About Jay Rollins:

Jay Rollins sits on the PEG Companies Board of Directors as a partner in the firm. Backed by decades of fund management and finance experience, Jay has a strong influence in critical decision-making around the company’s strategic growth.

In addition to his role at PEG, Jay is the Co-Founder of JCR Capital, a real estate investment management company focused on discretionary funds. JCR Capital was sold to Walker and Dunlop in 2018. Jay now oversees the legacy portfolio. From 1999 to 2005, Jay was a Managing Director at GMAC, where he built a team of 17 professionals focused on making opportunistic loans to transitional multifamily, retail, office, land and industrial properties.

Prior to GMAC, Jay was the President and Founder of Eastern Realty Corporation, a “Resolution Trust Company era” real estate investment company. Eastern Realty managed four partnerships, each purchasing assets from the RTC and financial institutions. As General Partner, Eastern Realty resolved, repositioned and sold distressed notes and REO. These disposition efforts included debt restructurings, bankruptcy, litigation and development, as well as note and property sales. In 1996 Jay sold Eastern Realty to Crown North Corp and remained there as a senior executive until he joined GMAC.

Prior to Eastern Realty, Jay was Director of Finance for a large public homebuilder, NVR LLC (“NVR”). As part of this position, he was responsible for establishing project level lending relationships for NVR. Jay was also a key member of NVR’s internal restructuring team, which was responsible for loan workouts and restructurings with more than 20 project lenders. Prior to NVR, he was a real estate lender with three large regional banks in the Washington, DC metropolitan area: Dominion Bank, American Security Bank and Sovereign Bank.

Jay is a frequent speaker and guest lecturer on the topic of real estate finance at universities including the University of North Carolina, Virginia Tech University, University of Denver, as well as at professional symposia. Additionally, he has written numerous articles on the topic of commercial real estate finance. He is also the author of “Commercial Real Estate Finance Uncovered,” which is an industry favorite as a desk reference on how to underwrite and profit from commercial real estate.

Jay holds a BS in Finance and Marketing from Virginia Tech and an MBA in Finance from George Washington University.