Rebecca Gorsky is the General Counsel of Counterpointe Sustainable Advisors.

Prior to joining Counterpointe, Ms. Gorsky served as Associate General Counsel at King Street Capital Management, L.P. in New York. In this role, Ms. Gorsky led legal operations for U.S. real estate equity and debt investments and was instrumental in the formation and launch of King Street’s real estate funds and co-investment vehicles.

Previously, Ms. Gorsky was a senior associate in the real estate group of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York, where she worked with a broad array of clients on commercial real estate transactions.

Ms. Gorsky graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and holds a J.D. from Duke University School of Law.

Mary-Stuart Freydberg is a Managing Director at Counterpointe Sustainable Advisors and serves as Head of Research and Sustainability.

Ms. Freydberg, Managing Director, heads Research and Sustainability and oversees the firm’s sustainable investment framework. Prior to Counterpointe, Ms. Freydberg was Senior Director at Merrill Lynch, where she advised the trading desk, sales, and institutional investors. While Ms. Freydberg was a CMBS Strategist, ML was consistently ranked a top CMBS Research team by Institutional Investor. At Fitch IBCA, Mary-Stuart rated nearly $1 billion in CMBS and headed research and surveillance, where her team covered over $100 billion in CMBS.  Mary-Stuart has published extensively and has been a featured speaker on many panels, both domestically and internationally.  In addition, Ms. Freydberg brings extensive construction loan, work-out, and special servicer experience from prior roles and while at J.E. Roberts Co., now the Archon Group, and its joint venture with Goldman Sachs.

Douglas Harmon is a Managing Director at Counterpointe Sustainable Real Estate.

Mr. Harmon brings decades of finance experience to CounterpointeSRE to focus on transitional and rehab investments with mortgage and bridge lending. Prior to CounterpointeSRE, Mr. Harmon served as a Managing Director at Arden Group as Portfolio Manager of the Arden Credit Fund. Doug  focused on bridge and permanent lending as an Executive Vice President with A10 Capital, a commercial real estate lending platform  for middle-market borrowers throughout the United States. At RBS Securities, Mr. Harmon was a Managing Director as a senior originator and co-headed the Leveraged Capital Markets effort. During his tenure at RBS, Doug originated and syndicated in excess of $1 billion of commercial real estate loans. Preceding RBS, Doug was head of the commercial real estate syndication platform for KeyBank and was co-head of the Mortgage Desk for European commercial real estate platform at Merrill Lynch.

Mr. Harmon earned a B.A. from Colgate University and an M.B.A. from Kellogg School of Management – Northwestern University.

Michele Pitale, M.D. is a Managing Director and heads principle transactions and retrofit commercial PACE transactions.

She leads Counterpointe’s team focused on commercial PACE financing with a focus on new construction development, transitional and rehab investments. Dr. Pitale provides an expertise in deep energy retrofits and a passion for advancing projects with community benefits that provide accretive economics for owners. She serves as liaison to the Department of Energy Better Buildings and the National Academy of Medicine as part of its Climate Collaborative.

Prior to focusing on sustainable energy finance, Dr. Pitale practiced medicine as an Assistant Professor of Surgery and Otolaryngology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and as a surgeon at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the Laboratory of Clinical Investigation, NIAID in Bethesda, MD and has authored surgical chapters in textbooks and a number of peer-reviewed research articles.. Dr. Pitale earned a BS in chemistry from Juniata College and holds an M.D. from Temple University in Pennsylvania.

Eric Alini is the Chief Executive Officer of Counterpointe Sustainable Advisors with its various subsidiaries and Managing Partner of Counterpointe Energy Partners.

Prior to founding Counterpointe, Mr. Alini was Managing Director at Merrill Lynch in the Principal Finance Group of Global Structured Finance and Investment. In this role, he managed Merrill Lynch’s internal capital, responsible for investing and risk management of over $21 billion.  In addition, Mr. Alini managed Merrill Lynch Bank USA’s portfolio of asset-backed securities and held a number of senior positions in Global Corporate Loan Portfolio Management, CMBS trading, and as Head of International CMBS. Also at Merrill Lynch, Mr. Alini has been an executive producer for several film projects including The Stanford Prison Project and Ride and structured financing for multiple media companies including Paramount Studios, Ivan Reitman’s Monticello Pictures, and the launch of Marvel Studios.

Mr. Alini started his career as a corporate bond trader at Bear Stearns and has served in government for the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC). He is a board member of PACENation and the USGBC chapter in New York City Urban Green.

Bernard Bartolome brings more than 20 years of financial and business process management experience. He has spent years in the residential lending arenas of Processing, Underwriting, Servicing, and Insuring. Bernard achieved his firsthand experience in process optimization while spearheading the design and implementation of standard operating procedures, streamlining processes through development of operational and business policies and automation of processes at Digital Risk from 2007 until 2015.

Terry Stark is an Executive Director and is responsible for business development and origination.  Located in Southwest Florida, Terry brings an extensive financial background to the PACE team. Terry previously spent over 15 years with PNC Bank in the St. Louis, MO market running the Business Banking division in St. Louis and Southern Illinois. Terry also worked with the City of St. Louis on the creation of their Property Assessed Clean Energy program. His drive helped the program come to life with PNC Bank as the lender.  After relocating to the Ft. Myers market in SW Florida, he continues to open doors to new markets and new opportunities for PACE to shine whether a client is doing a retrofit or new construction project.

Devesh Nirmul is a leader within the energy, sustainability and resiliency space with demonstrated experience in government and public policy, residential and commercial real estate/property management and sustainability-focused non-profit organizations. He works on expanding the PACE Market in Florida, creating value-driven financing solutions for commercial building ownerships and their trusted advisors and engages relevant non-profit organizations on the strategic use of PACE financing to accelerate the uptake of energy and resiliency investments amongst private building owners. Devesh brings a mix of science, policy, and strategy to the firm and sustains his effectiveness by maintaining globally recognized industry credentials. He is an accredited LEED AP, a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) and a Certified Sustainable Development Professional (CSDP).