Managing Director
Marathon Asset Management
Karen Lau is a Managing Director, a member of the firm’s Executive Committee, and a member of Marathon’s Performing Credit Investment Committee. Ms. Lau joined Marathon from Onex Credit, where she served as a Managing Director, Head of U.S. CLOs, managing over $10 billion of AUM across 20 vehicles, and member of the Par Loans & High Yield Investment Committee. Prior to Onex, Ms. Lau spent six years at TPG Institutional Credit Partners as Co-Head of Portfolio Strategy focused on the CLO portfolios. Similar to TPG, Karen joined Blackstone Credit at the inception of its CLO business in the early 2000s, serving over ten years as Senior Investment Analyst covering a wide range of sectors. Ms. Lau received a B.S. in Finance from the Leonard Stern School of Business at New York University.
