group at the D. E. Shaw group, a global investment and technology development firm. Prior to joining the D. E. Shaw group, Mr. DAngelo was a principal of Allied Capital Corporationrationration, a publiclytraded business development company, where he focused on making debt and equity investments in middlemarket companies from May 2003 to August 2005. From September 2000 to April 2003, Mr. DAngelo served as a principal of Duke Capital Partners, LLC, a merchant banking subsidiary of Duke Energy Corporationrationration, where he focused on providing mezzanine, equity, and senior debt financing to businesses in the energy sector. From January 1998 to September 2000, Mr. DAngelo was a product specialist for Banc of America Securities, LLC where he provided banking services to clients principally in the energy sector. Mr. DAngelo began his career in the bankruptcy and consulting practice of Coopers Lybrand L.L.P. in Washington, D.C since 2012.