Sumit Sasidharan

Sumit is Managing Director, Head of Commercial Real Estate at Angel Oak Capital. He leads the firm’s CRE platform, focusing primarily on growing Angel Oak’s CRE fund offerings at an institutional level while also managing and expanding the firm’s permanent and bridge-loan financing solutions.

Sumit is a seasoned commercial real estate executive with more than two decades of experience in real estate and structured products. Prior to joining Angel Oak, Sumit served as Managing Director, Co-Head of Real Estate Capital Markets at Ares Management, where he administered a diverse portfolio with $52 billion in assets under management, encompassing debt and equity in CRE assets with varying liquidity profiles. Sumit expedited the company’s leverage exposure, interest rate sensitivity, liquidity, and rate hedging strategies while also leading the capital markets team responsible for all equity and debt financing strategies.

Previously, Sumit served as Managing Director, Head of CRE Capital Markets at Annaly Capital Management from 2011 to 2017, where he led the capital markets team responsible for all CRE debt pricing, financing, and trading strategies. During his tenure, he developed and implemented a levered CMBS strategy, managing over $850 million in equity. In addition, Sumit has held senior positions at CWCapital Investments, where he managed leveraged debt funds and other structured CRE products. He began his real estate career at Fitch Ratings, where he analyzed CMBS new issuance and contributed to the group’s policy formation on structured products.

Sumit holds a B.A. in Public Policy from the University of Chicago.