Ellington Residential Mortgage REIT CEO and leadership

Mike Vranos currently works as the Chief Executive Officer of Ellington Management Group, L.L.C. He founded Ellington in December of 1994 to capitalize on distressed conditions in the MBS derivatives market. Until December 1994, Mike was the Senior Managing Director of Kidder Peabody in charge of RMBS trading. With Mike as head trader and senior manager, Kidder Peabody’s MBS department became a leader on Wall Street in CMO underwriting for each of the three years between 1991 and 1993. Mike began his Wall Street career in 1983, after graduating magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Harvard University. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Boys and Girls Harbor, Hedge Funds Care, the Hopkins School, and the Waterside School, and is an emeritus member of the Board of the Stamford Shelter for the Homeless. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, to Greek-American parents, and raised in Ellington, Connecticut.

Mike Vranos currently works as the Chief Executive Officer of Ellington Management Group, L.L.C. He founded Ellington in December of 1994 to capitalize on distressed conditions in the MBS derivatives market. Until December 1994, Mike was the Senior Managing Director of Kidder Peabody in charge of RMBS trading. With Mike as head trader and senior manager, Kidder Peabody’s MBS department became a leader on Wall Street in CMO underwriting for each of the three years between 1991 and 1993. Mike began his Wall Street career in 1983, after graduating magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Harvard University. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Boys and Girls Harbor, Hedge Funds Care, the Hopkins School, and the Waterside School, and is an emeritus member of the Board of the Stamford Shelter for the Homeless. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, to Greek-American parents, and raised in Ellington, Connecticut.