CREF Track Session 6: What Other Surprises are Ahead?

2023 MBA Chairman; President, Colliers Mortgage

Matt Rocco was the 2023 Chairman of the MBA and is President of Colliers Mortgage. Matt serves on the MBA Board and has served on MBA's Commercial Real Estate/Multifamily Finance Board of Governors (COMBOG), Residential Board of Governors (RESBOG), and MBA Opens Doors Foundation Board. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Real Estate Roundtable. In his role at Colliers Mortgage, Matt works with the Colliers team to build its business across the country and expand upon Colliers comprehensive capital markets services and solutions. Prior to joining Colliers Mortgage, Matt was Chairman and CEO of Grandbridge Real Estate Capital, a subsidiary of Truist Bank. Prior to joining Grandbridge in 1998, Matt was engaged in Invst. Banking.

MBA's 2025-2026 MORPAC Chair; Co-Chair, Financial Services Group, Alston & Bird, LLP

Nanci Weissgold co-chairs Alston & Bird's Financial Services Group and advises financial institutions and financial service providers on federal and state matters relating to mortgage lending and mortgage servicing, valuation, and other consumer lending issues as part of her national regulatory compliance and enforcement practice. She is a frequent speaker and presenter at legal and industry conferences and webinars, and has published numerous articles on mortgage banking, valuation, and consumer finance related topics. Her pragmatism preparing for, and responding to, CFPB, FHA, state, and other administrative actions is highly valued by her clients. Nanci is co-leader of the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Legal Issues Committee, and the 2025-2026 MORPAC Chair.

Counsel, Alston & Bird, LLP

Joe Boddicker is counsel in the Federal & International Tax Group. He focuses his practice on federal & international tax and legislative & public policy matters. Boddicker has extensive experience advising on corporate, partnership, and energy tax issues, including a wide range of issues related to the Inflation Reduction Act. Before joining Alston & Bird, he served as a law clerk in the United States Tax Court, and tax counsel for the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. Boddicker earned his J.D. from the American University Washington College of Law and his LL.M. in taxation, with distinction, from Georgetown University Law Center.

Partner, Alston & Bird, LLP

Pat Sargent focuses on structured finance and capital markets transactions, including extensive experience in commercial real estate finance and securitization, collateralized mortgage obligations, mortgage repo facilities, and structured financings of other diverse asset types such as trade receivables, auto loans, single-family rental loans, and equipment leases. He represents a national credit rating agency in commercial mortgage securitizations and CRE CLO transactions and also represents issuers, loan sellers, underwriters, investors, and servicers in public and private structured finance transactions and other debt and equity transactions. Sargent has served as past president and on the board of the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council (CREFC), and on the boards of the Structured Finance Association and the Mortgage Bankers Association. He also received the CREFC Founders Award for leadership and contributions to CREFC and the industry. He has written extensively on structured finance issues, including as contributing author to the CREFC CMBS E-Primer, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences. Sargent is listed in Chambers USA and Chambers Global for Capital Markets: Securitization CMBS and has been recognized regularly in The Best Lawyers in America® for Securitization and Structured Finance Law and Banking and Finance Law, and in Texas Super Lawyers.

Partner, Alston & Bird, LLP

Timothy P. Trysla is a partner in the Health Care Practice Group and serves as leader of the Health Policy Team. Trysla has more than 30 years of health care policy experience in the private sector and executive and legislative branches of government. He served as chief of staff and former senior policy advisor at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). In addition to advising the administrator on matters of Medicare and Medicaid policy, he worked as a liaison for CMS to the White House and Congress on Medicare reform and prescription drug coverage issues. He served as administrator-designee and speechmaker to large medical specialty and beneficiary groups and helped manage the development, passage, and implementation the Medicare Part D program. Trysla has been invited to speak on pharmaceutical pricing, Medicare Advantage reimbursement, and health care reform by numerous provider and investment groups, such as Pharmaceutical Education Associates, Financial Research Associates’ “Medicare Advantage Summit,” and the Wharton Health Care Business Conference. He was named in The Hill’s Top Lobbyist 2021.