About Monroe Capital Corporation

Overview

Monroe Capital Corporation (“MRCC”) is an externally managed, closed-end, non-diversified management investment company that has elected to be regulated as a business development company under the 1940 Act and as a regulated investment company (RIC) for tax purposes. We are publicly traded on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol MRCC.

We are a specialty finance company focused on providing financing primarily to lower middle-market companies in the United States and Canada. We provide customized financing solutions focused primarily on senior, unitranche and junior secured debt and, to a lesser extent, unsecured subordinated debt and equity, including equity co-investments in preferred and common stock and warrants.

Our investment objective is to maximize the total return to our stockholders in the form of current income and capital appreciation through investment in senior, unitranche and junior secured debt and, to a lesser extent, unsecured debt and equity investments.

Unitranche debt is an instrument that combines both senior and junior secured debt into one facility. Unitranche debt is often used to finance leveraged buyouts. We intend to use our extensive leveraged finance origination infrastructure and broad expertise in sourcing loans to invest in primarily senior, unitranche and junior secured debt of middle-market companies. We believe that our primary focus on lending to lower middle-market companies offers several advantages as compared to lending to larger companies, including more attractive economics, lower leverage, direct access to borrower management and improved information flow.

Our investment activities are managed by our investment advisor, Monroe Capital BDC Advisors, LLC (“MC Advisors”). MC Advisors is affiliated with Monroe Capital, LLC (“Monroe Capital”). Monroe Capital, founded in 2004, is a leading lender to middle-market companies with offices located in Chicago, New York, Boston, Atlanta, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. To learn more about Monroe Capital, visit www.monroecap.com.

Management

Theodore L. Koenig

President and Chief Executive Officer

Theodore L. Koenig serves as our President and Chief Executive Officer. Since founding Monroe Capital in 2004, Mr. Koenig has served continuously as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to founding Monroe Capital, Mr. Koenig served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hilco Capital LP from 1999 to 2004, where he invested in distressed debt, junior secured debt and unsecured subordinated debt transactions. From 1986 to 1999, Mr. Koenig was a partner with the Chicago-based corporate law firm, Holleb & Coff. Mr. Koenig is a past President of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business Alumni Club of Chicago. He currently serves as director of the Commercial Finance Association and is a member of the Turnaround Management Association, the Association for Corporate Growth and the American Bankruptcy Institute. Mr. Koenig also serves on the Board of Trustees, Naples Children & Education Foundation; as Director on the Northwestern Medical Group Board of Directors and the Northwestern Medical HealthCare Investment Committee; Board of Trustees, Illinois Institute of Technology; Dean’s Advisory Council, Kelley School of Business at Indiana University; and Board of Advisors, Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Mr. Koenig received a bachelor of science in accounting, with high honors, from Indiana University and earned a juris doctor, with honors, from Chicago Kent College of Law. Mr. Koenig’s depth of experience investing in a variety of debt transactions as well as his legal background provides our board of directors with valuable experience, insight and perspective.

Mick Solimene

Chief Investment Officer and Chief Financial Officer

Mick Solimene currently serves as our Chief Financial Officer and Chief Investment Officer. Mr. Solimene has served as a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager of Monroe Capital LLC since July 2021 and has served as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Investment Officer, and Corporate Secretary of Monroe Capital Income Plus Corporation since January 2022. Prior to joining Monroe Capital LLC, Mr. Solimene served as a Managing Director and Head of Opportunistic Investments for Allstate Investments, LLC, from 2016 to 2021, where he was responsible for managing a portfolio strategy that focused on deploying debt and equity capital in dislocated markets, out-of-favor sectors and special situations. From 2007 to 2016, Mr. Solimene was a Senior Managing Director at Macquarie Capital, where he was head of the Restructuring and Special Situations Group. Mr. Solimene was also a Managing Director at Giuliani Capital Advisors LLC from 2004 to 2007, where he ran the Restructuring Advisory Practice. At Ernst & Young Corporate Finance LLC from 2000 to 2004, Mr. Solimene was a Managing Director specializing in providing strategic solutions for underperforming and over-leveraged companies. From 1981 to 2000, Mr. Solimene held a number of leadership roles at Bank of America (and its predecessor, Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company), including as a Managing Director in the Global Special Situation Group where he managed a proprietary capital portfolio of stressed and distressed bank debt, private placements, high-yield bonds and equities. Mr. Solimene served on the Board of Directors of Runway Growth Finance Corp. (NASDAQ:RWAY) from January 2017 until June 2022. In addition, Mr. Solimene currently serves on the boards of directors of a number of privately held companies and non-profit organizations. Mr. Solimene received a B.S. in Finance from Western Illinois University and an M.B.A. from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Kristan Gregory

Chief Compliance Officer

Kristan Gregory currently serves as our Chief Compliance Officer. Mr. Jacobson also serves as the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Compliance Officer for Monroe Capital Management Advisors, LLC, our administrator. She is responsible for the firm’s global compliance program. She has nearly 20 years of compliance experience. Prior to joining Monroe, Ms. Gregory was the Chief Compliance Officer at Arena Investors, LP where she was responsible for the firm’s global compliance program. Ms. Gregory previously served in roles as Senior Vice President at HPS Investment Partners and Director at Bain Capital where she was responsible for the non-US compliance programs. Ms. Gregory earned her B.S. in Legal Studies, summa cum laude, from Suffolk University.

Board of Directors

Independent Directors

Thomas J. Allison

Thomas J. Allison has served on our Board of Directors and as our Audit Committee Chairperson since April 2013. Mr. Allison is currently trustee of American Optical Services and is a director of PTC Alliance Group Holdings, a global manufacturer of steel tubing. From February to August 2014, Mr. Allison was Chairman of the Board and President of Forge Group, Inc. From 2006 until his retirement in 2012, Mr. Allison served as Executive Vice President and Senior Managing Director of Mesirow Financial Consulting, LLC, a full-service financial and operational advisory consulting firm headquartered in Chicago. At Mesirow, Mr. Allison managed complex turnaround situations and advised on major reorganizations and insolvencies. He also served as CEO, CFO or CRO for several clients. From 2002 to 2006, Mr. Allison served as National Practice Leader of the restructuring practice of Huron Consulting Group. From 1988 to 2002, he served in a variety of roles at Arthur Andersen, LLC, including Partner-in-Charge, Central Region Restructuring Practice. Earlier in his career, Mr. Allison served in various capacities at Coopers & Lybrand, First National Bank of Chicago and the Chicago Police Department. Mr. Allison has previously served as Chairman of the Association for Certified Turnaround Professionals, Chairman and Director of the Turnaround Management Association, is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy and has taught as a guest lecturer at Northwestern University and DePaul University. Mr. Allison received his bachelor of science in commerce and his master of business administration from DePaul University.

Jeffrey A. Golman

Jeffrey A. Golman has served on our Board of Directors since our initial public offering in October 2012 and is our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Chairperson and a member on our Audit Committee. Since 2001, Mr. Golman has served as Vice Chairman and head of Investment Banking of Mesirow Financial, Inc., a diversified financial services firm headquartered in Chicago. Prior to his time with Mesirow Financial, Mr. Golman co-founded GGW Management Partners, LLC, a management-oriented investment group formed in partnership with Madison Dearborn Partners, Willis Stein & Partners and The Pritzker Organization, and was Managing Director with Lazard Frères & Co., LLC from 1989 to 1999. From 1981 to 1988, Mr. Golman worked with Salomon Brothers’ Chicago Banking Group, rising to the level of Vice President. Prior to that time, Mr. Golman practiced corporate and tax law in Chicago. Mr. Golman is a director of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Leadership Council’s Greater Illinois Chapter. Mr. Golman is also a member of The Economic Club of Chicago, a member of the University of Illinois Foundation and a member of the Development Council of B.U.I.L.D., Inc. (Broader Urban Involvement and Leadership Development), a non-profit organization which helps at-risk youth realize their potential and contributes to the stability, safety and well-being of our communities. Mr. Golman also serves in an advisory position and as a member of the Law Board of Northwestern University School of Law. Mr. Golman received his bachelor of science in accounting from the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and received his juris doctor from Northwestern University.

Lynn Jerath

Lynn J. Jerath has served on our Board of Directors since December 2024. Ms. Jerath wholly owns Citrine Investment Group (“Citrine”), which she founded in February 2013, and currently serves as its President. Citrine focuses on institutional quality real estate investments nationwide, and is one of the only woman-run real estate private equity firms in the country. She has served as a Trustee to the University of Pennsylvania since January 2018, a Member of University of Pennsylvania’s Endowment Investment Board since January 2020, an Advisory Board Member of Penn Live Arts since January 2007, and as a Member of the Trustee Council of Penn Women since January 2005. She has been an Advisory Board Member of Sundance Bay, a Utah-based real estate investment company with more than $2 billion in assets under management, since January 2021. Ms. Jerath has served as Board Chair of Embarc Chicago, an organization focused on transforming education through experiential learning, since March 2019. She has served as a Board Member of Hope Chicago, an organization seeking to reduce economic and social inequity by funding post-secondary scholarships and non-tuition costs for Chicago Public School Graduates, since June 2021. From April 2019 to June 2023, Ms. Jerath served as a Board Member of Chicago Furniture Bank, whose mission is to provide dignity, stability, and comfort to Chicagoans that face poverty by allowing clients to handpick an entire home’s worth of furnishings for free. From January 2021 to June 2023, Ms. Jerath served as a Trustee to the National Poetry Foundation, a leader in shaping a receptive climate for poetry by developing new audiences, creating new avenues for delivery and encouraging new kinds of poetry. Ms. Jerath graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1995.

Robert S. Rubin

Robert S. Rubin has served on our Board of Directors since our initial public offering in October 2012 and is our Compensation Committee Chairperson, a member of our Audit Committee and a member of our Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Rubin is currently managing principal of the Diamond Group, an investment group that operates various companies and partnerships engaged in asset management and real estate investments. Since 1999, Mr. Rubin has been Managing Principal of the Diamond Group and its various affiliates. Mr. Rubin was formerly Vice Chairman of the board of Diamond Bancorp, Inc. in Chicago. From 1997 to 1998, Mr. Rubin founded and ran a boutique derivatives advisory firm called Prospect Park Capital Advisors, and from 1991 to 1997 co-founded and ran Horizon Advisors, a hedge fund and commodity trading advisor. From 1986 to 1991, Mr. Rubin worked at Nomura Securities in the Global Syndicate and New Products Department, where he co-founded and served on the board of Nomura Capital Services Inc., the first Japanese dealer in derivative products. From 1983 to 1986, Mr. Rubin worked at First National Bank of Chicago (now a part of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.). Mr. Rubin currently serves on the boards of the Parsons Water Fund and Aleh Negev, which supports facilities for developmentally disabled children and adults in Israel. Mr. Rubin received his bachelor of arts from Harvard College in 1978 and his master of business administration from the University of Chicago in 1986.

Interested Directors

Theodore L. Koenig

President and Chief Executive Officer

Theodore L. Koenig serves as our President and Chief Executive Officer. Since founding Monroe Capital in 2004, Mr. Koenig has served continuously as its President and Chief Executive Officer. Prior to founding Monroe Capital, Mr. Koenig served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hilco Capital LP from 1999 to 2004, where he invested in distressed debt, junior secured debt and unsecured subordinated debt transactions. From 1986 to 1999, Mr. Koenig was a partner with the Chicago-based corporate law firm, Holleb & Coff. Mr. Koenig is a past President of the Indiana University Kelley School of Business Alumni Club of Chicago. He currently serves as director of the Commercial Finance Association and is a member of the Turnaround Management Association, the Association for Corporate Growth and the American Bankruptcy Institute. Mr. Koenig also serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council, Kelley School of Business; Board of Overseers, Chicago-Kent School of Law; and as Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Allendale School, a non-profit residential and educational facility for emotionally troubled children in the greater Chicago area. He is also a Certified Public Accountant.