Authors List
Authors
-
is the vice president of real estate at Mindspace. He is a real estate finance professional with a great passion for new technology and innovation. He has experience in investment banking, real estate mergers and acquisitions, asset-level and corporate-level financial strategy, real estate finance, lease negotiations of large commercial spaces, strategic planning and strategic corporate communication. Banayan has an MBA degree from the NYU Stern School of Business.
View all posts -
Alok Bansal is managing director of Visionet Systems Inc., and has more than 23 years of experience in managing strategy and global business process management operations. He excels in optimizing and leading growth of financial services companies that are looking to take their mortgage operations to the next level. He has been instrumental in leading large-scale technology initiatives and implementing scalable outsourcing services.
View all posts -
Kunya Baramy is senior vice president and head of cloud services at Visionet Systems Inc., a premier digital technology company built on the premise of disruptive innovation. Baramy is a versatile technology leader who blends technical and financial expertise with strong experience in building cloud-services business. He currently heads the cloud business for Visionet and is responsible for the company’s Build, Grow and Deliver initiative.
View all posts -
Rob Barber is CEO at Attom, a leading curator of land, property data, and real estate analytics for more than 155 million U.S. residential and commercial properties. He leads teams that diversify the business, improve the quality of revenue and generate returns for investors. He previously served as CEO of Environmental Data Resources, where he helped to scale the company from a niche data publisher into the nation’s largest transaction and business intelligence platform for commercial real estate due diligence. Learn more about Attom at attomdata.com.
View all posts -
Derrick Barker is CEO of Nectar, which provides financing to professional real estate investors with low-leveraged, cash-flowing assets. He and his wife, Brittany Mosely, co-founded the company. Barker started building his real estate portfolio in 2010 as a senior at Harvard University. He transitioned into buying multifamily properties while working as a bond trader at Goldman Sachs. Barker and Mosely launched Nectar to provide mezzanine-level financing in real estate portfolios in a variety of asset classes.
View all posts -
Garry Barnes is managing director of PW Partners Consultancy, headquartered in Salt Lake City, and is a freelance writer. He is a former president and CEO of banks in Arizona, California and Utah. He has taught at the university level, and is a frequent writer and lecturer on banking, finance and real estate matters. Barnes has served on the U.S. Small Business Administration’s National Advisory Council and received the SBA Arizona Financial Services Advocate of the Year award.
View all posts -
Tyler Barron is the chief revenue officer at Encapture, an intelligent automation platform providing banks with documentation efficiency. Using machine learning and AI technology, Encapture helps banks reduce compliance risks associated with fair lending guidelines, reduce overhead costs and improve profitability in a volatile market.
View all posts -
Fabio Baum is managing director and senior underwriter at Parkview Financial, a direct private lender specializing in ground-up commercial and residential real estate financing. Baum focuses on underwriting, asset management and business development. He has expertise in equity investment, development, senior and mezzanine debt originations, dispositions and workouts.
View all posts -
John Beacham is CEO and founder of Toorak Capital Partners, a tech-enabled investment manager of business-purpose mortgage loans backed by residential, multifamily, and mixed-use properties throughout the U.S. and U.K. Headquartered in Tampa, Florida, Toorak sources loans through strategic partnerships with top loan originators including sister company Merchants Mortgage, which is responsible for over half of Toorak's 1-4 unit residential transition loan (RTL) volume – and also via direct origination including table funding. For more information, visit Toorakcapital.com. Reach Beacham at (212) 393-4100.
View all posts -
Rick Bechtel is executive vice president and head of U.S. residential lending for TD Bank. He is accountable for all aspects of consumer lending across TD’s mortgage and home equity businesses. This includes strategy, product and profit-and-loss management, as well as leading the bank’s national sales team and secondary-markets groups. He has been immersed in the industry for nearly 30 years and is focused on growing TD’s residential lending business while ensuring alignment to the bank’s risk profile and continuous focus on clients.
View all posts -
Gary Bechtel serves as CEO of Michigan-based Red Oak Capital Holdings LLC, a group of capital entities that lends and invests on commercial real estate by raising funds through retail and institutional channels. He leads the company’s investment management leadership teams with direct oversight of all portfolios. Prior to joining Red Oak in 2020, Bechtel served as president of Money360. Over the past 34 years, he has been involved in all aspects of commercial real estate finance and has closed more than $10 billion in commercial debt transactions.
View all posts -
Maureen Bensily is director of product management for the financial services compliance program management team at Wolters Kluwer Compliance Solutions. She brings more than 20 years of expertise to her role, including leadership positions in compliance operations in the insurance, securities and banking industries. Bensily has expertise in developing products relating to regulatory insight and change management, and in working with financial institutions to implement innovative, scalable solutions to compliance challenges.
View all posts