Management Team

Steven Kirsch

Managing Director 

Mr. Kirsch is in charge of all operations at DRI. Prior to joining DRI, Mr. Kirsch was Senior Vice President at Westbourne Capital, a real estate private equity firm, where he was responsible for performance and oversight of the firm’s portfolios of distressed loans, REO and affordable housing. From 2006 to 2009, Mr. Kirsch was Vice President of Loan Originations and Acquisitions at Seabreeze Financial, a private alternative lender, which provided financing to borrowers and businesses that lacked access to traditional credit. Mr. Kirsch was an integral part of the management team in charge of business development and was responsible for the origination and acquisition of over $100MM of commercial and residential loans. Earlier, Mr. Kirsch began his career at a firm specializing in distressed residential mortgages. Mr. Kirsch participated at all levels in the acquisition and management of $2.2B loan portfolios. Mr. Kirsch received a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Miami.

Christopher Aldridge

Director of CDFI Relations

Mr. Aldridge is a senior finance professional with 30 years of experience in banking, community development, investment banking, and insurance. Among his accomplishments: developed a de novo real estate operation for a nonprofit that generated more than $2 million in net surplus within 18 months. He has also designed alternative financing programs for low income families that were adopted by several large public entities in Michigan to facilitate sales of the Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) and HOME funded housing programs. Previously, Mr. Aldridge directed a $1 billion Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) investment and lending program for a large regional bank that included new market tax credits, venture financing, small business lending, and community development lending. As President of a regional bank’s corporate community banking and investments division, Mr. Aldridge managed a $400 million portfolio of various CRA loans and investments doubling the ROI on the banks community development assets. Mr. Aldridge‘s experience includes developing the first and only successful virtual insurance company that accumulated over $4 billion in assets with a seven-person staff. Additionally, Mr. Aldridge developed a proprietary investment programs for one of the nation’s largest insurance companies that generated over $20 billion in assets over a five-year period. As a Managing Principal for a boutique investment bank, he structured over $1 billion in funding contract transactions over an eighteen-month period. Mr. Aldridge earned a BA Degree in Economics from Harvard College and a Juris Doctor from Wayne State University.

Lisette Smyth

General Counsel

Lisette Smyth has worked as corporate counsel for members of DRI management for over ten years. She has successfully negotiated and closed hundreds of trades to acquire and relinquish pools of assets having a combined value of more than $2 billion with companies including Goldman Sachs, UBS Real Estate Securities, Inc. and Deutsche Bank and Morgan Stanley. She oversees all aspects of the company’s legal affairs and plays an active role in the daily management of the company. She received her JD from the University of Miami School of Law and has been a member in good standing of the Florida Bar Association since 2002.

Marc Delnon

Strategic Advisor

Mr. Delnon has spent 19 years in the financial industry working for Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and more recently Credit Suisse where as a Managing Director, he developed numerous key relationships and built and managed various teams across CIS and Eastern Europe. In 2015 Marc acted as the Head of UHNWI UK International in Zurich and was a Member of the UHNWI Northern & Eastern European Management Committee. Moreover, he was chairing the UHNWI Investment Committee in 2015 and 2016. Delnon serves as a Advisory board member to DRI Capital.

Stacey Kirsch

Director of Marketing

Ms. Kirsch is an award-winning marketer with a proven track record of building high-growth brands from the ground up in the fintech, consumer product, and B2B spaces. She has worked in various product categories, including fintech, real estate, technology, fashion, and software. In her recent role at one of the fastest-growing technology firms, she was instrumental in growing a brand from its initial stages, expanding into 27 countries to acquisition. Ms. Kirsch is an experienced entrepreneur publicly recognized for developing a first-to-market consumer footwear product. She is the recipient of the Channel Chiefs and Woman of Channel Awards.

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