Annemarie DiCola

Annemarie DiCola, Esq., CEO of Trepp, spearheads its business as the global leader in the CMBS industry, expanding its expertise and solutions into the broader CRE finance, banking, and corporate credit CLO sectors. Under her leadership, Trepp acquired CRE finance data firms Foresight Analytics and InvestCap Advisors; content companies REITCafe and Commercial Real Estate Direct; and CLO technology firms Codean and Cerulean. Trepp repeatedly receives top billing as Global Capital’s “CMBS Data Provider of the Year.” She continues to work to expand industry transparency with such initiatives as bank and insurance company data consortia for loan performance analysis.

Actively involved since its inception in the leadership of the CRE Finance Council (CREFC), the trade association for the approximate $4T CRE finance industry, Ms. DiCola served as its first woman Chair, received the Founder’s Award, and recently completed a second term as Chair. She continues to serve on the Board of Governors and Trepp partners with CREFC to track and report the CRE debt performance of insurance companies.

Ms. DiCola also serves on the Advisory Boards of the NYU Stern Center for CRE Finance Research and the NYU Furman Center, the President’s Council of the RE Roundtable, and is a member of the Partnership for New York City.

She served on the Board of Directors of Gerber Life Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Nestlé S.A., until its acquisition by Western and Southern Financial Group. Other past service includes the Board of Directors of the NY Chapter of Commercial RE Women (CREW), the Corporate Responsibility Committee of Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), Trepp’s parent, and the Executive Committee of CREFC.

An acknowledged voice in the CRE finance industry, highlighted by Sokol Media as a “Top Woman in Real Estate” and by Real Estate Forum Magazine as a “Woman of Influence.” She has been profiled by The New York Times, interviewed on CNBC, and lauded by the Women’s Venture Fund. Ms. DiCola was the Editor-in-Chief of the inaugural CMBS E-Primer, the electronic publication of CREFC designed for training in CMBS. She is a frequent speaker at industry events.

Ms. DiCola graduated from the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program and holds a Juris Doctor degree from the New York University School of Law. She received her BA from Fordham University, where she maintained a Presidential Scholarship and graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude in cursu honorum.