Hunt Mortgage Group Hires Head of Capital Markets

New York—Hunt Mortgage Group, a commercial real estate lender, announced that Jon Trauben has been hired to lead the firm’s capital markets effort. Trauben joins as a senior managing director and will focus on expanding Hunt Mortgage Group’s capital markets activities and its overall commercial lending business.

Trauben comes to Hunt Mortgage Group from Barclays where he was a managing director and held positions including head of Large Loan Origination and head of Subordinate Debt Origination and Distribution. While at Barclays he was a senior member of the Real Estate Finance group and was a participant in all major business decisions including hiring, business management, strategic growth and capital allocations.

Prior to Barclays, Trauben was with Cantor Fitzgerald & Company’s real estate finance business CCRE where he was a managing director and head of Capital Markets and High Yield Real Estate and Loan Syndications. In this role he was a member of the senior management team that established all aspects of a newly launched CMBS lending business. Prior to Cantor he was with Credit Suisse Group AG where he was a managing director and head of High Yield Real Estate and Loan Syndications for the Americas. Earlier in his career he was vice president at APC Realty Advisors, and manager at Ernst & Young. He earned a B.A. in Political Science from Rutgers University.