Warren de Haan ’97, Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner

Company: ACORE Capital
Time: 10/16/26 at 1:25 PM
Where: Statler Auditorium

Warren de Haan is a founder, Chief Executive Officer, and member of ACORE CAPITAL’s Investment Committee.

Mr. de Haan has over 30 years of experience in commercial real estate finance and capital markets. Before co-founding ACORE CAPITAL, he was Chief Originations Officer at Starwood Property Trust, Inc. (NYSE: STWD), a public mortgage REIT, from 2010 to 2014, during which time the REIT grew from $780 million market cap to $5.5 billion market cap. Mr. de Haan was a founding partner and Head of Originations at Countrywide Commercial Real Estate Finance, overseeing the expansion of the division’s footprint to 15 offices across the U.S. He also co-founded Coastal Capital, a firm focused on the acquisition of U.S. CRE loans post GFC. Mr. de Haan began his career as an originator in Nomura’s New York City-based Large Commercial Real Estate Loan Group.

Mr. de Haan received a B.S. degree from the Cornell School of Hotel Administration. He also graduated from Hotel Institute Montreux, Switzerland, where he obtained his Swiss Hotel Diploma and American Hotel and Motel Association Diplomas.