TPG Specialty Lending, Inc. Expands its Board of Directors and Elects Hurley Doddy and Jennifer Gordon to the Board

The board of directors (the “Board”) of TPG Specialty Lending, Inc. (NYSE:TSLX) (“TSLX” or “the Company") announced today that Mr. Hurley Doddy and Ms. Jennifer Gordon were elected to the Company’s Board of Directors on January 31, 2019. Mr. Doddy and Ms. Gordon’s election brings the total number of directors to seven, four of whom are not “interested persons” of the Company as defined in Section 2(a)(19) of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. Mr. Doddy will serve on the Company’s Board as a Class III director who is not an “interested person” until the date of the Company’s 2020 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or until his successor is duly elected and qualified. Ms. Gordon will serve on the Company’s Board as a Class II interested director until the Company’s 2019 Annual Meeting of Stockholders or until her successor is duly elected and qualified. Also on January 31, 2019, Mr. Doddy was elected as a member of the Company’s Audit Committee and Compensation Committee.

Mr. Doddy is a Managing Director, Founding Partner and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Emerging Capital Partners, a private equity fund manager focused on Africa. Prior to founding Emerging Capital Partners in 1999, Mr. Doddy was an Executive Director at Sumitomo Finance International in London. Mr. Doddy’s career in finance began at Salomon Brothers in 1984, lasting over 14 years with assignments in New York, Tokyo, and Sao Paulo. In 1997, Mr. Doddy was appointed Managing Director of Salomon Brothers, responsible for managing all fixed income and equity risk positions for Banco Patrimônio, Salomon’s joint venture in Brazil. Mr. Doddy is Chairman of the African Venture Capital Association (AVCA), and has served on the boards of Oragroup (West and Central Africa), Celtel International (Pan-African), Charaf Corporation (Morocco), Agromed S.A. (Tunisia), Continental Reinsurance (Nigeria), All Africa Airways (Mauritius), Air Ivoire (Cote d’Ivoire), Société Internationale de Plantations d’Hévéas (SIPH) (West Africa), and Maarifa Education (East Africa). Mr. Doddy holds an A.B. in Economics from Princeton University and a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.