LEGACY - Key Persons
Vernon Beckford has fifteen years of experience in investment management, debt and equity joint ventures, commercial mortgage origination, and distressed workouts. Concurrent with his roles at large companies, he had made early-stage investments in tech and operating businesses as well as commercial real estate.
Prior to Legacy, he spent five years on the Investments team at Global Atlantic Financial Group, formerly Goldman Sachs Reinsurance, where he helped build the Real Estate Group, which invested opportunistically in senior, mezzanine, and bridge loans, commercial mortgage-backed securities, and participated in joint ventures on ground-up real estate developments.
Vernon also worked at asset management firm CWCapital, where oversaw distressed workouts on loans in excess of $200 million, serving as the negotiating party with property landlords.
He began his career in New York at Credit Suisse, where he worked in the Structured Finance Group domestically and in Japan.
Vernon holds a B.A. from Columbia College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.