Private Financing Solutions Executive Office
Co-President of HPS Investment Partners
Michael Patterson is a Senior Managing Director in the Private Financing Solutions (PFS) Executive Office, which leads BlackRock’s private credit, GP/LP solutions, and liquid and private credit CLO businesses. In addition to leading PFS with Scott Kapnick and Scot French, Mr. Patterson is a Founding Partner and Co-President of HPS Investment Partners and a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee.
Mr. Patterson joined BlackRock in 2025 with the acquisition of HPS where he leads the Direct Lending platform. He is the Portfolio Manager for the Specialty Loan Funds and the Core Senior Lending Funds as well as the Chairman and CEO of the HPS Corporate Lending Fund and the HPS Corporate Capital Solutions Fund.
Mr. Patterson joined HPS at its inception in 2007, establishing the European business before returning to the U.S. in 2009. Before joining HPS, Mr. Patterson was with Silver Point Capital in the U.S. and Europe and the Goldman Sachs Principal Investing Area in New York.
Prior to his investing career, Mr. Patterson served as an officer in the U.S. Navy. He holds an AB in Applied Mathematics from Harvard College and an MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.
