
	Mr. Perry Stewart Ward, also known as Stew, served as the Chief Financial Officer of Starwood Property Trust, Inc. from March 15, 2011 to May 7, 2014 and serveds as its Principal Accounting Officer until May 7, 2014. Mr. Ward served as the Managing Director of Starwood Property Trust, Inc. Mr. Ward is the Founding Partner of Coastal Capital Programs. He serves as Senior Professional at Starwood Capital Group. Mr. Ward served as Treasurer of Starwood Property Trust, Inc. since March 15, 2011. He served as Chief Financial Officer, Head of Capital Markets and Risk Management and Managing Director of SPT Management, LLC since October 2010. Mr. Ward was Partner at Coastal Capital Real Estate Advisors, Inc. He served as the Executive Vice President of Countrywide Commercial Real Estate Finance for Countrywide Financial Corp. since April 1 2004 until 2009. He has more than 20 years of real estate and securities experience. At Coastal, Mr. Ward focused on the constantly evolving application of securitization technology to various classes of debt and equity. Since March 1998, he was Morgan Stanley employee, where he co-managed the overall real estate division of Nomura and was responsible for all capital commitment and asset sale and securitization decisions for real estate debt and equity. At Coastal, he also started and managed the construction lending and equity business lines and developed many of the loan pricing, edging and risk assessment and management approaches. Mr. Ward holds B.A. degree in Economics from the University of Colorado and a M.B.A. degree from Carnegie-Mellon University.
