Priority Capital Advisory Adds Finance Veteran Katie Rodd to Management Team

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Katie Rodd 
With more than two decades of CRE finance experience, Rodd will spearhead the execution of the firm’s transaction pipeline, including capital placement and loan closing. Since May 2024, PCA has closed more than $100 million in commercial debt and equity financing and has a current pipeline exceeding $1 billion.

Priority Capital Advisory (PCA), a premier boutique debt and equity capital advisor for middle market and institutional developers, owners, and investors, has appointed industry veteran Katie Rodd to the position of Managing Director and Head of Execution, announced PCA president, Zachary Streit.

“As our pipeline and transaction volume continued to grow, we recognized that it was imperative to bring in someone of Katie’s caliber to ensure we continue to deliver industry leading performance and client service,” noted Streit. “Katie has all the tools and depth of experience to deliver on even the most complicated transactions and I am very excited about how her addition will enhance our client experience.”

During her career Katie Rodd has closed more than 350 transactions as a capital advisor, totaling more than $5.2 billion. She spent eight years as a Senior Vice President and Head of Capital Placement for the CEO’s team at George Smith Partners, a Los Angeles based real estate capital advisory firm, and seven years at Capmark Finance, where she began her career as a CMBS underwriter. As a lender, Rodd was most recently a Commercial Loan Originator at Argentic Investment Management, where she sourced, structured, and closed non-recourse debt financings via CMBS and CLO (collateralized loan obligations) executions from $5M-$100 million. Rodd also worked at Wells Fargo in the Real Estate Capital Markets group on the lending side, where she screened and underwrote CMBS and non-recourse balance sheet acquisition and refinance requests on commercial real estate assets.

Based in Century City in Los Angeles, PCA specializes in arranging highly structured and innovative finance solutions for all commercial property sectors. Led by Streit, the firm is focused on financing transactions with a total capitalization ranging between $25 million and $200 million. Deals incorporate structures across the capital stack for pre-development, development, value-add and stabilized projects across all asset classes. PCA’s current pipeline exceeds $1 billion.

Priority Capital Advisory is a premier boutique debt and equity capital advisor for middle market and institutional commercial real estate sponsors and investors. PCA arranges highly structured and innovative finance solutions up and down the capital stack, with a focus on transactions with a total capitalization of $30 million to $200 million. PCA leverages debt and equity solutions for all property types including capital from debt funds, life insurance companies, commercial and investment banks, agency financing, CMBS, mortgage REITs, and pension funds.