New York Mortgage Trust Inc. has named Douglas E. Neal as the non-executive chairman of its board of directors.
Neal is the founder of Neal Capital, which provides financial advisory services to real estate companies. Prior to founding Neal Capital, he served as a managing director for the real estate investment banking group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and its predecessors from February 1998 to October 2011, and he held various other positions with such predecessors from 1991 to 1998.