Joseph Mueller is the C.E.O. and co-founder of Rockport Mortgage Company together with Mr. Lieser. An industry veteran, Joe is well known to HUD offices nationally.

Joe began his career with the U.S. Government in 1975 as an Economist for the Department of Commerce in Gloucester, Massachusetts. By 1981, he was President of a company that designed and implemented financial and credit analysis systems for money center banks and Fortune 500 companies. The company's success can be measured by the fact that the National Association of Corporate Credit Managers adopted this analytical systems the industry standard. This 45,000 member association now markets this system under the Association's name to its members.

In 1985, Joe joined the GMAC Mortgage Corporation in St. Louis, Missouri as a Vice President. Joe was responsible for the origination of FHA, FNMA, and GMAC securitized loans. He also directed major hardware and software acquisitions and development programs for GMAC's 16 income property offices.

Coincidentally with George, Joe moved to Reinlein/Lieser/Mcgee as a Vice President in 1988 where he continued to build his lending expertise. He worked with a wide variety of loan structures including conventional, tax-exempt, credit enhancements, and participating loans.

Joe attended St. Louis University and has a BS in Economics and achieved a MS in Economics at Cornell University in 1973. He completed an MBA at Suffolk University in 1979. Joe is a member of the Mortgage Bankers Association, the National Multifamily Housing Council, the National Housing & Rehabilitation Association, and the National Apartment Association.

He has published several articles in economics and operations research journals.

In Rockport, Massachusetts where Joe lives, he is the chairman of the St Joachim's Parish Finance Committee, is a member of the Town of Rockport's Affordable Housing Committee, and is a member of the Town of Rockport's Housing Partnership. Joe is married and has three children.

Dan brings to the business over 15 years of combined HUD and mortgage lending experience. Mr. Lyons joined Rockport Mortgage Company in 1996 and is now a principal. He participates in all phases of deal structuring, loan origination, underwriting, processing and closing. Dan has closed over fifty transactions and $400M worth of business for RMC since joining the team. Dan specializes in recapitalizing HUD's assisted portfolio, but also has financed market-rate housing, nursing homes and market-rate and affordable assisted living facilities.

Having begun his career at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in Boston, Massachusetts, he has direct insight into the issues and processes associated with successfully closing multi-family loans. His responsibilities at HUD as a multifamily housing representative included advising and coordinating of participants of the Federal housing programs for new and rehabilitated properties and assurance of compliance with HUD regulations. At Rockport Mortgage his is currently managing a pipeline of pending loans in excess of 200 million dollars.

Mr. Lyons holds a BA in Political Science from Assumption College, Worcester, MA and an MA in Community and Economic Development from New Hampshire College, Manchester, NH.

Mr. Lyons resides in Rowley MA with his wife and two children.

Eric began his career in 1976 and has been a real estate appraiser and counselor over the last 30 years. He has specialized in multifamily residential properties, with a particular concentration in affordable and senior housing options. Having worked for Dolben Appraisal and Consulting in the Boston area since 1978, he founded Lubershane Associates, Inc. in 1995 with the purpose of expanding the counseling aspect of his practice. His appraisal and counseling assignments have encompassed over 500 multifamily properties with a valuation of over $3,000,000,000. Eric is a member of the Appraisal Institute (MAI) as well as a member of the Counselors of Real Estate (CRE).

While Eric participates in all phases of deal structuring, he is predominantly focused on maintaining a responsive, high quality and efficient underwriting process as our firm continues to grow.

Eric has a BS in psychology from the University of Illinois and has attended numerous seminars and educational programs including those at the Harvard University School of Design and Professional Development and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. He has been a faculty member in real estate appraising for the Appraisal Institute and a faculty member at the Bentley College Real Estate Program. In addition, he has served on the Advisory Board of the Appraisal Journal.

George Lieser is a twenty-five year veteran of the Real Estate industry and has been the President of Rockport Mortgage Corporation (RMC) since its inception in 1992. Having served in all facets of the business, George has contributed a depth of industry experience to the success of RMC. His superb business management skills are reflected in the profitable track record of the firm and the continuity of its personnel. Rockport Mortgage has closed approximately $1 Billion in mortgage transactions.

George began his career in St. Louis, Missouri at the Pantheon Corporation where he was responsible for Multifamily Real Estate Development and Property Management. While in St. Louis, he broadened his experience to include public housing and urban redevelopment with his next two employers - Midtown Medical Center Redevelopment Corp where he specialized in Federal Block Grant Applications and Mercantile Mortgage Company where, as a Vice-President, his responsibilities included origination of HUD insured project loans for apartments and healthcare properties on a national basis. From 1979 to 1983, George was Mercantile's leading production officer.

A move to GMAC Mortgage Corporation in 1983 prompted a personal move to the Northeast. George opened the GMAC office in Boston, Massachusetts as a Senior Vice-President and managed the National Finance Department's Boston, St. Louis, and San Francisco offices. In 1988, George and two partners raised $2.15M in capital and formed a company that acquired the HUD Lending Division of GMAC. As a managing partner of Reinlein/Lieser/McGee, George managed the company's loan production and marketing activities that produced $400M in loans for apartments and healthcare properties. In this capacity, he shared responsibility for the operations of the company including underwriting and loan servicing. His skill set also includes extensive work in Market Analysis and Economic Feasibility for Assisted Living facilities, Nursing Homes, and Apartment properties. George has personally closed over $1.5 Billion in mortgage transactions.

George maintains a full schedule in his professional affiliations and his community service. He is an active member of the Mortgage Banking Association. He is a dedicated Member of the Board of the Cape Ann YMCA where he has recently completed a 3-year Presidency and led the effort to develop Teen Centers in Gloucester and Rockport. He is also the First VP and Board Member of the North Shore Regional YMCA. Mr. Lieser was recently given a recognition award for his outstanding service to the YMCA.

George attended Boston College and has a BA in Political Science and MA in Urban Affairs from St. Louis University. He is married and has two children.

Vice President, joined Rockport Mortgage Corporation in 1999. Chip specializes in the financing of healthcare facilities including skilled and intermediate level nursing homes, assisted living facilities, and other senior housing for both profit-motivated and non-profit owners and operators. Chip participates in all phases of loan origination and loan processing.

Prior to joining Rockport Mortgage, Chip's experience included six years with Arthur Andersen as a Certified Public Accountant in their Audit and Business Advisory division where he advanced to the level of Manager. He also spent 2 years as the Corporate Controller of a software company. Other employment included direct experience in the origination of single-family mortgages and custody accounting at a large custodian bank based out of Boston.

Chip holds a BA in Management from Assumption College, Worcester, MA and an MBA/MS in Accounting from Northeastern University, Boston, MA. He earned his C.P.A. license in 1994.

Chip resides in Gloucester, MA with his wife and two children.

Rob Milanette joined Rockport Mortgage Corporation in 2005, and now participates in the structuring, origination, underwriting, processing and closing of a wide range of commercial real estate transactions, with a particular focus on multifamily and affordable housing projects.

Prior to joining Rockport, Rob was a practicing attorney for more than seven years at two of Boston’s premier law firms. In three years of practice as a corporate lawyer with Foley Hoag LLP, Rob’s experience included representing public and private companies with respect to a wide range of business transactions; counseling companies on ongoing corporate matters, including compliance with corporate law and securities laws; drafting and negotiating operative mergers and acquisition documents; and drafting and negotiating term sheets and operative documents for multiple rounds of private equity financing and bridge financing. In addition, during his more than four years as a litigation associate with the law firm of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham LLP, Rob broadened his legal experience through his representation of a diverse group of companies and individual clients in complex commercial litigation matters, including lawsuits involving intellectual property, contract, securities law, and complex product liability disputes. Rob remains a current member of the Massachusetts Bar Association and the Real Estate Bar Association for Massachusetts, and is admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the United States District Court, District of Massachusetts.

Rob holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts (’94), and a Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School in Newton, Massachusetts (cum laude; ’98). He is presently enrolled in The Boston University Certificate Program for Real Estate, where he is pursuing a Certificate in Real Estate Finance.

Rob presently resides in Charlestown, Massachusetts, a neighborhood of Boston.

Prior to joining Rockport Mortgage in February 2002, Linda was Vice President at Recapitalization Advisors, an affordable housing consulting firm located in Boston, MA. She specializes in developing, negotiating, and implementing complicated recapitalizations, usually of HUD-regulated and HUD-subsidized properties. These transactions typically involve new initiatives to renovate properties and extend their affordability using preservation tools such as Mark Up to Market (MUM), Mark Up to Budget (MUB), Flexible Subsidy Use Agreement renegotiation, Mark to Market restructurings, Section 236 IRP Decoupling and Section 202 recapitalization – all in combination with new FHA financing. Having served as Recap’s principal policy advocate on HUD regulatory and administrative initiatives, Linda continues in that capacity at Rockport. Since joining Rockport, Linda has completed recapitalizations on 27 properties resulting in refinancing proceeds of over $178 million.

Before joining Recap Advisors in 1998, Linda was a Senior Asset Manager in the Boston HUD Office, where she asset-managed a large portfolio of properties assisted by project-based Section 8 and/or financed under Sections 221(d)(3), 236, 221(d)(4), 207, 220, 241(a), 241(f), 202, 811, 223(f) and 232. With particular responsibility for troubled properties – HUD’s most difficult cases – Linda designed, negotiated, and closed innovative workout strategies involving debt restructurings, secondary financings, sales and acquisitions, recapitalizations, refinancings, prepayments and substantial rehabilitation. Beyond workouts, Linda was also a HUD specialist in preserving properties under ELIHPA and LIHPRHA and continues to use that expertise in recapitalizing these properties under FHA insurance programs.

A 1991 honors graduate of the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, Linda participated in a HUD national training program requiring six hundred hours of technical training in housing finance and management. She completed additional course work in finance, management, community development, and housing policy at the University of Maryland, Boston University, and Harvard’s JFK School of Government.

Linda lives in Danvers, Massachusetts with her husband and son.

Rozanne joined the RMC in June of 2004. She is an experienced project manager and has abilities in customization and implementation in operational standards. Her strengths include managing risks, negotiating skills, effective communications within all levels of the company. Rozanne is able to apply her project management skills in her role at RMC as a loan processor where she is responsible for executing the preliminary loan steps, monitoring pipeline reports, analyzing exhibit documents for accuracy, while keeping underwriters, originator and all 3rd parties informed of project timelines.

Prior to joining Rockport Mortgage Corporation, Rozanne’s experience includes six years with QRS Corporation, a software company that provides global solutions to the retail trading community. There she held positions in quality control, customer service and later promoted to Project Manager. She has extensive experience in overseeing timelines, tracking issues and handling risks while providing up-to-date communication to project and processing teams,

Rozanne and her husband reside in Gloucester, MA and have raised two children. She enjoys gardening, the beach, music and traveling.

Meagan Marrone is an executive secretary and a key member of the support team at RMC. She is focuses on keeping the loan process in motion. She provides direct assistance to the loan originators and at the same time, assists in general office management so that Rockport Mortgage can respond to customers and partners in a timely manner.

Meagan completed her Associates Degree in Office Administration at Marian Court College in Swampscott, Ma in May of 1999. After completing her degree, she worked in a law office that was focused on Real Estate transactions and Estate Planning. Meagan then went on to receive her Paralegal Degree with a concentration in Real Estate from Marian Court College in December of 2002.

Meagan is a Gloucester native and now resides in Winchester, MA with her husband and new baby boy.