Arbor Realty Trust, Inc. announced the appointment of Howard Leiner as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Mr. Leiner will be responsible for overseeing all of the strategic, operational and technical management of Arbor's enterprise-wide technology infrastructure. Mr. Leiner comes to Arbor with more than 25 years of experience in the financial services sector. In his most recent position with Goldman Sachs, he served as Managing Director, Global Head of Private Bank Technology. While at Goldman Sachs, he also held the roles of Managing Director, Global Head of Foreign Exchange Trading and Sales Technology as well as Global Head of Mortgage Trading and Sales Technology. Prior to that, he held senior-level technology roles with C-BASS, Smith Barney and Deutsche Bank.