Mark Jochims is the Head of European Private Credit and a member of the Private Credit & Equity Executive Committee of Morgan Stanley. Mr. Jochims joined in January 2022 and has 22 years of relevant industry experience. Prior to his current role, he was a founding member and Partner of Arcmont Asset Management (previously BlueBay Private Debt) where he was instrumental in building a leading European direct lending platform with over €15 billion of AUM since its inception in 2011 and served as a member of the Executive and Investment Committee overseeing over 130 investments. Prior to Arcmont, Mr. Jochims held a number of positions in the Leveraged Finance and M&A teams at Lehman Brothers and Nomura. He received a degree in Business Administration from the University of Passau, Germany in 2004 and a degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science in London in 2002.