Louis currently serves as President of Hunt Investment Management and is a voting member of Hunt’s Executive Investment Committee. His primary responsibilities are to further the growth of the Company’s current platforms as well as develop new strategies which benefit from its sector and geographic expertise.

Louis was most recently Chief Executive Officer and Board Director of Washington Prime Group, Inc. (WPG), one of the nation’s largest publicly traded owners of regional malls and shopping centers. He was asked to assume this role by its largest shareholder and Board of Directors in June 2016. Louis served in this capacity until its restructuring and privatization in November 2021 after which he served as consultant to the Company for a one-year period.

During his WPG tenure, he was responsible for the Company’s operational turnaround involving diversification of tenancy, common area activation and adaptive reuse of over 40 vacated department stores. His ‘dominant town center’ strategy resulted in sector leading leasing volume of which ~50% of new tenancy was attributable to nontraditional usage. Louis founded two companies while at WPG: Tangible, a patented eCommerce platform showcasing internet purveyors and Shelby’s Sugar Shop, a confectionary store. WPG was at the forefront of social media and marketing innovation receiving over 50 MarCom awards from the International Marketing and Communication Professionals (IMCP) organization.

Prior to WPG, Mr. Conforti was a Partner and Managing Director of Colony Capital, Inc., a global real estate and entertainment private equity firm which at its peak held assets under management totaling ~$45B. As Global Head of Strategy, he was instrumental in several initiatives including both the formation of de novo strategies as well as the growth of existing platforms.

Previously, Louis was a portfolio manager within the hedge fund sector focusing upon global real estate and infrastructure. He was a Managing Director of Balyasny Asset Management immediately prior to Colony Capita establishing their real estate platform. Louis was Global Head of Real Estate for UBS O’Connor, the ~$60B AUM alternative investment management division of UBS AG. During his tenure at UBS O’Connor, Louis was responsible for one of its largest investment vehicles (~$4.25B AUM) and was consistently one of the top performers at UBS O’Connor. He also served as Managing Director and Head of Real Estate Investments at Stark Investments after they acquired his proprietary trading platform, The Greenwood Group.

Earlier, Louis began his career at Alex. Brown & Sons, Prime Group Realty Trust and Capital Realty Services within various investment banking, securities trading and operational roles.