Pembrook Capital Management, a bridge lender for market rate, workforce and affordable multifamily rental housing, appointed John K. Malysa as a managing director of the firm. Malysa, a veteran commercial real estate credit risk professional with more than 25 years of multi-faceted industry experience, will focus on and underwriting, oversee asset management and serve as a member of Pembrook’s investment committee.
“We’re pleased to welcome John to the team, where his extensive and varied real estate credit experience will support our efforts to expand the leading multifamily bridge lending program we’ve built at Pembrook,” Stuart Boesky, CEO of Pembrook, said. “As a balance sheet lender, our focus has always been on originating and completing high quality, performing loans that help us continue our long record of strong risk-adjusted performance and we believe John will be an immediate contributor to our business.”
Most recently, Malysa served as managing director/chief credit officer for Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets’ (MIRA) private credit real estate debt investment platform, where he also sat on the investment committee. In this role, he established and built from the ground up the MIRA private credit real estate debt platform, creating policies and procedures with respect to originating, underwriting, lending and asset managing floating rate, and value add bridge loans, managing credit risk of investments, investing and pricing capital, and originating, underwriting and asset managing all loans.
At CIBC World Markets, Malysa was a managing director and head of CMBS securitization and distribution, member of the U.S. Real Estate Finance Management Committee and chair of the CMBS credit committee. During his tenure at CIBC, Malysa completed 20 securitizations totaling approximately $3.5 billion, and representing in excess of 250 loans across all property types and geographic regions.
Previously, Malysa held senior roles at CWCapital Investments, Deutsche Bank Securities and FitchRatings.
