---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001544206-24-000016"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CGBD"
cik: "0001544206"
company_name: "Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc."
filed_at: "2024-03-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T04:42:48.646268+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Carlyle Secured Lending appoints Justin Plouffe as CEO and Director, succeeding Aren LeeKong

## Summary
- Aren C. LeeKong resigned as Director and President/CEO effective March 1, 2024 to pursue other opportunities.
- Board appointed Justin Plouffe as Class II Director and President/CEO, effective March 1, 2024.
- Justin Plouffe is a Managing Director and Deputy Chief Investment Officer of Carlyle Global Credit.
- He previously served as an attorney at Ropes & Gray and clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
- Plouffe holds a CFA charter and Series 7, 24, 57, 63, 79, and 99 licenses.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001544206-24-000016
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CGBD
- cik: 0001544206
- company_name: Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc.
- filed_at: 2024-03-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1544206/000154420624000016/0001544206-24-000016-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1544206/000154420624000016/csl-20240301.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001544206-24-000016.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Aren C. LeeKong resigned as President and Chief Executive Officer at Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc..
  - Action: resigned
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On March 1, 2024, Aren C. LeeKong informed Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc. (the “Company”) that he is resigning from the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) and his positions as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, in each case effective March 1, 2024, to pursue other opportunities.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1544206/000154420624000016/0001544206-24-000016-index.htm
- Executive change
  Justin Plouffe was appointed as President and Chief Executive Officer at Carlyle Secured Lending, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President and Chief Executive Officer
  source text: On March 1, 2024, the Board appointed Justin Plouffe as a Class II Director of the Company and its President and Chief Executive Officer, effective immediately.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1544206/000154420624000016/0001544206-24-000016-index.htm

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