Scott Schneider

Scott R. Schneider is a real estate finance and investor-relations professional based in the Seattle/Bellevue area with more than 20 years of experience in commercial banking, construction lending, and real estate capital. In October 2024 he joined SRM Development as Vice President of Investor Relations, where he focuses on fund structure, capital strategy, and investor relationships. SRM announced his hire noting he "brings a wealth of experience and a strategic vision that will be invaluable to our growth."

Prior to SRM, Schneider spent several years at Columbia Pacific Advisors, the Seattle-based investment management firm founded in 2006. He joined Columbia Pacific in 2015 as a Senior Underwriter within the firm's real estate/bridge lending strategy and rose to a Vice President role. Columbia Pacific Advisors manages real estate, opportunistic growth capital, direct lending, and hedged strategies out of offices at 1910 Fairview Ave E in Seattle. Schneider's email and phone in the source data ([hidden]; the firm's (206) 622-3700 main line) trace to this former tenure.

Earlier in his career, Schneider held roles at U.S. Bank, Weidner Apartment Homes, and RD Merrill, building expertise in commercial banking, loan workouts, construction loans, and real estate financing. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing and Finance from Western Washington University (attended roughly 2000–2005).

His work today sits on the capital-formation side of real estate: rather than writing venture checks, he raises and manages investor capital for SRM's development pipeline of urban multifamily, senior, and mixed-use projects across the western United States.

• Works on the investor-relations and fund-structure side of real estate — sourcing and managing institutional/private capital for development projects rather than making venture equity investments.
• Firm focus (SRM Development): multifamily, senior housing, affordable housing, and mixed-use development and construction.
• Geographic thesis: high-barrier, urban markets across the western U.S., with heavy activity in downtown Bellevue and the greater Seattle metro.
• SRM's stated value creation rests on three principles — intentional design (community collaboration), personal commitment (standing behind their work), and a long-term view (durability and sustainability).
• Prior discipline (Columbia Pacific Advisors): real estate bridge/direct lending and underwriting — construction loans, loan workouts, and opportunistic real estate credit.