Leland Hart joined Alcentra in January 2018 as Managing Director and Head of US Loans & High Yield.

Leland joins Alcentra from BlackRock Asset Management, where he was a Managing Director having joined in 2009. As head of loans and CLOs, he had primary responsibility for investing, fundraising and managing the firms loan business, including mutual funds, CLOs, and separate accounts. He was also co-head of the global infrastructure debt group. Prior to BlackRock, Leland was a Managing Director in the Leveraged Capital Markets Group of Lehman Brothers, where he worked for eight years. He started his career as a banker at Continental Bank and following the banks merger with Bank of America, he joined Bank of Americas high yield group.

He earned a B.A., Cum Laude, from Middlebury College in 1991 and a M.B.A. degree from the University of Chicago in 1997.