Jonathan Pollack
President, Starwood Capital Group
Greenwich, CT 06830
Phone (305) 695-5200
Bio
Jonathan Pollack is President of Starwood Capital Group, where he is responsible for managing the daily operations of the business and guiding Firm strategy. As a member of Starwood’s Executive and Investment Committees, Mr. Pollack oversees global investment activity, capital markets, and investor relations. He is also the Vice Chairman of Starwood Property Trust (NYSE: STWD), the largest commercial mortgage real estate investment trust in the United States. Mr. Pollack joined Starwood Capital from Blackstone, where he served as Global Head of the firm’s Real Estate Credit business since 2016. Mr. Pollack served on Blackstone’s Operating Committee, as well as the Real Estate Executive Committee and Investment Committee.
Prior to joining Blackstone in 2015, Mr. Pollack was the Global Head of Commercial Real Estate at Deutsche Bank and established Deutsche Bank as the top CMBS issuer and a leading special situations investor following the global financial crisis in 2008. Mr. Pollack also spent eight years in Deutsche Bank’s London headquarters, helping to build the European CRE business as the Head of Capital Markets. Mr. Pollack joined Deutsche Bank in 1999 from Nomura Group.
Mr. Pollack graduated from Northwestern University with a B.A. in Economics. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of East Harlem Tutorial Program, a leading charter school and after school program in New York City.
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