Mr. Sternlicht is Chairman & CEO of Starwood Capital Group, the private alternative investment firm he formed in 1991 focused on global real estate, hotel management, oil and gas, and energy infrastructure. Mr. Sternlicht also serves as Chairman of the Board of Starwood Property Trust (NYSE: STWD), a leading diversified finance company; as well as a Senior Advisor of Invitation Homes (NYSE: INVH) the largest publicly traded investor, owner, and operator of single-family homes in the U.S. For the past 30 years, he has structured investments with an asset value of over $200 billion. Starwood Capital’s funds have invested in approximately 210,000 residential units, 3,500 hotels, 100 million square feet of office properties, 58 million square feet of retail, and 65,000 lots of land in residential subdivisions. The Firm currently manages in excess of $115 billion of assets on behalf of its high net worth and institutional partners. From 1995-2005, he was Chairman and CEO of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, a company he founded in 1995. In 2008, he founded SH Hotels & Resorts, his new hotel management company. SH Hotels & Resorts is the parent company of 1 Hotels, Baccarat Hotels & Resorts, and Treehouse Hotels brands. He serves on the Board of Directors of The Estée Lauder Companies, Cano Health, and the Real Estate Roundtable. Additionally, he formally served as Chairman of the Board and is currently a Board member of The Robin Hood Foundation. He received his BA, magna cum laude, with honors from Brown University and later earned an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School
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