Our Firm

Mark Jorgensen

Managing Partner & Cofounder

Mr. Jorgensen brings over a decade of institutional real estate investment and finance experience to the company. Mr. Jorgensen was a Partner and Portfolio Manager at Point Lobos Capital, a value anchored, global, investment firm. He was previously at Farallon Capital Management, a global institutional asset management firm where he focused on opportunistic real estate investments and an Investment Banking Analyst at Lehman Brothers. Mr. Jorgensen earned his M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and graduated summa cum laude with College Honors from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Steven Kay

Managing Partner & Cofounder

Mr. Kay represents entities and individuals involved in the business of developing and owning improved and unimproved real property. Some of these include Lennar Homes, Lennar Community Builders and Mills Corporation Real Estate Trust. Mr. Kay is recognized as a special advisor to several government and business leaders in the City of San Francisco and the State of California, including the City of San Francisco Mayor’s Office, the 49ers, former Mayor Willie Brown, and many other elected government officials. He is also a founding member of Kay & Merkle, LLP, a widely respected San Francisco law firm. Mr. Kay received his A.B. from UC Berkeley and his LLB from the University of San Francisco.

Tom di Francesco

CFO

Tom di Francesco, CPA is Chief Financial Officer at Golden Gate Global and Urbanite Capital. Mr. di Francesco has over 35 years of real estate accounting and finance experience. He was previously Chief Financial Officer at Reliant Group Management in San Francisco and JB Matteson/Matteson Realty in San Mateo, CA. Prior to that he was Controller at The Swig Company and Audit Manager at Laventhol and Horwath, CPA’s. Tom holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration, Major in Accounting, from California State University, East Bay.

Mark Jorgensen Director and Cofounder Urbanite Capital

Derrik Hirschfeld

Managing Director & Cofounder

Mr. Hirschfeld brings more than a decade of extensive institutional experience in commercial real estate which includes multifamily residential, commercial office, and public works infrastructure. As Vice President of Real Estate/Construction Risk at Citigroup, Mr. Hirschfeld oversaw a revolving portfolio that included over 60 projects concurrently under construction. Through his tenure, he helped close over 200 deals totaling over $4 billion in debt and equity. He is licensed in the State of California as a Civil Engineer (PE) and Structural Engineer (SE). Mr. Hirschfeld holds an M.S. in Structural Engineering and Mechanics from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from North Carolina State University.

Email: derrik@urbanitecapital.com
Phone: 415.423.1223

Sean Winekoff

Associate

Mr. Winekoff has five years of institutional real estate experience. Prior to joining Urbanite, Mr. Winekoff covered a $3.5 billion project finance portfolio within the Investment Bank at Citigroup in San Francisco and was a consultant in Crowe Horwath’s Performance and Portfolio Management practice in Los Angeles. He has worked with or advised more than two dozen national and multinational financial institutions. Mr. Winekoff has his B.S. in Real Estate Economics from Cal-Poly, where he wrote his senior thesis on systemic risk in secondary mortgage markets and is a member of the Urban Land Institute.

Our Team

Mark Jorgensen

Steven Kay

Tom di Francesco

Derrik Hirschfeld

Sean Winekoff

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Mark Jorgensen

Managing Partner & Cofounder

Steven Kay

Managing Partner & Cofounder

Tom di Francesco

CFO

Derrik Hirschfeld

Managing Director & Cofounder

Sean Winekoff

Associate