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Management
Each of the following executives has approximately 20 years of extensive real estate development, construction, investment and management experience. Their track record includes the development for their own account and/or financing for others of over 10,000 residential lots and homes and multiple commercial projects. This experience enables them to approach complex or opportunistic situations with a developer’s perspective, allowing them to quickly understand the transaction, thus creatively structuring a solution for new financing or solutions for distressed real estate, real estate workouts and non-performing loan sales.
 
Peter J. Fioretti, Chief Executive Officer, founded the company in 1993. Prior to Mountain Funding, Mr. Fioretti was the founding partner of Waterfront Investment, a New Jersey-based real estate development firm, that owned and managed multi-family, residential and commercial development properties. He also served as a founding partner in a construction company, a real estate brokerage firm and an asset management company. Previously, Mr. Fioretti was employed at E.F Hutton and Morgan Guaranty Trust Company. Mr. Fioretti received the 1988 New Jersey SBA’s Businessman of the Year Award and he was selected “Entrepreneur of the Year” in real estate and construction by Inc. Magazine and Arthur Young and Company. He was also a founding Director of Metropolitan State Bank. Mr. Fioretti graduated from Lehigh University.
 
Arthur G. Nevid, Managing Director of Investment and Lending, joined the company in 1997. Prior to Mountain Funding, Mr. Nevid was the Chief Operating Officer and U.S. Managing Director of the Cofinance Group, a French-owned real estate investment and development concern. Previously, Mr. Nevid was a real estate investment banker at Merrill Lynch Hubbard, specializing in the syndication of public real estate partnerships, property acquisition and asset management. Mr. Nevid is a C.P.A. and graduated from Binghamton University.
 
Robert Adamo joined Mountain Funding in 2007 as Real Estate Opportunity Specialist focused on NPL portfolio acquisition, REO portfolio acquisition, and loan sales in the Western States. Mr. Adamo has been a developer and builder for over 30 years, having built and sold thousands of single-family homes, multi-family rental and condominium units, and improved lots, as well as numerous commercial and mixed-use projects. He is based in Scottsdale, Arizona and focuses on opportunities to rescue distressed development projects in the Arizona and Nevada markets needing fresh capital and development/construction/sales expertise. Mr. Adamo is a past president of the New Jersey Builders Association, and graduated from the City College of New York with a master's degree.
 
Kevin J. Mast, joined Mountain Funding, LLC in 2006 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He has more than 20 years of in-depth financial experience in both the public and private accounting sectors. Prior to joining Mountain Funding, he served as the Senior Vice President of finance for The South Financial Group, a $15-billion bank holding company with locations in the Carolinas and Florida. Mr. Mast earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Kansas State University in 1982. He is a member of the South Carolina Association of CPAs, the American Institute of CPAs and the Financial Executives Institute.
 
Keith Alexander, Director of Due Diligence and Closing, joined the company in 2006 with more than 10 years of experience in real estate. Mr. Alexander has experience in a variety of areas including origination, underwriting, asset and portfolio management and restructuring of single family and multi-family residential and commercial real estate finance. Prior to joining Mountain Funding, Mr. Alexander served as Vice President in the Homebuilder Group at Key Bank Real Estate Capital and Vice President/Senior Underwriter for Bank of America’s Community Development Lending Group. Mr. Alexander holds a bachelor’s degree from Wake Forest University and an MBA from UNC at Charlotte.
 
Brett Peterson, Director of Property and Asset Management, joined Mountain Funding in 2007. Mr. Peterson’s experience in leasing and property management spans more than 20 years. He held senior management positions with MONY, Equity Office and Grubb & Ellis. Mr. Peterson also worked for Signature Associates, Michigan’s largest full-service real estate firm, where he was Director of Property & Asset Management, supervising a staff of over 40 professionals and 7.8 million square feet of commercial and residential property. Mr. Peterson graduated from Oakland University and is a member of IREM and BOMA.