Board Members

Kenneth J. Witkin

Director

Ken was President and Chief Executive Officer of Realty Finance Corporation from September 2007 to July 2009. Prior to joining Realty Finance Corporation, Ken served as an Executive Vice President, Senior Division Executive in the Commercial Real Estate Banking Group of Bank of America, where he was responsible for all commercial real estate banking in the Northeast United States and managing TriSail Capital Corporation, a national high yield capital provider to the real estate investment/development market. Prior, Ken spent 15 years at FleetBoston Corporation in numerous executive roles. Most recently, he was part of the management team leading the real estate banking business, financial institutions group, technology lending and a member of its leadership advisory team. Over the years at FleetBoston Ken also held senior roles managing corporate syndications, national asset based lending and leverage finance businesses. Ken began his career at Citibank where he worked in asset based lending and Citicorp Real Estate Inc. before joining First National Bank of Chicago managing their real estate commercial lending business in Florida. Prior to moving to New England to join FleetBoston, he spent seven years as Chief Operating Officer of a private real estate development company.

Ken received his undergraduate degree from Hofstra University where he majored in economics and obtained an MBA from New York University Graduate School of Business.