Andrew Fentress has served as Chairman of ACRES Commercial Realty since July 2020 and, following the internalization that closed on August 6, 2026, serves as Managing Director, Capital Markets and as the Company's principal executive officer. He has been a Managing Partner of ACRES Capital Corp. since 2016, leading the firm's capital markets efforts. Mr. Fentress previously served as a Managing Director in the Special Situations group at Napier Park Global Capital (2014-2016) and was a founding and Managing Partner of Medley Capital, a New York private investment firm he helped build to $5 billion of AUM and 60 employees, from 2006 through 2014. He began his career at Morgan Stanley & Co. in 1995. He brings over 30 years of finance and investment management experience to the Board.