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Marshall Merriman<\/h3><p class=\"elementor-image-box-description\"><b>Trustee<\/b><br>(Audit Committee and Investment Committee)<br><b>Managing Director\nBlackRock Capital Investment Corporation<\/b>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n<\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-ae41fe6 elementor-widget elementor-widget-spacer\" data-id=\"ae41fe6\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"spacer.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-spacer-inner\"><\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-54ed788 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"54ed788\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>R. Marshall Merriman<\/strong> is the Managing Director and a member of BlackRock&#8217;s US Private Capital Group and Vice Chairman of BlackRock&#8217;s US Private Capital Group&#8217;s (&#8220;USPC&#8221;) investment committee.<\/p><p>Mr. Merriman has over 30 years&#8217; experience in middle market investing, including his experience with the USPC team, joining as a Managing Director at BlackRock Capital Investment Corporation&#8217;s former advisor in 2005.\u00a0 Prior to that, he was a Managing Director with Harris Williams &amp; Company, an investment bank providing mergers and acquisitions and financial advice to middle market companies in the United States and Western Europe.<\/p><p>During the last two years of his tenure at Harris Williams, Mr. Merriman headed the firm&#8217;s Corporate Finance and Restructuring Group, which advises healthy and distressed companies seeking to raise capital or restructure their balance sheets.\u00a0 Prior to joining Harris Williams, Mr. Merriman was a partner at the law firm of McGuireWoods LLP, where he represented public and private companies and private equity firms in mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions.<\/p><p>Mr. Merriman received a Bachelor of Arts in Commerce from Washington and Lee University, graduating summa cum laude. \u00a0He holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Virginia.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R. 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