Nedda Ismaili

Background

About Nedda Ismaili

Nedda Ismaili has over 23 years of professional experience in the financial services industry, 18 as a Commercial Real Estate Lender. She is a Team Lead in the Real Estate Division at City National Bank, where she is responsible for managing a team of 9 originators with an existing book of $2.5BN, and new originations of approximately $500MM a year. She also started an Affordable Housing Lending Group with 443 units financed in the first year alone. She also is a member of the Bank’s LIHTC Investment Committee. Ms. Ismaili’s team is responsible for originating, structuring, and managing commercial estate real loans ranging from construction to bridge to permanent debt for the major asset classes. Her team also provides the full array of deposit and treasury management services for Commercial Real Estate clients. She joined City National in 2010 as a Special Assets Manager handling distressed commercial real estate, then spent 2 years in the Private Bank prior to transferring to Commercial Real Estate. Previously, she worked at the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) where she managed the Receivership process for 4 major bank liquidations. Prior to that, she was a loan syndicator for a large regional bank. Ms. Ismaili is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and earned her Master of Business Administration, with an emphasis in Finance, from Pepperdine University in Malibu, CA. She has a bachelor’s degree from University of Colorado at Boulder, and holds a Six Sigma Black Belt from Villanova University in Villanova, PA.