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Mark Settles

CEO
Sol-REIT
Miami, Florida, United States

Mark is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Sol-REIT. In his role as CEO, Mark serves as a liaison with the firm’s Board of Directors and provides executive leadership across the firm, including oversight of all capital markets, originations, structuring, credit risk, underwriting and marketing functions. Mark brings over 35 years of executive leadership and financial markets expertise to the firm as well as a mindset towards the benefits of diversity and inclusion both corporate structures and target markets served.

Prior to his role with Sol-REIT, Mark served as a senior executive for JPMorgan Chase for over 20 years. In his highest profile role at the bank, Managing Director and Diversity Recruiting Executive, he helped the firm identify and develop women and ethnic minorities for senior positions at the bank – an initiative noted in public reports and one that continues to pay dividends for the institution more than a decade later.

Throughout his banking career, Mark has served as the head of various fixed income market product teams and as a specialist in central bank and sovereign reserves management. He also spent five years trading dollar and euro-denominated bond market products on the New York and London trading desks. In these roles, Mark led portfolio management for over 200 clients across North America, Europe, and Asia, launched new credit product strategies, and recruited and trained a 10-employee team with oversight of over $230 billion.

In addition to his work in finance, Mark has served as an educator across business, leadership, and human capital management subjects at the secondary and collegiate level. He has also previously dedicated time to board service and governance roles at Egan-Jones Ratings Company and Howard University. Mark holds an MBA in Management and Marketing from Northwestern and a BA in Economics from Columbia .


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