John A. Taylor

John (“Jack”) A. Taylor is their President and Chief Executive Officer, a member of their Investment Committee, and a member of their Board. Mr. Taylor has been a director and executive officer of the Company since its inception. Mr. Taylor served as Global Head of Commercial Real Estate of Pine River Capital Management L.P., their Former Manager, from November 2014 to December 31, 2020. Prior to joining Pine River, Mr. Taylor served as a Managing Director and Head of Global Real Estate Finance for Prudential Real Estate Investors (now known as PGIM Real Estate Company), a commercial real estate investor, from 2009 to November 2014, where he was also a member of the Global Management Committee and chaired the Global Investment Committee for debt and equity. From 2003 to 2007, Mr. Taylor was a partner at Five Mile Capital Partners LLC, an alternative investment and asset management company. Prior to Five Mile Capital Partners, he was co-head of real estate investment banking for the Americas and Europe at UBS Group AG, a Swiss multinational investment bank and financial services company. He previously led the Real Estate Group at PaineWebber & Co., an investment bank and stock brokerage firm, and served on the firm’s Operating Committee. He was head trader and manager of the CMBS and Principal Commercial Mortgage business for Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc., a securities firm. Mr. Taylor was a founding governor of the Commercial Mortgage Securities Association (now the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council) and a member of the President’s Council of the Real Estate Roundtable. Mr. Taylor received a J.D. from Yale Law School, an MSc. in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a B.A. in philosophy from the University of Illinois.