About Jay Rollins

Mr. Rollins is President and co-founder of JCR Capital, LLC (Johnson Capital/Rollins). JCR Capital is a
specialty real estate finance company, specializing in providing structured debt and equity capital for value
added and opportunistic and value added commercial real estate transactions.
Prior to forming JCR in May 2006, Mr. Rollins was a Managing Director of GMACCM’s Structured Products
Group. In this role Mr. Rollins managed a $500 million balance sheet position that focused on originating
bridge loans, mezzanine loans, and participating debt. The platform focused on opportunistic real estate
transactions, in particular, multifamily, retail, office, industrial, land and affordable housing asset classes.
Mr. Rollins started the Structured Products Group (SPG) in 1999, and over that time originated and was repaid
on over $1.1 billion of high yield loans, achieving an unleveraged IRR of 9.7%. SPG was recognized
nationally by numerous industry periodicals including Mezzanine Lender of the Year honors.
Prior to GMACCM, Mr. Rollins was the President and Founder of Eastern Realty Corporation, a real estate
investment and advisory company. Eastern Realty purchased over $400 million of distressed (primary, land
and commercial) assets from the RTC and other distressed financial institutions. The assets were repositioned
and resold by Eastern Realty. These repositioning efforts included debt restructuring, land development and
construction. Eastern Realty was a joint venture partner with Wall Street investment banks, real estate
opportunity fund and private equity firms.
Prior to forming Eastern Realty, Mr. Rollins was Director of Finance for the public homebuilder, NVR, LP. In
this position Mr. Rollins was responsible for capital relationships and structuring debt and equity for land
development and construction projects.
Mr. Rollins began his career as a commercial real estate lender with regional banks in the Washington, DC
area. Mr. Rollins holds an MBA in Finance from George Washington University and an undergraduate degree
in Finance and Marketing from Virginia Tech.
Mr. Rollins is a frequent speaker and guest lecture on real estate finance. His speaking resume includes:
• Visiting lecturer at the University of North Carolina for their MBA program.
• Course instructor for NAIOP, teaching Advanced Real Estate Finance.
• Frequent speaker, moderator and panelist at industry conferences (Information Management Network,
Mortgage Bankers Association, Crittenden, Real Shares Conference Services).
• Individual and corporate trainer on real estate finance, training such firms as CB Richard Ellis
Mr. Rollins has written numerous articles on the topic of real estate finance that have been published in
National Real Estate Investor, Real Estate Forum, the Denver Business Journal and Colorado Real Estate
Journal.

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