Mr. Schonefeld is Chief Executive Officer of Bridger Commercial Funding LLC. He has over 20 years of experience in numerous aspects of commercial real estate finance.
Before forming Bridger, Mr. Schonefeld was with GMAC Commercial Mortgage, where he ran securitized transactions on both the buy and sell sides. Previously, Mr. Schonefeld was a senior manager of Bank of America Realty Finance Corporation's investment program in non-investment grade CMBS. He also managed Bank of America's Commercial Real Estate Syndications unit and was responsible for successfully selling over $2.2 billion in syndicated bank credit. As a Senior Manager of the bank's Real Estate Capital Markets group, he oversaw the liquidation of over $650 million in distressed commercial mortgages resulting from bank mergers.
Mr. Schonefeld has also served as the Chief Financial Officer of a San Francisco based commercial mortgage banking operation. Prior to that, he was employed by a national real estate firm and served as an officer of five publicly traded mortgage REITs. In that role, Mr. Schonefeld had day-to-day management responsibilities of a commercial mortgage REIT with assets of nearly $300 million.
Mr. Schonefeld holds an MBA degree from San Francisco State University with a concentration in Finance and an undergraduate degree in business from the University of San Francisco. |