Senior Partner

Mr. Serota is a Senior Partner in the Ares Private Equity Group.  Mr. Serota joined Ares in 1997 from Bear, Stearns & Co. where he served as a Vice President in the Investment Banking Department specializing in providing investment banking services to financial sponsor clients of the firm.  Prior to Bear Stearns, Mr. Serota was with Dabney/Resnick, Inc., a boutique investment bank.  At Dabney/Resnick, Mr. Serota specialized in merchant banking and capital raising activities for middle-market companies and had primary responsibility for the firm’s bridge financing activities.  Mr. Serota also worked at Salomon Brothers Inc. focusing on mergers and acquisitions and merchant banking transactions.

Mr. Serota currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Douglas Dynamics, LLC, EXCO Resources, Inc., Marietta Corporation, SandRidge Energy, Inc. and WCA Waste Corporation.

Mr. Serota graduated magna cum laude with a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and received an MBA from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.