Ashish Kashyap
Investment Director
Laurens Feleus
Investment Director
Nate Kornfeld
Senior Advisor
Patron Capital
Nate Kornfeld
Senior Advisor
nate@patroncapital.com
In the last four years, Mr. Kornfeld has taken
on a more active role within Patron, advising the firm's activities
in residential mortgage-backed investments, including the UK
Residential Distressed Program. Mr. Kornfeld was President of
GMAC Institutional Advisors, a $14 billion investment management
company specialising in commercial real estate at GMAC Commercial
Mortgage (now Capmark) until 2005. He previously spent two years at
GMAC-RFC, where he established the GMAC Venture Capital Fund to
invest in residential mortgage technology
companies.
Mr. Kornfeld had previously founded the
Phoenix Finance Group, a specialty finance company that acquired
and collected delinquent credit card debt and was subsequently sold
to GMAC in 1998. Between 1987 and 1996, Mr. Kornfeld worked
as a managing director at Lehman Brothers, where his
responsibilities included mortgage trading management, fixed income
risk management and asset-backed lending and worked closely with
Mr. Breslauer on several closed and pursued investments. Prior to
this, he worked at Salomon Brothers in the research department, and
later at the mortgage trading desk. Mr. Kornfeld is a citizen of
the United States, a personal friend of Mr. Breslauer and has
worked with him for over 20 years.