Dr. Albert Tylis serves as Chief Executive Officer & President at NorthStar Asset Management Group. Prior to his current position at NorthStar Realty Finance, Tylis served as Co-President of NorthStar Realty Finance from April 2011 until January 2013, Chief Operating Officer of NorthStar Realty Finance from January 2010 until January 2013, Secretary of NorthStar Realty Finance from April 2006 until January 2013, an Executive Vice President of NorthStar Realty Finance from April 2006 until April 2011 and General Counsel of NorthStar Realty Finance from April 2006 to April 2011. Tylis also served as Chief Operating Officer of NorthStar Income from October 2010 until January 2013 and as General Counsel and Secretary of NorthStar Income from October 2010 until April 2011. He has further served as Chairman of the board of directors of NorthStar Healthcare from April 2011 until January 2013 and as General Counsel and Secretary of NorthStar Healthcare from October 2010 until April 2011. Prior to joining NorthStar Realty Finance in August 2005, Tylis was the Director of Corporate Finance and General Counsel of ASA Institute and from September 1999 through February 2005, Tylis was a senior attorney at the law firm of Bryan Cave LLP, where he was a member of the Corporate Finance and Securities Group, the Transactions Group, the Banking, Business and Public Finance Group and supported the firm 's Real Estate Group. Tylis has served as a member of the advisory committee of RXR Realty since December 2013. Tylis holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a Juris Doctor from Suffolk University Law School.