Andrew Beckman is a Managing Director and Head of the FS Global Credit business. He serves as the Portfolio Manager for the FS Credit Opportunities Fund, FS Tactical Opportunities fund and FS Specialty Lending Fund.

Previously, Mr. Beckman was a Partner and Head of Corporate Credit and Special Situations at DW Partners, a $3 billion alternative credit manager. Prior to joining DW Partners, he built and managed Magnetar Capital’s event-driven credit business and served as Head of Event Credit and Head of its Credit Opportunities Fund. Prior to this, he was a Managing Director and Co-Head of Goldman Sachs’ Special Situations Multi-Strategy Investing Group. Earlier in his career, he worked at lnvestcorp International in its North American private equity business and at Salomon Smith Barney in the Investment Bank’s Mergers and Acquisitions Group.

Mr. Beckman graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, earning a BS in Economics with a concentration in Finance and Management.