Finance, Legal, Compliance and Accounting

Jesse Morris

Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Senior Managing Director

Jesse Morris is our Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Morris also serves as a member of Main Street’s management team’s executive committee. He has management responsibility over Main Street’s internal operations and is also a Senior Managing Director on Main Street’s lower middle market investment team where his responsibilities include managing a portfolio of lower middle market investments where he is an active board member and assists those companies with various strategic initiatives, capital raises and M&A activity. Mr. Morris is also responsible for originating and executing new investments for the firm. Mr. Morris has served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer since October 2020 and previously served as Chief Financial Officer from 2021 until July 2024. Mr. Morris has also served as Main Street’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer since joining Main Street in 2019 and previously served as Main Street’s Chief Financial Officer from 2021 until August 2024. Prior to joining Main Street, Mr. Morris served in various roles of increasing responsibility with Quanta Services, Inc. (NYSE: PWR) from 2014 to 2019 including most recently as Executive Vice President – Finance and President – Infrastructure Solutions. In this position, he oversaw the accounting, treasury, tax and financial planning and analysis activities and led Quanta’s public-private partnership (P3) concession and private infrastructure investment activities. Prior to joining Quanta, Mr. Morris served in various financial and accounting positions of increasing responsibility with Sysco Corporation (NYSE: SYY) including as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer – Foodservice Operations and Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer – Broadline Operations. Mr. Morris began his career as a certified public accountant and was an Experienced Manager with Arthur Andersen.

Jason Beauvais

Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary

Jason Beauvais is our Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary. Mr. Beauvais also serves as a member of our management team’s executive committee. He has management responsibility over the firm’s legal, compliance, human resources and technology functions. Mr. Beauvais has served as General Counsel and Secretary since joining the firm in 2008, as Chief Compliance Officer since 2012 and as Executive Vice President since 2021. Since October 2020, Mr. Beauvais has also served as General Counsel and Secretary of MSC Income and as Executive Vice President since 2021. In addition, he is a member of the Board of Directors of the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center, a non-profit urban nature sanctuary. Prior to joining Main Street, Mr. Beauvais was an attorney with Occidental Petroleum Corporation (NYSE: OXY), an international oil and gas exploration and production company. Before that, Mr. Beauvais practiced corporate and securities law at Baker Botts L.L.P., where he primarily counseled companies in public issuances and private placements of debt and equity and handled a wide range of general corporate and securities matters as well as mergers and acquisitions.

Cory Gilbert

Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

Cory Gilbert, a certified public accountant, is our Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer and has served in these roles since July 2024. Mr. Gilbert previously served as our Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer since 2020. Prior to joining Main Street in 2019, Mr. Gilbert served as the Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer for OHA Investment Corporation, a publicly traded business development company externally managed by Oak Hill Advisors LP. Prior to joining Oak Hill Advisors LP, Mr. Gilbert worked at RED Capital Group, the commercial mortgage banking arm of ORIX USA, where he most recently served as their Chief Financial Officer. Prior to that, from September 2008 to August 2013, Mr. Gilbert served as a line of business controller of ORIX USA. Mr. Gilbert began his career at KPMG LLP and was a manager in KPMG’s financial services practice in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

Ryan McHugh

Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer

Ryan McHugh, a certified public accountant, is our Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer and has served in these roles since August of 2024. He also serves as Main Street’s Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer and has served in these roles since August of 2024. Mr. McHugh previously served as our Vice President of Finance since May 2024. Prior to joining Main Street, Mr. McHugh spent eight years with Academy Sports + Outdoors (NASDAQ: ASO) where he worked in several leadership roles including Vice President and Corporate Controller. Prior to joining Academy, Mr. McHugh held various accounting and leadership roles at Glori Energy (NASDAQ: GLRI) and Stewart Title Company (NYSE: STC). Mr. McHugh started his career at Grant Thornton in the assurance practice. Mr. McHugh graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a B.A. in Economics and holds a Master’s degree in Accounting from the University of Texas at San Antonio.

Alejandro Palomo

Vice President

Alejandro Palomo re-joined Main Street in June of 2021 as a Vice President after spending several years with Hines Interests Limited Partnership (“Hines”) in various roles in support of Hines’ credit investment business. Mr. Palomo joined Hines in August 2012 as a Director-Investment Management and was promoted to Managing Director-Investment Management at Hines in August 2016. From June 2019 until October 2020, Mr. Palomo has served as Chief Investment Officer of MSC Income Fund, Inc and Mr. Palomo served as the lead member of the investment committee, as senior portfolio manager, and as a member of the valuation committee for HMS Adviser, LLC from his arrival at Hines in 2012 until April 2021. In these roles, Mr. Palomo was involved with the evaluation and approval of MSC Income Fund, Inc.’s investment opportunities as well as the monitoring of investment performance and valuation of the portfolio. Prior to joining Hines, from March 2008 to August 2012, Mr. Palomo was a Director at Main Street involved with the origination, underwriting and valuation of investments within Main Street’s lower middle-market portfolio. Before joining Main Street, from January 2005 to March 2008, Mr. Palomo worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in the transaction services group and the audit practice. He holds a B.B.A and a Masters in Accountancy from the University of Texas at El Paso and is a certified public accountant.