K Rogers

K. Michelle Rogers is a private-credit and business-development professional focused on origination for lower-middle-market and middle-market financing opportunities. Public profiles identify her current role as Senior Vice President at WhiteHorse Capital, the direct lending arm of H.I.G. Capital.

Before WhiteHorse, Rogers was Vice President and Head of Business Development at Corbel Capital Partners from May 2019 to February 2021. ACG San Diego’s speaker profile says she joined Corbel in 2019, managed the firm’s originations and marketing activities, and served as Vice President of Business Development.

Earlier in her career, Rogers spent more than five years at OFS Capital Management in Los Angeles, where she focused on originating and evaluating lower-middle-market direct-lending and minority-equity transactions. Before OFS, she worked at Bainbridge Capital, originating proprietary investment opportunities. She earned a B.A. in Business Administration from the University of San Diego.

• WhiteHorse Capital provides “debt financing to performing middle market companies in the U.S. and Canada.”
• The firm’s mandate includes senior, subordinated, and unitranche debt for growth capital, acquisitions, buyouts, refinancings, and balance-sheet recapitalizations.
• WhiteHorse Origination states that it lends to both sponsor-led businesses and owner-operators, so founders should expect the firm to evaluate both private-equity-backed and direct company opportunities.
• The firm emphasizes flexible private-credit structures, including cash-flow lending, specialty finance, and asset-based financing.
• Rogers’s background is strongly origination-oriented: at Corbel she managed originations and marketing, at OFS she originated and evaluated direct-lending and minority-equity opportunities, and at Bainbridge she originated proprietary opportunities.