Pathfinder Executive Team
Pathfinder has assembled a team of motivated real estate professionals with a combined 150+ years and $10B of industry experience. We execute a disciplined approach at all times, but remain agile with the ability to capitalize on opportunities as they arise. The company culture fosters teamwork and encourages innovation. We are relentless in our pursuit of performance excellence.
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Lorne Polger
Senior Managing Director and Co-Founder
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Mitch Siegler
Senior Managing Director and Co-Founder
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Scot Eisendrath
Managing Director, Capital Markets
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Brent Rivard
Managing Director, CFO and COO
Senior Managing Director and Co-Founder
Lorne focuses on acquisitions, dispositions, business and legal strategies. He practiced real estate law for more than 20 years and prior to co-founding Pathfinder in 2006, was the head of the Real Estate, Environmental and Land Use team at Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch, LLP, San Diego’s largest law firm. Lorne is recognized for his multi-family expertise, having directly participated in the acquisition, disposition, financing and development of apartment, condominium and condominium conversion transactions exceeding $6 billion in value. His law practice included acquisitions, dispositions, developments, financings, foreclosures, reorganizations and workouts, syndications, and leasing, along with residential, office and industrial condominium conversion and construction. Lorne was a finalist in EY’s San Diego Entrepreneur of the Year® competition in 2015. He graduated with a B.A. in Political Science from Colorado College, Cum Laude, in 1984 and earned his law degree from UCLA in 1988.
Senior Managing Director and Co-Founder
Mitch focuses on sourcing prospective transactions, developing financial structures and business and financial strategies. Prior to co-founding Pathfinder, He founded and served as CEO of several companies and was a partner in LENSER, a national management consulting firm. Earlier in his career, Mitch was a partner in Sorrento Associates, Inc., an investment banking firm, where he advised clients on more than 40 financings, mergers, acquisitions and financial restructurings involving both private and public companies and Sorrento Ventures, a private equity firm, where he invested in scores of private financings exceeding one-half billion dollars. He also spent five years as an executive with Anheuser-Busch, Inc. Mitch was a finalist in EY’s San Diego Entrepreneur of the Year® competition in 2015. Mitch graduated with a B.S. in Business Administration, with honors, majoring in Finance and Economics from the University of Missouri, Columbia in 1982 and an M.B.A., with highest honors from the Graziadio School of Business and Management at Pepperdine University in 1986. He previously held FNRA Series 7 and 63 licenses.
Managing Director, Capital Markets
Scot oversees Pathfinder’s investment analytics, underwriting and financial analysis. He was a commercial real estate executive for 17 years with Cassidy Turley San Diego, Burnham Real Estate (now Cushman & Wakefield) and CB Richard Ellis, where he specialized in providing financial advisory and capital market services to investors, developers and lenders for multi-family, industrial, office, retail, hospitality and land projects. He has participated in the acquisition, disposition, development, asset management or financing of more than $8 billion of real estate assets, including 30,000 multi-family units and 20 million square feet of commercial space. Scot graduated from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, with a B.B.A. in Real Estate and Urban Land Economics in 1993 and an M.B.A., with an emphasis in Finance, from San Diego State University in 1997.
Managing Director, CFO and COO
Brent is responsible for Pathfinder’s financial, administrative, investor relations, human resources and information technology functions. Most recently, he was the President of a national wealth management firm, where he led the launch of the firm’s broker dealer and proprietary ’40 Act interval fund. Prior to that, Brent was the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer for the Grubb & Ellis commercial real estate brokerage affiliate in San Diego (now Cassidy Turley San Diego), one of Southern California’s leading privately-held commercial real estate brokerage firms. He was previously Vice President, Finance and Operations at The MHA Group and Vice President, Accounting and Finance/Treasurer at NYSE-traded AMN Healthcare, where he was involved with the placement of more than $1 billion in debt and equity securities and led the company’s mergers and acquisitions practice. Prior to that, Brent worked for Deloitte & Touche. Brent, a Certified Public Accountant, graduated Cum Laude from the University of California, Los Angeles with a B.A. in Business Economics.
ADVISORY COUNCIL
The following are members of Pathfinder's Advisory Council.
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Joe Cohen
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Carl Eibl
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John Frager
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Damon Gascon
1. Founding principal and Managing Director of HoyleCohen, a leading San Diego-based wealth advisory firm
2. Wealth advisor for more than 25 years
3. Specializes in a long-term, goals-based approach to building and sustaining wealth
4. M.B.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology; B.A., U.S. Naval Academy
1. Former Managing Director, Enterprise Partners ($1 billion venture capital firm)
2. Headed firm’s investments in Internet 2.0, web and software-based businesses
3. Previously, CEO of publicly-traded Maxwell Technologies and Mycogen Corporation
4. J.D., Boston University; B.A., Cornell University
1. Executive Managing Director, CB Richard Ellis
2. Previously, President/CEO of Cassidy Turley San Diego
3. Commercial real estate executive for 20+ years
4. Former U.S. Navy aviator
5. B.S., Business Administration, University of Southern California
1. 25-year veteran of homebuilding industry
2. Regional Vice President of Lewis Homes, leading homebuilder in western U.S.
3. Previously, Inland Empire Area President, K. Hovnanian Homes (KHOV, NYSE)
4. Co-founded Pacific Century Homes, largest homebuilder in Inland Empire (acquired by Lennar Homes in 2002)
5. B.S., Business Administration, San Diego State University
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Norm Miller, Ph.D.
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Jerry Turk
1. Hahn Chair of Real Estate Finance and affiliated with Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate, University of San Diego
2. Works with FDIC, DOJ and Collateral Analytics
3. Previously, Professor at University of Cincinnati
4. Ph.D., Ohio State University in Finance and Real Estate
5. Author of numerous books/articles on real estate-related topics
1. Former Chairman/CEO of hospitality chain
2. Previously partner/managing director with Oppenheimer & Co., investment bankers
3. Trained as attorney and C.P.A.