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Jack Macdowell

Jack Macdowell is the co-founder, managing member and chief investment officer at the Palisades Group. He is responsible for leading all investment activities, including research, portfolio allocation and risk-management functions. Prior to founding Palisades, Macdowell held various leadership roles at buy-side companies focused on mortgage and securitized credit. He has sell-side experience with Credit Suisse First Boston and RBC Capital Markets.
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Alex Machuca

Alex Machuca is the founder and CEO of Lyncrest Media, a mortgage marketing company that guarantees clients 60 appointments over the course of 90 days. He has been featured in top publications such as Yahoo Finance, CBS, Fox News, Thrive Global, SmallBizClub and Young Upstarts, among others. He also has been featured on various podcasts, including the “Million Dollar Mortgage Experience” and “Hooked on Startups.”
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Jonathan MacKinnon

Jonathan MacKinnon is vice president of product strategy and business development at Hometap, where he is responsible for defining and executing new product offerings as well as forming strategic partnerships. He previously served as head of growth and operations for consumer finance at CarGurus, and as senior director of business operations and general manager for PistonHeads.com. He holds an MBA from Dartmouth College and a bachelor’s degree in economics and history from Amherst College.
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Tom MacManus

Tom MacManus is president and CEO of Money360, a direct commercial real estate lender. MacManus is a tenured commercial real estate executive with more than 30 years of experience in commercial mortgage banking, lending and capital markets. His previous roles have included serving as president and chief operating officer at ARA Finance; as chairman and CEO at Cushman & Wakefield Sonnenblick-Goldman; as president of GMAC Commercial Mortgage; and as CEO of North American Operations.
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Susan Makin

Susan Makin is chief operating officer at Kriss Law/Atlantic Closing & Escrow. Makin has served the title and settlement industry for 20 years, coming to her current company in 2011. She has been a key reason for the company growing into one of the nation’s largest title and closing firms. Today, Kriss Law/Atlantic Closing & Escrow is licensed in 30 states and partners with mortgage lenders of all sizes.
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Rohit Malik

Rohit Malik is the founder and principal of consulting firm Business Anatomy. He has been a business consultant for 25 years, specializing in strategic-execution, cost-reduction and tax-deferral strategies for a variety of industries. His work includes cost-segregation and research-and-development tax credits. Malik earned an MBA in operations and general management from the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.
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George Maravilla

George Maravilla is senior vice president at Tower Capital, a Phoenix-based company specializing in debt and equity placement ranging from $2 million to $300 million. Tower Capital recently arranged $120 million in financing for a built-to-rent development. Prior to joining Tower Capital, Maravilla spent 14 years at DMB Associates Inc., which specializes in large-scale master-planned communities.
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David Marden

David Marden is designated managing broker at Hausmarkt. He’s a third-generation real estate professional with 20-plus years of experience in buying and selling real estate and property management. He’s managed and mentored some of Chicago’s top real estate professionals, managed leasing operations for multiple new construction high-rise buildings in the Chicago market and now specializes in search-engine optimization lead generation.
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Anthony Marino

Anthony T. Marino is a managing director at Cambridge Realty Capital Companies and the primary contact between the borrowers and the Cambridge team throughout the loan process, from origination through asset management, addressing all borrowers’ concerns while achieving their financing goals. Marino began his career with Cambridge in 1999. Since then, he has completed more than $2 billion in transactions. Marino earned a bachelor’s degree in management and marketing from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Reach Marino at (312) 357-1601.
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Sean Marr

Sean Marr is director of correspondent lending for Angel Oak Mortgage Solutions. Prior to Angel Oak, Marr served in the mortgage industry for 25 years in various sales and sales leadership roles with organizations such as HomeSide Lending and Citibank.
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Megan Marsh

Megan Marsh is the owner of Keystone Alliance Mortgage, a top-producing mortgage brokerage in Pennsylvania, Florida, Illinois, Ohio and Puerto Rico. She is a serial entrepreneur and property investor who has launched eight businesses and built a growing real estate portfolio with 40-plus properties. Marsh is a speaker, coach and podcast host of “The CóLab,” downloadable at thecolablife.com. For speaking engagements or other inquiries contact Megan Marsh.
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John Martin

John Martin is CEO and founder of BeyondRecognition LLC, which develops visual-classification technology for documents from a variety of industries. Martin’s earlier development work resulted in a U.S. patent for an electronic discovery system, and he has served as a consulting and a testifying trial expert on e-discovery. Visit beyondrecognition.net.
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