Barry Sternlicht

Barry Sternlicht is Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Starwood Capital Group, the private investment firm he formed in 1991 that is focused on global real estate, hotel management, oil and gas, energy infrastructure and securities trading. Mr. Sternlicht also serves as Chairman of Starwood Property Trust, the largest commercial mortgage REIT in the U.S. (NYSE: STWD); Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust (NYSE: SWAY), one of the largest publicly traded investors, owners and operators of single-family homes in the U.S.; TRI Pointe Homes(NYSE: TPH), one of the U.S.’s largest homebuilders; and French crystal maker Baccarat S.A.

For the past 24 years, Mr. Sternlicht has structured investments with an asset value of approximately $68 billion. Starwood Capital’s funds have invested in approximately 87,000 multifamily/condo units, 2,600 hotels, 62million square feet of office properties, 50 million square feet of retail and 49,000 lots of land in residential subdivisions. The Firm currently manages more than $44 billion of assets on behalf of its high net worth and institutional partners. Starwood Capital employs nearly 600 employees, not including the 470 employees in its loan servicing business. The Firm maintains offices in Greenwich (headquarters), Atlanta, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami, and affiliated offices in London, Luxembourg, Paris, and Frankfurt.

Mr. Sternlicht is a trustee of his alma mater, Brown University. He is also on the Board of Directors of The Estée Lauder Companies, and the Real Estate Roundtable. Additionally, he serves on the Boards of The Robin Hood Foundation, the Dreamland Film & Performing Arts Center, and the Executive Advisory Board of Americans for the Arts. He is a member of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Foundation Trustee Council, the World Presidents Organization and the Urban Land Institute.