Rockport | Who We Are

When we started Rockport, we were like five, you know, people in the backroom. I think Rick and I constructed the first office. Yes. We did that ourselves and went from there. So, we're entrepreneurs. We try to say that we're a startup that's been here for twenty years. We have been in a world of commercial real estate debt financing for well over twenty years, long time. Your job classically is you think ten years ahead, and we have to catch up with those ideas?

Like I said earlier, he's a visionary. Visionaries look very far in the future. I think we've done it in a way where we are really providing that value to the clients, and we're not just quickly building features that seem like they fixed the problem, but in the end just create a mess for a client. Because ultimately, we know that if our clients are successful, that we'll be successful. If I had thirty seconds, I'd use fifteen of them and say, just come give it a try and let me know.

I'd rather them tell me than me tell them. The only thing I'd want them to do is give it a try. And that'd be my pitch. Transactions are just transactions, but quality relationships are what lasts for the decades, and that's what we're looking for in our clients. That's another thing that we do, which is I think it's an art. It's something that we've had to develop over the years, which is really trying to get to the base needs, not wants. We have seasoned commercial real estate veterans here that understand the lingo, the analysis, the workflow that you're actually trying to accomplish or do.

You're not just talking to a tech company. You're speaking to a combination of a tech company that has a long history in commercial real estate, as well as commercial real estate professionals that have formed the same functions that they have. We've got over close to one point five trillion dollar's worth of assets managed in the Rockport platform. So that we, a, we know the market, but b, we have a rock-solid business, long term contracts. Many of them are critical platforms for major lenders.

A lot of banks were just using Excel to manage all this data around their commercial real estate, their conduit. We're here and ready when the industry is ready to fully adopt technology, and lucky for us and the industry, it's happening. In my mind, and as Will said, as growing up, there was one thing that was important, and that was integrity. So, to me, it means everything. We do what we say, and I think that that works internally. I think it is also something that when we go to clients and we say, we can do this, we can help you, we stand behind that.

I think we have a tremendous amount to do. There's a tremendous need out there. There is going to be tremendous change in our world of commercial real estate finance and equity, so that we want to participate in that. And as I said, I think we barely scratched the surface, and it's fun. I'm looking forward to doing it for a lot of more years.