Mr. Tiesi is a founding partner of Argentic and has served as the firm’s CEO since inception in 2013. Under his leadership, Argentic has expanded to a fully integrated multi-faceted commercial real estate lender and debt investor.

Prior to joining Argentic, Mr. Tiesi worked for the Royal Bank of Scotland (“RBS”), where he re-established the bank’s U.S. commercial real estate business in 2009, which included engineering the first multi-borrower CMBS transaction in the industry coming out of the global financial crisis. Previously, Mr. Tiesi ran the RBS real estate finance business in Europe, which had over $20 billion of real estate debt and equity positions under management. Prior to RBS, Mr. Tiesi established the SREC business for ABN AMRO bank. Prior to ABN AMRO, Mr. Tiesi headed the European real estate finance business for Credit Suisse. He began his career at Deloitte & Touche, LLP focusing on structured products as a member of the CMO team. Mr. Tiesi earned a B.S. in Accounting from Lehigh University in 1993. In 2013, Mr. Tiesi was recognized as number twenty-one on the Commercial Observer’s 50 Most Important People in Commercial Real Estate list.