director at a megafundin two years

this place just uses atypical titles - if you go to their website, "director" actually seems to be the most junior role

and this is XXX credit, which is a $2B shop that uses the XXX name for some reason (XXX just has a very small silent minority ownership stake), so not exactly a megafund either

Regardless there's no way this person got to were they are purely via skill, he must have had ridiculous connections if he was interning at DB freshmen year and GS sophomore year, as a non-minority.

Frank is right. Read the director profiles most of them were associates or analysts before.

A lot of big PE shops have these alternative investment sister funds or middle market lenders. These basically act like the public face of the bigger funds. KKR has KKR Financial Holdings, THL has THL Credit. Apollo has one, Ares has one. H.I.G has one...In many situations these guys provide debt financing with the PE funds being sponsors.

fuck titles - show me your bank account

stop stalking linkedin profiles and do it yourself.

I'd love to circle jerk, but he's only a 3rd degree connection so I can't see dates and whatnot.

Absolute joke that you'd LNKD creep the guy and start being all starry eyed without knowing who he is or what his firm is like, but I digress... 4 years out of school or whatever this would imply really is enough to tell if someone has the right mindset for a position of responsibility. Not that hard to believe...and it doesn't absolutely have to be luck all the sudden...