Managing Director

Mr. Watters is a Managing Director in the Ares Private Debt Group and serves as an Investment Committee member on all Ares European Credit Funds. Mr. Watters joined Ares in 2007 from Barclays where he served as the Head of the middle market Financial Sponsors Group over which he had responsibility for a one-hundred person staff across various teams within the U.K. and Europe.

Mr. Watters completed his banking undergraduate at Strathclyde University and shortly thereafter completed his B.A. (Hons) in Finance at Edinburgh, Napier University. Additionally, Mr. Watters is a Chartered Banker.