Walker & Dunlop Appoints Warren to Board of Directors
Walker & Dunlop, Bethesda, Md., appointed Michael Warren to its Board of Directors as an independent director.
Warren’s election expands the firm’s board to eight directors. He was also appointed to the board’s nominating and corporate governance committees.
Warren serves as Managing Principal and CEO of Albright Stonebridge Group, a strategic advisory and commercial diplomacy firm. He is currently trustee of the District of Columbia Retirement Board, DC’s public pension fund, and serves on the Board of Trustees of institutional investment firm Commonfund.
During the Obama Administration’s first term, Warren served as Senior Advisor in the White House Presidential Personnel Office. He previously worked at McKinsey & Co. as a strategic consultant in the technology and financial institutions sectors and a fellow of the McKinsey Global Institute.
Bellwether Enterprise’s Martone to Lead Newly Formed Norfolk, Va. Office
Bellwether Enterprise Real Estate Capital LLC, Cleveland, announced that Kelly Martone, currently vice president of the firm’s Atlanta office, will move to Norfolk, Va. to lead that newly formed office.
Martone brings with her more than two decades of commercial mortgage banking experience in the southeast. Throughout her twenty years of industry experience, Martone has originated more than $1 billion in loans for investors across Atlanta and the southeast. She began her career in corporate banking at Wachovia and transitioned to commercial mortgage banking in 1996 at Wilson & Nolan, Atlanta, which later became Grandbridge Real Estate Capital. In 2010 she joined Capital Advisors and began working for Bellwether Enterprise after the firm’s acquisition in 2015.
Fannie Mae Veteran Muir Joins Greystone
Greystone announced that Jerry Muir joined the firm as a Managing Director working with the agency lending team. A 25-year veteran of Fannie Mae, Muir will focus on building out Greystone’s manufactured housing lending platform.
Muir most recently served as Director of Multifamily Credit/Underwriting at Fannie Mae, responsible for the 12-state southeast Region, with a dual role in developing and managing the manufactured housing community lending platform at the GSE. He managed the MHC platform at Fannie for over 15 years, overseeing over $10 billion in financing for this asset class.
Muir will work with Greystone’s origination team to identify lending opportunities with owners of manufactured housing communities.
