Ms. Marotta is a subject matter expert in mortgage finance, property ownership, and due diligence involving performing and non-performing loans and properties. Since 1995 she has held a variety of roles in pooled mortgage transactions that include the re-underwriting of $35 billion in legacy CMBS loans under the US Treasury’s PPIP program, managing the securitization process of commercial real estate loans, and loan re-underwriting and due diligence on behalf of high-yield investors (B-Piece buyers) in commercial real estate loans and assets.

Between 2009 and 2012 Ms. Marotta worked with a major private equity firm in building a distressed debt platform to invest in small balance mortgage loans of failed community banks throughout the U.S. Since 2004 Ms. Marotta has held various senior consultant roles in Latin America that include social interest housing securitization transactions, enterprise risk assessments of social interest housing mortgage companies, distressed small balance mortgage loans, and operational assessments of regional mortgage and consumer finance companies. Ms. Marotta began her career in 1987 working in the urban mixed use development group of the Santa Fe and South Pacific Railroad (Santa Fe Pacific Realty). She transitioned from working on real estate development projects to real estate debt when the railroad pursued a poison pill strategy of leveraging its unleveraged property portfolio to thwart off a hostile takeover. Ms. Marotta holds an MBA from the University of San Diego and an MA degree in international human rights from Columbia University.

She is the founder of the non-profit Human Strategies for Human Rights, which she ran from 2001 thru 2004 focusing on NGO capacity building and held consultancy positions at the United Nations in 2000 and 2001.