Jacob Cherner is a senior lending and investing executive with more than 35 years of experience. He has expertise in many areas of real estate and finance, including: fixed-asset and structured finance; restructuring services; fixed-income securities; bankruptcy law; secured lending; asset-based credit facilities; acquisitions; debtor-in-possession financing; workouts; and liquidations. Over his career, he has participated in $80 billion of financial transactions.

​Mr. Cherner currently serves as President of CSG Investments, Inc., investment consultant to and affiliate of Beal Financial Corporation, one of the largest private financial institutions in the country. During his tenure at CSG, he has led the company to one of the top performance records of any investment firm, regardless of asset class or investment focus, and closed many notable fundings. 

Mr. Cherner also is an established corporate leader, having served for over 20 years as President of several Beal subsidiaries and affiliates, responsible for all operations at Beal Bank and Beal Bank USA. Mr. Cherner was integral to the banks' growth into a multi-billion-dollar financial institution. During that time, he also served as a member of each bank's Executive Loan Committee, Investment Committee, Risk Management Committee, Interest Rate-Setting Committee, and IT Steering Committee.

Mr. Cherner earned a J.D. with Honors from the University of Texas School of Law and a B.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. Mr. Cherner is a member of the State Bar of Texas and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Damien E. Reynolds is a senior executive currently serving as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of CSG Investments, Inc. CSG Investments is the investment consultant to Beal Bank USA, part of Beal Financial Corporation, one of the nation's largest private financial organizations.
 
Mr. Reynolds' career of 20-plus years has been spent entirely in the financial industry and he has gained broad expertise in leveraged finance with emphasis on derivatives and the oil and gas sector, liability analysis, regulatory compliance, and property and casualty insurance.
 
His primary responsibilities at CSG focus on executive oversight for day-to-day operations and all investing activities, which include transactions of up to $750 million. Throughout its 20-year history, CSG has deployed over $25 billion of capital.
 
Before joining Beal, he was an associate at the prestigious law firm of Vinson & Elkins.
 
Mr. Reynolds' education includes a BBA in Finance and Operations Management from Baylor University. He earned his law degree, magna cum laude, from SMU ’s Dedman School of Law, where his honors included participation in the SMU Law Review Association and the Order of the Coif. Born and raised in Mexico, he is also fluent in Spanish.
 
Mr. Reynolds lives with his wife and children in Irving, Texas and in his spare time enjoys coaching youth basketball, hiking and cooking.

Farzin Dinyarian is an executive in the energy and financial services sector with nearly twenty years of experience. Mr. Dinyarian currently serves as Managing Director for Natural Resources / Specialty Finance at CSG Investments, Inc., Beal Bank USA’s lending affiliate and investment consultant. In this capacity, he sources, evaluates, underwrites, and funds first lien loans in the oil and gas, midstream, oil field service, and life settlements sectors, with transactions ranging from $150 million to potentially in excess of $750 million.
 
While at CSG, Mr. Dinyarian arranged and underwrote the funding or acquisition of debt in excess of $2.6 billion across more than a dozen borrowers in various sectors.
 
Before joining CSG, Mr. Dinyarian served in various finance roles for Devon Energy in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Mr. Dinyarian's primary responsibilities included managing financial investments, strategic planning, capital sourcing, and lending relationships. Key achievements while at Devon Energy include the successful execution of $850 million in debt and $1.5 billion in equity offerings and tendering $2 billion of public bonds.
 
His early career experience includes tenure in various finance roles at Samson Resources in Tulsa, Oklahoma, managing a team responsible for business development, internal reporting, investor relation, and strategic planning. He began his career at Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co. in Houston, Texas, closing fifteen transactions valued at over $12 billion in just over four years.
 
Mr. Dinyarian holds Masters in Professional Accounting and Bachelor of Business Administration degrees in Accounting and Business, from the University of Texas at Austin. He resides in Dallas with his wife and four children. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his family, including his children's activities, working outside, and when possible, sailing.

Andy Longhurst is a senior lending executive who has enjoyed a 40-year career spanning banking, ship-owning and ship finance. Mr. Longhurst currently serves as Managing Director – Shipping for CSG Investments, Inc., Beal Bank USA’s lending affiliate and investment consultant. During his tenure at CSG, he most notably closed a $306 million senior secured credit agreement with Nordic American Tankers Ltd. that Marine Money named the 2019 Deal of the Year.

He began his career as a banker with London, UK-based Lloyds Banking Group, and spent nearly 25 years in various divisions, culminating in the position of Deputy Head of the Bank’s Ship Finance department. There Mr. Longhurst led a team responsible for structuring and managing complex financing solutions for shipping companies globally. The following four years further developed his skill=set while working for a private shipowner where he was responsible for business development and oversight of the shipowner’s interests in a fleet of tankers.
 
Mr. Longhurst has a deep market knowledge of the shipping sector, strong industry relationships and strategic approaches to mitigating risk within the dynamic shipping finance field. Mr. Longhurst has closed transactions in excess of $6 billion over the course of his career.

James Donahoe is a Senior Vice President and Managing Director with CSG Investments, Inc., Beal Bank USA’s lending affiliate and investment consultant.  Mr. Donohoe joined CSG Investments in 2009.
 
As Managing Director of CSG’s power and utility practice, he primarily focuses on originating merchant power project financings.  During his CSG tenure, he has closed more than $7 billion in project finance and M&A transactions. 
 
Mr. Donohoe has more than 25 years of energy industry experience on both the debt side and the equity side of transactions.  Immediately prior to joining CSG, he was a Director at Willow Bend Capital, a power and infrastructure investment advisory firm, where he assisted private equity hedge fund clients with distressed debt valuations, project financings and power sales negotiations. Before joining Willow Bend, he spent 8 years with Panda Energy International, a Dallas-based project development firm focused on conventional and renewable power projects as well as renewable fuels projects.

Mr. Donohoe holds a BBA from the University of Texas at Austin and an MBA from the Cox School of Business at SMU. He is also a former board member of The Children’s Trust, a philanthropic support organization for Children’s Medical Center in Dallas.

Larry Cotten is a Senior Vice President with CSG Investments, Inc., Beal Bank USA's lending affiliate and investment consultant.

In this capacity, he is responsible for real estate lending, loan portfolio acquisitions and bank purchases nationwide. Mr. Cotten locates and interacts with potential borrowers and loan sellers to identify qualifying transactions; directs due diligence teams in the review of data provided by sellers and information obtained through independent research; underwrites and originates commercial real estate loans; and presents lending opportunities and recommendations to executive management. He also serves on various loan committees and as an officer and director for many Beal Bank USA affiliates.

Mr. Cotten has been with the Beal enterprise since 2000, with the exception of tenure in 2007-2008 as Vice President of Goldman Sachs Commercial Mortgage Corporation in Irving. His prior experience includes tenure at Banc One Capital Markets in Dallas in three divisions: capital markets/loan origination; commercial mortgage-backed securities; and asset management.  

Mr. Cotten graduated from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, with a Bachelor's of Business Administration (BBA), Concentration in Business and Economics. He resides in Richardson and in his spare time enjoys DIY home improvement and automation projects.