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John Doyamis
John Doyamis has over twenty years of experience in structured finance origination, investment banking, mortgage lending, RMBS valuation and mortgage finance consulting. This includes extensive experience in structuring asset backed transactions across multiple asset classes including residential mortgages, trade receivables and other consumer loans.
Mr. Doyamis started his career at Merrill Lynch’s mortgage research department in 1987, before he moved to the RMBS origination group in 1989. In 1994 Mr. Doyamis joined Bear, Stearns as a head of the newly created Non Agency RMBS Group. In 1997 Mr. Doyamis initiated the creation of a publicly traded mortgage REIT, HELIOS 2000, which invested in Non-Agency RMBS and residuals.
From 2000 to 2003 Mr. Doyamis, through his own consulting company, JD Consulting Associates, served as a senior consultant to Capital One’s corporate development group, where he developed a multi faceted mortgage origination and funding plan.
ABN Amro in 2005 hired Mr. Doyamis as a Managing Director in its ABS group to head its non- agency securities origination and mortgage warehousing efforts.
Since 2008 John and Rob DiOrio have been consulting with financial institutions in assessing RMBS portfolios, evaluating new mortgage origination strategies and designing mortgage financing strategies. He currently runs Estia Business Group, an advisory company, which assists a variety of domestic and international companies to raise debt and equity in the international capital markets.
Robert DiOrio
Robert DiOrio has over 25 years in credit and risk management in mortgage banking and consumer finance. Mr. DiOrio’s experience ranges across multiple asset classes including prime and subprime residential mortgages, home-equity lines of credit, auto loans and leases, manufactured housing, construction and agricultural loans, and tax liens. Mr. DiOrio has closed over one-hundred securitizations across a broad range of consumer assets and established de novo securitization programs for many first-time issuers and first-time asset categories.
Mr. DiOrio’s experience has included developing and heading asset-backed financing and securitization groups where he was responsible for a financing book of $10 billion and leading a strategic process for diversification into other asset categories. Since 2008, Mr. DiOrio has been a Senior Member of Estia Business Group advising clients on consumer portfolios, evaluating new mortgage origination strategies and designing mortgage financing structures.
Mr. DiOrio earned a BA in Economics from SUNY at Stony Brook and an MBA in Finance from Baruch College.
Associate Members
Paul Saraferas
Paul Saraferas has over 25 years of experience in the banking and investment management business. In 2012, he co-founded FlemCapital A.G., an advisory and management firm providing asset management and project finance solutions. Additionally, he was the founder of Proanax Holdings LTD. which operated the AnaxMarkets trading platform, offering investment products including FX, Commodities / Futures and Global Equities & Indices.
From 2005 - 2012, Mr. Saraferas was the Head of Capital Markets for Unicredit Group (Greece and Cyprus) where he was responsible for institutional clients including the Hellenic Republic with a special focus on debt capital markets. From 1995 - 2004, Mr. Saraferas served as Deputy Manager & Head of Trading, Fixed Income, Futures and Derivatives at Alpha Bank A.E. (Athens, Greece) Treasury. He was responsible for the bank’s proprietary, multi-asset class investment portfolio in excess of €4 billion.
From 1990 - 1994, Mr. Saraferas served as Director of the Treasury Department and Portfolio Manager at Bank Leumi Trust Company of New York, where he co-managed the Bank’s portfolio of $1.3 billion. In 1987, he joined Marine Midland / HSBC Bank of New York as a Financial Officer in Municipal Markets.
Mr. Saraferas holds an MBA in Finance from Pace University’s Lubin Graduate School of Business, where he graduated with honors and was a candidate for the Wall Street Award. He also earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree (BBA) in Marketing and in Interntional Business (minor) from Pace University.
Mr. Saraferas is a frequent contributor to major financial media outlets including Bloomberg, Reuters, and the Financial Times.