Sector Roundtables
Real Estate Finance Roundtable
Real Estate Financing Roundtable is a group of real estate lenders and financing providers working on capital access, underwriting standards, regulatory alignment, portfolio risk, and market stability across residential and commercial segments.
104
Companies
Overview
The CLA Real Estate Roundtable is made up of the leading lenders and vendors in the real estate sector in Canada. The goal of this invite-only group is to work on strategies to advance services nationally.
Visit the CLA’s Calendar to view all upcoming Roundtables.
To inquire about joining this roundtable, reach out to info@canadianlenders.org.
Please note: it is important that CLA members do not engage, under the auspices of the CLA, in coordinated behaviors or practices that restrict competition or target competitors who are not members of the CLA. It is critical that CLA staff and CLA members abide by these guidelines which are designed to avoid not only actual wrongdoing but also the appearance of wrongdoing. To that effect, CLA members should generally refrain from sharing with each other any confidential sensitive commercial information such as pricing, capacity, expansion, business plans etc.
Members
Darren Lorimer
SVP & Group Head, Commercial Banking
Mike Spero
COO
Patrick Ens
CEO
Kate Wybrow
VP Lender Solutions
Jeffrey Fallowfield
President
Gino Caputo
SVP, Real Estate Secured Lending
Chris Grimes
CEO | Founder
Ben McCabe
Founder | CEO
Hamid Akbari
Chair of the Board
Jim Spitali
SVP, Chief Operating Officer
Robert Saunders
Co-Founder | CEO
Alex Ritchie
AVP, Performance & Mortgage Services
Nicole Ow
Head (SVP), Advice-Based Products
Gigi Ligons
Sr. Director of Client Services
FICO
Kathy Catsiliras
Vice President Consulting
Atul Mehra
Co-Founder & Director
Jill Macdonald
Chief Operating Officer
Philip Santo
Vice President, Next Best Action and Personalization
Ben Leith
Partner
Marc Unger
Partner
Martyna Gatkiewicz
CEO & Co-founder
Mustapha Darbaj
Co-Founder
Shauna Clarke
Vice President Mortgage & Banking Solutions
Darren Keates
Vice President Sales & Business Development
Eric Dillon
President
Justin Carter
COO
Sacha Mamontow
Head of Cards & Fintech Market Development
Lauren Thompson
Senior Vice President, Business Development & Partnership Management
Alex Kjorven
Chief Product Officer
Nick Varnitski
Founder | CEO
Kira Tchernikovsky
Co-Founder and COO
Hughes Boivin
President
Ahmed Khairat
Vice President Retail Credit
Sean Parker
Managing Director and CEO
Andrew Foster
Senior Director
Harlen Suslik
CEO
Ahmad Sobh
CEO
Spencer Wilson
Chief Commercial Officer & EVP
Hamza Mhadi
Founder, CEO
Christos Maranis
Deputy CEO
Michael King
Director Business Development
Roundtable Events
Upcoming
Nov
9
November 9, 2026
Past
Jun
24
June 24, 2026
Apr
22
April 22, 2026
Jan
19
January 19, 2026
Apr
30
April 30, 2025
Nov
27
November 27, 2024
Jul
10
July 10, 2024
Jan
24
January 24, 2024
Participating Companies
104 companies are represented in this roundtable, including members whose individual staff are kept confidential on this page.
Aryza
Axess Law
BNQ Group
Brunette Mortgage Enforcement ltd.
Co-operators
Coastal Community Credit Union
Collectio
FICO
JLT & ASSOCIATES
Lawyers’ Professional Indemnity Company (LAWPRO)
Levitas
MACQUARIE
Navigator Limited
NorthLend Financial inc.
Opta
Padder
Pads Financial
PH&N Investment Services
RNDpoint
Setpoint
smarter.loans
Spartan Services Inc.
Stewart Title
Symcor
Temenos
The Home Equity Partners
Treefort Technologies
