Emma Blakey

Emma joined Alcentra in September 2020 as a member of the Direct Lending Portfolio Monitoring team. Emma is responsible for helping to oversee the investment portfolio, both looking at the performance of individual assets, and more broadly at fund level performance. In addition, she leads on ESG within the Direct Lending business. Emma brings nine years of experience in analysing mid-market leverage credit.

Prior to joining Alcentra, Emma was a Senior Associate in the Ares Management portfolio team. At Ares, Emma similarly focused on investment and fund performance, gaining experience working across multiple fund vintages and observing a fast expanding portfolio function. Before joining Ares, Emma held roles at HSBC, within the leverage finance portfolio team and the credit function.

Emma holds an Industrial Economics degree from the University of Nottingham.