NEW YORK, NY - Hunt Mortgage Group, a leader in financing commercial real estate throughout the United States, announced today that Barry Polen has joined the firm as Managing Director, Capital Markets. In this role, he will focus on expanding Hunt Mortgage Group’s capital markets activities and its commercial lending business nationwide.
Polen comes to Hunt Mortgage Group from Guggenheim Securities in New York, where he was a Managing Director. In that role he was the head of the Commercial Real Estate Debt trading desk and also worked with Guggenheim’s Commercial Real Estate Finance group on their securitization activities. He will operate out of the firm’s New York office and will report to Jon Trauben, Senior Managing Director.
“Barry is an experienced, senior real estate finance executive that brings nearly 30 years of industry and management experience to his new role at Hunt Mortgage Group,” noted Trauben. “He is well known in the industry and has an impressive track record of success. We are pleased to have Barry join our team and look forward to tapping his expertise and leadership in growing our capital markets operation nationwide.”
Prior to Guggenheim, Polen was a Managing Director at Credit Suisse, where he was the head of CMBS Capital Markets, a role he had for almost nine years. Before that he was a Vice President with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette where he served as a CMBS Bond Structurer. Earlier in his career he held positions at Morgan Stanley, and Ernst & Whinney.
Polen earned a B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. He is also a Certified Public Account.
About Hunt Mortgage Group: Hunt Mortgage Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hunt Companies, Inc., is a leader in financing commercial real estate throughout the United States. The Company finances all types of commercial real estate: multifamily properties (including small balance), affordable housing, office, retail, manufactured housing, healthcare/senior living, hospitality, industrial, and self-storage facilities. It offers Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, HUD/FHA in addition to its own Proprietary loan products including balance sheet, conduit and floating rate CLO financing. Since inception, the Company has structured more than $20 billion of loans and today maintains a servicing portfolio of more than $11 billion. Headquartered in New York City, Hunt Mortgage Group is comprised of 153 employees located in 16 locations throughout the United States. To learn more about Hunt Mortgage Group, visit www.huntmortgagegroup.com.