Starwood Capital Group

Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Capital Markets overseeing debt capital market activities and banking relationships firmwide. He joined in 2011 and previously worked in leveraged finance at Wells Fargo/Wachovia.

Senior Managing Director and Head of International Capital Markets responsible for debt capital markets across Europe and Asia. He joined in 2012 after roles at Citigroup and Barclays Capital in London.

Senior Managing Director and Co-General Counsel who has represented Starwood Capital's legal interests since 1991, handling acquisitions, financing, asset management and strategic planning. He is managing member of the firm's lead outside counsel, RFF.

Vice Chairman of Starwood Capital Group who has served since 1994 in roles including President, COO, Head of Global Acquisitions and Head of Global Asset Management, and sits on the Board of Directors of Starwood Property Trust.

Senior Managing Director and Head of U.S. Asset Management overseeing the firm's U.S. equity investments and driving strategy, value creation and performance. He previously led real estate asset management at Centerbridge Partners.

President of Starwood Capital Group overseeing daily operations, firm strategy, global investment activity, capital markets and investor relations, and Vice Chairman of Starwood Property Trust. He previously led Blackstone's Real Estate Credit business and was Global Head of Commercial Real Estate at Deutsche Bank.

Senior Managing Director and Head of Portfolio and Risk Management overseeing the firm's real estate opportunity funds. She joined in 2002 after serving as a VP in Goldman Sachs's real estate investment banking division.

Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Real Estate Private Credit overseeing commercial real estate debt investments since joining in 2013, and a member of the firm's and Starwood Property Trust's Investment Committees. He was previously a VP at Barclays Bank in London.

Senior Managing Director and Co-General Counsel, and Senior Advisor of Lotus Infrastructure Partners. He joined in 1992 and was previously a founding partner at law firm Pircher, Nichols & Meeks.

Senior Managing Director and Global Head of Capital Raising and Investor Relations leading global capital formation across funds and co-investment vehicles. He joined Starwood in 2004 and previously served on the investment team at real estate platform Cadre.

Virginia Ruan is Head of Communications at Oak Foundation. Her areas of focus include communications strategy, external affairs, crisis communications, advocacy, depolarisation communications, and storytelling, as well as editing, writing, training, and mentoring.

Managing Director and Head of Real Estate, Asia, responsible for the firm's Asian real estate investments and asset management. He previously led Pan Asia CRE origination at Lone Star Funds and worked at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority.

Managing Director and Head of Business Development and Strategy focused on growing business lines and investor relationships. He joined in 2003 and previously spent years leading U.S. asset management and West Coast acquisitions.

Managing Director and Head of European Asset Management, based in London, managing the firm's European equity investments across asset classes. He previously worked in real estate audit at Ernst & Young.

Managing Director and Head of Acquisitions, Americas, overseeing the firm's equity investments in North America. He previously was a Managing Director in Blackstone's Real Estate Group and spent years at Westbrook Partners.

Managing Director and Co-Head of the Global Hotel Group overseeing hospitality acquisitions and asset management. He has over 40 years of lodging investment experience, including CEO roles at FelCor Lodging Trust and Sunstone Hotel Investors and President of SH Group.

Managing Director and Co-Head of the Global Hotel Group overseeing hospitality acquisitions and asset management. He joined in 2015 after roles at UBS and Citi in London.

Senior Managing Director and COO of Starwood Capital Group, working with the CEO and President on management, operations and strategy and overseeing capital raising, finance, IT, risk, sustainability and HR. He previously was COO and General Counsel of Starwood Property Trust and General Counsel of KKR Financial Holdings.

Senior Adviser to Starwood Capital Group who supports the acquisition team and senior management and lectures at Harvard Business School. He previously served as Head of Global Investment Strategy and Head of Real Estate Acquisitions for the Americas.

Managing Director and CFO responsible for financial and accounting functions, treasury, reporting, tax and compliance. He joined in 2009 from Athena Real Estate and previously worked at Bear Stearns.

Esther Nørregård-Nielsen is the director of Oak Foundation Denmark, part of the international philanthropic organization Oak Foundation, which is headquartered in Geneva. Trained as a nurse, she holds a cand.scient.soc. and a Ph.D. in sociology, was previously a postdoc at the University of Copenhagen, and spent more than 11 years as owner and director of the analysis and consultancy firm Rådgivende Sociologer, working in evaluation, organizational development, and social analysis. She authored Pædagoger i skyggen and co-authored Klimaets sociale tilstand, serves as an external examiner in the social science and economics examiner corps, and participates in board work in the social sector.

Joined Jaws in 2021 and sources, executes and supports investments focused on technology and tech-enabled services companies. Previously Chief of Staff to the Chairman and CEO of Starwood Capital, and earlier worked at Charlesbank Capital Partners, William Blair and Piper Sandler.