Our team

Better people make better lending

We lend billions of dollars to commercial real estate projects every year. But it’s not just capital that distinguishes us. It’s the empowered nature of our workforce. Our advisors are experienced experts whose sole focus is to deliver financing strategies that enable you to achieve greater success.

Our Better Lending culture – three decades in the making – is built on the skill that comes from pure mortgage lending. Because we start from a position of knowledge about you, your project, and your market, we can design solutions that are fit for your purpose. And because accountability is in our nature, we meet our commitments.

Better by design, better by nature, better for you in every corner of the country.

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Justin Salomon

Justin is a member of:
Team Gidney and Barda

Director, Commercial Financing

Justin.Salomon@firstnational.ca

416.593.2460

Problem solver. Responsive. Flexible.

“I add value by going above and beyond for clients within the deal process.”

Justin has spent close to 13 years in the industry. For Justin, it is critical to develop client knowledge, establish trust through respect and rapport and be highly responsive. Always willing to go above and beyond, Justin is a consummate problem solver. He prides himself on his ability to see the big picture amidst the details, always striving to complete the deal and drive toward clients’ long-term objectives.

When he’s not adding value for First National clients, Justin competes in endurance and obstacle races, plays competitive basketball, travels and hits the open road on his motorcycle.