ACG 101 Sept 25th 2025 Private Credit Panel

Gabriel Yomi Dabiri is the Global Head of Private Credit and Direct Lending at Squire Patton Boggs. Based in New York, Gabriel advises clients across the credit spectrum, providing strategic counsel to private credit funds, direct lenders, private equity sponsors and corporate borrowers on complex domestic and cross-border finance transactions.

Gabriel has extensive experience structuring and negotiating credit facilities across the capital stack, including senior, mezzanine, subordinated, unitranche, first lien/second lien, asset-based lending, subscription line and capital call facilities. He is adept at navigating complex intercreditor and subordination arrangements, and frequently advises clients on liability management strategies, debt restructurings and debtor-in-possession financings. His background in both “buy-and-hold” and broadly syndicated loan transactions enables him to creatively navigate the evolving private credit landscape.

Gabriel brings a unique global perspective to his practice. He is dual-qualified, admitted to practice law in New York and in England and Wales. He also draws on his experience working at premier international and national law firms in London, Singapore and New York.

Jonathan is a Managing Director and Head of the Capital Advisory Group at Intrepid. He is responsible for advising entrepreneurs and private equity investors on transformational capital raise transactions including debt, equity, and structured capital. During his more than 20-year career in finance, Jonathan has been involved in a wide range of capital transactions, from IPOs to early-stage venture financings. He has executed capital raises for companies across a diverse set of industries, including consumer, industrials, media and entertainment, healthcare, and software.

Prior to joining Intrepid, he served as Vice President and Head of the Los Angeles office of U.S. Capital Partners, a direct lender and provider of capital-raising and M&A advisory services to middle-market companies. Previously, he worked in the media & technology group at Credit Suisse, in addition to co-founding NotTV Network, a digital media company focused on live entertainment. An accomplished songwriter and musician, Jonathan is a former voting member of the Recording Academy and a board member of In the Band, a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing mobile music education programs to community centers and schools throughout Los Angeles. He is also a board member of the Los Angeles chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG).

He is a graduate of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Charlie is the Co-Founder and Head of Originations of SG Credit Partners, Inc. (“SGCP”). In 2018, Charlie and Marc Cole formed SG Credit as a spin-out of predecessor company, Super G Capital, to build a multi-vertical credit platform for the lower middle market.

Charlie has spent the past decade starting lending businesses, building originations channels and sales plans from scratch utilizing minimal resources and doing so with minimal employee attrition. His accomplishments include creating the sales infrastructure and reach for each of SG’s divisions, creating and implementing credit-products that he was then responsible for launching and managing a sales team.

Charlie joined Super G Capital, LLC (“Super G”) in 2014 to start the cash flow lending division. Charlie created the national originations network that established Super G as a market leader and became the foundation of SG Credit Partners’ calling efforts. While at Super G, Charlie launched a software, special situations and cash flow lending division with Marc Cole, Co-founder and CEO, which they spun out to form SGCP in 2018.

Prior to Super G, Charlie Co-Founded Intermix Capital Partners, LLC, an investment and advisory firm focused on providing capital to small-to-medium sized businesses. At Intermix, Perer spent significant time sourcing and executing transactions and building relationships within the branded consumer, specialty finance and business services industries.

Charlie began his career at Oppenheimer & Co. (acquired by CIBC World Markets) where he was a member of the Media Investment Banking Group. Charlie graduated Cum Laude from Tulane University.

Scott Taylor is a veteran of the finance industry and a Founding Principal at Artes Capital. After earning his degree from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo in Business Administration and Finance (minor in Economics), he began his career in the banking industry. After spending eleven years at Wells Fargo managing a complex real estate loan portfolio, Scott served as Managing Director of Partners Capital Solutions, a private portfolio lender with over $250 million in private portfolio funds under management. Scott is passionate about creating value for his clients through structuring capital and developing credit plans to suit the characteristics of specific real estate projects. “I am not an artist when it comes to drawing or painting,” he says, “but I believe I am very artistic when it comes to capital solutions.” Scott knows that no two pieces of real estate are the same. He is skilled at solving problems and managing risk for Artes Capital clients and investors. Outside of work, Scott enjoys spending quality time with his wife and two daughters. He is a huge baseball fan and loves being outdoors, especially hiking and camping.

Iain Douglas is a Managing Director and Co-Founder of True West Capital Partners (“True West”), a private credit fund focused on middle market companies and private equity sponsors located in the United States. Founded in 2009, we have completed over 60 platform investments supporting private equity, independent sponsors and privately held businesses. True West invests $5 million to $25 million in support of acquisitions, buyouts, growth capital and recapitalizations for privately owned, family owned, and private equity backed companies.  Our reputation is our greatest asset and our investment philosophy is relationship based above all else.  True West is launching our 4^th Fund in 2025.

Prior to True West, Iain was EVP, Chief Sales Officer, and Western Region Manager for CIT’s Commercial & Industrial Group, overseeing business development and risk management efforts in the Western and Southwestern United States for leveraged, distressed, and special situations senior debt.  Iain also managed CIT’s industry-vertical focus on Food, Beverage and Agribusiness on a national basis.  Prior to CIT, Iain was with GE Capital in various leadership capacities including Capital Markets and Risk Management positions. Previously, Iain also held business development and risk positions with First Interstate Ltd., Security Pacific National Bank, and Philadelphia National Bank. 

Iain earned a Masters of Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at University of California Los Angeles, and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Cornell University. Iain resides in Los Angeles with his wife.