Tom is Chief Credit Officer and managing partner.  He has been involved in the direct funding of commercial real estate for the past 17 years. He was Senior Vice President for Idaho Independent Bank, a $500 million bank headquartered in Idaho. Prior to his work at Idaho Independent Bank, Mr. Buuck was the Director of Business Lending for a billion dollar Texas finance company with subsidiary headquarters in Boise, ID. He personally handled over $650 million in loan funding and also co-authored the underwriting manual for a Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS) loan program. Mr. Buuck began his finance career with Wells Fargo Bank in 1991 and later became the Vice President of Real Estate for Idaho for Wells Fargo.   He is a member of the Credit Committee for the $1 billion Mortgage Fund of the Public Employee Retirement System of Idaho, and a board member of the $1.7 billion LCEF finance company headquartered in St. Louis, MO.  He also currently serves as Chairman of the Investment Committee for the $45 million Concordia University Foundation Fund.  Tom graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Mathematics-Secondary Education from Concordia University in Wisconsin.  He has an MBA from Portland State University.