Leadership

Senior people. Institutional backing.

The founder and the capital markets desk that structures and places the debt on Opportunity Zone projects, and whose byline the guides on this site carry.

Founder

Two decades. One market.

Founder

Blake Janover

Blake has been involved in billions of dollars of capital markets transactions across a two-decade career in commercial real estate finance, spanning small-balance multifamily and commercial debt, agency and government-insured lending, CMBS, and public-market capital formation.

He founded Janover Inc., the commercial real estate financing platform behind Multifamily.loans and CommercialRealEstate.loans, and led it to a Nasdaq IPO as founder and CEO; he has been a principal in three U.S. IPOs across Nasdaq and NYSE. Today he serves on the boards of two Nasdaq-listed public companies, including Deep Fission, an advanced nuclear energy company in the U.S. Department of Energy's Reactor Pilot Program. He is an alumnus of Harvard Business School (OPM) and lectures on entrepreneurship at Reichman University's Zell Program.

He started in this business the unglamorous way: underwriting and arranging commercial mortgages, one deal at a time. Twenty years later, that's still the job, with better data and a bigger market.

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Billions in CRE capital marketsNasdaq IPO founder/CEO3× U.S. IPO principalHBS OPMPublic company director

The desk

The capital markets desk

Every mandate is run by senior capital markets professionals and supported by the platform organization behind the broader Janover ecosystem.

VP, Capital Markets

Brandon Ramineh

Nearly a decade financing commercial real estate nationwide. Since 2018, Brandon has originated more than 150 transactions totaling over $500 million: an agency specialist with deep Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac execution who also structures across CMBS, banks, credit unions, life companies, HUD, and bridge capital.

Director, Capital Markets

Brad Beattie

Thirteen years in debt advisory and capital markets, with more than half a billion dollars of debt closed across construction, acquisition, and refinance mandates in every major asset class. Brad leads bank, credit union, CMBS, and life company executions, and built his early career at Meridian Capital Group.

The guides, tools and data pages on this site carry Brad's byline.

Senior Underwriter

Vassu Anand

More than eight years in commercial real estate finance and underwriting. Vassu supports structuring, due diligence, and underwriting across every loan type and asset class the desk touches, pairing institutional-grade analysis with AI-assisted underwriting workflows that move deals faster. He came up through valuations and advisory at Newmark and holds a graduate finance diploma from the London School of Economics.

Platform & Analytics

The Janover engine

The engineering and data organization behind Janover Pro (7,000+ originators indexed, credit boxes mapped to the county) supports every mandate the desk runs.

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