Jeff Hilton serves as a Managing Director of the Investment and Finance teams and is based out of San Francisco. Prior to joining CIM, he was Senior Vice President of Capital Markets at Opportunity Fund, a certified Community Development Financial Institution, where he was responsible for funding the small business loan portfolio. Previously, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of Aura Financial, overseeing capital markets, finance, and human resources. Mr. Hilton has extensive experience as a portfolio manager at BlackRock and Barclays Global Investors, where he focused on securitized products for over a decade. He began his career at Providian Financial, managing the day-to-day operations of the company's structured product funding vehicles.
Mr. Hilton received a B.A. in Economics and an M.S. in Applied Economics and Finance from the University of California at Santa Cruz.