Investment Committee

Shannon Fritz

Deputy Chief Investment Officer

Chicago

Shannon is a senior managing director and Deputy Chief Investment Officer of Antares Capital. She is responsible for structuring, underwriting, documenting and managing transactions. Shannon serves on the Antares Capital Advisers Investment Committee and is a member of the Antares Executive Committee.

Shannon joined Antares in 2004. Prior to Antares, Shannon was with the Asset Based Lending Group of Transamerica in audit, portfolio management and underwriting.

Shannon earned a bachelor’s degree in international business from the University of Illinois and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Mike Hynes

Co-Head of Originations

Chicago

Mike is co-head of Originations for Antares Capital. He leads the company's Midwest and West Coast sponsor coverage activities. Mike serves on the Antares Capital Advisers Investment Committee and is a member of the Antares Executive Committee.

Mike joined the original Antares business in 2002 in an underwriting and portfolio management role.

Prior to Antares, Mike worked in the leveraged finance group at LaSalle Bank.

Mike graduated from the University of Notre Dame and earned his JD / MBA from Loyola University Chicago.

Michele Kovatchis

Senior Managing Director

Chicago

Michele is a senior managing director and head of the Credit Advisory Group for Antares Capital. She manages a team of professionals focused on managing our portfolio of stressed accounts in an effort to minimize losses and non-earnings for the Antares portfolio.

Previously, Michele was with GE Antares, where she was responsible for the workout function for all the North American lending platforms including Sponsor, Franchise Finance, Healthcare, Asset Based and Corporate Finance. Michele previously held positions at Heller Financial and Merrill Lynch Capital.

Michele earned a bachelor’s of science degree in finance from Northern Illinois University and a masters of management degree from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Tyler Lindblad

Chief Investment Officer

Chicago

Tyler is a senior managing director and Chief Investment Officer for Antares Capital.

Previously, he was senior credit executive – Lending for GE Capital’s commercial lending business in North America with responsibilities that included leading the underwriting, account management, portfolio management and risk management processes. Before assuming this role, he was the Chief Risk Officer of specialized finance that included responsibility for Healthcare Financial Services and Franchised Finance, and Chief Credit Officer of Telecommunications, Media and Technology. Prior to joining GE Capital, he was a director and one of the founders of Antares Capital Corporation. Prior to that, he spent seven years with Heller Financial, Inc.

Tyler graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College with a bachelor’s degree in economics and earned an MBA from Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Timothy Lyne

Chief Executive Officer

Chicago

Tim is Chief Executive Officer of Antares Capital. He is a member of Antares’ Investment Committee as well as Antares’ Board of Directors.

Previously, Tim served as chief operating officer at Antares Capital. He was responsible for leading the company’s sponsor coverage and capital markets activities, operations and technology functions, as well as marketing and enterprise risk.

Tim was head of Asset Management for Antares from August 2015 through April 2018. Previously, he was a senior managing director at GE Antares where he was the commercial leader for two joint ventures including the Senior Secured Loan Program and the Middle Market Growth Program. He also led West Coast sponsor coverage activities for Antares and GE from 1996 through 2011, and was a member of the GE Antares Investment Committee. Tim also worked in GE Capital’s merchant banking group and Heller Financial’s corporate finance group. He is a founding partner of Antares.

Tim graduated from the University of Illinois with a bachelor’s degree in economics and earned his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Executives’ Club of Chicago and on the Dean's Business Council at Gies College of Business at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Vivek Mathew

President of Antares Capital Advisers

New York

Vivek is president of Antares Capital Advisers. He is also head of Asset Management for Antares Capital.

He joined Antares Capital in 2016. Previously, he was a managing director at J.P. Morgan, where he led the global primary CLO business. Vivek also served as a vice president of structured finance at Deutsche Bank.

Vivek graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.

Troy Unell

Head of Capital Markets

Chicago

Troy is head of Capital Markets for Antares Capital. He leads the business's capital markets activities, which consist of structuring and syndicating Antares Capital's originated transactions. Troy serves on the Antares Capital Advisers Investment Committee and chairs the Antares Operating Committee.

Prior to joining GE Antares in 2005, Troy held positions at GE Capital focused on underwriting, asset securitization and restructuring transactions. Troy began his career at PPM America after graduating from Iowa State University.

Troy graduated with honors from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business with an MBA in analytic finance and entrepreneurship.