Leadership Team

Edgar Lee

Founder and Managing Member

He is the Founder and Managing Member of Sagent Group.  He has over 20 years of finance, mergers and acquisition and capital markets experience. Previously, Mr. Lee founded Oaktree’s private lending platform and was the portfolio manager of the firm’s $6 billion Strategic Credit strategy. While at Oaktree, he served in a number of leadership roles and was a member of the firm's senior executive committee.  He also served as the CEO of two publicly traded corporate lending and specialty finance companies. Before joining Oaktree, Mr. Lee worked within the Investment Banking divisions at UBS Investment Bank in Los Angeles and Lehman Brothers, where he was responsible for advising clients on equity and debt financings and mergers and acquisitions in the technology, media and telecom industries. 

Mr. Lee serves on the Board of Directors of several public and private corporations including Neo Performance Materials, Nexus Pharmaceuticals, and Cloud5 Communications.  He previously served as a Director of Charter Communications and Nine Entertainment.  He also advises a number of non-profits and serves on the Board of Managers of Swarthmore College.      

He received a B.A. degree in economics from Swarthmore College and his master's degree from Harvard University. 

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