Tom Walsh is a 40-year veteran of the commercial real estate finance industry, having held a wide range of roles including lender, underwriter, mortgage banker, and workout specialist. He began his career with Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. (now KPMG) before transitioning into the commercial real estate finance sector with the former Old Stone Bank in Providence, Rhode Island.

At Old Stone, Tom started primarily as a construction lender, originating loans directly and purchasing syndication participations throughout the southeastern United States. In 1986, he relocated to Atlanta to open Old Stone’s southeast production office, expanding the platform into bridge and permanent financing.

From 1989 through 1992, during the S&L crisis, Tom led Old Stone’s workout group in the southeast, overseeing the day-to-day operations of a large Florida-based REO and non-performing loan portfolio.

In 1992, Tom joined upstart Collateral Mortgage Company in Birmingham, Alabama, where he launched the firm’s first-ever branch office in Atlanta. Over the next 15 years, Collateral experienced explosive growth—expanding to 26 offices across the southeast and midwestern United States and evolving from a lending-focused firm into a national, full-service mortgage banking platform.

In 2007, Collateral was acquired by BB&T Corp. and merged with its mortgage banking division to form Grandbridge Real Estate Finance Corp. Over his 32 years with Collateral/Grandbridge, Tom has served as an office manager, conventional lender, agency lender, and mortgage banker. He has been involved in more than $5 billion of commercial real estate financing across all product types and lender sources nationwide.

His extensive experience includes transactions involving multifamily, retail, office, industrial, hotel, single-tenant, credit-tenant lease, manufactured housing communities, and self-storage assets. As a mortgage banker, Tom has placed financing with Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, HUD, life insurance companies, CMBS lenders, debt funds, and banks/credit unions.

Tom is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and holds an MBA from Georgia State University.