Patrick Connors

Global Head of Private Credit at DWS

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Patrick is a Managing Director and the Global Head of Private Credit at DWS. Patrick joined DWS in 2025 and has over 20 years of experience in private financing and credit markets spanning a wide variety of asset classes and industries. Prior to his current position, Patrick worked with Deutsche Bank in London as the European Head of the Credit Financing and Solutions Group overseeing asset based finance, direct lending, transportation finance and infrastructure debt. He was previously the head of the European Asset Based Finance team for ten years at Deutsche Bank. Prior, he worked for Citigroup in New York and PricewaterhouseCoopers in Chicago

Patrick holds a Bachelor’s from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the University of Chicago