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John S. Bowman

Managing Director

Mr. Bowman is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Crescent Direct Lending and is a member of Crescent’s Management Committee at Crescent Capital Group LP. Prior to joining the team in 2012, Mr. Bowman was a Co-Founder and the President of HighPoint Capital Management, LLC. Prior to joining HighPoint Capital in 2005, Mr. Bowman was a Managing Director of Leveraged Finance at FleetBoston Financial from 1998 to 2003, where he was a senior member of Fleet’s preliminary structuring and loan screening committees. Mr. Bowman also had primary leveraged finance responsibility for covering New England middle market companies, including Fleet’s mezzanine loan origination business based in Boston. Prior to joining FleetBoston, Mr. Bowman was a Senior Vice President in Leveraged Finance with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Securities Corporation (“DLJ”), and was involved in DLJ’s start-up of its Senior Loan business in 1997. Mr. Bowman also worked at Kidder, Peabody, & Co. Incorporated, State Street Bank & Trust Company, Drexel Burnham Lambert Incorporated and Lehman Brothers. Mr. Bowman earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS in Business Administration from Northeastern University.