SPECIAL REPORT
HOT LIST 2020
DANIELA PEEVA Vice-president
GREG WILLIAMSON
MORTGAGE ALLIANCE COMMERCIAL
Co-founder and president
With more than 10 years of banking, corporate and real estate law experience, Daniela Peeva left the legal world in 2015 to focus exclusively on commercial financing. She currently runs the Toronto office of Mortgage Alliance Commercial, managing all commercial mortgage debt financing in Ontario. Peeva personally specializes in financing for multi-unit apartment buildings, including CMHC-insured products. Using her legal experience, she thrives on analyzing term sheets, financial documentation, complicated banking contracts, and other loan documentation and information, which helps her successfully resolve the challenges thrown down by lenders. Flexible and persistent, Peeva prides herself on making proactive decisions using whatever information is available and turning it into a big-picture story to help her clients secure financing. “I love challenges, and commercial financing is just that: finding solutions for clients and resolving problems every single day of your career,” she says.
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FINMO
“Uncommon solutions to common problems” is how Greg Williamson describes the drive he brings to his life and work. Williamson has been in the mortgage business for 27 years; during that time, he has built and sold three mortgage brokerages in two different markets, was twice awarded Mortgage Broker of the Year and won a Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2017, Williamson and business partner Carter Zimmerman saw an opportunity emerging in the Canadian mortgage technology space and, along with a handful of other brokers as early investors, started Finmo. Together, Williamson and Zimmerman crafted the vision that guides the company today, which is to create the best borrowercentric platform possible and deliver “a mortgage in minutes.” “I love the people I work with,” Williamson says when asked what he enjoys most about his job. “Each of our people does the work and output of three people, and it shows.”
INAM QURESHI Founder SYNDICATE LENDING CORPORATION
Inam Qureshi started his career in retail banking in 2007 and eventually moved to commercial banking, where he noticed a demand for commercial mortgage brokers who weren’t tied to a single institution. “I explored and trusted my gut feeling, and Syndicate Lending Corporation was born in 2015,” he says. “I have never looked back.” In 2019, Qureshi funded an excess of $200 million in mortgage volume; over the past decade, he has funded more than $1 billion over the banks he has worked with. “Start by doing what’s necessary, then do what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible,” he says. “The biggest lessons I’ve learned during my career are patience, persistence and perseverance.”
In 2019, Qureshi was a CMP Young Gun and a finalist for Commercial Broker of the Year at the Canadian Mortgage Awards, and Syndicate Lending Corporation was named a Top Mortgage Workplace, Top Independent Brokerage and Top Brokerage by CMP.
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