CV Holdings, Inc.

Jim
Crystal

Mr. Crystal has over 30 years of experience in private equity, investment banking, hedge funds and wealth management.

From 2013 to 2019, as a Managing Director at Tricadia Capital Management (now Corvid Peak Capital Management), Jim was the portfolio manager principally responsible for Tricadia’s private equity investments in the financial services sector, overseeing funds with over $450 million in commitments and serving on various portfolio company boards.  In this capacity, he identified and structured Tricadia’s investment in CV Holdings in 2015 and has been a director of the company since that time.

Prior to joining Tricadia, Jim was a Managing Director at Rockefeller & Co., one of the largest multi-family offices and a predecessor firm to Rockefeller Capital Management, where he designed custom alternative investment portfolios for large clients and served as portfolio manager of the firm’s proprietary alternative investment vehicles from 2008 to 2013.  Prior to joining Rockefeller, he was a Senior Managing Director and a Portfolio Manager of a hedge fund at Bear Stearns Asset Management.

From 1997 to 2004, Jim was a Senior Managing Director at Bear, Stearns & Co., serving approximately five years in the Investment Banking Department and two years in the Asset-Backed Investments Group.  Before joining Bear Stearns, he was a Director at predecessor companies to UBS Investment Bank from 1988 to 1997.

Mr. Crystal received his B.A. magna cum laude from Yale College and an A.M. from Harvard University.

John
De Mata, CPA

Mr. De Mata has over 17 years of accounting, financial reporting and real estate experience. Prior to joining CV, he was an assurance senior manager at Ernst & Young LLP (EY) serving various types of public and private real estate clients including real estate investment trusts, real estate opportunity funds, multifamily, senior living, homebuilders, and hospitality companies (including timeshares and hotels, both from owner and operator sides). He has experience with SEC reporting and filings of registration statements, XBRL, comfort letters, purchase price allocations, valuation of real estate projects, construction contract accounting, lease accounting, consolidations, and coordination, scoping and testing for various entities that are required to comply with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration – Accounting from California State University, Fullerton and is a Certified Public Accountant with the California Board of Accountancy.

Logan
Tarkowski

Mr. Tarkowski has over 15 years of corporate finance and real estate experience. Prior to rejoining CV, he was a Director at Verus Commercial Real Estate Finance with a focus on loan originations, loan closings and asset management. He started his career at Colliers Macaulay Nicolls where he supported transactions across all asset types including Industrial, Office, Retail and Multifamily properties.  After Colliers CMN, Mr. Tarkowski led the finance team for a property management firm focused on small to mid-size mixed use condominium associations in the greater Chicagoland area. During that time, he advised and modeled financial strategy for a wide variety of clients to ensure financial solvency during a time of higher defaults and vacancies brought on as a result of the Great Recession. He also has experience in various other finance platforms including a servicer and asset manager of residential NPLs, an originator and asset manager of CRE bridge loans and a small balance equipment finance company. Mr. Tarkowski earned a B.S. in Regional Development from the University of Arizona and his MBA in Finance from Bellevue University.