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David L. Finkelstein

Chief Executive Officer
Chief Investment Officer

David L. Finkelstein is Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Annaly. Mr. Finkelstein was elected to serve as a director of Annaly in March 2020. Mr. Finkelstein has over 25 years of experience in fixed income investments. Prior to joining Annaly in 2013, Mr. Finkelstein served for four years as an Officer in the Markets Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where he was the primary strategist and policy advisor for the MBS Purchase Program. Prior to that, Mr. Finkelstein held senior Agency MBS trading positions at Salomon Smith Barney, Citigroup Inc. and Barclays PLC. Mr. Finkelstein is Vice Chair of the Treasury Market Practices Group sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as well as a member of the Financial Sector Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Mr. Finkelstein received a B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Washington and a M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business. Mr. Finkelstein also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.

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Serena Wolfe

Chief Financial Officer

Serena Wolfe is Chief Financial Officer of Annaly. Ms. Wolfe has over 20 years of experience in accounting, of which 13 years were focused solely in real estate practice. Prior to joining Annaly in December 2019, Ms. Wolfe had served as a Partner at Ernst & Young LLP (“E&Y”) since 2011. Ms. Wolfe held a variety of roles across industries since beginning her career at E&Y in 1998, including most recently as EY’s Central Region Real Estate Hospitality & Construction leader since 2017. Ms. Wolfe currently serves on the boards of Lennar Corporation and Doma Holdings, Inc. Ms. Wolfe received a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting from the University of Queensland. Ms. Wolfe is a Certified Public Accountant in the states of New York, California, Illinois and Pennsylvania.

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Steven F. Campbell

President and Chief Operating Officer

Steven F. Campbell is President and Chief Operating Officer of Annaly. Mr. Campbell previously served as Head of Business Operations of Annaly and has over 25 years of experience in financial services. Prior to joining Annaly in April 2015, Mr. Campbell held various roles over six years at Fortress Investment Group LLC, including serving as a Managing Director in the Credit Funds business. Mr. Campbell also worked at General Electric Capital Corporation and D.B. Zwirn & Co., L.P. with a focus on credit and debt restructuring. Mr. Campbell currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Fitzgerald Institute of Real Estate at the University of Notre Dame. Mr. Campbell received a B.B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and a M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business.

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Anthony C. Green

Chief Corporate Officer
Chief Legal Officer

Anthony C. Green is Chief Corporate Officer and Chief Legal Officer of Annaly. Mr. Green has served as Chief Corporate Officer since January 2019 and Chief Legal Officer since March 2017. Mr. Green has over 20 years of experience in corporate and securities law. Mr. Green was Deputy General Counsel of Annaly from 2009 until March 2017. Prior to joining Annaly in 2009, Mr. Green was a partner in the Corporate, Securities, Mergers & Acquisitions Group at K&L Gates LLP. Mr. Green holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. and LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from Cornell Law School.

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Ken Adler

Head of Mortgage Servicing Rights
Head of Portfolio Analytics

Ken Adler is Head of Mortgage Servicing Rights and Head of Portfolio Analytics at Annaly. Prior to joining Annaly in 2020, Mr. Adler served for four years as an EVP and Head of Capital Markets for Caliber Home Loans, Inc, with responsibilities overseeing MSR, secondary trading and origination margin management. Prior to that, Mr. Adler held senior positions in mortgage finance at Structured Portfolio Management, CitiMortgage and Natixis. Mr. Adler holds a B.S. from The Wharton School, an M.B.A. from the Columbia Graduate School of Business and also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.

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Mike Fania

Deputy Chief Investment Officer
Head of Residential Credit

Michael Fania is Deputy Chief Investment Officer and Head of Residential Credit at Annaly. Mr. Fania has over 15 years of experience in mortgage trading and portfolio management. Prior to joining Annaly in 2015, Mr. Fania was an Associate Director at MetLife Investments and was responsible for residential credit trading and strategy. Mr. Fania received a B.A. in Finance from Rutgers College and also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.

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Seana Gormley

Chief Human Resources Officer

Seana Gormley is Chief Human Resources Officer at Annaly. Ms. Gormley has over 22 years of experience as a Human Resources executive with a broad portfolio of roles in financial services. Most recently, she served as a Managing Director and the head of HR for the Operations Division at Morgan Stanley where she led human resources for the global division supporting 6,000+ employees. During her 16 years at Morgan Stanley, she also served as a head Human Resources Business Partner for the following businesses: Global Institutional Equity Division, Technology Division and the Wealth Management Western Division.  Prior to Morgan Stanley, Ms. Gormley worked at Bank Of America and Citigroup.  Ms. Gormley received a B.A. from Manhattan College in Economics and International Studies. 

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Johanna Griffin

Chief Risk Officer

Johanna Griffin is the Chief Risk Officer at Annaly. Ms. Griffin has over 25 years of experience in various risk management roles. Prior to joining Annaly in 2015, Ms. Griffin was Head of Securitized Products Market Risk at Barclays Capital. Prior to Barclays, Ms. Griffin held various market risk positions, primarily covering fixed income trading and products at UBS Securities, PaineWebber and Lehman Brothers. Ms. Griffin holds a B.A. in Economics and English from Villanova University. 

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Pete Koukouras

Treasurer

Pete Koukouras is the Treasurer of Annaly. Prior to his current role, he was Head of Repo Trading and Liability Management at Annaly from 2014 until September 2019. Mr. Koukouras has over 15 years of experience in financial services and has a deep understanding of funding markets and liquidity in agency mortgages. Prior to joining Annaly in 2005, Mr. Koukouras was a Financial Advisor for UBS Wealth Management from 2003 until 2005. Prior to UBS, he worked for Deutsche Bank as part of the Alex Brown Division where he was focused on high net-worth and ultra high net-worth clients. Mr. Koukouras earned a B.A. from St. Thomas Aquinas College.

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Jessica LaScala

Head of Investment Operations

Jessica LaScala is Head of Investment Operations at Annaly. Prior to her current role, Ms. LaScala served as Chief of Staff to the Chief Investment Officer and Investment Teams from 2019 to 2022 and Head of Investor Relations from 2015 to 2019. Ms. LaScala has also held portfolio management roles at Annaly. Ms. LaScala has over 20 years of experience in mortgage trading, portfolio management and financial operations. Prior to joining Annaly in 2014, Ms. LaScala was at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where she managed Mortgage Operations for the Federal Reserve’s MBS Purchase Program. Before joining the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Ms. LaScala worked at Citigroup Inc. as an Agency MBS Trader. Ms. LaScala earned a B.A. in Political Science from Columbia University, Barnard College.

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Sashi Nair

Chief Technology Officer

Sashi Nair is Chief Technology Officer of Annaly. Mr. Nair has over 25 years of experience in information technology within the mortgage and securitized products industries. Prior to joining Annaly in July 2024, Mr. Nair served as Managing Director and Global Head of Securitized Products Trading and Home Lending Capital Markets Technology at JP Morgan Chase. Prior to JP Morgan, Mr. Nair was a Director at PHH Mortgage. Mr. Nair received a Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science from Pune University.

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Tanya Rakpraja

Head of Corporate Responsibility and Government Relations

Tanya Rakpraja is Head of Corporate Responsibility and Government Relations at Annaly. Ms. Rakpraja has over 20 years of experience working in finance, economic development, and public policy.  Prior to joining Annaly in 2018, Ms. Rakpraja served as Senior Director at Capital Impact Partners, a national Community Development Financial Institution that lends in underinvested communities. Prior to that, Ms. Rakpraja was at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York where she designed and managed a number of the financial market facilities established during the financial crisis, including the Agency MBS Purchase Program and the Agency Debt Purchase Program. Ms. Rakpraja received a B.A from Brown University and a M.P.A from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs.

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V.S. Srinivasan

Head of Agency

V.S. ("Srini") Srinivasan is the Head of Agency at Annaly. Mr. Srinivasan spent the first 15 years of his career at Bear Stearns/JP Morgan and Barclays building models and advising clients on valuation and interest rate risk in Agency MBS. He has spent the last ten years investing in Agency MBS. Mr. Srinivasan was most recently a Managing Director at PNC. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director in Annaly’s Agency and Residential Credit Groups. Mr. Srinivasan joined Annaly from KLS Diversified Asset Management, where he was a portfolio manager of Agency MBS and Derivatives. He received a B.S. from the Indian Institute of Technology and a M.S. from Rutgers University.

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Audrey K. Susanin

Deputy General Counsel
Chief Compliance Officer

Audrey K. Susanin is Deputy General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer at Annaly. Ms. Susanin has over 15 years of experience in corporate and securities law. Prior to joining Annaly in 2015, Ms. Susanin was a Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at News Corporation. Ms. Susanin also previously worked as an associate at Weil, Gotshal and Manges LLP in the Public Company Advisory Group. Ms. Susanin has a B.A. from Cornell University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.