Jonathan Pollack
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Jonathan Pollack

President at Starwood Capital Group

Jonathan Pollack
By July 21, 2025 7:54 AM

Jonathan Pollack just completed his first quarter as president of Starwood Capital Group after assuming the role April 1.

Pollack manages Starwood’s daily operations as well as global investment activity, capital markets and investor relations. He’s also vice chairman of Starwood Property Trust (SPT), said to be the largest commercial mortgage REIT in the country.

Pollack brings 26 years of experience in real estate investing. Most recently, he was global head of Blackstone’s real estate credit business, which grew from $10 billion to $84 billion in assets under management under his leadership beginning in 2016. Prior to that, Pollack was the global head of commercial real estate at Deutsche Bank.

But he has his plate full with Starwood, with its $115 billion in assets, and with SPT, which manages more than $25 billion across debt and equity investments. Further, SPT’s commercial real estate lending business — headed by President Jeff DiModica and Chief Originations Officer Dennis Schuh — soared in the first quarter leading up to Pollack’s move to the firm, originating $1.4 billion in loans in the first three months of the year. (It’s also one of the largest hotel companies in the world in terms of its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.)

Meanwhile, the company has been keeping busy across the board. Starwood also sold a Whole Foods-anchored retail center in West Palm Beach, Fla., about six weeks ago, and SPT in the spring provided a $350 million loan for a Manhattan condo project.

In the time leading up to Pollack’s hire, Starwood secured a $390 million construction loan with Mast Capital for a luxury condo project on Miami Beach, acquired 11 master-planned communities in Texas for $800 million, and bought 38 warehouses from Goldman Sachs Alternatives and Dalfen Industrial for $685 million. Also, Starwood Hotels announced a rebranding with 40 new properties opening on four continents this year.

Starwood is also a major data center developer. Earlier this year, it joined J.P. Morgan in providing $2 billion for AI data centers in Utah.

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