Mr. Eanes is the U.S. Chief Investment Officer for Redding Ridge. Prior to Redding Ridge’s acquisition of Irradiant Partners in May 2025, Mr. Eanes served as Co-CEO and head of liquid investments at Irradiant, overseeing the firm’s CLO management and CLO investing businesses.

Prior to the launch of Irradiant Partners in October 2021, Mr. Eanes served as head of the liquid credit group at Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors, focused on managing broadly syndicated loans and high yield bonds. Before that, he spent ten years at Ares Management in the firm’s Tradable Credit Group, where he most recently was a Partner and Portfolio Manager, co-heading the firm’s U.S. long-only liquid credit business.  While at Ares Management, Mr. Eanes sat on the board of directors of the Loan Syndications and Trading Association (LSTA) from 2015-2016. Prior to his time at Ares, Mr. Eanes was an analyst in the securitization banking group at Lehman Brothers, where he focused on structuring asset-backed securities for issuers with esoteric portfolios.

Mr. Eanes graduated summa cum laude earning a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.