Michael Arougheti serves as the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ares Management Corporation. Having helped establish and guide the firm's strategic expansion over many decades, he oversees overarching corporate governance, long-term operational execution, and global investment strategies across credit, private equity, real estate, and infrastructure markets. Under his executive leadership, the enterprise has scaled its assets under management to hundreds of billions of dollars, cementing its status as a premier global alternative asset manager.