Starwood Capital has named Jonathan Pollack as its president. Pollack joins Starwood Capital from Blackstone, where he served as global head of the firm's Real Estate Credit business (BREDS) since 2016.
Prior to joining Blackstone in 2015, Pollack was the global head of commercial real estate at Deutsche Bank and established DB as the top CMBS issuer and a leading special situations investor following the global financial crisis in 2008. Pollack also spent eight years in Deutsche Bank's London headquarters, helping to build the European CRE business as the head of Capital Markets.