Mauricio Serna

SVP & Global Head of Sustainability at Starwood Capital Group

Speaker

Mauricio Serna is a Senior Vice President and Global Head of Sustainability at Starwood Capital Group. In his role, Mr. Serna oversees the integration of ESG initiatives across our corporate operations and throughout the lifecycle of our investments with the goal of enhancing our firmwide risk-management and long-term value creation strategy. Mr. Serna is also a member and lead coordinator of Starwood Capital Group’s Firmwide ESG Steering Committee and is a participating member to the UNPRI’s Real Estate Advisory Committee.

Mr. Serna brings more than a decade of professional experience to Starwood. He began his career as an analyst within Goldman Sachs’ Sovereign Credit Risk Management and Advisory Group and later joined the bank’s Natural Resources Investment Banking Group as an associate focusing on renewable energy and infrastructure mergers & acquisitions advisory.

After his time at Goldman, Mr. Serna joined LA-based commercial real estate marketplace—CREXi as VP of Finance. At CREXi, Mr. Serna helped develop the company’s product monetization strategy and established the company’s finance, accounting, and investor relations functions. CREXi raised +$40M in Series A and Series B capital from venture capital investors during Mr. Serna’s tenure.

Mr. Serna is a proud first-generation college graduate and first-generation immigrant to the U.S. from Colombia. He earned a B.A. with a double major in Economics & Government from Georgetown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.