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Managing Director & Head of Real Estate Finance, Voya Investment Management

Gregory Michaud is head of real estate finance at Voya Investment Management, responsible for the oversight of sourcing, underwriting, and management for all commercial real estate loan platforms. Over the last seven years the platform developed from a proprietary platform to a third-party management one. In addition to managing Voya general account commercial mortgages, there are 21 separate managed accounts and an open-ended debt fund. Investors include a broad group of insurance companies, banks, and public pension funds. Additionally, he serves on the executive leadership team for proprietary assets, the U.S. Credit Committee and chairs the CMBS Steering Committee. Prior to joining Voya as a real estate analyst, Greg was a real estate appraiser focused on commercial properties and eminent domain cases in the southeastern U.S. Greg is an active member of several distinguished real estate industry groups, including the Urban Land Institute (Urban Development Mixed Use Blue Flight), Commercial Real Estate Finance Council (Chairman Emeritus), Mortgage Bankers Association and the National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers. Greg earned an executive MBA from the University of Georgia, an MBA in finance from Kennesaw State University, a Graduate Certificate in Ancient and Classical Studies from APUS, and a BS in real estate from Florida State University.

Senior Managing Director, Greystone

Jenna Unell is Vice-President/Senior Managing Director, of Greystone Servicing Company LLC. She serves as the head of special servicing in Irving, Texas, which includes oversight responsibility for special servicing asset management, portfolio oversight, finance, accounting and legal. The special servicing group is also actively engaged in CMBS b-piece underwriting. She joined Greystone in connection with Greystone’s acquisition of C-III Asset Management as of January 1, 2020. Prior to Greystone’s acquisition Ms. Unell was General Counsel at C-III Asset Management LLC which acquired the servicing group from Centerline Capital Group in 2010, where Ms. Unell had been Assistant General Counsel since 2003. She has been part of the executive leadership of Greystone special servicing, and prior to that of C-III and its predecessors, for more than 20 years. Prior to joining Greystone’s predecessor entity, Ms. Unell practiced law in the areas of real estate and real estate finance in the Real Estate section of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld in Dallas. Ms. Unell received her Juris Doctor from Southern Methodist University School of Law where she served on the Board of Editors of the Southwestern Law Journal in the capacity of Texas Survey Editor. Ms. Unell is a former Chairman of the Dallas Bar Association Real Property Section. She is also a member of the American College of Mortgage Attorneys where she is past Co-Chair of the Program Committee and is a member of the Board of Regents. In addition, Jenna is a member of the MBA and of CREFC where she served as past Co‐Chair of the Professional Development Committee of the CREFC Women’s Network.