Brock VandenBerg is the President of TaliMar Financial and the Fund Manager of the TaliMar Income Fund, a private mortgage REIT. He founded TaliMar Financial in 2008 during the height of the U.S. housing crisis, with the goal of providing real estate investors with a reliable and secure source of short-term financing. Since its inception, TaliMar Financial has funded more than $700 million in residential and commercial real estate loans and currently services an active loan portfolio exceeding $130 million. Mr. VandenBerg began his real estate finance career in 2001 with KeyBank’s Private Equity Group, where he worked closely with prominent real estate developers and institutional investors. During his tenure, he was involved in the deployment of over $200 million in mezzanine debt and joint venture equity investments. Following his time at KeyBank, Mr. VandenBerg served a three-year engagement with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). There, he was responsible for overseeing the dissolution of failed banking institutions and managing the sale of more than $500 million in performing and non-performing loan assets on behalf of the FDIC. Outside of his... Read More