Julianne Rusie, CFA

Client Portfolio Manager, Global Private Finance

New York, N.Y.

Julianne Rusie leads Barings’ North America Private Credit Client Portfolio Management team and is responsible for fundraising, product development and external communication of private credit strategies, with a primary focus on global private finance/direct lending. She has worked in the industry since 2008.

Prior to joining Barings, Julianne spent 16 years as a Product Strategist at BlackRock working across various teams with responsibility for fundraising, investor relations and product/business development. She has extensive experience across multiple asset classes including fixed income, liquid and private credit, aviation finance and most recently private equity. In her tenure at BlackRock, Julianne launched and supported vehicles ranging from daily liquidity mutual funds to closed-end limited partnership structures and played a key role in developing non-traded solutions for private credit and private equity.

Julianne earned a B.S. in Finance from the University of Maryland, holds the Series 7 and Series 63 licenses and is a member of the CFA Institute.