Joseph Taylor, CFA

Joseph Taylor, CFA, is managing director and head of Private Credit Direct Lending at MetLife Investment Management (MIM).

Prior to MIM’s acquisition of PineBridge Investments in 2025, Joseph led the capital markets function for PineBridge’s private credit business. He was responsible for relationship management, peer lender partnership strategy, underwriting investment opportunities and portfolio management. Joseph has more than 30 years of experience in banking and lending, including middle-market direct lending, capital markets and collateralized loan obligation (CLO) asset management.

Before joining PineBridge, Joseph was a senior member of the origination team and head of Capital Markets at Business Development Corp. of America (BDCA), a non-traded business development company, where he was a founding team member. Previously, he was a founding member of the middle-market senior debt platform at Callidus Capital Management, which later became Allied Capital Finance. As managing director and head of Capital Markets, he ultimately became a senior member of the Allied Capital/GE Capital unitranche team. Earlier in his career, Joseph held roles at JPMorgan Chase and First Union, where he was responsible for the origination and execution of private equity-backed and non-sponsored debt transactions, capital markets and loan syndications, and middle-market mergers and acquisitions transactions.

Joseph earned a Master of Business Administration from the Stern School of Business at New York University and a Bachelor of Science in finance from the University of Scranton. He is a CFA^® charterholder.