Board of Directors

Michael S. Segal is a Director of Crescent Capital BDC, Inc. and serves as Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Segal is the managing partner of Fred Segal Family LLC. Mr. Segal serves as trustee at Harvard-Westlake School and Pomona College. Mr. Segal is a former member of the board of the University of Richmond, Heal the Bay, Poly Prep Country Day School, Los Angeles World Affairs Council/Town Hall, Institute for Shipboard Education/Semester at Sea, Good Hope Medical Foundation and Pencils of Promise. Mr. Segal received a master’s degree from UCLA and a bachelor’s degree from Pomona College.

Kathleen Briscoe is a Director of Crescent Capital BDC, Inc. and serves as a member of the Nominating Committee and the Audit Committee. Ms. Briscoe is a Partner and Chief Capital Officer of Dermody Properties, LLC (“Dermody”), a real estate development company that develops and leases industrial and distribution facilities throughout the United States. Prior to joining Dermody in 2018, Ms. Briscoe held senior consulting and management positions at a number of real estate investing companies, including Arixa Capital, Cordia Capital Management, LLC, Institutional Real Estate, Inc., and Crosswater Realty Advisors. Between 2013 and 2016, Ms. Briscoe served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Investment Officer for real estate at Cordia Capital Management. Between 2009 and 2011 she served as Chief Investment Officer for IDS Real Estate Group. Before joining IDS Real Estate Group, from 2007 to 2008, she served as Managing Director and head of the Los Angeles office of Buchanan Street Partners. Prior to that, from 1987 to 2007, Ms. Briscoe was a Shareholder at Lowe Enterprises, a real estate investment, asset management, and development company. Ms. Briscoe is a current member of the board of a number of private companies, is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors, and serves as a board member of Crescent Acquisition Corp where she serves on the Audit Committee.

Steven F. Strandberg is a Director of Crescent Capital BDC, Inc. and serves as a member of the Nominating Committee and the Audit Committee. Mr. Strandberg is also co-founder and managing partner of Albany Road Real Estate Partners. Previously he was managing director and co-founder of WestBridge Ventures, a firm that invested in later stage private technology companies. Prior to WestBridge, Mr. Strandberg specialized in advising emerging private companies on financings and mergers and acquisitions, working with Merrill Lynch where he was founder and head of the West Coast Technology Investment Banking group, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Morgan Stanley. Mr. Strandberg is a current and former member of the board of numerous companies, as well as several non-profit organizations. Mr. Strandberg received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his AB from the University of Chicago.

George G. Strong, Jr. is a Director of Crescent Capital BDC, Inc. and serves as the Chairman of the Audit Committee. Mr. Strong is a retired Managing Partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and a retired Managing Director and former general counsel of Cornerstone Research, a consulting firm. He has held the positions of chief financial officer and chief operating officer at several start-ups and smaller businesses in the software, dental products and freight forwarding industries. He is currently a director of Yello Media Group (Cayman) and Caribbean Publishing Company (Cayman). He received a BA in Economics from Yale University, MBA from Harvard Business School, and JD from the University of San Diego School of Law. Mr. Strong holds current Certified Public Accountant licenses in California and Hawaii and is a member of the California Bar.

Elizabeth E. Ko is Board Chair of Crescent Capital BDC, Inc. In addition, Ms. Ko serves as a managing director of Crescent Capital Group LP. Prior to joining Crescent in 2007, she worked in the Financing Group of Goldman Sachs and the Mergers, Acquisitions & Restructurings Department of Morgan Stanley. Ms. Ko has held governance roles and is a former board observer of numerous private companies. She received her MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and her BA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Susan Lee is a Director of Crescent Capital BDC, Inc. and serves as a member of the Nominating Committee and the Audit Committee. Ms. Lee is a multi-asset class allocator with experience advising institutions on investments in funds, private companies, public stocks, options, and derivatives across public equities, private equity, venture capital, real assets, credit, fixed income, and hedge fund strategies. Previously, Ms. Lee managed investment assets for The Broad Foundations. Earlier, Ms. Lee launched and led a multi-billion dollar private alternatives investment practice and advised endowments and foundations on asset allocation and investment strategy as a Partner at Angeles Investment Advisors. Ms. Lee was also a private equity investor at Black Canyon Capital and Vintage Capital Partners, and she began her career in strategy at Bain & Company and at The Walt Disney Company. Ms. Lee has a MBA from Harvard Business School where she earned honors and was a Toigo Fellow and a B.A. from Stanford University, Phi Beta Kappa.

Committee Composition

Governance Documents

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Board Diversity Matrix (opens in new window)
Code of Ethics (opens in new window)
Code of Conduct (opens in new window)

Committee Charters

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Audit Committee Charter (opens in new window)
Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee Charter (opens in new window)
Compensation Committee Charter (opens in new window)