Rockport Group

Rick Trepp is a prominent and well respected authority in the field of structured finance, providing the real estate market with non-partisan expertise in structured finance and software analytics since he founded Trepp & Company, Inc. in 1979 as a vehicle to incubate his entrepreneurial concepts. One of the companies formed through this incubator,... Trepp, LLC, has grown to become the industry standard provider of information, analytics and technology to the CMBS, commercial real estate and banking markets. Rick sold Trepp, LLC in 2004 to DMG Information, the information publishing division of the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), but remains a Board Member and close advisor to the company's senior management team. Under Rick's guidance, Trepp and Company, Inc and its affiliated companies have structured and serviced billions of dollars of asset-backed securities and the companies' analytical software has been utilized to reverse engineer over 10,000 separate securitizations backed by all types of financial assets. In 2002 Rick launched The Rockport Group, and the company's SaaS platform has become the industry-leading provider for commercial mortgage loan origination, underwriting, securitization and asset management. Today the platform is used by banks, investment funds and life insurance companies for the origination, securitization and asset management of performing and non-performing loans and REOs. Leveraging the product strength and market positioning of both Trepp, LLC and Rockport, in January 2013 the companies announced TreppPort, LLC, a joint venture that provides a web-based, end-to-end lending, surveillance and asset management solution enabling clients to assess their entire global commercial real estate (CRE) exposure. Rick is actively involved in both Rockport and TreppPort as Chairman and Co-Chairman, respectively, and visionary for both firms. Rick's other business activities include Rockport Funding, LLC, a private equity firm focused on information technology. In addition, Rick serves on ...Read More