Fortress Investment Group
Leslee Cowen is a Managing director, serving on the investment committee for the Credit Funds and co-heads the Corporate Loan and Securities Group at Fortress Investment Group LLC. Ms. Cowen is also a member of the Management Committee of Fortress.
Prior to joining Fortress in June 2002, Ms. Cowen was at the Baupost Group, where she was involved in the acquisition of public and private distressed debt and equity securities, as well as non-performing loan portfolios. Prior to that, Ms. Cowen was an associate at the Argentum Group, a venture capital firm, where she was invested in several domestic roll-up transactions. Ms. Cowen began her career as an analyst at The Blackstone Group in the private equity and M&A groups.
Ms. Cowen received a B.S. degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with concentrations in finance, accounting and multinational management.
Fortress Investment Group
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Fortress Investment Group LLC (Fortress) is an investment management firm. The Company operates through segments, including private equity funds, permanent capital vehicles, credit hedge funds, credit PE funds, liquid hedge funds and Logan Circle. Its business is to sponsor the formation of, and provide investment management services for, various investment funds, permanent capital vehicles and related managed accounts (the Fortress Funds). Fortress's sources of income from the Fortress Funds are management fees, incentive income and investment income on its investments in the funds. As of December 31, 2016, the Company's private equity business manages approximately $13.5 billion of assets under management (AUM); credit funds business manages approximately $18.1 billion of AUM; liquid hedge funds business manages over $4.6 billion of AUM, and Logan Circle business manages approximately $33.4 billion of AUM.