Team Members
Jeff Donovan
Jeff, a DRE licensed real estate broker, is the owner of MO Financial, Inc “MFI”. Jeff originates and underwrites all private money loan requests received. He has over 25 years’ experience in mortgage lending. He received his BA in Finance from Arizona State University and a Juris Doctorate from the University of San Diego School of Law. His career in real estate finance and investment began in Los Angeles with a large national mortgage bank. He originates and funds custom credit private money loans through his DRE licensed corporation MFI. He has years of experience funding loans to real estate developers and investors.
Christian Assouad
Born and raised in the Principality of Monaco, Christian moved to the United States in 1990. In the year 2000, he graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas with a BA in General Business and moved to Los Angeles where he began his career in the mortgage lending business. In 2002, Christian founded Preferred Lending Group (PLG), a California Department of Real Estate licensed mortgage banking and brokering company. Christian and Jeff have continuously worked together since 2003 in a partnership capacity, through their respective companies. PLG performs loan processing and funding of brokered bank residential one-to-four-unit loans where Jeff is the loan officer.
Adrian Lee
A California native, Adrian attended California Lutheran University, graduating with a BA in Chemistry. Towards the end of a thirty year career in the steel industry, he transitioned to managing his family’s real estate investments and private money trust deeds, and expanded those family investments into funding hard money loans. In 2014 Adrian began assisting MO Financial with loan servicing and client development.