David Rous

David Rous is Co-Head of Direct Lending at Sound Point Capital Management, a New York–based credit-focused asset manager. He joined Sound Point in 2021 when the firm acquired CVC Credit Partners' U.S. direct-lending platform (June 2021). At CVC, which he had joined in 2016, he was a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager on the Private Debt team, based in New York — the role tied to the [hidden] email and 212-265-6222 phone number in the stub data.

Before CVC, Rous spent roughly 16 years at GE, including about 12 years at GE Antares Capital, where he rose to Senior Vice President & Team Leader and sat on the Antares underwriting leadership team. He began his career in GE Capital's Financial Management Program. A notable credential from this period: he was a founding member of the Senior Secured Loan Program (SSLP), the ~$11 billion strategic partnership between GE and Ares Capital that provided single-source unitranche financing to middle-market borrowers.

Rous earned a B.S. in Finance, magna cum laude, from the University of Vermont, and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He has appeared as a speaker/panelist in professional-society settings (e.g., CFA Society New York) on private-credit topics.

• Invests as a lender, not an equity/angel investor — deploys senior secured, unitranche, and first-lien debt into U.S. middle-market companies.
• Focus is on sponsor-backed middle-market financing rather than venture-stage or seed equity.
• Career built around single-source / unitranche structures — the SSLP model he helped found offered borrowers one-stop financing rather than syndicated debt.
• Emphasis on disciplined credit underwriting, reflecting his leadership role on Antares' underwriting committee.
• (No publicly stated seed/angel thesis exists — the "Seed Round" label in the source stub is not supported by any verifiable source.)