Paul Fine is a Managing Director at KKR and Head of U.S. Originations for its Real Estate Credit business based in New York. Since joining KKR in 2015, Mr. Fine has played a key role in building and scaling the firm’s real estate credit platform, with responsibility for originations and execution across a broad range of debt strategies, capital sources, and investment vehicles. Before KKR, Mr. Fine was a Director at Cantor Fitzgerald, where he helped establish the firm’s real estate finance practice. He began his career in the real estate finance group at Credit Suisse. Mr. Fine earned his B.S. in Applied Economics and Management, magna cum laude, from Cornell University, where he serves on the Board of the Center for Real Estate and Finance.