Peter F. Cervinka is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Cerco. He has over 30 years’ experience in real estate finance, development and management. In 1987, Mr. Cervinka began acquiring multifamily assets in New York, which he operated with an inhouse construction and management team. By the 1990s, he expanded his business to include the development of luxury townhouses in Manhattan. During the last ten years, his focus shifted from real estate development to real estate financing. To date, Mr. Cervinka and his team have originated more than $1 billion of senior mortgage loans across the United States.

He also serves as Chief Executive of the Cervinka/Rich family office, based in the Bahamas and in Vienna, Austria (the “Family Office”). From July 2018 to May 2021, he served on the Board of Directors of Newmark Group Inc. (NASDAQ: NMRK), a global commercial real estate service firm.

Prior to coming to the United States from Austria, Mr. Cervinka founded a construction company that employed 120 people. Mr. Cervinka has earned the German equiva- lent of an MBA from the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich, Germany.