Mitchell Ryan founded the company in 2013. He has more than 30 years of experience in real estate.
He produced or led teams in New York and Chicago that originated over $5 billion in
commercial mortgages for Guardian Life and MetLife.
During his time at the LifeCos., he developed various portfolio management systems that encompassed asset
allocations, default and market pricing models.
While in Chicago, he was in charge of servicing the mid-west loan portfolio of approximately $3 billion in
loans including the "cash flow mortgage" on Sears Tower.
Mitchell managed two of MetLife's most prestigious real estate equities:
Stuyvesant Town / Peter Cooper Village, consisting of 11,251 apartment units, and the 3 million square foot
Pan Am Building (aka MetLife Building). At the time of MetLife's acquisition of The New England Mutual Life
Insurance Company, he was charged with coordinating the underwriting of The New England's extensive real estate
equity holdings. The photo on the top right shows Mitchell with (from left) St/PCV Resident Manager Hal Murphy,
US Senator Al D'Amato and NY Senator Roy Goodman.
Earlier in his career, he produced residential loans for Dime
Savings Bank of NY and was a property manager for a NY Real Estate Syndicator. Prior to founding MERCCREM, he spent a
year originating CMBS loans.
Mitchell holds a BA in Economics from Queens College and an MS in Appraisal and Valuation from NYU Schack
Institute, where he received the Norman Weinberg Award for Excellence and became an adjunct
professor at the Schack Institute. He is currently an adjunct at Baruch College of CUNY.
He was a contributing author of the "MBA’s Commercial Mortgage Handbook"
with chapters on “Benchmarking” and “Investing in Commercial Real Estate”. Mitchell was a trusted source for
the widely acclaimed book "Other People's Money - Inside the Housing Crisis and the Demise of the Greatest Deal Ever
Made" by NY Times Real Estate Columnist Charles V. Bagli.