CREF Private Credit Finance Senior Executive Roundtable

Mark Fogel
Committee Chair
Chief Executive Officer & President
ACRES Capital
Uniondale, NY

Issa Bannourah, CFA
Senior Vice President & Treasurer
Walker & Dunlop, LLC
Bethesda, MD

Gary Bechtel
Chief Executive Officer
Red Oak Capital Holdings, LLC
Charlotte, NC

Kelli Burke
Vice President, Commercial Real Estate Finance | Policy & Strategic Industry Engagement
Mortgage Bankers Association
Washington, DC

Michael Cale
SVP - Capital Markets
Berkadia
Ambler, PA

Christine Chandler
2026 MBA Chair; Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer
M&T Realty Capital Corporation
Baltimore, MD

Jack M. Cohen, CMB, CRI
Managing Member
ArrowMark Partners
Denver, CO

Jeremy Cohen
Senior Vice President
Citco Loan Services (USA) Inc.
New York, NY

Hal Collett
Chief Executive Officer | Debt & Structured Finance
Colliers
Minneapolis, MN

David Dieterich
Chief Financial Officer
RRA Capital
Phoenix, AZ

Boots Dunlap
CEO
RRA Capital
New York, NY

Michael R. Dury
President & Chief Executive Officer
Merchants Capital Corp.
Carmel, IN

DJ Effler
CEO & President
BWE
Columbus, OH

Noreen Engler
SVP
Citco Loan Services (USA) Inc.
New York, NY

Jeffrey Erxleben
President - Debt & Equity
Northmarq
Dallas, TX

John Faheem, MBA
National Executive
Altisource Portfolio Solutions, Inc.
Huntington Beach, CA

Drew Fung
Managing Director, Portfolio Manager
Clarion Partners
Rye, NY

Elaine Furnari
Head of Loan Services
Citco Loan Services (USA) Inc.
New York, NY

Bhavna Goyal
Senior Director
Lument
Hudson, NJ

John C. Jacobs
Principal
PGIM
Los Angeles,

Christopher H. Johns, Jr. , CRI
Regional Vice President, Commercial Mortgage Loans
OneAmerica Financial Partners
Indianapolis, IN

Stephen Johnson
SVP - MF Production & Sales
Freddie Mac Multifamily
Mc Lean, VA

Lilly Kaufmann
Director
UBS
New York, NY

Steve Kennedy
Executive Managing Director
VIUM Capital
Columbus, OH

Annais Klock
Chief Operating Officer
Gradient Mortgage Capital, LLC
Fort Lauderdale, FL

Michael Lavipour
Affinius Capital
San Antonio, TX

Joe Lovell, CRI
Chief Administrative Officer
Colliers
Minneapolis, MN

Matt MacCaughelty
Director of Strategic Capital Partnerships
BWE
Charlotte, NC

Jeffrey T. Majewski
Executive Managing Director
CBRE Capital Markets
Houston, TX

Bryan McDonnell
Head of U.S. Debt & Chair of Global Debt
PGIM
Arlington, VA

Stephanie T. Milner
Associate General Counsel | Legal Division
Freddie Mac Multifamily
McLean, VA

Christopher Niederpruem
Managing Director & Group Head
First Citizens Bank Commercial
New York, NY

Adam Oates
Head of Grandbridge Real Estate Capital
Grandbridge Real Estate Capital LLC
Charlotte, NC

Jeff Patton
EVP, National Director of Agency Relationships
BWE
Birmingham, AL

John Randall
Head of Production
Colliers
Charlotte, NC

Mark E. Reichter
Principal
Gantry
San Francisco, CA

Michael Riccio
Co-Head of National Production
CBRE Capital Markets
Hartford, CT

Judith Ricks, Ph.D.
Associate Vice President, Commercial Real Estate Research
Mortgage Bankers Association
Washington, DC

Matthew Rocco, Sr.
2023 MBA Chairman; President
Colliers
Charlotte, NC

James Ryan
Head of Commercial Real Estate
Genworth Financial
Stamford, CT

Jacky Salazar, CCMS
Associate Vice President
Mortgage Bankers Association
Washington, DC

Robert L. Slatt
Principal
Gantry
San Francisco, CA

Tim L. Stoner
Senior Managing Director, Head of Capital Markets
Affinius Capital
San Antonio, TX

Ike Suri
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
FundingShield LLC
Newport Beach, CA

Daron Tubian
Head of Affordable Housing Investments
Barings
New York, NY

Ramkumar Venkataraman
Cofounder & CTO
Sei Software Technologies Inc.
Lewes, DE

Sean Whitfield
Senior Vice President, Assistant Portfolio Manager, Real Estate Debt
Washington Capital
San Francisco, CA

Cooper Williams
President
Essex Financial Group
Denver, CO

Jamie Woodwell
Senior Vice President of Commercial/Multifamily Policy and Strategic Industry Engagement
Mortgage Bankers Association
Washington, DC