MIAMI—Alex Horn, 28, founded BridgeInvest based on the principals of integrity, transparency and professionalism. He continues to uphold these values in the firm's daily operations, and has since led BridgeInvest to become one of the largest, most successful private commercial real estate lenders in Florida.

Horn has closed nearly $100 million in commercial real estate loans and created a standardization process for the company to review and provide feedback to clients on their loan requests within 48 hours. He is particularly proud of BridgeInvest's ability to devise and structure creative financing solutions to time-sensitive problems that turn most other lenders away.

“We continue to push innovative business practices that allow BridgeInvest to increase loan proceeds to potential borrowers while, at the same time, offering them lower interest rates,” Horn tells GlobeSt.com. His deep understanding of technology has helped him build a client servicing platform, online client portal and unique multi-tranche loan structure.