Industry Spotlight: 2019 Captivate Award Winners

INDUSTRY SPOTLIGHT

2019 Captivate Award Winners

FUTURE IS BRIGHT

Recognizes an outstanding young professional who is alreadymaking a mark on the industry (under 35 years old)

Winner: Rachel Croessmann (PeerStreet)

Reason: Rachel is an invaluable member of the Business Development team who continues to grow the ecosystem of lenders at PeerStreet at an unusually fast pace. She consistently receives glowingly positive feedback from her lender clients. Rachel is an excellent ambassador for PeerStreet at industry events and she works diligently to improve the lender experience for all PeerStreet lenders.

Fun Fact: She attended University of Miami Law School and worked as a commercial real estate in-house counsel and acquisition specialist for a firm in Miami.

INNOVATIVE IMPACT

Recognizes a product or service that has led to success through innovation and technology

Winner: ProDeal 360

Reason: ProDeal is the only lightweight platform that streamlines due diligence tracking and deal closing by combining communications, data storage, and workflow into a single source of truth while also adding a layer of security and automation to your deals.

Key Features & Benefits:

• Real-time notes

• Robust document storage capabilities

• Mark docs as final and deliverable’s as complete

• Assign team responsibilities with due dates

• Automated daily recaps of deal activity

• Export final documents to Smart Closing Binder

• Export Smart Checklist PDFs

Fun Fact: The CEO (Mike Bebon), who was the brains behind the ProDeal platform, literally came up with the concept by writing it on a napkin while out with some friends.

INDUSTRY INFLUENCER

Recognizes an industry leader and overall role model

Winner: Gary Bechtel (Money 360)

Reason: Throughout his 33 years in the industry, Gary has closed over $10 billion in commercial debt transactions and touched on every aspect of the commercial real estate process from origination to underwriting and restructuring. At Money 360 his leadership has led to incredible growth for a young company closing more than $1.5 billion in commercial real estate transactions as the company continues to gain momentum and expand throughout the US. Gary is known by all as a respectful and charismatic leader, who is always ready to work alongside his team to troubleshoot problems and find solutions.

Fun Fact: Gary is an avid fisherman and takes trips all over the world on fishing boats. Whenever he returns from fishing trips, he brings back fresh cuts of fish for his colleagues, processed and packaged for everyone to enjoy with their family for dinner.