After the mortgage crisis, Marcia Kaufman bought and renovated roughly 50 New York properties. Back in lending as Bayport Funding’s CEO, she brings the borrower’s experience to decisions about capital, construction and growth.
He started with Texas real estate loans. Two decades later, Noble Capital founder Jadon Newman was confronting a more personal investment question: how much of a company should its founder keep carrying?
A New Jersey property investor learned to work both sides of a deal. Eric Panecki’s path from house flips to Brick City Capital runs through data, borrowed experience, and the discipline to turn an opportunity down.

A portfolio analyst turned developer studied private lending for two years, found the gap banks left open, and built Grand Coast Capital around speed, structure and aligned incentives.