Ilir Telegrafi is a Managing Director of Capital Markets and Investments at TerraCotta, focused on CRE finance. Ilir is responsible for managing the firm’s lender financing relationships in addition to various aspects of credit investments. Ilir is a capital markets, originations, underwriting, investment, and portfolio management professional with over 20 years of CRE structured credit experience including balance sheet loans, CMBS (conduit, floating rate large loan, and single borrower) and CRE CLO transactions, RCF, and underlying repo (warehouse) lending.

Prior to joining TerraCotta, Ilir was a senior member of MUFG’s CRE Capital Solutions group where he was responsible for the origination, underwriting and portfolio management of a $4B+ portfolio of CRE bridge and construction loans pledged to bilateral master repurchase facilities. Prior to that, Ilir was a senior credit officer and CRE credit risk management team lead on US CRE lending exposure of $9.4B at Bank of China, providing credit analysis, mortgage structuring, cash flow modeling, and portfolio management for CRE balance sheet loan originations to institutional grade sponsors and senior RCFs to REITs and CRE management companies. Previously, from 2009 to 2019, Ilir was a senior structured credit analysis professional in the Principal Investments – Structured Products group of Wells Fargo Bank (“WFB”), where he performed credit analysis, advised on investment decisions, and provided portfolio monitoring and surveillance on a CMBS/CRE CLO transactions portfolio totaling $24B in AUM. From 2004 through 2009, Ilir worked in the CMBS Originations group of WFB, where he contributed to the structuring, origination, underwriting, and closing of over $4.0B of CMBS conduit loans. Ilir is the recipient of the 2007 WFB Commercial Mortgage Baucom Award, in recognition of credit risk and underwriting excellence.

Ilir graduated from New York University – Stern School of Business with a B.S. in Finance and Accounting (minor in Economics).