Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (Annaly) announced that it has added senior hires across its investment groups and within its corporate infrastructure. Timothy (Tim) Gallagher has joined Annaly as Head of the Commercial Real Estate Group. Tim has over 20 years of commercial real estate lending and capital markets experience at leading real estate finance and investment firms. Prior to joining Annaly, Tim spent time in senior roles at Prima Capital, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs. Tim is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Governors for the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council and previously served as the Chairman of CREFC’s Board and a member of the Advisory Board of the Center for Real Estate at the Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University. David Sotolov has joined Annaly as a Managing Director, Commercial Real Estate Group. Prior to joining Annaly, David was an Executive Vice President at iStar, Inc. and head of iStar’s West Coast Investments. Prior to that, David worked as a Senior Vice President, Loan Originator at Fremont Investment & Loan and started his real estate career as an Associate at Southern Pacific Bank. David has almost 20 years of experience in commercial real estate loan origination. Nishant Nadella has joined Annaly as a Director, Commercial Real Estate Group. Prior to joining Annaly, Nishant was a Senior Vice President and Partner at H/2 Capital Partners, where he was responsible for trading and risk management of a multibillion dollar portfolio of commercial mortgage backed securities. Prior to H/2, Nishant held various CMBS related trading positions at Citigroup. In his time at Citigroup, Nishant was instrumental in starting both the Agency CMBS and Build America Bond trading businesses. Jay DeLong has joined Annaly as a Director, Agency and Residential Credit Groups. Jay joins Annaly from Sovarnum Capital LP (“Sovarnum”), where he was a Portfolio Manager and Head of Research. Prior to Sovarnum, Jay held the position of Head of Securitized Products Research at PointState Capital LP and Duquesne Capital Management LLC with previous experience at Lehman Brothers, Inc. as a mortgage strategist and quantitative researcher. Mark McNally has joined Annaly as a Director, Middle Market Lending Group. Mark has over 20 years of middle market lending experience. Mark joins Annaly from Bank of Ireland’s Leveraged Acquisition Finance Group, where he was a Director focused on underwriting transactions and participated in the Bank of Ireland’s selective Future Leaders program. Tanya Rakpraja has joined Annaly as a Managing Director, Government Relations and Social Responsibility Group. Prior to joining Annaly, Tanya was a Senior Director of Strategic Lending Initiatives at Capital Impact Partners, the Community Development Financial Institution with which Annaly has a social impact joint venture. Prior to CIP, Tanya oversaw Mortgage Operations and Trading for the Federal Reserve’s Large Scale Asset Purchase Program. Danielle Cooper has joined Annaly as a Director, Corporate Development and Strategy Group. Danielle joins Annaly from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where she was a Vice President in the Mergers and Acquisitions Structured Solutions Group and focused on advising clients on a broad range of complex financing and advisory solutions. Earlier this year, Danielle was named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 Finance professionals list. Christian Greco has joined Annaly as a Director, Legal and Compliance Group, supporting the Agency and Residential Credit Groups. Prior to joining Annaly, Christian was an Associate General Counsel at Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC. Prior to Goldman, Christian held the position of Assistant General Counsel in the Securitized Products Group at JPMorgan Chase & Co., with previous experience at Sidley Austin LLP. Christian has over 16 years of experience in the securitized products and structured finance industry. Suet Fung Lau has joined Annaly as a Director, Information Technology Group. Suet joins Annaly from Sovarnum and previously held senior positions at PointState Capital LP, Duquesne Capital Management and Lehman Brothers, Inc. Suet brings over 20 years of experience in design and development of models, pricing and analytics tools, risk management, quantitative trading strategies and trading systems for fixed income instruments. Gregory (Greg) Insinga has joined Annaly as a Director, Treasury Group. Prior to joining Annaly, Greg worked as a risk management and reporting compliance consultant assisting both Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs. Prior to consulting, Greg was a Vice President in Barclays Capital Inc.’s Securitized Products Middle Office Group, where he oversaw the group’s daily treasury, credit, repo and derivative trading operations. Greg also has additional previous mortgage related experience from his time at Morgan Stanley.