In the hundred-and-fourteenth episode of Collecting Real Estate, we interviewed Vernon Beckford of Diversified Lending Solutions.
Vernon Beckford serves as the CEO of Diversified Lending Solutions, a capital advisory firm for small to medium-sized real estate companies. Vernon has fifteen years of expertise in investment management, debt, and equity joint ventures, commercial mortgage origination, and distressed loan workouts, as well as in leadership. In addition to his employment at companies such as Credit Suisse, he had made early-stage investments in tech, operating businesses, and commercial real estate enterprises.
Early in his career, Vernon earned a BA from Columbia University NY, and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He spent five years on the Investments team at Global Atlantic Financial Group, formerly Goldman Sachs Reinsurance, where he helped build the Real Estate Group. He made opportunistic investments in the senior, mezzanine, and bridge loans, commercial mortgage-backed securities, and participated in joint ventures for ground-up real estate development.
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