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New York, New York, United States

Greenwich Group International (“GGI”, https://www.greenwichgrp.com/), led by Simon Milde, Larry Baucom and James Flood, is a leading real estate capital advisory and merchant investment firm headquartered in New York City. In addition to acting as a Principal and Sponsor on its own behalf, GGI has achieved optimum pricing and favorable business terms on equity, debt and other structured solutions for capital needs of numerous real estate owners and developers. Over 45 years ago, Simon Milde, along with Larry Baucom, founded Jones Lang Wootton North America, merged the entity with LaSalle and created JLL Worldwide, one of the largest global real estate investment management and advisory firms. After 20 years, Simon and Larry and partners founded Greenwich Group International, LLC, which has now been in existence for 25 years. 22 years ago, James Flood joined GGI as Partner and CFO, subsequently serving for 14 years as Executive Vice President & CFO for The Related Companies, one of the nation’s leading acquisition/development, financial services and property management companies.The firm offers three main business lines: Capital Markets (debt/equity placement and structured financial solutions), Investment Sales, and Development Services. RBC is GGI's full service, privately held development company, able to perform site selection, acquisition, financing, construction, leasing, and property management for institutional-quality projects. RBC has experience in development, construction, and investment of multi-family, single-family, hospitality, retail, and office properties. RBC has developed, constructed and managed over 1500 units, aggregating to more than 1.25MM SF of residential real estate. It also renovated, operated and successfully sold the critically acclaimed Adelphi Hotel.

Real Estate Investment Banking Firm. Acting as General Partner, Principal, Agent, and Advisor on various commercial real estate deals of all asset types. Teamed with a prestigious Principal / Investor and various partners and operating platforms throughout the US. Earned ownership interests in General Partnerships. Raise Institutional Limited Partner equity for both Private Placement programmatic joint ventures and Fund structures. Successfully raised debt and equity both domestically and from the Middle East. As General Partner, purchased $154MM of Book Value assets from a Public Company for $30MM - tracking towards a 10X at the GP level. Was General Partner owner of several GSA buildings including FBI, IRS and Social Security Buildings acquired with money he raised from the Middle East. Purchased, fully renovated, leased and managed multifamily property in Brooklyn with Greenwich Family Office and sold building to The Carlyle Group.

New York, Ny

Raised equity and debt for owner / operators facilitating CRE asset acquisitions. Sourcing equity from the Middle East. Banking Team member advising troubled Banks on assessing risk, valuing loans, disposing of CRE assets and raising equity. Advised multi-disciplined client base on structuring partnerships; structuring deals and sourcing capital.

Stamford, Ct

Managed team of 12 in CMBS whole loan structuring, pricing, originating, documentation, warehousing and distribution. Sold loan portfolios by teaming with Investment Banks and via direct whole loan and portfolio sales. Coordinated discussions with Rating Agencies and B-Piece Buyers. Developed the pricing mechanism, credit policy and procedures, and directed the credit approval process with exceptional results. Directed the creation of the portfolio hedging monitoring methodology.

New York, Ny

Responsible for purchasing all CMBS, CRE CDO and REIT bonds; and, B-Notes, Mezzanine Debt and Bank Loans for inclusion into CDO’s and CLO’s. Responsible for evaluating pricing versus risk parameters, transaction structural characteristics, bond analytics, collateral risks and credit concerns, real estate companies’ portfolio characteristics and management expertise, property specific cash flows, market risks, and relative investment value.

New York, Ny

Marketing Director. Responsible for originating, pricing, structuring and closing transactions for both portfolio and securitized lending, including construction and repositioning financings; and, short-term and long-term fixed and floating rate debt.

New York, Ny

Responsibilities included originating, negotiating, structuring, pricing, documenting and executing large, complex transactions of office, multifamily and retail real estate loans totaling over $3.0 Billion. Transactions included floating and fixed rate acquisition and refinancing term loans, construction and repositioning facilities, B-Notes and Mezzanine financings for both portfolio and securitization purposes. Successfully syndicated more than $500MM.

New York, Ny

Originated, underwrote, structured, negotiated, and marketed for large-scale domestic and international project financings. Responsible for more than $500 million of investments. Responsibility for credit committee approval, legal documentation and marketing for new business relationships.

New York, Ny

Graduate of Citibank’s 6-month Credit Training Program. As part of the Workout Group, restructured troubled commercial real estate loans, managed assets, negotiated leases, and marketed and sold loans and properties. Worked with Investment Banking Division, Securitization Group and third-party brokers to facilitate property and loan sales.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Finance, Real Estate

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), English Language And Literature/Letters