Brandon McKnight is an accomplished Chief Investment Officer with a proven track record of driving growth, optimizing operations, and enhancing profitability across diverse sectors. Previously serving as Chief Strategy Officer, Brandon has led strategic restructuring to scale capacity and strengthen client relationships. With past roles at IBM Consulting’s Promontory Risk Review and Stewart Lender Services, he has managed global teams, driven revenue increases, and overseen multi-million-dollar portfolios. Brandon holds a JD from the University of Colorado School of Law and a BS in Finance from CU Boulder.

Pine Financial Group is the premier lender for real estate investors in Colorado, Minnesota, Washington D.C., and Wisconsin. We specialize in lending private money to rehab investors, but we also have extensive experience in both conventional and portfolio lending. Everyone at Pine Financial Group, Inc is dedicated to the success of his or her clients. We only experience success when our clients are succeeding. As a result, we have a habit of telling you when a deal should not be done. Real estate investors benefit from our honesty and integrity when they choose to work with us.

CivicSource® creates technology that protects taxpayer property rights, guarantees investors insurable titles, and provides collectors an online marketplace to host transparent property auctions and tax sales.

Promontory Risk Review is a subsidiary of Promontory Financial Group, a Business Unit of IBM, and provides business process outsourcing services for financial institutions around the globe, with a focus on anti-money-laundering (AML) and know-your-customer (KYC) reviews. Promontory Financial Group, is a wholly owned subsidiary of IBM and is a global consulting firm that advises clients on a variety of financial services matters, including regulatory issues, compliance, risk management, liquidity, restructuring, acquisitions, due diligence, internal investigations and cyber security.Responsible for all day to day operations and management of 1500+ staff across four different delivery centers: Denver, Colorado, Markham, Ontario, Bangalore, India and Krakow, Poland. Scaled operations and service delivery to handle a 400% increase in revenue growth in six years. Setup and established three new delivery centers in off-shore and near-shore locations. Successfully transitioned 500+ delivery staff from working in office to working from home in two weeks across multiple global delivery centers. Direct reports include: Vice President of Operations, Director of Operations, Director of Operations Implementations, Vice President of Special Projects.

Responsible for all day to day operations, client coordination and management of 150+ staff. Developed and implemented new production reporting that enabled PRR to successfully complete a lookback review of over 11,000 alerts for a top ten United States based bank. Implemented a staff augmentation engagement for a large global retailer. Successfully executed multiple short term 25+ person engagements in under 30 days or less. Helped establish new C level reporting to provide better visibility in to engagement specific performance and day to day operations. Reorganized the operational structure to better position PRR for future growth and sustainability.

PMH Financial is a financial services company offering a variety of products and services related to mortgage servicing, default administration, loss mitigation and real estate management.Residential, Commercial and Land Asset ManagementREO and Short Sale ManagementCollateral Valuation SolutionsSubservicing and Default ServicesBulk Portfolio AcquisitionsWith a staff of over 100 professionals in 6 states, PMH manages an active inventory of approximately $2.5 billion in real estate assets on behalf of financial institutions, loan servicers, and hedge fund investors.PMH Financial is an independent business unit of Stewart Lender Services (SLS), a wholly owned subsidiary of Stewart Title Company.

Claremont Information Systems is a data and analytics company focused on distressed residential real estate. It was created with the intent on aggregating fragmented data sets in order to better predict and understand today’s challenging real estate market. Claremont created a real time database of active real estate listings in conjunction with active foreclosures and bank owned properties searchable in custom web based application. - Responsible for all day-to-day operations of the company as well as all inside sales efforts, various marketing functions and product development.- In charge of all areas of data acquisition, data integrity and website functionality.- Responsible for targeting and implementing all strategic partnerships.- Established and negotiated all data licensing contracts including legal review. - Responsible for on boarding and termination of all employees.- Successfully negotiated and implemented the selection of a Professional Employer Organization (P.E.O) which allowed Claremont to manage payroll and all human resources functions. - Intimately involved with helping the owners obtain additional capital and establishing initial funding of the company.

- The first employee hired by the company after receiving angel investment dollars.- Responsible for sales and affiliate partnerships. - Created and developed all initial marketing efforts including Search Engine Optimization (S.E.O). - Managed and wrote all front end content and copy for the initial website. - Served as Project Manager for all initial feature development.

Gardner Signs is a locally based custom sign company with a focus on mid size commercial retail projects and electronic message centers (digital signage display) for highway advertising. - Increased company profile by generating new business, acquiring new accounts and establishing better relationships with real estate developers.- In charge of various areas of business operations and development.- Created and developed a new division of Gardner Signs called AdMark, an electronic signage initiative using digital displays to create new revenue streams for the sign company and retail developments as a joint venture.- Established a division of Gardner Signs called the (eos) company that focused exclusively on developments where there were public-private-partnerships (e.g. Denver Union Station, Eagle P3, Cherry Creek North Renovations). - Managed customers’ site signage needs from the acquisition of land through the development opening, including sign code review.- Reviewed all internal/external contracts with customers and vendors.- Selected by Kiewit Building Group to create and manage all of the signage for the renovations at Denver Union Station. - Sold and managed all exterior signage for NextCare Urgent Care Facilities as they moved into the Colorado market.

Responsible for developing and implementing lesson plans that teach 7-14 year olds how to become better skiers. One of twenty-five expert skiers chosen out of hundreds of applicants to teach skiing.

Researched and analyzed issues relevant to professional licensure, drafted memoranda and briefs.Drafted summary judgment motions, discovery and notice of charges for professional licensure discipline actions.Attended professional licensure board meetings and administrative hearings.

Promoted to Assistant Manager within 1 year. Responsible for training new employees in all aspects of loan processing and sales.In charge of developing successful sales techniques for generating new business through debt consolidation, mortgage refinancing and home equity lines of credit.Accountable for analyzing credit applications, loan interviewing, loan analysis and credit recommendations.

Developed a comprehensive analyst review booklet that served as an evaluation guide for top level management. Served as a Sales Assistant on the institutional sales floor for various brokers. Developed marketing excel workbooks to provide detailed client information.Attended analyst conference call meetings three times daily, getting the latest recommendations on different industries in the stock market.