CRE finance experts Will Flaa and Ken Wood join Red Oak Capital Holdings

Red Oak Capital Holdings has made two new hires.

The company has brought on Will Flaa as senior vice president – investments, and Ken Wood as regional manager – Northeast. They will respectively be based in Dallas and Norwalk, Conn.

As senior vice president of investments, Flaa will be the primary liaison with Red Oak origination personnel in the screening and review of potential transactions. He also will work with the firm’s capital markets team and established capital sources to place new loans and generate and foster new capital relationships. He brings more than 30 years of experience in loan origination, valuation, analysis and research, and mortgage capital analysis to his new position.

Flaa comes to Red Oak from KeyBank Capital, where he was a senior vice president and relationship manager. That was preceded by a role as senior vice president-investment officer with Encore Enterprises, where he directed the day-to-day operations of debt placement f