Rich Rodes is a senior managing director and senior regional director for mortgage loan production on the commercial real estate team at PPM America, Inc. (PPM). He is responsible for commercial real estate loan production for approximately one-third of the geographic area of the US and manages a team of producers. Rich also serves as a voting member of the group’s Credit and Portfolio Surveillance Committees. Prior to joining PPM in 2004, Rich produced commercial real estate mortgage, equity and joint venture investments throughout the Midwest at Northwestern Mutual Life. Previously, he was with ITT Real Estate Services in portfolio management and commercial real estate loan underwriting. Rich earned a master’s degree in finance, marketing and management from Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree in finance, investment and banking, and real estate and urban land economics from the University of Wisconsin.