John Eanes

John Eanes is a Co-CEO and head of liquid investments at Irradiant which includes Irradiant’s Liquid Credit Strategy.
Additionally, he is a member of the Firm’s Management Committee, Investment Committees and Liquid Credit Strategy Valuation Committee.
Prior to the launch of Irradiant Partners, Mr. Eanes served as head of the liquid credit group at Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, focused on broadly syndicated loans and high yield bonds.
Before that, he spent ten years at Ares Management in the firm’s Tradable Credit Group, where he most recently was a Partner and Portfolio Manager, co-heading the firm’s U.S.
long-only liquid credit business comprising roughly $18 billion of assets, and where he sat on the firm’s investment committee for long-only syndicated credit investments in leveraged loans and high yield bonds.
Mr. Eanes managed Ares’ $11 billion U.S.
collateralized loan obligation (CLO) business from 2012-2016 and before that was a senior credit analyst covering a variety of industry sectors in the leveraged loan and high yield universe.
While at Ares Management, Mr. Eanes sat on the board of directors of the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA) from 2015-2016.
Prior to his time at Ares, Mr. Eanes was an analyst in the securitization banking group at Lehman Brothers, where he focused on structuring asset-backed securities for issuers with esoteric portfolios.
Mr. Eanes graduated summa cum laude earning a B.S.
in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.