Real Estate Vice President

Gordon Sinclair

Vice President

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WORK EXPERIENCE

Vice President

Wells Fargo Securities - New York, NY - August 2013 to July 2014

CRE Investment Banking)

• Leading CMBS and CRE CLO execution, including preparing pitch books for clients, rating agencies, and

investors as well as analyzing and structuring pools with commercial real estate loans for an optimized

securitization.

Moody's Investors Service - New York, NY - June 2009 to August 2013

New Issuance)

Vice President

Commercial Real Estate Finance Group - June 2005 to June 2009

Surveillance)

• Analyze conduit, fusion, and large loan CMBS new issuance and existing transactions credit, which includes

evaluating the deal level structure, the loan level structure, and the underlying commercial properties, and then

recommend credit ratings to a rating committee for public and private distribution.

• Evaluate cash and synthetic CRE-CDO's new issuance and existing transactions credit, which includes

analyzing the legal structure of the deal, the underlying collateral including a look-through analysis if warranted,

and any additional credit risks associated with the framework of the transaction, and then recommend credit

ratings to a rating committee for public and private distribution.

• Communicate directly with banks, investors, law firms, and servicers on credit ratings on a daily basis.

• Developed and implemented the "Q-Tools" based portfolio review that is used twice a year, which involves

running a proprietary algorithm through all Moody's rated deals, that identifies bond classes on transactions

that may qualify for an upgrade or downgrade and then proposing such findings in a rating committee that has

resulted in hundreds of rating actions.

• Co-authored four defeasance special reports that outline the credit impact that defeased loans have on a

CMBS and a CDO transaction and the insurgence of new players and trends within the defeasance market.

Real Estate Analyst-Capital Markets

GMAC Commercial Mortgage - Vienna, VA - February 2004 to June 2005

Hospitality and Golf Investment Banking Group)

• Assisted in analyzing/modeling the pricing, structuring, and distribution of construction, interim, mezzanine,

and conduit loans for best economics of hold or sell strategy, which embrace exit strategies of syndication,

securitization, and whole loan sale. Highlighted deals consisted of the $7.4MM Providence Biltmore B-note

sale, evaluation of the $1.6B Wyndham International Portfolio, and contribution of 3 hotel floating rate B-notes

to the $320MM Capital Trust CDO in July of 2004.

• Worked directly with internal treasury group to pledge over $550MM of hospitality and golf assets on a

revolving basis to low cost funding facilities established with banks such as CSFB, Deutsche Bank, Citibank,

and Merrill Lynch.

• Provided datatapes, due diligence packages, and/or offering letters to asset investors, rating agencies, and

funding facilities.

• Guided and assisted in all various underwriting and capital markets tasks, including developing and updating

financial models, specifically updating and maintaining the internal LIBOR and CAD BA Futures Model, the

Presale Reports Model, the ROEC Model, and the Hospitality and Golf Weekly Treasury Forecast.

Closing Coordinator / Underwriter-Real Estate

McMahon, Kublick, McGinty, & Smith PC - Syracuse, NY - October 1998 to March 2001

Residential and Commercial)

• Underwrote commercial real estate transactions, including completing financial due diligence, (ROE, IRR,

DCF, Underwriter Proformas\5 Year Projections, etc.) completing market analysis and penetration analysis,

and assessing appraisals, engineering reports (PCA's), and environmental reports (ESA's) for balance sheet

loans.

EDUCATION

MBA in Information Systems

Boston University Graduate School of Management - Boston, MA

May 2003

BA in Policy Studies and Geography

Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs - Syracuse, NY

May 1998

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