Leading Team

Max B. Mellman

Max B. Mellman is founder and Managing Director at Max Benjamin Partners. Recognized as one of the top up-and-coming commercial mortgage brokers in the nation, Max has coordinated & been involved in over $1.3 billion in debt and equity financing across a variety of property types, including office buildings, retail shopping centers, ground-up construction, multifamily and industrial properties. His transactional experience, capital markets expertise, and exceptional work ethic made him one of the top producers in Southern California.

Prior to founding Max Benjamin Partners, Max was a top producing mortgage banker with a boutique firm in Beverly Hills, CA. Max has also held the position of Associate at the Souferian Group. Located in Beverly Hills.

Max prides himself on his unparalleled work ethic, competitive spirit and willingness to go the extra mile for his clients. As an active member of his community, he provides for several charities in the Los Angeles area. In his spare time, Max enjoys: skiing, traveling, and spending quality time with his family.

Max majored in Planning, Policy and Development at the University of Southern California with an emphasis in Real Estate finance.

Jason Moyal

Jason is an Associate at Max Benjamin Partners where he is responsible for client & partner management as well as origination. Before arriving at MBP, Jason spent time at an accelerator, consulting, implementing, and executing go to market strategies for foreign companies looking to enter the US market.

Prior to that experience, Jason was a top performing Private Banker in wealth management and lending working with High Net Worth Individuals and businesses and received numerous performance awards. A native Angelino, Jason was educated at San Diego State University in International Business, Finance, French, and Political Science as well as ESSEC Business School in France.

Integrity is of utmost importance to Jason as he takes complete ownership in all tasks undertaken and is always looking to do the right thing for his clients. During his free time, Jason is an avid beach volleyball player, traveler, and family man.

Richard Stein

Mr. Stein is an Associate at Max Benjamin Partners where he is responsible for, originating, underwriting, client management, and capital partner relationship management.  Richard was a partner at Hotel Financial Strategies for over 8 years, a boutique, hospitality focused finance firm that arranged over $2 billion in debt and equity for hotels around the world. Richard has over 30 years of experience as an investor, developer and capital markets advisor and throughout his extensive career, he has financed over $700 million worth of debt and equity transactions. 

Prior to joining MBP, Richard founded and built a large printing and database marketing company located in Denver, Colorado.  Richard worked as a consultant helping business owners turn around and reposition their companies and managed the San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices for the Merrill Corporation during the dot com expansion in 1999 and 2000.

Richard brings a wealth of knowledge to the MBP team and has excelled in the capital markets field—navigating through multiple real estate cycles and providing excellent service to his clients. Richard’s experience as a developer and investor has been pivotal in providing his clients with comprehensive and innovative capital stack solutions. Richard’s specialty focus includes hospitality, preferred and JV equity, permanent financing, and large construction loans across all asset classes nationwide.

Richard has a B.S. Marketing from Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado, Boulder, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude, and was American Marketing Association Student of the Year. He has a M.S. from Rochester Institute of Technology in Printing Technology, and an Owner President Management degree from Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA. 

Richard enjoys snow skiing, bicycling, weight training, and travel in his free time. 

Nathan Yoon

Mr. Yoon is an Associate at Max Benjamin Partners. As a member of the Max Benjamin team, his main responsibilities include originating, underwriting, and coordinating with MBP’s network of lenders, family offices & private investors. Nathan has been a licensed California Real Estate Broker since 2004 and specializes in lending, origination, market analysis, and private solutions for Real Estate Developers and Investors.

Prior to joining MBP, Nathan was manager at Grand Pacific Financing Corporation, where he originated bridge and construction loans. During his time at the company, he was one of the top originators and credit trained to the major bank’s underwriting standards.

Nathan has over 16 years of commercial real estate lending experience and has arranged in excess of $200 million worth of transactions. He has underwritten in excess of $1 Billion of debt and equity financings for a wide assortment of commercial real estate related transactions. His depth of experience includes complex high leverage construction loans, CMBS loans, and private loans across all investment property types—in addition to debt and equity placements in the Cannabis space.

Nathan worked as the director of operations at AllGreen, a financial brokerage firm specializing in HEMP/Cannabis field. Nathan vetted, oversaw and structured all incoming transactions, dealt directly with the company’s many private investors and managed a team of originators at the company.

Nathan majored in Business Administration with an emphasis in Real Estate Finance at California State University of Northridge.

Nathan is a devoted husband and has two wonderful kids. In his free time, Nathan enjoys traveling, camping, and relaxing with his family.