Our management team is comprised of seasoned professionals with over 100 years of combined investing experience, 15 years of working in association and a track record of having closed thousands of CRE loans totaling in excess of $40 billion. The team is a rare and tightly-knit unit, with deep expertise in the complexities of commercial real estate debt, including property underwriting, credit analysis, risk management and origination.

Boyd W. Fellows

Director and President

Starwood Property Trust, Inc.

Boyd Fellows is Director and President of Starwood Property Trust, Inc

Mr. Fellows has more than 25 years experience in the CRE finance industry and capital markets and is a founder of Coastal Capital Partners, LLC (“CCP”). He was on the management team that founded and built Countrywide Financial Corporation’s CRE finance business into one of the largest in the United States, closing over $1 billion in loans monthly. Countrywide’s CRE debt business unit remained profitable throughout the financial turmoil of 2007 and 2008. Prior to working at Countrywide, where he focused on U.S. production operations with Mr. De Haan, and CCP, Mr. Fellows served as a Partner at Thomas Weisel Partners and as the CEO of Scudder Weisel Capital, a joint venture with Zurich Insurance. From 1994 to 1999, Mr. Fellows was one of the key senior executives who led Nomura’s CRE division, building it from a small division with 12 employees into one of the largest and most innovative U.S. commercial real estate lending companies with more than 450 employees. In 1998, Mr. Fellows was named Co-CEO of the division. Prior to Nomura, Mr. Fellows worked at Morgan Stanley, where he was the co-head of the non-agency mortgage securities trading group and at Bank of America as a derivative securities and currency trader in the United States, Europe and Asia.

Mr. Fellows received a B.S. degree in Economics from the University of Missouri and an M.B.A. degree from the University of Oregon.