Gender Male
Matthew A. Salem has served as Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-President of our company and of our Manager since October 2015 and March 2016, respectively, and is also a member of our Manager’s investment committee. Mr. Salem joined KKR in 2015 and is a Director of KKR, serves as Co-Head of KKR’s Real Estate Credit business and is a member of
KKR’s Real Estate and Real Estate Credit Investment Committees. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Salem was a Managing Director and member of the investment committee at Rialto Capital Management where he was responsible for credit investing including mezzanine loans, preferred equity and B-Piece securities. Prior to joining Rialto in 2012, Mr. Salem was a Managing Director and Head of CMBS trading at Goldman Sachs. In his five years in the Mortgage Department at Goldman Sachs, he had various responsibilities including management of the CMBS desk, trading credit CMBS and secondary market trading of performing and sub-performing CRE whole loans. Before joining Goldman Sachs in 2006, Mr. Salem was a Vice President at Morgan Stanley where he worked on the issuance and distribution of CMBS. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Salem worked for Citigroup Alternative Investments where he invested in mezzanine loans, B-Piece securities and other high yield CRE debt instruments on behalf of the Travelers Insurance Companies. He began his career in 1996 at Midland Loan Services in Kansas City. Mr. Salem received a B.A. in Economics from Bates College. He is on the Board of Governors of the CRE Finance Council and recently served as chair of the B-Piece Buyer Forum.
