Kyle Jeffers is Chief Investment Officer at ACORE Capital. He has 25+ years of experience in the commercial real estate finance industry and capital markets.

Prior to joining ACORE, from 2010 to 2015, Mr. Jeffers was a Managing Director at Starwood Property Trust, Inc. (NYSE: STWD), a public mortgage REIT, managing west coast loan originations and was responsible for over $5 Billion of first mortgage, mezzanine, and preferred equity investments.

Before joining STWD, Mr. Jeffers was a Managing Director at Coastal Capital Partners, LLC, a firm focused on acquiring distressed debt and advising clients on restructurings. Prior to Coastal Capital, he was a Senior Vice President with Countrywide Commercial Real Estate Finance, Inc., where he was one of the top large loan producers for the company with origination volume in excess of $4 billion.

From 2000 to 2004, Mr. Jeffers was a Vice President at Coastal Capital Partners, and from 1997 to 2000, he was an asset manager at Nomura Securities’ real estate division in New York. Prior to Nomura, Mr. Jeffers was the financial controller at the Resort at Squaw Creek in Lake Tahoe, CA. Mr. Jeffers began his career as an accountant, spending three years at PriceWaterhouseCoopers, LLP and KPMG Peat Marwick, LLP.

Mr. Jeffers received a B.B.A. degree from the University of Texas at Austin, with a major in Accounting and was a licensed CPA in the state of Texas for 8 years.