Our Team
Bridgeton Capital was founded in 2021 by career real estate investors, lenders and technologists to reimagine the commercial real estate (CRE) lending process. As a technology driven CRE lender we are building a platform to automate and rationalize the lending process at scale to provide brokers and borrowers the best rates and operational experience.
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer
Atit Jariwala is a real estate executive who has been involved with real estate management and investment his entire life. As a partner and co-founder of several real estate companies, Atit has been involved in the acquisition, development and management of dozens of properties across the United States. In total, Atit has been involved in the acquisition and development of over $2.5 billion of real estate throughout the U.S. directly as a principal.
Prior to Bridgeton, Atit was at CIM Group, the $29 billion real estate private equity firm, and a real estate private equity firm which had over $1 billion in assets under management. Prior to his development and investing career, Atit was an investment banker at Salomon Smith Barney (now Citigroup) and Wells Hill Partners. In addition, he managed a number of hotel properties. Atit’s professional career spans 17 years.
Atit graduated from Yale University with a degree in Economics, cum laude with distinction, and received his MBA from Stanford University.
Co-founder & Chief Revenue Officer
Solomon Garber joins Erithmitic (dba Bridgeton Capital) with over 17 years of experience in the commercial mortgage sector.
Sol previously served as Managing Director at Northeast Bank responsible for National Originations, where he helped spearhead the lender finance and real estate originations businesses for the bank. Prior to Northeast Bank, he was a primary originator at Rialto Capital for multiple investment vehicles. Earlier in Solomon’s career he worked at LNR Partners (DBA Starwood Mortgage Trust) and at Atalaya Capital.
Sol graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelors of Science.
Head of Strategy & Operations
Director, Credit & Capital Markets
Travis Rand is Director of Credit Investments and Capital Markets at Erithmitic (dba Bridgeton Capital). He was previously a Director in the Real Estate Structured Lending group at Forbright Bank. Prior to that, he spent nine years working for Northeast Bank in CRE structured lending, bridge lending, and loan acquisitions. He is a cum laude graduate of Bucknell University with a BA in political science. Travis resides in Boston, MA.
Managing Director, Originations
Adam Kies is a Managing Director at Erithmitic (dba Bridgeton Capital), focusing on loan originations and executions.
Adam joined Bridgeton with over 25 years of experience in commercial real estate property and capital markets. He came from investment manager Crescit Capital Strategies, where he focused on middle market bridge lending. Prior to Crescit, he was a Managing Director at Terra Capital Partners (now Mavik Capital) responsible for originating, negotiating, and structuring bridge loans and subordinate debt investments. Earlier, he was a Vice President at two other investment firms, Ascent Real Estate Advisors and Icahn Enterprises, where he was responsible for the origination and acquisition of real estate equity and debt investments. His career has also included loan underwriting and credit analysis roles at Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley, equity research at Morgan Stanley (covering hotel and multifamily REITs), and real estate investment banking at Insignia Capital Advisors (now part of CBRE).
Adam received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Haverford College, a Master of Urban Planning degree from New York University and an MBA degree in Finance from New York University.
Vice President, Originations
Cyson Wong brings to Erithmitic (dba Bridgeton Capital) 16 years of real estate experience that spans acquisitions, lending, asset management, and investment sales. Cyson began his real estate career with Eastdil Secured, a prominent real estate investment bank, executing sales and financings of office, retail, hospitality, and multifamily assets totaling over $1.0 billion in aggregate. Cyson subsequently worked at Madison Capital as a Vice President where he sourced and acquired value-add as well as distressed debt opportunities. From Madison Capital, Cyson moved to Pilot Real Estate Group, a family office focused on a range of real estate strategies across multiple asset classes and markets. At Pilot, Cyson sourced and structured equity and debt opportunities, managed investments, and was largely responsible for Pilot’s bridge lending platform. At Pilot, Cyson managed over $100 million of partner balance sheet investments in both equity and debt.
Following his experience at Pilot, Cyson worked as a Director of acquisitions and debt originations at Paramount Group, a public REIT that acquires Class A office buildings in gateway markets and manages a series of subordinate debt funds. Cyson subsequently joined ZB Capital Group as a Principal where he ran the day-to-day operations of the platform which included sourcing, underwriting, and closing value-add equity investments, asset management, and business plan execution.
Cyson graduated from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biological Engineering and from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a Master of Business Administration degree with concentrations in real estate and finance.
Managing Director, Originations
David Hall serves as the platform’s Managing Director focused on originations and operations. David and Sol Garber have co-invested in and closed over 15 deals over the course of their careers.
David was previously Chief Operating Officer for Bridge Funding, a bridge financing lender, and Managing Director at CV Capital, a commercial mortgage lender. He is also an Adjunct Lecturer at Baruch College teaching real estate finance and investment at both the graduate and undergraduate levels.
David graduated from Boston University with a Bachelors of Science in Business and received his MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
Senior Analyst
Jack Pollis is Sr. Analyst at Erithmitic (dba Bridgeton Capital).
Co-Head of Marketing & Investor Relations
Chuck Baldiswieler joins Erithmitic (dba Bridgeton Capital) with over 25 years of senior leadership experience in investment management.
Chuck previously spent 18+ years at TCW serving as the Group Managing Director of TCW, President & CEO of TCW Funds, Inc., and directed the U.S. based distribution efforts of both TCW Funds and Met West Funds. Chuck also directed the marketing and distribution of TCW products to the 401k/Retirement market.
Prior to TCW, Chuck was Director of Marketing for Jenswold, King & Associates. Before that, he headed the Investment Management Marketing dept. at Bank One Trust, Houston. He worked as a Financial Analyst for Shell Oil, and as a Financial Consultant for Rauscher Refsnes and Thomson McKinnon Securities.
Chuck is a CFA charter holder. He received his Bachelors of Arts from the University of Maryland in Finance and Marketing.
Co-Head of Marketing & Investor Relations
Chuck Baldiswieler joins Erithmitic (dba Bridgeton Capital) with over 25 years of senior leadership experience in investment management.
Chuck previously spent 18+ years at TCW serving as the Group Managing Director of TCW, President & CEO of TCW Funds, Inc., and directed the U.S. based distribution efforts of both TCW Funds and Met West Funds. Chuck also directed the marketing and distribution of TCW products to the 401k/Retirement market.
Prior to TCW, Chuck was Director of Marketing for Jenswold, King & Associates. Before that, he headed the Investment Management Marketing dept. at Bank One Trust, Houston. He worked as a Financial Analyst for Shell Oil, and as a Financial Consultant for Rauscher Refsnes and Thomson McKinnon Securities.
Chuck is a CFA charter holder. He received his Bachelors of Arts from the University of Maryland in Finance and Marketing.
Director, Marketing & Investor Relations
David Whitlock joins Erithmitic (dba Bridgeton Capital) with over 20 years experience in the financial industry with a focus on wealth management, corporate finance and early stage investments.
Director, Marketing & Investor Relations
Matt Macdonald joins Erithmitic (dba Bridgeton Capital) with over 10 years experience in commercial real estate capital strategy & business development.
Senior Director, Engineering & Product
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
Francisco Utrera is a Sr. Machine Learning Engineer at Erithmitic (dba Bridgeton Capital), focused on natural language processing.
Francisco joined Bridgeton Capital after three years at RISELab at Berkeley, working as a Machine Learning Scientist with Michael Mahoney. At RISELab, Francisco published natural language processing and computer vision papers in major ML conferences, and he led the development of a natural language processing open-source library for backdoor detection. Francisco also previously worked at Goldman Sachs for four years, first in Sales and Trading and then with the CFO of the Investment Management Division.
Francisco graduated from Penn State with a degree in Finance, magna cum laude, and a Masters in EECS focused on Machine Learning from the University of California, Berkeley.
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