Nuveen Churchill Direct Lending Corp NCDL

James J. Ritchie has served as a director of the Company since December 2019, a director of NC SLF Inc. since March 2021, a trustee of Nuveen Churchill Private Capital Income Fund since March 2022, and a trustee of Nuveen Churchill BDC V since July 2025. At various times from 2007 to May 2025, he served as Chairman of the boards of Acadian Asset Management Inc. (formerly known as Brightsphere Investment Group), a global asset management firm, F&G Life Insurance Company, a life and annuity insurance company and Quanta Capital Holdings, Ltd., a property and casualty insurance holding company. Prior to serving as Chairman of the boards of these firms, he chaired their respective audit committees as well as the audit committees of Kinsale Capital Group, Inc., a Richmond-based specialty insurance company, KMG America Corporation, a life and health insurance company, Ceres Group, Inc., a health insurance company, Lloyds Syndicate 4000 and Old Mutual Bermuda, a Bermuda-based financial services company. From 2001 to 2003, he served as CFO of White Mountains Insurance Group, Ltd., a Bermuda-based insurance holding company. Prior thereto, he held senior management positions in Cigna Corporation and Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP). Mr. Ritchie also previously served as a trustee of Nuveen Churchill Private Credit Fund. He is a member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Ritchie received an M.B.A. from the Rutgers Graduate School of Business Administration and an A.B. economics degree with honors from Rutgers College.

Stephen Potter has served as a director of the Company since December 2019, a trustee of Nuveen Churchill Private Capital Income Fund since March 2022, a trustee of Nuveen Churchill BDC V since July 2025, and a director of NC SLF Inc. since February 2026. From 2008 to 2017, prior to his retirement, Mr. Potter served as President of Northern Trust Asset Management (NTAM), a large global asset management firm, and as CEO of Northern Trust Investments, a registered investment adviser. From 2001-2008, Mr. Potter served as CEO of Northern Trust Global Services, Ltd. and led all of Northern Trust's business activities outside the United States. In his various leadership roles at Northern Trust Corporation, Mr. Potter actively engaged with the board of directors and regulators focused on business strategy, risk management and long term talent development. Mr. Potter currently serves on the boards of Miami Corporation, Rush University Medical Center, the British American Business Council, the Solti Foundation, the American School in London US Foundation, Japan America Society of Chicago, Rush System for Health, Walter Scott & Partners in Edinburgh, Insight Investments, BNY Investment Management EMEA, and Newton Investment Management. Mr. Potter is currently Chairman of the Japan America Society of Chicago. Mr. Potter previously served as a trustee of Nuveen Churchill Private Credit Fund, the board of Duke University Trinity College, and the Social & Economic Advisory Board of the RAND Corporation in Santa Monica, CA. Mr. Potter is currently Chairman of the Japan America Society of Chicago. Mr. Potter holds an A.B. in Economics and History from Duke University and an M.B.A. in Finance and Marketing from Northwestern University. On July 31, 2024, the Board appointed Stephen Potter to serve as the Lead Independent Director.

Reena Aggarwal has served as a director of the Company since December 2019. Dr. Aggarwal is currently the Robert E. McDonough Professor of Finance at Georgetown University and the Director of Georgetown's Psaros Center for Financial Markets and Policy. She has been on the faculty of Georgetown University since 1986. Her focus is in the areas of corporate governance, ESG, capital raising, IPOs, institutional investors, ETFs, private equity, valuation, global financial markets and securities market regulation. Dr. Aggarwal has previously held various positions including Vice Provost for Faculty, Interim Dean and Deputy Dean of Georgetown's McDonough School of Business; Visiting Professor of Finance at MIT's Sloan School of Management; FINRA Academic Fellow; Academic Fellow at the U.S. SEC; Visiting Research Scholar at the International Monetary Fund; Fulbright Scholar to Brazil; and World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Future of Financing and Capital; and a Distinguished Scholar at the Reserve Bank of India's CAFRAL. Dr. Aggarwal serves on the Board of Cohen and Steers and Dimensional Funds. Dr. Aggarwal previously served on the Board of New York Life Investment Management IndexIQ (2008-2021), Brightwood Capital Advisors, LLC (2013-2020), and REAN Cloud (2015-2018). She received a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Maryland and M.M.S. from BITS Pilani, India.

Kenneth M. Miranda has served as a director of the Company since December 2019. He was appointed Cornell University's Chief Investment Officer effective July 1, 2016. Prior to this, he had been the Director of the International Monetary Fund's Investment Office and has served as a visiting scholar at the International Monetary Fund. He also served as an advisor to the Administration Committee of the IMF Staff Retirement Plan. He currently serves as a member of the Advisory Committee on Investments for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and up until June 30, 2016, was a member of the Investment Committee of Cornell University. He also serves as the Chair of the Endowment Oversight Committee for Sackville Capital and as an observer of the Pension Fund Committee at the Bank of International Settlements. In addition, he served on the Investment Sub-Committee of the National Geographic Society. Formerly, he was the President of the Board of Directors of the Bank-Fund Staff Federal Credit Union and a Senior Advisor on the George Washington University Committee on Investments. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Chicago, a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, and is a CFA charter holder.

John McCally serves as the Vice President and the Secretary of the Company, NC SLF Inc., Nuveen Churchill Private Capital Income Fund, and Nuveen Churchill BDC V, and serves as a Senior Managing Director and General Counsel for Churchill after establishing Churchill with the Churchill Financial Founders in 2015. Mr. McCally has served in the TIAA and Nuveen legal departments since 2010, including as the head of legal for Nuveen Leveraged Finance. Mr. McCally also provides legal support for various investment and asset management teams within the Nuveen and TIAA businesses, including those engaged in public and private fixed income, derivatives and structured products. Prior to joining the organization in 2010, Mr. McCally was an associate with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, specializing in derivatives, structured products and investment management, based in its Washington, D.C. office. Mr. McCally received a B.A. from Duke University and a juris doctor from The George Washington University Law School.

Shai Vichness serves as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of the Company, NC SLF Inc., Nuveen Churchill Private Capital Income Fund, and Nuveen Churchill BDC V, and as a Senior Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Churchill. Previously, as Managing Director and Head of Senior Leveraged Lending for Nuveen, LLC (Nuveen), Mr. Vichness was responsible for initiating Nuveen's investment program in middle market senior loans and was directly involved in the launch of Churchill as an affiliate in 2015. Since the launch of Churchill, Mr. Vichness has been a member of Churchill's Investment Committee and has been actively engaged in the management of the firm, including the development of its infrastructure and operations. Mr. Vichness joined Nuveen in 2005 and has spent his entire career in the private debt markets, with a significant amount of time spent in the firm's workout and restructuring department. Mr. Vichness holds a B.B.A. from Baruch College, CUNY and is a CFA charterholder.

Marissa Hassen joined Churchill in 2018 and serves as Chief Accounting Officer of the Company, NC SLF Inc., Nuveen Churchill Private Capital Income Fund, and Nuveen Churchill BDC V, and serves as a Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer, Investment Funds of Churchill. Ms. Hassen is a member of Churchill's Operating Committee, as well as Churchill's Valuation and Product Committee. Prior to Churchill, she was a senior manager in the Wealth and Asset Management Practice at Ernst & Young LLP, responsible for the planning, implementation, and completion of financial statement audits for alternative investment funds and registered investment companies. Ms. Hassen received her B.S. in Accounting and Business Administration from Lehigh University and is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York.

Kenneth Kencel has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Churchill since 2015. Mr. Kencel has served as the Chief Executive Officer, President and Chairman of the Board of the Company since 2019, NC SLF Inc., a closed-end fund registered under the 1940 Act, since March 2021, Nuveen Churchill Private Capital Income Fund, a business development company (BDC), since March 2022, and Nuveen Churchill BDC V, a BDC, since July 2025. Mr. Kencel previously served as a trustee of Nuveen Churchill Private Credit Fund, a BDC. Throughout his over 35-year career in the investment industry, Mr. Kencel has accrued a broad range of experience in leading private credit investment businesses. Previously, Mr. Kencel served as a Managing Director of The Carlyle Group, and from May 2014 to April 2015, he also served as President and a Director of TCG BDC, Inc. (Carlyle's publicly traded BDC). Prior to Carlyle, he founded and was President and CEO of Churchill Financial Group; and served as Head of Leveraged Finance for Royal Bank of Canada as well as Head of Indosuez Capital-a leading middle market merchant banking and asset management business in partnership with Credit Agricole Group. Mr. Kencel also helped to found the high yield finance business at Chase Securities (now JP Morgan Chase). He began his career in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Mr. Kencel serves on the Pension Investment Advisory Committee for the Archdiocese of New York, the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Investment Committee of Canisius High School and the Advisory Board of Teach for America (Connecticut). Mr. Kencel is a former member of the Board of Advisors and Adjunct Professor at the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. He earned his B.S. in Business Administration, magna cum laude, from Georgetown University and his J.D. from Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law.

Charmagne Kukulka serves as the Chief Compliance Officer of the Company, NC SLF Inc., Nuveen Churchill Private Capital Income Fund, and Nuveen Churchill BDC V, and serves as a Managing Director and Chief Compliance Officer of Churchill. Ms. Kukulka is responsible for managing the compliance program for the Company and day-to-day regulatory and compliance matters, with a particular focus on regulation of investment companies registered under the 1940 Act. Before joining Churchill in 2023, Ms. Kukulka served as Chief Compliance Officer of a New York-based registered investment adviser. Ms. Kukulka began her compliance career at Blackstone Inc, where she was actively involved in the development and administration of the compliance program for Blackstone's retail products. Ms. Kukulka received her B.A. in Business and Corporate Communications from Arizona State University's W.P. Carey School of Business.