Katy Mao

Ms. Mao joined Oaktree in 2019 and leads eastern U.S. originations for the real estate debt platform. Prior to joining Oaktree, Ms. Mao was at BlackRock, where she was a director focused on high yield real estate debt investments.  Prior thereto, she was an executive director at Five Mile Capital investing in opportunistic and distressed real estate debt and equity opportunities.  Ms. Mao began her career at Morgan Stanley in the institutional products group and, through her 17+ years in real estate, has worked in various commercial real estate debt origination and structuring roles at Eurohypo AG, Credit Suisse and WestRiver Capital.  Ms. Mao received a B.S. in operations research and industrial engineering from Cornell University.