Management Team – Westbridge

Executive Chairman

James Clayton’s banking career spans 40 years that centers around residential mortgage underwriting and securitization.
His experience includes founding of two ground-breaking financial institutions in Canada. He founded Resmor Trust, the first independent residential securitization trust in in Canada, before selling it to General Motors in 2008.
James is also the founder of Bridgewater Bank (1997) and CFF Bank, which was sold to Home Trust Bank, Canada’s largest alternative residential mortgage provider.

Chief Executive Officer

JD founded Westbridge Mortgage REIT in 2014 as Canada’s then-only Mortgage Real Estate Investment Trust. He grew the firm to $360M in loans origination per yr, before expanding into Africa, with the acquisition of BHCI Bank in 2017.
JD started his 25-year banking career with RBC Canada, before joining CDIC as bank regulator and then running the quantitative credit portfolio group at what is now Bank of America.
He founded Riskmont in 2000 as a major inter-bank loan portfolio trading platform, which he sold in 2013. Riskmont traded $1.9B in loans in 2012.

Senior Vice President

Drew is a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years experience creating ventures. In 2002 Drew founded Trinity Wind Power, a wind power development company that was sold to GDF Suez in 2011. He developed over 600mws of renewable energy projects with an approximate value of $1.6B.
In 2014, Drew founded AKSUM Inc. a housing development company focusing on providing housing project in West Africa using modular construction technologies.
Drew is an alumnus of the Ivey School of Business (University of Western Ontario).

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