Stephen Alpart

Stephen Alpart is their Vice President and Chief Investment Officer and has served in that role since the Company’s inception. Mr. Alpart is also their Co-Head of Originations and a member of their Investment Committee. From 2014 to 2020, he was a Managing Director at Pine River Capital Management L.P., their Former Manager. Prior to joining Pine River, he was Managing Director in Prudential Financial, Inc., an insurance, investment management, and financial products company, Global Real Estate Finance Group, focused on the United States from 2009 to 2014. Previously, he was a Managing Director in the Real Estate Group at GMAC Commercial Mortgage and Capmark Investments where he focused on originating, underwriting, and closing largely structured commercial real estate loans for private equity firms and private owners/operators. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director in the Real Estate Group at PaineWebber & Co., an investment bank and stock brokerage firm, and later an Executive Director in the Real Estate Group of UBS Group AG, a Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services company, where he focused on originating, underwriting and closing largely structured commercial real estate loans for private equity firms and owner/operators. He has worked in real estate finance and debt investing for over 25 years in a variety of functions, including third-party funds management, proprietary on-book lending, transaction advisory business, loan syndications, loan sales, and workouts/restructurings. Mr. Alpart received a Masters in Business Administration, Finance and Real Estate from New York University and a B.S. in Business Administration, Accounting and Economics from Washington University.