National Financial Services Consortium has affiliate members in major urban minority geographic areas including:
Los Angeles
San Francisco Bay Area
Sacramento
San Diego
Phoenix Albuquerque
Denver
Houston
Dallas
Miami
Chicago
New York
Washington, D.C.
Others in major urban centers
Member Companies:
AGI Capital:
www.agicapital.com
AGI is a San Francisco-based wholly minority and woman-owned real estate investment firm; recently raised $100 million from CalPers for investment in distressed assets.
American Association of Asian Realtors
www.areaa.org
Jim Park is currently serves as the President and CEO of Asian Real Estate Association of America. AREAA is dedicated to expanding homeownership and promoting increased business opportunities for Asian American realtors.
Atlantic Asset Management, LLC
www.atlanticasset.com
Atlantic Asset Management, LLC is an independent investment management firm formed in 1992. Atlantic and its affiliates, Fountain Capital Management, LLC and Tortoise Capital Management, LLC currently manage approximately $7.8 Billion in assets for over 75 institutional client.
AztecAmerica Bank
www.aztecamerica.com
AztecAmerica Bank provides a full suite of FDIC-insured deposit products,and residential, consumer, and commercial lending services which showcases a business and banking environment that is distinctly appealing to Chicago's rapidly growing Hispanic population.
CapFin Partners
www.capfinpartners.com
CapFin Partners provides equity capital, investment management, and advisory services to institutional clients. CapFin's principals have deployed capital using a diverse array of investment strategies, company and asset portfolio acquisitons.
Community Union, Inc.
The Community Union, Inc. is a Los Angeles based, statewide counseling and training program. Community Union provides educational training and counseling in finance, and technology, and is involved in solutions to the problem of high foreclosure rates among minorities in San Bernardino County.
EDM Capital Partners
www.edmcapitalpartners.com
Daniel W. Vasquez, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of EDM Capital Partners...
EDM Capital invests a percentage of its annual revenue income with microfinance programs in support of developiing capital markets in the most undervalued regions and populations globally.
Figueroa Community Consulting
Figueroa Community Consulting provides financial and foreclosure counseling in the Riverside and San Bernardino County regions. Figueroa Community Consulting is led by Steven Figueroa, who has extensive experience in community relations, and community advocacy.
Gaucho Partners
Gaucho Partners, its affiliates and principals (collectively “Gaucho” or the “Company”), formed in 2006 to provide capital raising and financial advisory services to emerging operating companies and real estate developers, is a private West Coast based, value added investment banking style financial advisory and restructuring
firm.
Grupo Entrada
www.grupoentrada.com
Mitch Posada, Managing Director. Grupo Entrada provides market access, business development, and business expansion services to small to large business enterprises, with particular emphasis on the emerging and small-medium size Latino and other minority/woman owned business enterprise.
Hardee Brothers
Hardee Brothers, is led by Sidney Hardee, a Yale graduate in Economics/Mathematics and has extensive experience in fixed income, derivatives, and managing credit risk at JPM Morgan and Lehman Bros.
KIRA
www.kira.com
Carlos Garcia, President and CEO. KIRA provides facility maintenance on government installations and residential housing project management, at the highest quality, for the lowest cost. KIRA continually seeks new ways to support the Hispanic community. Korean Churches for Community Development
KCCD is led by Hyepin Im, and is a HUD approved non-profit community organization founded in 2001 and based in Los Angeles that provides culturally and lingusitically tailored financial literacy, foreclosue prevention and loan counseling services to low-moderate income communities. Their target outreach has targeted Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Chinese and Filipino immigrant communities that face language an cultural carrierrs in the loan modification process. KCCD has assisted over 1700 minority individuals and was selected as the winner of the 2009 Home-Free USA President's Award for Outstanding Achievement in Foreclosure prevention goals.
League of United Latin-American Citizens www.lulac.org
Brent Wilkes, Executive Director, LULAC's mission is to advance the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, housing, health and civil rights of the Hispanic population in the United States. LULAC has developed a loan modification and educational program for those most impacted by the sub-prime and predatory loan consequences.
Maya Cinemas North America, Inc.
www.mayacinemas.com
Moctesuma Esparza, Chairman, who is a leading Hollywood Producer of films including: Selena, Gettysberg, Gods and Generals. Mr. Esparza is the Former Chairman of the New America Alliance. Maya Cinemas is developing a chain of megaplex theatures in redevelopment markets with high Latino presence.
NAHREP
www.nahrep.com
Tino Diaz, NAHREP President and CEO. NAHREP's mission is to increase Hispanic homeownership rates by empowering the advisors that serve them, and to promote the careers and training of its members. NAHREP has 16,000 members and 67 affiliate chapters in 48 states.
NAIC, The National Association of Investment Companies
www.naicvc.com
Samuel J. Boyd, Jr. President and CEO. Founded in 1971, the National Association of Investment Companies is the financial services industry advocate and promotes opportunities for private equity firms to invest into an ethnically-diverse marketplace. NAIC member firms have inested more than $10 billion in Capital.
New Vista Asset Management
www.newvistareo.com
"We're looking for real estate brokers who are experts at selling real estate." Gary Acosta, Chairman, new Vista Asset Management. New Vista is a leading asset management firm based in San Diego, California. New Vista has the capacity to mangage and sell complex and distressed real estate assets.
Novati Group
www.novati-group.com
International Management and Advisory team...Fernando De Leon, is the Co-founder and Managing Partner.
Palladium Equity Partners
www.palladiumequity.com
Marcos A. Rodriguez, Founder and Managing Member
Palladium Equity Partners provides capital to companies seeking liquidity to grow, restructure, or provide liquidity for shareholders. Palladium principals have invested more than $2.5 billion of capital in over 60 companies in the last two decades. The principals have a longstanding track record investing in sectors including business services, financial services, consumer/retail, food restaurants, healthcare, manufacturing, and media. Palladium has a focus and expertise in investing in compaies that are well-positioned to capitalize on the fast-growing U.S. Hispanic market. Formed in 1997, the firm currently has in excess of $1 billion of committed capital. Palladium Equity Partners is ranked second among NY Area's Largest Minority-Owned Companies in 2008.
Plaza Investments LLC
www.plazainvestments.net
Tony Quintero, President and CEO. Plaza Investments, LLC has extensive experience in the acquisition, management, development and disposition of complex and troubled real estate assets. The firm has managed residential and commercial real estate, with an emphasis on leasing strategies responsive to the changing demographic and economic trends. Property construction and operations management, financial analysis and marketing are key areas of the firm's capabiltiy.
Promerica Bank
www.promerica.com
Maria Contreras Sweet is the Chairwoman of Promerica Bank, the first Latino-formed business bank to debut in downtown Los Angeles in the past 30 years. Promerica is dedicated to building family wealth by empowering entrepreneurs with the requisite financial services and capital infusion for the success of small to mid-size businesses.
Renascent Capital Group, LLC
www.renascentcapital.net
Renascent Capital Group, LLC is a Chicago based, globally focused strategic advisory and investment firm. Renasant's principal Euclid Walker spent 10 years at Morgan Stanley, as an Executive Director in their Investment Banking Division in Corporate Finance and Mergers and Acquisitions for a $1.8 Billion Fund and also advised on capital-raising for real estate firms.
Sanchez Capital Advisors, LLC
www.sanchezog.com
Eduardo A. Sanchez, President and CEO, of Sanchez Capital Advisors. Headquartered in Houston, with offices in San Antonio and Laredo, Texas. The energy focused investment firm leveraging a successful 35 year history expertise of Sanchez Oil and Gas, Inc. the fund is uniquely positioned to enhance investor returns at all stages of the investment process, including due diligence, asset valuation, and direct management of assets underlying the securities originated.
Stanford Advisory Group, LLC
Is an African-American owned company, based in the Washington, D.C. metro, providing financial consulting services to the government and banks. The company is headed by Monte J. Stanford who is an expert in affordable housing and operations, structured finance and asset securitization. Stanford has developed many programs and has provided advice to many government agencies, including: FDIC, HUD and Fannie Mae.
SF/Bay Area Latinos in Finance
359 Green Street, #4, San Francisco, CA 94133 Phone: 415.517.6438
Oscar Gonzales, President, San Francisco, CA, is an organization that has been brought together to network and help Latinos in Finance to promote their careers and companies.
Small-Medium Business Growth
www.smbgrowth.com
Ro Gabe of the woman-owned consulting business, SMB Growth, is an award-winning Sales Professional consulting with technology companies in Silicon Valley on Growth through Sales Channels and eMarketing.
Villanueva Capital Corporation/Asset Recovery and Realization Specialists (ARRS)
www.rcfontis.com
ARRS is a minority owned real estate firm providing expertise in the management, valuation, and disposition of real estate improved loans and improved assets. Led by Danny Villanueva and Jim Ratkovich, the firm provides a highly experienced team of experts in the areas of investment, loan servicing, capital markets and finance, including a state of the art auction platform for common or reverse auction formats.
Vanir Group of Companies
www.vanir.com
Dorene Dominguez, is the Chair of the Vanir Group of Companies, a holding company for a group of privately owned and managed corporations. Vanir's companies specialize in all aspects of commercial and institutional real estate development. The combined staff of the companies Total over 350 professionals, including architects, engineers, construction managers, contractors and developers. The company can provide national services, in management, construction and redevelopment of properties.
Willowbrook Capital Group, LLC
Willowbrook was founced in 2000 by Peter McMillan and Keith Hall. Commercial mortgage assets managed on this platform exceed $1.3 Billion, in "Elgible Assets". Senior management has, on average 23 years of experience in the commercial real estate capital markets and fixed income portfolio management experience.