Management
STEVE D'AGOSTINO is the Principal/Founder and is responsible for acquisitions and due diligence. Mr. D’Agostino has more than 30 years in the debt servicing industry, as principal of several large collection agencies, loan acquisition and debt servicing firms since the mid-70s. He is a “Professional Debt Collector” trainer as certified by the American Collectors Association, having been a former Director of the New York State branch.
He has had hands-on responsibility and oversight of over 2,000 due diligence projects for loan analysis and acquisitions, with the experience to bring a unique perspective when faced with problems that require creative solutions.
He has over 20 years of consulting in debt collection, banking and financial industries, with a deep understanding of the factors that influence today’s businesses, having served as Consultant to several banks and as Senior Project Manager/Consultant to the Jamaican Government during its banking crisis.
He was Managing Director of Action Assets Acquisition Corporation, an asset-marketing, acquisition and financial consulting firm, providing Business Plans, Corporate Profiles, Cash Flow Projections, Project Plans and other financial consulting services. The firm’s primary business was to negotiate the purchase and sale of performing bank loan portfolios to other banks, including interface and negotiations with bank presidents, senior managers, financial institutions and investment firms. Mr. D’Agostino was responsible for strategic planning and design of nationwide marketing and acquisition procedures.
He successfully facilitated negotiations and acquisition by the Dennis Joslin Company (together with Beal Bank) of over $700,000,000 in distressed real-estate backed loans and other types of loans from the Jamaican Government.
DALE HENSEL is a Principal of the firm and serves as the Senior Project Manager. He has nearly 20 years as a real estate investor, and he is the former CEO of a public company that specialized in real estate investments and liquidations. He provides the firm with the ability to offer direct oversight for managing project and accomplishing the exit scenarios proposed to our investors, whether that be renovating a project or improving occupancy to increase exit scenario value. He offers knowledgeable scrutiny of multifamily projects, the most abundant opportunities in today’s banking environment, as he is a turnaround specialist having acquired and improved many multifamily projects.
Sid Reyna is a Principal and Managing Partner with the firm. Mr. Reyna’s primary focus at CFA is in Market Analysis, Project Analysis and Project Management. Mr. Reyna brings over 25 years of Project Management, and Development experience. As a Project Manager and Group Manager, Sid Reyna has contributed to the success of such high-performance organizations as Intel Corporation, Texas Instruments, SuperFlow, Omnipoint, Xircom and Imageo. He has extensive success in developing and managing Teams, Vendors, Consultants and Contractors.
His strong project management and analytic capabilities augment the CFA Management Team in assuring that projects and programs are controlled with the definition, diligence and detail required to assure success. Mr. Reyna has long-term experience in design, construction and rehabilitation of single-family residences. His life-membership in Dave Lindahl’s L-Society (considered to be one of the premier multi-family investment, networking, and educational organizations in the USA), allows Mr. Reyna to maintain a sharp focus on the latest trends in emerging markets, underwriting, financing, management, and other factors that affect multi-family risk-analysis, acquisitions, operations and profitability.
