Mr. Kearney is the President of Cottonwood Mews Development, Inc., the General Partner of the Lynx Loan Fund. He is also President and Founder of Abbey Mortgage & Investments, Inc. These two entities have originated and funded private loans secured by real estate since their inception (both in 1997). Mr. Kearney has developed sources of funds for various loans placed by Abbey for both residential and commercial properties. These sources cover the entire spectrum of credit quality and type of secured asset in which the Fund will invest.

Mr. Kearney is the primary individual responsible for developing the relationships with other lenders who provide the bulk of referrals for the Fund’s private loans.

His broad financial experience over the past 28 plus years has included many facets of real estate and secured lending. They include management and disposition of “OREO” (other real estate owned) for a large regional bank, construction lending to commercial and residential projects, revenue bond financings supported by rated bank letters of credit, market analysis for national retail concepts, site selection analysis, construction management consulting, residential and commercial rehabilitation, residential development and construction, land use changes and rezoning work, originations of residential and commercial loans to institutional investors, private loan originations to residential and commercial borrowers, and management of foreclosure actions on various types of loans. He served on the Planning and Zoning Commission of Berthoud, Colorado, a rapidly growing Northern Colorado Town, for 5 years during a period when the town put in place comprehensive growth plans and approved annexations and development planning for thousands of acres of subdivisions that will be developed over the next 30 to 75 years.

After growing up in a small Midwestern town, he earned a BA, cum laude, in Economics from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, and an MBA from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has lived and worked in Colorado, since 1984.