Mr. Chang is a Managing Director in the Ares Credit Group, where he focuses on U.S. credit. Prior to joining Ares in 2019, Mr. Chang was a Senior Credit Analyst in the Global Developed Credit Group at DoubleLine Capital, where he focused on technology, telecom and satellite communications high yield and loan investments. Previously, Mr. Chang was a Vice President in the Capital Markets Group and an Associate in the Mezzanine Group at Crescent Capital Group. Mr. Chang began his career as an Analyst at Lehman Brothers in the Equity-Linked Origination Investment Banking Group, where he focused on pricing, structuring and execution of convertible bond and other equity-linked derivative products. Mr. Chang holds a B.A. from Columbia University in Economics and Operations Research.