Greystone, a leading national commercial real estate finance company, announced recently that Niraj Patel has been named Chief Information Officer and head of the firm’s technology organization. Jonathan Russell, oresident and CEO of Greystone’s corporate operations IT group, will retire at the end of 2021 and, in the meantime, will help transition the role of leading Greystone’s technology group to Patel.
Patel brings more than two decades of IT leadership experience to Greystone and joins Greystone from DMI, a digital services and consulting agency, where he served as Global Head of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and analytics. Prior to DMI, he was the Chief Information Officer of Lending Platforms at IBM Global Business Services. Before joining IBM, Patel worked as the Chief Strategy Officer at Selex ES in New York and has also served as a Group President & Co-Founder of ISGN and CIO of GMAC Commercial Holdings.