Executive Leadership
ACTIV's veteran, cycle tested executive team has spent decades navigating credit cycles and building market leading CRE credit platforms.
Rick Gallitto
Co-Founder & CEO
Rick has 38 years of experience in Commercial Real Estate and Finance. He has a successful track record of building and scaling CRE lending and investment management platforms. Serves as an investment committee member and is responsible for implementing investment strategy and overseeing originations and team building.
Prior roles included Co-President of Angel Oak Commercial Lending and President of Plum Lending. He was the co- Founder and President of Tremont Realty Capital, an SEC registered investment advisor. After selling Tremont to the RMR Group, he was part of the team to bring public Tremont Mortgage Trust (TRMT:NASDAQ) and remained as Co-President and Chief Investment Officer.
Rick was the Northeast Regional Director of Finova Realty Capital, a publicly-traded finance company and SVP of CB Richard Ellis. Rick holds an AB degree in Economics from Harvard University. He is a current or past member of CREFC, ICSC, ULI, REFA and MBA.to, Title
Nik Chillar
Co-Founder & President
Nik has 25 years of experience in Commercial Real Estate Finance and Credit with additional focus in Capital Markets and Technology.
Most recently was Co-President of Angel Oak Commercial Lending. Prior roles included Managing Director of Western Alliance Bancorporation (NYSE: WAL); Senior Trader at the MUFG Union Bank subsidiary of Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi, where he was responsible for the investment, management and reporting of the U.S. portfolio of CMBS & Corporate CLO securities. Managing Director of Charter Mac Mortgage Capital where he ran the commercial loan origination program; Managing Director of Tremont Realty Capital, LLC, an SEC-registered investment advisor, and Director of Lehman Brothers new market securitizations team in Western Europe as well as the head of capital markets for Lehman’s US small balance commercial loan business.
Nik received a B.A. in Social Science/Economics and a B.S. in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Irvine, and has served on the executive board of the C.R.E.F.C. trade association and a number of fintech company boards.
Mike Hart
Senior Director
Mike Hart is a Senior Director at ACTIV Capital where he applies his broad experience in direct lending to develop thoughtful capital strategies for his clients by applying ACTIV’s direct lending products in well thought out structured financings. Over his 30 year career he has originated a variety of senior & subordinated debt structures financing construction, bridge, and stabilized commercial assets, including a handful of JV equity for both existing and new developments. In addition to his financing experience, he has previously served as an acquisitions and asset management officer for a national development company investing pension fund capital.
Mike’s prior experience includes acting as a Managing Director at Grandbridge Real Estate Capital, as Managing Director of Sun Trust Bank, and as a Senior Director of Tremont Realty Capital and FINOVA Realty Capital.
Mike Holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin- Madison and an MBA from Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management.
Dan Mee
Senior Advisor
Daniel Mee is a senior advisor with ACTIV Capital Strategies. In addition he is a Director and Trustee of Cambridge Financial Group, a $6 billion Multi-Bank Holding company. He previously has served as Co-President and Chief Operating Officer of Tremont Mortgage Trust (Nasdaq TRMT) and as Senior Vice President of The RMR Group, with over $35 billion in AUM, since RMR acquired Tremont in 2016.
With over 30 years of experience in the commercial real estate and capital markets industry and his experience leading a major assets group at the FDIC in the early 1990’s, he serves as a strategic advisor to the management team and clients of ACTIV.
Mr. Mee began his career at JP Morgan Chase Bank in New York City and speaks frequently as a panelist and thought leader at industry conferences in addition to lecturing at several universities on real estate capital markets topics.
He has passed the Series 7 and 63 US Securities examinations and holds an AB in Economics from Harvard College, and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
Senior Advisor
Victor Lattanzi is a senior advisor with ACTIV Capital Strategies, and is was previously the founder and managing general partner of Investment Capital Group and Semper Partners RE.
Investment Capital Group (ICG) is a private firm specializing in transactions that involve merging, buying, selling, or financing well-established assets across a wide range of industries. His extensive track record of successful corporate transactions involving corporate real estate assets offer ACTIV clients a unique perspective on the equity capitalization & financing of their assets.
His other prior experience includes Managing Director of Investment Banking at Highland Capital/NexBank Capital and Senior Vice President of M&A at Capital Alliance Corporation.
Victor holds an AB in History from Harvard College.
Sagiv Rosano
Senior Advisor
Sagiv Rosano is a senior advisor with ACTIV Capital Strategies, and remains Co-Founder of Rosano Partners, a relationship and community focused real estate services firm committed to offering the finest investment real estate services. Mr. Rosano also manages the Roman Group, a Commercial Real Estate Investment firm which focuses on value added multifamily and retail investments which recently launches a unique co-living brand known as LivingQ.
His experience with sale transactions, development, and asset level operations provide ACTIV clients with a unique combination of knowledge and experiences which enhances the capital solutions our team can bring to our clients, whether it is with an acquisition, refinance, or capital restructuring transaction.
Mr. Rosano was as Senior Lieutenant in the Israeli Defense Forces.
He holds a BA in business and economics from UCLA.
Working with ACTIV
‘A thoughtful approach’ is more than just a claim - it's the way we do business.
Our prime objective is to hire the most intelligent, talented, highly qualified and motivated people. We will invest in their development and their future because it is inextricably linked with our own and is a part of our success.
If you want a career at a company where employees can be leaders, work in an environment that encourages openness and honesty, cares about the local community and sets high standards, then ACTIV is the place for you.