\Sachem Capital Corp. a real estate lender specializing in originating, underwriting, funding, servicing, and managing a portfolio of loans secured by first mortgages on real property, announced that it has named Jeffery C. Walraven Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, effective as of September 1, 2025. Mr. Walraven has served as the Company’s Interim Chief Financial Officer since December 2024. In conjunction with this appointment, Mr. Walraven has resigned from the Company’s Board of Directors on which he has served since August 2024.
“We are pleased to have completed our search for a Chief Financial Officer with the appointment of Jeffery Walraven to the permanent role, and I want to congratulate him on his appointment,” stated John L. Villano, President and Chief Executive Officer of Sachem Capital. “Jeff has extensive public company, financial markets, accounting and consulting experience, and has brought discipline and efficiency to our financial controls, processes, and procedures. Further, he has been a great partner for me and a true team leader who has earned the respect and admiration of our employees. I look forward to continue to work with him.”
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Mr. Walraven has extensive experience with private and public real estate companies working on matters including capital markets, accounting and finance. He has served as Chief Operating Officer, a director and co-founder of Freehold Properties, Inc., a REIT that provides net lease financing to specialty agricultural real estate. Mr. Walraven has also served as an independent director and member of the audit committee of Broad Street Realty, Inc. (OTCQX: BRST), a real estate company that owns, operates, develops, and redevelops primarily essential grocery-anchored shopping centers and mixed-use properties, since October 2023. From January 2014 to May 2019, he also served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of MedEquities Realty Trust, Inc. (formerly, NYSE: MRT), an internally managed healthcare REIT that was sold to Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc. in May 2019. Additionally, Mr. Walraven has over 20 years of public accounting and consulting experience, serving many public real estate and related clients since 1999. He worked extensively with these companies on all aspects of Securities and Exchange Act matters, including quarterly, annual and special reports, and matters relating to acquisitions, dispositions and securities offerings.
Mr. Walraven holds a Bachelor’s degree in Financial Management from Bob Jones University and a Masters of Professional Accountancy from Clemson University. He also maintained an active CPA license from 1994 to 2016 in multiple states.
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