Mitchell S. Garfin, CFA, Managing Director, is Co-Head of US Leveraged Finance within BlackRock’s Fundamental Fixed Income Platform. He is responsible for managing the US High Yield and Global High Yield strategies and also has oversight responsibility for the platform’s US Leveraged loan strategies.

Mr. Garfin’s tenure with the firm dates back to 1997 when he joined as an Analyst. He spent three years in the Account Management Group where he maintained responsibility for developing and maintaining relationships with the firm’s taxable financial institution clients. In 2000, Mr. Garfin moved to the investment side of the business where he initially spent four years as an investment grade credit research analyst. Here, he was responsible for providing investment recommendations on companies in the metals & mining, paper & packaging, utilities and energy sectors. In 2005, Mr. Garfin transitioned to a portfolio management role with the investment grade credit team where he was responsible for sector positioning and trading within the commodities and basic materials sectors. Since 2007, Mr. Garfin has been a portfolio manager with the high yield credit team, and he assumed his current, senior responsibilities in 2014.

Mr. Garfin earned a bachelor’s degree, with distinction, in Finance from the University of Michigan in 1997 and an MBA degree in Finance and Economics from NYU Stern in 2005.

David Delbos, Managing Director, is Co-Head of US Leveraged Finance within BlackRock’s Fundamental Fixed Income Platform. He is responsible for managing US High Yield and Global High Yield strategies and also has oversight responsibility for the platform’s US Leveraged Loan strategies.

Mr. Delbos’ tenure with the firm dates back to 2002. He spent ten years as a credit research analyst in the US Leveraged Finance group where he was responsible for providing investment recommendations on companies in the consumer cyclicals, retail, industrials, services and packaging sectors. In 2012, Mr. Delbos transitioned to a relative value portfolio management role, also within the US Leveraged Finance group, where he looked across all industries. Additionally, Mr. Delbos worked alongside BlackRock Global Credit’s Chief Investment Officer in managing the liquid credit sleeves of several BlackRock-managed hedge funds. He assumed his current, senior responsibilities in 2014. Mr. Delbos began his career in 2000 as an analyst in the mergers & acquisitions investment banking division of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc.

Mr. Delbos earned a bachelor’s degree Magna Cum Laude in History from Tufts University in 2000.

Carly Wilson, Managing Director, serves as the Head of BlackRock's Bank Loans platform within BlackRock’s Fundamental Fixed Income group. Wilson also co-manages the Global Long/Short Credit Strategy.

Since joining BlackRock in 2009, Ms. Wilson has focused on leveraged loan investing, covering both single name and sector selection, as well as fund level risk management. She assumed her current, senior responsibilities for the leveraged loans business in 2018, overseeing leveraged loan funds including mutual funds and separate accounts. On behalf of the platform’s Global Long/Short Credit Fund, Ms. Wilson leads asset allocation and cross-market relative value, as well as single name alpha generation and risk budgeting.

Ms. Wilson is currently on the Board of Directors of the Loan Syndications & Trading Association (LSTA).

Prior to her current role, Ms. Wilson worked at multi-strategy hedge fund R3 Capital where she focused on credit research and portfolio management. Previously, she worked at Lehman Brothers in Global Principal Strategies as part of the capital structure arbitrage investment team. Ms. Wilson began her career in equity trading at Lehman Brothers.

Ms. Wilson earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in 2004.