Patrick Fear joined AB in 2014 and is a Senior Managing Director and founding AB Private Credit Investors team member, the Head of Digital Infrastructure and Services, and a member of the investment committee of AB Private Credit Investors. He is also responsible for generalist sponsor originations across a variety of industries. Fear was previously a director with Barclays Private Credit Partners, where he held a similar role. Prior to that, he was a director with CapitalSource in the US and Europe. Fear was a founding member of the senior management team of CapitalSource Europe, responsible for sourcing, executing and monitoring a $500 million portfolio of middle market mezzanine and other leveraged loans in a variety of industries. Before that, he was a vice president focused on M&A advisory at Robert W. Baird in London and Chicago. Fear began his career in transaction services at PricewaterhouseCoopers. He holds a BBA in accounting from the University of Notre Dame and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). Location: Austin