Collaboration. Customization. Conviction.
when it matters most.

About SablePointe
Who we are
SablePointe Credit Strategies, powered by Blackstone, delivers customized capital solutions primarily for sponsor-backed borrowers.
Our team combines deep industry expertise with a relationship-first approach, enabling us to structure flexible transactions and execute with the speed our borrowers demand.
Trust is how we earn our track record.
Delivery is how we keep it.
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our story
Our founders had a simple conviction: relationships close deals, not just capital.
They spent decades proving it at prior institutions. When they decided to build it from the ground up, they created a firm around that single truth—powered by Blackstone and built for scale.

Powered by Blackstone
SablePointe Credit Strategies, a portfolio company of Blackstone Credit & Insurance (“BXCI”).
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The SablePointe Team
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Co-Founder & President
James Garlick is a Co-Founder and President of SablePointe Credit Strategies. Prior to SablePointe, Mr. Garlick was a Co-Founder of Wingspire Capital, where he served as Head of Corporate Finance and as a senior member of its investment committee. Mr. Garlick has extensive experience sourcing, structuring, and closing senior secured credit facilities across a broad range of asset classes through his work at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, GE Capital, MidCap Financial, and Wingspire Capital.
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Co-Founder & Managing Director
Travis Hunt is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of SablePointe Credit Strategies, focused on originations. Prior to SablePointe, Mr. Hunt was previously at Citizens Capital Markets and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey focused on sourcing, structuring, and syndicating senior secured credit facilities across multiple industries and asset classes.
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Co-Founder & Managing Director
Jerra Hayden is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of SablePointe Credit Strategies, focused on underwriting and portfolio management, with extensive experience structuring and underwriting complex transactions. She previously served as Head of ABL Underwriting at Texas Capital and held senior roles at Wells Fargo and SunTrust Robinson Humphrey.
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Co-Founder & Managing Director
Brian Kennedy is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of SablePointe Credit Strategies, focused on underwriting and portfolio management. He brings nearly 30 years of experience structuring and managing senior secured credit facilities across retail, manufacturing, distribution, and professional services—built over a proven career at Wells Fargo, Monroe Capital, and Citizens Bank.
We source transactions through relationships built over decades and underwrite with discipline. That combination drives everything.

Our Philosophy
Our focus is Asset-Backed and First-Out structures—areas where our experience and flexible structuring create real advantages. Our pipeline is relationship-driven, our underwriting is credit-focused, and it's the standard our founders set—and the one we hold ourselves to daily.
How we work
Collaboration, customization, and conviction are not just words we use at SablePointe. They reflect our: