Lorne Polger
Lorne Polger, Senior Managing Director and Co-Founder. Prior to co-founding the company, Lorne practiced commercial real estate law for 20 years, and is the former head of the Real Estate Department at the regional law firm, Procopio. He graduated with a B.A., Cum Laude, from Colorado College, and earned his law degree from UCLA. Lorne’s expertise is in multifamily housing. He actively participated in over $6 billion of multi-family transactions and over $7 billion of investment real estate transactions in his career. Lorne is active in the San Diego community. He currently serves as a National Commissioner of the Anti-Defamation League and on the Residential Committee at the Burnham Moores Center at the University of San Diego. He has served on the boards of the San Diego Chapter of CCIM and the NCCJ. Email: lpolger@pathfinderfunds.com Direct: 858-625-5285 |
Mitch Siegler
Mitch Siegler, Senior Managing Director and Co-Founder. From 1992 until co-founding Pathfinder in 2006, Mr. Siegler founded and served as CEO of several businesses. He has extensive experience in management, corporate finance, marketing and operations. Mr. Siegler previously spent five years as a partner with Sorrento Associates, Inc., a boutique investment banking firm and Sorrento Ventures, a venture capital firm. He concluded more than 40 mergers, acquisitions or financings with private and publicly-traded companies and was involved in numerous workouts and restructurings. He also participated in scores of private financings totaling more than $1 billion. During his career, he also spent several years as a partner with a national management consulting firm and five years as a finance and operations executive with Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration, with honors, majoring in Finance and Economics from the University of Missouri, Columbia and an MBA, with the highest honors, from the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University. Email: msiegler@pathfinderfunds.com Direct: 858-625-5286 |
Scot Eisendrath
Scot Eisendrath, Managing Director, Capital Markets, oversees Pathfinder’s relationships with capital partners and oversees Pathfinder’s analytics and financial analysis. During his tenure with various national commercial brokerage firms, he has specialized in providing financial advisory and capital market services to real estate investors, developers and lenders for multi-family, industrial, office, retail, hospitality and land projects. Scot has participated in the acquisition, disposition, development, asset management and/or financing of more than $8 billion of real estate assets, including 26,000 multi-family units and 17 million square feet of commercial space. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a B.A in Real Estate and Urban Land Economics and an M.B.A., with emphasis in Finance, from San Diego State University. Email: seisendrath@pathfinderfunds.com Direct: 858-546-5451 |
Brent Rivard
Brent Rivard, Chief Operating and Finance Officer, is responsible for Pathfinder’s financial, administrative, human resources and information technology functions and serves as a key advisor to management on major strategic initiatives. Most recently, Brent was the CFO & COO for Grubb & Ellis|BRE Commercial in San Diego, one of Southern California’s leading privately-held commercial real estate brokerage firms. Brent has previously worked as Vice President, Finance and Operations at The MHA Group and Vice President, Accounting and Finance/Treasurer at NYSE-traded AMN Healthcare, where he was involved with the placement of more than $1 billion in debt and equity securities and led the company’s mergers and acquisitions practice. Prior to that, he worked for Deloitte & Touche. Brent, a Certified Public Accountant graduated Cum Laude from the University of California, Los Angeles with a B.A. in Business Economics. CA Broker License 01857882. Email:brivard@pathfinderfunds.com Direct: 619-920-1152 |
Matt Quinn
Matt Quinn, Senior Associate, joined Pathfinder in 2009. Previously, he was affiliated with Gateway Partners, Inc., a San Diego-based firm which consulted on mergers and acquisitions and with the Wealth Management division of Santa Barbara Bank & Trust. Mr. Quinn graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a B.A. in Business/Economics and earned his M.B.A from the Rady School of Management at the University of California at San Diego. Email: mquinn@pathfinderfunds.com Direct: 858-625-5242 |
Matthew Bucciero
Matthew Bucciero, Acquisitions Manager, joined Pathfinder in 2009. Previously, Matthew was a financial analyst for Newcastle Investment Corp., a publicly-traded REIT managed by Fortress Investment Group, a $25 billion, New York-based private equity firm. He also worked as an analyst for La Jolla, California-based Avalon Capital Group and was part of the mutual fund group for Legg Mason Investments in Miami. Matthew graduated with a B.S. in Finance from Lehigh University in 2002. Email: mbucciero@pathfinderfunds.com Direct: 858-625-5287 |
Alexa HeadAlexa Head, Administrator, joined Pathfinder in 2011. From 2008 to 2011, she was a brokerage assistant at the Colliers International real estate brokerage office in Boise, Idaho. Alexa graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University with a B.A. in Managerial and Organizational Communications with an emphasis in Marketing and Public Relations in 2008. Email: ahead@pathfinderfunds.com Direct: 858-625-5221 |
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