Laura Mestel Rubin has served as Managing Director and Head of Portfolio Management at Starwood Capital since January 2008, with responsibility for overseeing and reporting on the firm’s real estate opportunity funds. Ms. Rubin is a member of Starwood Capital’s Investment, Disposition and Valuation Committees. She began as a full time employee of Starwood Capital in May 2002. Ms. Rubin was previously a Vice President in Goldman Sachs & Co.’s real estate investment banking division, where she worked on both principal and brokerage transactions. She has also worked in the Chicago office of JMB Realty Corporation and Urban Development Corporation during the mid-1980s. Ms. Rubin holds a B.S. degree, summa cum laude, in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a masters degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.