KANSAS CITY OFFICE
Thomas Cohen, Principal
thomascohen@johnsoncapital.com
Tom joined Johnson Capital in the fall of 2006. Prior to joining Johnson Capital, he served as vice president in GMACCM/Capmark's Kansas City office for 10 years specializing in providing permanent debt financing on all types of income-producing properties including multifamily, retail, office, industrial, condo conversions and new construction. Tom is a seasoned professional, having placed numerous loans with life insurance companies, conduit lenders, and each of the agency lenders including FHA, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. In addition, he has served on several industry panels including those sponsored by the Crittenden Report, Midwest Real Estate News and Apartment Finance Magazine. He specializes in structuring debt for more complicated transactions including those involving project-based Section 8 HAP contracts, tax exempt bonds, historic tax credits, low-income housing tax credits, and TIF projects. His background prior to entering into mortgage banking was with the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC), where he spent five years specializing in managing assets with tax-exempt bonds. He also served as vice president, commercial lending for a local Kansas-based bank. Tom received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Tufts University in Boston, MA, and received his J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law.
John J. Schorgl, Vice President
johnschorgl@johnsoncapital.com
John has been involved in commercial and multifamily real estate lending since graduating from the University of Missouri in 1993. After college he was hired by a new conduit lender in Kansa City, Midland Commercial Funding (now PNC), as a Real Estate Analyst. There John helped create policies, procedures, financial models and was promoted to Underwriter. Over his three year tenure, John was part of an underwriting team that originated and securitized over two billion in mortgage-backed securities. In 1996, shortly after earning an M.B.A. from Rockhurst University, John was hired by Midland Bank (now Commercial Federal) as a Loan Officer. There John was in charge of a $40 million real estate portfolio, as well as securing new loans. In 1998 John joined the Kansas City office of GMAC Commercial Mortgage (now Capmark) as a Producer/Underwriter, and over the next eight years closed over $500 million in permanent, interim, mezzanine and equity capital for diverse types of commercial and multifamily real estate. John has been involved in virtually all aspects of commercial and multifamily real estate including originations, underwriting, securitization, asset management, negotiations and closings.
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