Barry Gersten

Mr. Gersten is the founder and managing principal of Bedrock.

Mr. Gersten has approximately 29 years of commercial real estate debt experience; has broad experience in the origination, underwriting, structuring, sale and valuation of commercial real estate debt; and has significant relationships with mortgage bankers and CRE departments within financial institutions and borrowers.

Prior to founding Bedrock, Mr. Gersten was an Executive Vice President at Capmark Finance where he was responsible for mortgage lending. In this role, Mr. Gersten was involved in all facets of real estate finance, including the making of whole loans, the buying of loans and the securitization and CMBS spaces.  In 2008, he was named President of Capmark Investments, a $9 billion investment management platform.

Before arriving at Capmark, Mr. Gersten worked at Lehman Brothers, where he had direct responsibility for due diligence, investment management, and origination and securitization for Lehman’s proprietary commercial real estate conduit program. Additionally, he worked at Toronto Dominion Bank and Irving Trust Company (now part of Bank of New York).

Mr. Gersten received his MBA in Finance from The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University and an AB in Economics from Washington University in St. Louis.