Matthew A Salem has bought KREF on 3 days since Apr 2023

Matt Salem is a Partner and Head of Real Estate Credit at KKR who joined the firm in 2015( He serves as Chief Executive Officer and Director on the Board of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc. (NYSE: KREF)( and as Vice Chairman of KKR Real Estate Select Trust Inc. (KREST)( Salem began his career in 1996 at Midland Loan Services in Kansas City and held positions at Citigroup Alternative Investments, Morgan Stanley, and Goldman Sachs, where he was a managing director and head of CMBS trading before joining Rialto Capital Management in 2012( He earned a B.A. in Economics from Bates College( and has served on the Board of Governors of the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council and as Chair of the B-Piece Buyer Forum(

Under Salem's leadership, KKR's real estate credit business has grown from a $400 million seed investment in 2015 to $43.2 billion in assets under management with 110 professionals across the U.S. and Europe( The business has become the largest third-party purchaser of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) B-pieces in the U.S.( with loan originations totaling $5.6 billion across 46 deals in the 12 months ending June 2025 alone(

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