Welcome

CRE Finance Council invites you to join us at our mid-year Annual Conference in New York City on June 8-10, 2026.

When the issues are complex and conviction matters most, there is no substitute for being in the room. Join the largest gathering of senior CRE finance professionals for candid, real-time conversations about the forces influencing and reshaping the commercial real estate debt markets. Gain perspective from senior leaders whose experience spans multiple industry cycles and market resets. A must-attend event for anyone in CRE finance.

Meet Your Conference Co-Chairs

This year’s Annual Conference planners represent the best of the industry and have curated a program that addresses today’s real-world opportunities and risks. For those reasons, CREFC has chosen these individuals to curate this conference’s panel topics and presenters, our keynote speakers, and the core topics most applicable to today’s opportunities and risks.

• Lindsay DeChiaro, Managing Director, Citigroup Global Markets
• Grant Frankel, Managing Director, Eastdil Secured
• Amber Sefert, Senior Managing Director, Credit & Asset Management, Trimont
• Kelly Wrenn, Partner, Ballard Spahr LLP
• Programming Chair: Mary Jane Potthoff, Managing Director, Global Business Development, Morningstar DBRS
• CREFC President and CEO Appointee to the Committee: Jay A. Neveloff, Partner, Chair of Real Estate, US, Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP