Bernard “Bernie” LoVerde is Kelley Kronenberg’s Senior Advisor, Growth & Corporate Development, where he works primarily with the Real Estate Division to originate new client relationships, build strategic partnerships, and source M&A opportunities. He brings more than twenty years of experience in default services and creditors’ rights, with a background in mortgage banking and title insurance that dates to 2000 and an earlier career in investment banking and securities compliance.

As Chief Strategy, Client & Business Development Officer of two prominent creditors’ rights and default services law firms, Bernie sat on the executive committee of each. He doubled one firm’s footprint from three states to six, sustained eighteen percent annual growth in its default services business, and built a servicer relationship that earned the firm back-to-back Law Firm of the Year honors, the first in the bank’s history.

For more than ten years, as founder of his own strategic advisory and fractional executive practice, he has advised law firms and financial services organizations on revenue growth. His work includes sourcing the relationship behind a three-year contract with a top ten U.S. bank holding company covering all of its New York co-op lending, from origination through default and REO, and securing a multi-state, three-year USDA default services contract that doubled a firm’s annual referral volume and was renewed for a second three-year term.

Earlier, as Vice President and Director of the Default Services Division of a national title insurance company’s subsidiary, Bernie grew average order flow by forty-six percent and the client base by forty-two percent. He built a statewide division that became the model for the parent company’s East Coast default operations, and he was one of twenty-two of 14,600 employees selected for its Advanced Leadership Skills Program.

His career began in investment banking, where he rose to Corporate Compliance Officer and Senior Internal Auditor of a national firm with more than 1,000 employees and managed its nationwide attorney network. He later managed a family office with assets of more than $500 million, overseeing real estate, private lending, and operating businesses across multiple states, with operations primarily in New York and Florida.

A member of the South Florida community since 1998, Bernie divides his time between South Florida and New York.