Jay Mercandetti is a Director in the Real Estate Financing Group at Citi, responsible for leading its CRE CLO business. Jay works closely with clients, investors, rating agencies, and deal counsel to create capital markets solutions for commercial real estate loan pools. Since joining Citi in 2014, Jay has held various leadership roles at the firm within the securitization and capital markets team. Jay is a graduate of the University of Delaware where he received his B.S. in Finance in Accounting. After graduating from UD, Jay began his career at EY working in their Structured Finance Practice on new issue CMBS transactions.