Loren Wernette has built his career around structuring, underwriting, and managing real estate investments with a strong focus on risk management and operational discipline. His experience spans private real estate lending, fund management, and long-term partnership investing.

His approach emphasizes conservative assumptions, repeatable decision-making processes, and transparency in reporting. Loren focuses on understanding risk at the asset level and designing investment structures that allow capital to perform without requiring investors to assume day-to-day operational responsibilities.

As Founder and Manager of REI Transactional, Loren is responsible for setting investment strategy, approving capital deployment, overseeing financial performance, and ensuring that the firm operates in accordance with its governing documents and fiduciary responsibilities to investors.

Zackary Kornblum brings experience in private real estate finance, credit evaluation, and capital deployment. His work centers on analyzing investment opportunities with an emphasis on downside protection, conservative assumptions, and alignment between investors and operating partners.

In his role, Zack supports the investment process by reviewing project-level financials, assessing risk factors, and assisting with the ongoing monitoring of active investments. He works closely with the management team to ensure that proposed investments align with REI Transactional’s underwriting standards and governance framework.

Zack’s approach is grounded in process, accountability, and repeatable execution, reinforcing the firm’s commitment to institutional-quality oversight, transparency, and long-term stewardship of investor capital.