Steven Plust

Steven Plust is their Vice President and Chief Operating Officer and has served in that role since the Company’s inception. Mr. Plust is also a member of their Investment Committee. From 2014 to 2020, he was a Managing Director at Pine River Capital Management L.P., their Former Manager. Prior to joining Pine River, Mr. Plust was a Managing Director in Prudential Financial, Inc., an insurance, investment management, and financial products company, Global Real Estate Finance Group from 2009 to 2014. He has over 25 years of experience in real estate finance and capital markets and was an advisor to the Resolution Trust Corporation in the development and implementation of its securitization programs. Mr. Plust has worked for over 20 years in principal investing platforms on Wall Street and in investment management, where he has been primarily responsible for transaction pricing and structuring, credit risk assessment, and analysis of complex transactions and multi-asset portfolios. He received an M.B.A. from Columbia University and a B.S. in Chemistry from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.