Steve Cho serves as the Chief Operating and Credit Officer for Blue Vista’s commercial real estate lending business, Blue Vista Finance. In this capacity, he is responsible for the credit, asset management, and capital markets functions of Blue Vista Finance. Steve has 20 years of commercial real estate industry experience across a broad range of transactions, spanning loan origination, portfolio management, acquisitions, and financial engineering.
Prior to joining Blue Vista, Steve was responsible for Midwest CMBS origination for MC-Five Mile. Prior to that, he originated CMBS and bridge loans in the Central region for the Royal Bank of Scotland, as well as managed the restructurings and dispositions of a $1.7 billion portfolio of challenged legacy loans. Steve began his career in the private equity acquisitions and financial engineering groups at Fortress Investment Group in New York.
Steve earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard University.