Biography

Carolyn Downey has been a director of ARMOUR since September 2013. Ms. Downey has nearly 30 years of institutional capital markets experience working with leading institutions in global finance. From 1989 through 2007, Ms. Downey held various executive positions at, including as a Managing Director of, RBS Greenwich Capital, a fixed-income sales, trading and finance firm serving institutional clients, and a U.S. Government securities primary dealer. At RBS Greenwich Capital, Ms. Downey was responsible for relationships with real-estate investment trusts, financial institutions, hedge funds, investment managers and proprietary trading desks, participated in structuring and distribution of net interest margin securities, commercial mortgage securities and collateralized mortgage obligations, and advised on hedging strategies using derivative products and synthetic swaps. Prior to her time at RBS Greenwich Capital, Ms. Downey was a Vice President of Fixed Income Sales at Salomon, Inc. from 1981 through 1989, where she was for some time responsible for residual product placement and other equity tranches of structured debt and sourcing residuals from mortgage originators and security issuers. Ms. Downey also previously served as a mortgage product specialist in London and a thrift specialist in New York. Ms. Downey holds a B.A. degree from St. Mary’s College, a B.S. degree in Accounting from Boston University and an M.B.A. degree from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Through 2020, Ms. Downey served on the Advisory Board of St. Ann School, East Harlem, a partnership of patrons, the Archdiocese and school leaders. She previously served on the Board of Directors of the Student Sponsor Partners. She is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the League of Women Voters of New Canaan, CT.