Carlos Monroy

While in college, Carlos worked for Marcus & Millichap, the 7th largest commercial real estate brokerage firm. He focused on investment sales for NNN properties throughout the country.

Carlos graduated from the University of Redlands with a B.S. in Business Administration, and joined CRE lending company, Liberty SBF. He joined the company as a Business Development Officer (BDO) to originate SBA 504 and conventional loans for industrial properties in California. He was quickly promoted to Senior BDO and was the 3rd top producing salesman in the company.

Shortly thereafter, Carlos joined PeerStreet, a trailblazing real estate technology company that provides capital to brokers and lenders for residential bridge and non-QM loans.

Carlos’ background in real estate sales and financing gives Padua Partners a unique competitive advantage and network of capital providers. Carlos and JD decided to put their individual skillsets and networks together to form Padua Partners.

JD Kumala

After graduating from USC with a B.S. in Business Administration, JD worked at J.P. Morgan as an Investment Banker for the Technology Mergers & Acquisitions team in San Francisco. Most notably, he was the lead analyst for Disney’s $71B acquisition of 21st Century Fox, where he managed the full merger model and various returns analyses. After J.P. Morgan, JD joined the high-growth financial technology start-up, Acorns, where he managed operational & strategic finance and helped raise over $105M in funding.

In his spare time, JD moonlights as a career development mentor for aspiring high school & college students under his company ProfeshMe. He is also one of the co-founders of Jetspeed Ventures, which advises early-stage companies through their fundraising journey (go-to-market strategy development, company positioning, financial modeling, etc.).

JD’s background in financial modeling and capital raising gives Padua Partners the confidence to make informed offers and structure deals with favorable terms and returns.