Leadership/E. St. Mark Latty, PhD
E. St. Mark Latty, PhD, MSRED, MS, MBA
Founder & Managing Director, Golden Rock Real Estate Partners (GRREP)
E. St. Mark Latty is the Founder and Managing Director of Golden Rock Real Estate Partners, a private family investment firm that is part of SEGP Holdings. GRREP is focused on acquiring, developing, and repositioning medical outpatient buildings (MOBs) and multifamily assets in high-growth and undercapitalized U.S. markets. With over 25 years of experience spanning acquisitions, development, securitizations, and infrastructure strategy, Dr. Latty brings a multidisciplinary lens to complex real asset investments.
He began his career at Criimi Mae (bought by CW Capital), the pioneering B-piece buyer in the CMBS industry, where he managed a multi-billion dollar portfolio of CRE debt and worked on one of the first re-securitization transactions (that subsequently won Institutional Investor Deal of the Year). Since then, he has originated, underwritten, or negotiated transactions for a smart city development project, and large-scale office, multifamily, industrial, and hospitality investments across the U.S., including superluxury hotels and trophy towers. Prior to GRREP, Dr. Latty led the Arawak Fund that bought FMDI, an airports logistics company that served several Fortune 1000 corporations. He also led Arawak’s team on acquisition transaction for beverage, pharmaceutical distribution, and biotechnology companies. His firm’s current focus includes scalable MOB platforms, public-private urban redevelopment projects, and sponsor-aligned capital structures.
Dr. Latty earned his Master of Science degree in Real Estate Development (MSRED) from New York University, a Master of Science in Biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University, a PhD in Data Science, an MBA in Finance, and completed medical doctoral coursework. Dr. Latty is a practitioner-scholar and CRE cap-rate specialist who has published research in peer-reviewed journal and that has vast implications for federal reserve rates and recessions, institutional investments, and bank lending. He previously served as Course Director, Lecturer, and Adjunct Professor at two leading research universities.