Annaly Capital Management Inc.(Annaly) has recently added David Finkelstein as a Managing Director to its Agency portfolio team. Mr. Finkelstein joins company from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Markets Group. In addition, long time Annaly veteran Nancy Murtha has been promoted to Managing Director of Annaly's Agency portfolio team where she will undertake an expanded leadership role.

Annaly is also announced that Jessica LaScala has joined as a Director in its Agency portfolio team. Ms. LaScala joins Annaly from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. As part of Annaly's expansion of its commercial real estate platform, Michael Quinn has joined Annaly to serve as Head of Equity Commercial Real Estate Investment.

Annaly has expanded its technology infrastructure management through the addition of Michael Maffattone as the Chief Technology Officer of Annaly. Most recently, Mr. Maffattone was the Chief Technology Officer of Harvard Management Company and prior to that was Chief Information Officer of Caxton Associates LLC. Long time Annaly veterans Pete Koukouras and Konstantin Pavlov have been promoted to Head of Repo Trading and Head of Alternative Financing, respectively.

In addition, Christopher Grimes has joined Annaly as a Director from CIT Group Inc. Allison Werry has joined Annaly as a Director in Annaly's financial and risk teams where she will focus on Annaly's commercial real estate investments. She joins Annaly from Kroll Bond Rating Agency, Inc. where she was a senior director and Head of CMBS Sarah Fowlkes has joined Annaly as an Associate General Counsel and a Director in the commercial real estate group. She joins Annaly from Allen & Overy LLP.

Krista Patterson has joined Annaly as an Associate General Counsel and a Vice President in the commercial real estate group. She joins Annaly from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP.