Thomas R. Sherlock

Tom Sherlock has been a leader in commercial real estate finance for four decades.  As Co-Founder of Talonvest Capital, Inc., he drives the firm’s strategic growth, branding, and leadership while leveraging its deep institutional knowledge and capital markets expertise to deliver superior financing solutions for clients.

Before founding Talonvest in 2010, Tom was Managing Partner at a national investment management firm, where he led the acquisitions team in structuring joint venture equity investments for institutional investors.  Earlier in his career, he was a top-producing senior lending officer at a national bank, specializing in construction, bridge, and permanent financing. Through these roles and his leadership of a brokerage-advisory business, Tom has played a key role in capitalizing more than $15 billion in commercial real estate transactions.

Beyond his work at Talonvest, Tom is actively engaged in both the commercial real estate industry and philanthropic initiatives. He serves as an adjunct professor at the University of California-Irvine, where he teaches the capstone real estate course for MBA students at the Paul Merage School of Business. He is also a member of the ULI Capital Markets Forum, a Trustee for the Ronald McDonald House Orange County, and the founder of the Talonvest Philanthropy Partners initiative.  Previously, Tom served on NAIOP’s National Board of Directors, was President of NAIOP SoCal, and was a member of the Executive Committee at the UCI Center for Real Estate. He also founded NAIOP’s award-winning Young Professionals Group (YPG) and established the CRE-NAIOP Fellowship, a scholarship, internship, and mentorship program.

A graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Science in Finance, Tom is a frequent speaker and panel moderator at real estate industry conferences nationwide.