Morgan Sickles has been appointed Senior Vice President Originations and Business Development at Aries Capital LLC.

Aries Conlon Capital is pleased to announce that Morgan Sickles has joined the firm as Senior Vice President for the firm's Originations and Business Development team. Sickles will specialize in originating high-leverage, non-recourse, bridge and permanent debt with cash out for hotel, self-storage, commercial and multifamily properties nationwide. Sickles is based at the Imperial Center in Durham, North Carolina.
Sickles brings 10 years of experience, facilitating commercial real estate transactions and projects in excess of $1 billion, to the firm. Prior to joining Aries Conlon Capital, Sickles founded Atlantis Advisors, a nationwide hotel services provider. The firm specialized in debt placement, CMBS portfolio underwriting, and real estate investment/market analyses. Sickles also served as a Business Development Officer for Live Oak Bank, where he generated over $90 million in hotel acquisition, reposition, and refinance loans; as well as positions in asset management and project finance with Extended Stay America, commercial real estate underwriting with PNC, and mortgage banking with Cushman & Wakefield.
Sickles earned both Master of Business Administration and Bachelor of Arts degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has also served on the boards of the Historic Wilmington Foundation and the Carolina Raptor Center.
