Melissa Band is a Managing Director on the Capital Markets team at Värde Partners and responsible for the global real estate capital markets and structured finance needs of Värde’s real estate investments in addition to relationship management of key accounts. Prior to joining Värde, Melissa was a Vice President in the CRE Capital Markets & Finance group at Wells Fargo Securities where she focused on securitization execution and capital markets analysis across CRE CLOs, Conduit, Agency and other CRE-backed capital markets transactions. Prior to her time at Wells Fargo, Melissa spent time working at Ernst & Young, focused on CMBS and other fixed income products as part of the Structured Products Advisory group. Ms. Band graduated summa cum laude as the class valedictorian with a B.S. in Finance and minor in Economics from James Madison University.