Brian Harris is the Chief Executive Officer of Ladder Capital. Mr. Harris was a Managing Director and Head of Global Commercial Real Estate at UBS from 1999 to 2005; before leaving UBS to join Dillon Read Capital Management LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of UBS, as a Managing Director and Senior Partner from August 2005 through August 2007. Mr. Harris managed UBS’s proprietary commercial real estate activities globally and was a Member of the Board of Directors of UBS Investment Bank and, while at Dillon Read, managed a $750 million equity capital investment from UBS for Dillon Read’s commercial real estate activities globally. From March 1996 through April 1999, Mr. Harris was the Head of Commercial Mortgage Trading at Credit Suisse, responsible for managing all proprietary commercial real estate investment and trading activities. Prior to that, Mr. Harris also worked in the real estate groups at Lehman Brothers, Salomon Brothers, Smith Barney and Daiwa Securities. Mr. Harris holds a B.S. in Biology and a M.B.A. from The State University of New York at Albany.