Robert L. Johnson
Chairman

Robert L. Johnson is the Founder and Chairman of The RLJ Companies, an innovative business network that owns or holds interest in a diverse portfolio of companies in consumer financial services, real estate, hospitality, professional sports, film production, gaming and automotive industries. In July 2007, Mr. Johnson was named by USA Today as one of the “25 Most Influential Business Leaders of the Past 25 Years.”

Prior to forming The RLJ Companies, Mr. Johnson was Founder and Chairman of Black Entertainment Television (BET), the nation’s first and leading television network providing quality entertainment, music, news, sports and public affairs programming for the African American audience. Under Mr. Johnson’s leadership, BET became the first African American owned company publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange. In 2001, Mr. Johnson sold BET to Viacom for approximately $3 billion and remained the Chief Executive Officer through 2006.

Trevoir D. Gregg
Managing Partner

Trevoir Gregg is a co-founder and Managing Partner of the RLJ Credit Opportunity Fund.  Mr. Gregg has over 15 years of financing experience, involving well over $1 billion in aggregate transactions.  Prior to co-founding RLJ Credit, Mr. Gregg was a Principal with Allied Capital Corporation (“Allied Capital”), where he executed and managed senior debt, mezzanine, and equity investments in excess of $500 million.  Also at Allied Capital, Mr. Gregg served on the credit committee of a $2.5 billion asset management platform that invested in middle market and broadly syndicated loans through five CLO funds and a senior debt fund with $400 million under management.

Prior to Allied Capital, Mr. Gregg was a Vice President and founding member of Carlyle Mezzanine Partners, L.P., a $436 investment fund formed by The Carlyle Group, to focus on private debt and equity investments in middle market companies.  Prior to working at Carlyle, Mr. Gregg worked at GE Global Sponsor Finance underwriting middle market leveraged finance transactions. Mr. Gregg has also spent several years as an investment banker, focusing on leverage finance transactions in the energy, media, and communications sectors.

Mr. Gregg received a B.A. from Morehouse College and a MBA from Harvard Business School.