Ms. Gold joined Rialto in 2010 and currently serves as a Director within the NT group managing CMBS performing loan requests. She is a real estate professional with over 30 years of experience in commercial real estate development, finance and investment. During her tenure at Rialto, she contributed to the successful workout of a portfolio of over 100 non-performing loans and developed and managed the process for reporting foreclosures and charges offs in compliance with reporting requirements.
Ms. Gold also contributed to the building of Rialto’s Mezzanine Loan boarding, servicing and surveillance program from the ground up, the training of Quantum Servicing partners on servicing requirements, and the training of the Asset Management team on surveillance for this asset class. The tools she developed for mezzanine loan surveillance remain in use today. Prior to joining Rialto, Ms. Gold was involved with all aspects of loan workouts, including non-performing loan acquisitions and management, and also with commercial real estate loan originations for both income-producing property loans as well as acquisition, development and construction loans.
Ms. Gold graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics.
Ms. Goosby joined Rialto in 2012 and currently serves as a Director in the Performing Loan Consent Group. She has over 20 years of experience in the Real Estate and Servicing industries. Prior to joining Rialto, she was Assistant Vice President of the Commercial Servicing group at Bayview Loan Servicing.
Ms. Goosby earned a B.S. in Finance from Florida International University.
Ms. Fonticoba joined Rialto in 2010 as Manager of REO Reporting and is currently a Director responsible for REO reporting and compliance. Prior to joining Rialto, she was an Accounting Manager with Lennar Financial Services, a Project Controller with Crescent Heights of America, an Accounting Manager with Oral Health Services and a Financial Analyst with Sony Corporation. Ms. Fonticoba has over 20 years of Real Estate industry experience.
Ms. Fonticoba earned a B.A. degree from Florida International University and is a CPA licensed in the State of Maryland.
Mr. Diaz joined Rialto in 2011 and is a Director in our REO Team. Prior to joining Rialto, from 2006 to 2011 he was Vice President of Acquisitions for Urbanall Development Group, where he focused on the purchase of underperforming and undervalued multi-family and commercial real estate assets throughout Florida and Georgia. During his tenure at Urbanall, Mr. Diaz was responsible for sourcing and negotiating real estate transactions, raising capital, arranging financing and directing the operations of all company projects. From 2000 to 2006, he served as Acquisitions Manager for Gold River Corporation, where he was responsible for the underwriting and negotiations of the purchase of multi-family apartments, residential housing developments and shopping centers. Mr. Diaz has also been an owner of and partner in multi-family rental properties, condominium conversions and shopping centers.
Mr. Diaz holds a B.S. degree in Marketing from Florida State University’s School of Business.
Mr. Cunningham joined Rialto in 2014 as an Asset Manager in the REO team and currently manages a portfolio of CMBS REO properties with product types ranging from distressed regional malls to limited-service hotels. He has more than 16 years of experience working in the Real Estate industry with a diverse background encompassing lending and equity investments. Prior to Rialto, Mr. Cunningham worked at a boutique real estate developer and owner with responsibility for managing a portfolio of 22 retail properties totaling 4 million square feet. In addition, he built the retail real estate management division from the ground-up managing, hiring, and overseeing a team of 13 leasing, accounting, legal and property management personnel. Prior to that, his experience was on the lending side of the business working as a credit analyst at a regional bank.
Mr. Cunningham earned both an M.S. and a B.S. in Finance from the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida. He is also an active member of the International Council of Shopping Centers.
Mr. Chilgren joined Rialto in 2010 and currently oversees the CMBS Collateral Surveillance department, which monitors Rialto’s named Special Servicing portfolio of more than $100 billion in loan balance. With a prior background in Property Management, he began his tenure at Rialto in the Loan Workout department focusing on the acquisition and resolution of distressed loan portfolios. In roles of increasing responsibility and with exposure to various stages of the real estate cycle, Mr. Chilgren has substantial experience with CMBS, Special Servicing and all real estate asset classes with expertise in data analysis, underwriting loan acquisitions, asset management, performing and non-performing loans, sponsor and property financial analysis, borrower communication and negotiation, litigation and bankruptcy.
Mr. Chilgren earned an MBA from the University of Miami School of Business and a B.S. from the University of Minnesota.
Ms. Cegavske joined Rialto in 2019 and is currently a Director in our REO Team. She has over 12 years of experience in the Real Estate industry. She is responsible for non-performing CMBS REO assets in the West and Mid-West portions of the USA. Prior to joining Rialto, Ms. Cegavske was a Vice President at Sun Commercial Real Estate on the Investment Services Group in Las Vegas focused on investment sales. Ms. Cegavske was an integral part of the team, successfully closing just under one billion in commercial real estate transactions. Prior to that, Ms. Cegavske worked in Real Estate brokerage as a coordinator for residential bank owned real estate with a focus on property management and preservation services.
Ms. Cegavske graduated from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas with a B.B.A. in Finance with an emphasis in Real Estate. Ms. Cegavske is an active member of the International Council of Shopping Centers.
Ms. Kislak joined Rialto in 2024 and serves as a Managing Director in the Credit Investment Management group.
Prior to joining Rialto, Ms. Kislak was a Managing Director at Blackstone in the Real Estate Debt Strategies group where she led the Capital Markets team, responsible for capital markets activity across vehicles in the US, Europe, and Australia. Prior to Blackstone, Ms. Kislak was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs focusing primarily on the pricing, structuring, and distribution of commercial real estate loans and securities.
Ms. Kislak graduated from the University of Pennsylvania’s Huntsman Program with a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School and a B.A. in International Studies from the College of Arts and Sciences. Ms. Kislak sits on the CREFC Board of Governors as well as City Harvest’s Generation Harvest Board.
Mr. Barbosa joined Rialto in 2023 as a Director in the Compliance & Reporting group of Asset Management. He oversees Loan Servicing and the Special Servicing Investor Reporting team.
Prior to joining Rialto, from 2008 to 2023, Mr. Barbosa was at KeyBank Real Estate Capital where he was most recently Assistant Vice President of Investor Reporting. His team was responsible for servicing and reporting functions across various product lines including agency loans, primary servicing, master servicing, warehouse/balance sheet lending, CLO, repo facilities and syndications. Prior to his time at KeyBank, he worked at State Street Bank doing mutual fund accounting and pricing on bond mutual funds.
He received an MBA from Baker University and a B.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Kansas.
Ms. Perez joined Rialto in 2013 and currently serves as Controller of Rialto Management Group with responsibility for Rialto’s corporate group’s accounting, financial reporting and maintaining internal controls. She began her Rialto career as a Senior Accountant and subsequently served as Assistant Controller.
Prior to joining Rialto, Ms. Perez held various accounting positions in the food distribution industry. Most recently she was Assistant Controller at Pescanova, Inc, an international multimillion dollar seafood importer/distributor where she oversaw all accounting matters including general accounting, financial reporting, general accounting accounts payable & receivable, and treasury.
Ms. Perez received a B.S. in Accounting from Florida International University and is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in the State of Florida.
