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.

Stew Ward

Chief Financial Officer

Starwood Property Trust, Inc.

Stew Ward is Chief Financial Officer, Starwood Property Trust, Inc.

Mr. Ward also has more than 25 years experience in the CRE finance industry and capital markets. He is a founding partner Coastal Capital Partners, LLC (“CCP”). He was at Countrywide Financial Corporation until 2009 where he jointly managed the company’s CRE finance business and was responsible for all capital markets activities and risk management. Prior to CCP, from 1995 to 1999 he was a senior officer in Nomura’s CRE division that is credited with many structural innovations that helped shape the securitization of CRE debt in the 1990's. He also co-managed the CRE division beginning in 1998, and was responsible for all capital commitment and asset sale/securitization activities for CRE real estate debt and equity, and managed the construction lending and equity business lines. Prior to Nomura, Mr. Ward spent nine years in the fixed income division at Morgan Stanley where he was involved with the creation of the investment bank’s residential mortgage backed securities risk control arbitrage activities, distressed commercial mortgage acquisition and sales as well as establishing their commercial mortgage securitization structuring/trading platform.

Mr. Ward received a B.A. degree in Economics from the University of Colorado and an M.B.A. degree from Carnegie-Mellon University.