Experience

Angel Oak Commercial Lending

• United States
• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co President

  • 2020 - Present

  Newport Beach, California, United States Angel Oak Commercial lending strives to establish long term, value added partnerships with our clients and investors by leveraging the experience, expertise and relationships of an experienced team in order to create innovative investment opportunities for our investors, and well thought out, focused financing solutions for our borrowers.



Asset Class

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member Board Of Directors

  • Apr 2021 - Present

  Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland As a board member of a Workflow Processing, Data Science, and AI focused start-up, I work with the management team to direct product development for the needs of Private Equity and Venture Capital funds that can benefit from the Asset Class series of products.



PLUM Commercial Real Estate Lending

• United States
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director (Capital Markets and Technology Integration)

  • Nov 2019 - Oct 2020

  Newport Beach, California, United States Technology enabled Commercial Real Estate lender that utilizes extensive data analytics and AI to originate and asset manage investments in senior mortgages in order to generate more favorable Alpha returns in the sector.



Belgravia Capital

• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal/ Managing Director

  • Jun 2006 - 2020

  Newport Beach, CA Commercial Real Estate Investment Banking Belgravia Capital began as Distress Debt Fund Manager in 2008 when it began making investments in discounted CMBS bonds and purchasing distressed whole loans through the FDIC Structured Sale Program. In 2010 Belgravia expanded to financing borrowers in the purchase of their own distressed/discounted notes, which eventually expanded further in 2011 into providing borrowers both short term bridge and long term permanent financing for… Show more Commercial Real Estate Investment Banking Belgravia Capital began as Distress Debt Fund Manager in 2008 when it began making investments in discounted CMBS bonds and purchasing distressed whole loans through the FDIC Structured Sale Program. In 2010 Belgravia expanded to financing borrowers in the purchase of their own distressed/discounted notes, which eventually expanded further in 2011 into providing borrowers both short term bridge and long term permanent financing for commercial real-estate. Belgravia's history across varying cycles of real estate finance have positioned the firm as both a trusted investor in debt products and a trusted advisor to its real estate banking clients and borrowers. Nik Chillar as the Founder of Belgravia Capital Management utilizes his 20+ years of experience in commercial real estate loan origination, underwriting, securitization and trading to lead the firm. Show less



Western Alliance Bank

• United States
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Managing Director

  • 2015 - Aug 2016

  Irvine, CA



Opus Bank

• United States
• Banking
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Real Estate Capital Markets

  • 2014 - 2015

  Irvine -Securitization and capital market fundings for loans originated by Commercial Real Estate Loan Officers of the bank. Current Capital Market offerings include: -CMBS executions -Selective Mezz financing behind CMBS or Bank balance sheet loans -Higher yielding bridge financing for more storied bridge loans & -Securitized Financing for owners of Single Family Rental property



Union Bank

• United States
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Sr. Trader (CMBS & CLOs)

  • 2012 - 2014

  Greater Los Angeles Area -Reported to the Head of Spread Portfolio Investments -Managed trading and investment of a $2BN CMBS and assisted with trading of a $3BN CLO portfolio, both of which outperformed benchmarks and exceeded budgeted core income -Prepared CCAR analysis on portfolio for annual Fed Stress Tests along with the supporting narrative materials -Served as the Corporate Treasury representative on the Volcker committee for the bank and was chair of the Covered Funds sub-committee within the larger… Show more -Reported to the Head of Spread Portfolio Investments -Managed trading and investment of a $2BN CMBS and assisted with trading of a $3BN CLO portfolio, both of which outperformed benchmarks and exceeded budgeted core income -Prepared CCAR analysis on portfolio for annual Fed Stress Tests along with the supporting narrative materials -Served as the Corporate Treasury representative on the Volcker committee for the bank and was chair of the Covered Funds sub-committee within the larger Volcker committee. -Developed cross division relationships between Treasury and Commercial Real Estate and with the US securities division of the Japanese parent company (Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi) -Assisted with the development of a warehouse lending product in Commercial Real Estate -Developed a highly cooperative and constructive relationship with multiple credit oversight groups within the bank which allowed the group to pursue new investment and trading opportunities quickly and effectively -Expanded and enhanced existing Wall Street relationships and lines of communication with other dealers and traders which contributed to portfolio performance. Show less



CharterMac

• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr. Vice President

  • 2004 - 2006

  Built the Real Estate Capital Markets business and co-headed the Conduit/ CMBS unit at CharterMac Mortgage Capital.



HUNT MORTGAGE GROUP

• United States
• Real Estate
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Sr. Vice President

  • 2003 - 2006

  Built the Real Estate Capital Markets business and co-headed the Conduit/ CMBS unit at what was CharterMac Mortgage Capital (then Centerline Capital/ Hunt Capital).



CRE Capital LLC

• United States
• Insurance

• Co-Founder

  • 2003 - 2004

  Los Angeles, California, United States PE backed CRE lending firm that targeted mid-market lending with loan sizes of $5-$50mm. Sold to CharterMac in January 2005.



Lehman Brothers

• Capital Markets
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Director

  • 2001 - 2003

  London, United Kingdom European Commercial Real Estate Finance and Securitization

• Treasury Manager/ Assistant Treasurer

  • 2000 - 2002

  -Responsible for structuring small balance commercial real estate and SBA securitizations -Led the accounting and treasury teams in the capital markets activities of the company and assisted with the Gain on Sale accounting and reporting -modeled and updated all of the companies small balance securitizations monthly and quarterly for reporting -assisted with the integration of ongoing servicing data into the securitization and accounting models and led a quality assurance effort with… Show more -Responsible for structuring small balance commercial real estate and SBA securitizations -Led the accounting and treasury teams in the capital markets activities of the company and assisted with the Gain on Sale accounting and reporting -modeled and updated all of the companies small balance securitizations monthly and quarterly for reporting -assisted with the integration of ongoing servicing data into the securitization and accounting models and led a quality assurance effort with respect to the servicing of the securitized and balance sheet loan portfolio



FINOVA Capital Corporation

• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• V.P of Capital Markets

  • 1997 - 2000

  Commercial Mortage Backed Securities origination and whole loan trading



Belgravia Capital

• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Analyst

  • 1995 - 1997

  Commercial Mortgage Brokerage