Victor Woolridge

Retired, Managing Director of Real Estate Debt Capital Market, Barings Real Estate | Vice Chair, Board of Regents, University of Massachusetts Global
Connect

Mr. Victor Woolridge leads the U.S. debt capital markets activities for Baring Real Estate equities, which formulating debt strategies for the various real estate equity portfolios of assets and individual assets in Barings’s equity real estate portfolio. Other responsibilities include execution and reporting of derivative trades to manage interest rate risk, and as a member of the firm’s Libor Steering Committee formed to coordinate the smooth transition of Libor to a replacement index for the real estate business unit. He has previously managed loan restructures and trouble asset resolutions in the special servicing unit of Barings Real Estate’s predecessor Cornerstone's Real Estate Advisors.

Prior to Cornerstone, Mr. Woolridge was a Managing Director for Babson Capital Management responsible for the origination, structuring and distribution of commercial mortgage investments for external clients. Third-party client activities included advisory activities on whole loan transactions, structured loan participations, mezzanine and other subordinate debt structures, Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS) and the creation of commercial mortgage investment funds. Mr. Woolridge joined Cornerstone in 2010, its affiliate Babson Capital Management, in 2000 and MassMutual in 1980. Victor is a designated Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM), a member of the Mortgage Bankers Association and served on the Bankruptcy Working Group established by the MBA to formulate and implement the industry’s bankruptcy relief policy during the late 80’s and early 1990’s. Mr. Woolridge has been a member of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP) and is a current investment committee member of the Springfield Venture Fund and Life Initiative investment committee which finances community based non-profit entities across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Outside community activities have included:

Current:

  • Chair UMass Building Authority – appointed by Gov. Charlie Baker 2017
  • Trustee UMass Global (formerly Brandman University)
  • Member of Baystate Health Strategy Committee
  • Trustee Baystate Health Insurance Company
  • The Life Initiative Investment Committee member representing MassMutual
  • Board Member – Springfield Riverfront Development Corporation (Basketball Hall of Fame)
  • Appointed By Governor Charlie Baker to the Black Advisory Commission for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (2019 – present)
  • Member of Beta Sigma Boule
  • Honorary member of Beta Gamma Sigma honor society

Past Roles:

  • Former Trustee of Baystate Health and immediate past Board Chair of the Baystate Health Board of Trustees
  • Former Chair of the University of Massachusetts Board of Trustees – Appointed By Gov. Charlie Baker in January 2015 – 2017
  • Former Springfield Venture Fund Investment Committee member (a MassMutual entity)
  • Former Chair Springfield Chamber of Commerce
  • Former Chair Behavioral Health Network
  • Former Chair Dunbar Community Center
  • Founding Board member of VERITAS Preparatory Charter School
  • Former Board member Springfield Technical College Foundation Committee
  • Former Trustee of Springfield Museum Association
  • Former member of the Springfield Symphony Board of Trustees
  • Former board member of the Westmas Area Development Corporation Board
  • Former member of Springfield Business Leaders for Education
  • Awarded the Human Service Award and subsequently chaired the Human Service Forum
  • Formerly a member (1980’s) of the United Church Board for World Ministries Investment Committee