Bio

Ms. Berz is a managing director on Oaktree’s Direct Lending team. She is a generalist focused on corporate-issued fixed income opportunities across loans and bonds. Ms. Berz joined Oaktree in 2015 from Carlson Capital where she spent over four years, most recently as a senior analyst in the Fixed Income group helping to manage the high yield and distressed technology, media and telecom portfolio. Prior thereto, Ms. Berz was a senior vice president at Chapdelaine Credit Partners working as a high yield and distressed desk analyst. She began her career at RBS, first as an analyst in the Corporate Institutional Banking division and subsequently as a research associate in the Credit Sales and Trading division. Ms. Berz received a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude with a major in accounting from Georgetown University. She is a CFA charterholder.