Bradley Sharp is a Senior Vice President and has been a professional with DSI’s Los Angeles office since 1993. He has substantial experience in providing crisis management and consulting services to companies in various industries including consumer finance, high tech and agriculture. He has operated and sold public and privately held troubled companies in and out of bankruptcy. Mr. Sharp is also an expert witness with respect to banking, finance and securitizations.
Mr. Sharp is currently the chapter 11 trustee for Namco Capital Group, Inc., (“Namco”) a West Los Angeles based real estate investment company formerly operated by Ezri Namvar. Namco has investments in more than one hundred real estate projects and at one time was reported to be worth more than $2 billion. At this time, the estate faces claims of more than $500 million from primarily individual creditors and the values of the assets are uncertain. The DSI staff is assisting Mr. Sharp in locating and maximizing the value of the Namco assets.
Mr. Sharp is also the chapter 11 trustee for Estate Financial Mortgage Fund, LLC (“EFMF”), currently pending in Santa Barbara, California. EFMF received investments from almost 1,700 individual investors and in turn invested more than $170 million through Estate Financial, Inc. (“EFI”), the former manager of EFMF. Through its engagement by Mr. Sharp and by the chapter 11 trustee of EFI, DSI has been tasked with collecting or foreclosing on more than 544 loans with a principal balance of more than $315 million. As a part of this process, Mr. Sharp and the DSI team are developing and implementing action plans to maximize the value of more than 90 residential real estate development projects in California.
Mr. Sharp has provided testimony as a U.S. banking expert in the High Court of Justice, Queens Bench Division, London England, in a dispute involving two European commercial banks.
Mr. Sharp was the consulting expert for the liquidating trustee of HomeFed Corp., the holding company of a San Diego California based savings and loan. Mr. Sharp developed the evidence related to the loan loss analysis and the underwriting policies of the savings and loan. The cases were settled favorably shortly before trial.
Prior to joining DSI, Mr. Sharp was a Vice President and Senior Commercial Loan Collection Officer with Bank of America, NT&SA. He had been with the bank, through its acquisition of Security Pacific National Bank, since 1985.
Mr. Sharp has a Bachelors of Science in accounting, with an emphasis in business computer information systems, from Mesa College in Grand Junction, Colorado.
