Sean Ward

Managing Partner at Hicks Street Holdings

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Sean Ward is the founder and Managing Partner of Hicks Street Holdings, a single-family office. Prior to Hicks Street, Sean was a Senior Managing Director of Blue Owl Capital Inc. and a member of the firm’s Board of Directors. Sean was also a founding member of Blue Owl’s GP Strategic Capital Investment Team.

Prior to joining Dyal Capital, the predecessor to Blue Owl’s GP Strategic Capital platform, Sean was a Vice President at Lehman Brothers and held several roles at the Neuberger Berman Group after it became an independent firm, including Senior Counsel for Neuberger’s alternatives business. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, he was an associate at Covington & Burling LLP and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP in New York and London

Sean is a member of the Board of Directors of USA Football, the national governing body for all tackle and flag American football in the United States, as well as the Boards of Trustees of the Brooklyn Museum, the Packer Collegiate Institute, and the French-American Foundation.

Sean received his JD, magna cum laude, from the Duke University School of Law and a BA, magna cum laude, in Diplomatic History and Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.