Greystone, a leading national commercial real estate finance firm, announced that AJ Walker has joined as a managing director in Chicago. In this role, Walker will focus on the origination of commercial real estate loans across the U.S. Walker reports to Rich Highfield, head of CMBS at Greystone.
Prior to joining Greystone, Walker was a director at Wells Fargo where he led the firm’s real estate capital markets origination efforts across the Midwest. Walker oversaw the origination and underwriting efforts for the Midwest for the past eight years. Prior to this role, Walker held multiple other positions within Wells Fargo, including as a manager in its CMBS Portfolio Surveillance group, serving as co-lead in Wells Fargo’s CMBS table funding group, as well as previous work in its CMBS securitization group.
Walker earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Boston College, where he played on the 2001 national championship men’s ice hockey team.