Ken Gaitan is a Managing Director for Verus Commercial Real Estate Finance. Mr. Gaitan was previously a Regional Director for Money 360 where he originated $381 million of bridge loans since 2017.

As a 32-year veteran of commercial real estate, Mr. Gaitan  has served in production and leadership positions with national mortgage banking firms (CBRE and HFF) and CRE lenders (Merrill Lynch, JPMorgan and Bank of America). Gaitan’s expertise in all commercial real estate asset types includes origination, underwriting of debt and equity, as well as special situations, asset management & dispositions. Noteworthy leadership positions included: Senior Vice President-Western Regional Manager at Bank of America OREO and Western Regional Manager at Merrill Lynch (CMBS).  Through his various roles as intermediary, lender and principal, Mr. Gaitan has closed more than $5 billion of CRE transactions.  Mr. Gaitan graduated from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Science Degree from the Marshall School of Business.