Mr. McLarney has 20 years of commercial real estate debt investment experience and is the founding member of Mica Creek Capital. Mr. McLarney is responsible for placing more than $13 billion of commercial real estate debt investments in his career across an array of products that includes CMBS securities, direct lending and non-performing and sub-performing loan acquisitions. In conjunction with Mica Creek Capital, Mr. McLarney operates Mica Creek Advisors which provides advisory and consulting work to real estate debt platforms. Prior to Mica Creek Capital, Mr. McLarney served eight years as Head of CRE/CMBS at LibreMax Capital. Prior to LibreMax Capital, he served as a Vice President at Barclays Capital with secondary trading responsibility for below investment grade CMBS, large-loan floating rate CMBS and commercial real estate CDOs. From 2006 to 2010, Mr. McLarney served as a Director at Five Mile Capital Partners where he was responsible for sourcing, evaluating and modeling acquisitions of CMBS, commercial real estate CDOs and mezzanine loans. He began his career as an Assistant Vice President at Citigroup Alternative Investments in the Capital Markets and Real Estate Credit Group. Mr. McLarney holds an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis (2004) where he was a Wood Leadership Fellow and also holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder (2000).