Barry N. Shear
Senior Managing Director and President

Mr. Shear is a founding partner of Pangaea Asset Management, LLC and Chairman of the Pangaea Investment Committee.

Prior to founding Pangaea, Mr. Shear was President and Senior Managing Director of GE Antares. Prior to GE Antares, Mr. Shear was President and a co-founder of Antares Capital Corporation and its wholly owned subsidiary, Antares Asset Management. Antares Capital Corporation was founded in 1996. Mr. Shear was also a member of the Antares Asset Management Investment Committee.

In 2005, General Electric Capital Corporation (“GECC”), an affiliate of GE, acquired Antares Capital Corporation (“ACC”) and Antares Asset Management, Inc. (“AAM”). Prior to the acquisition, ACC and AAM were engaged in the management of the following CDO transactions: Antares Funding L.P., Nova CDO 2001, Ltd. (as Advisor), Mariner CDO 2002, Navigator CDO 2003, Navigator CDO 2004, Navigator CDO 2005.

Prior to forming Antares Mr. Shear spent ten years at Heller Financial, Inc. where he was involved in new business development within the Corporate Finance Group. Prior to Heller, Mr. Shear spent five years as a Regional Marketing Manager in Chicago with Bank of America’s Business Credit Group. He has been a lender to the leveraged buyout community since 1980.

Mr. Shear has a B.S. degree from University of Illinois and an M.B.A. from University of Southern California.