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.
Team Foote
Diversified expertise. Shared experience. Likeminded executors.
Jim Foote’s and Brian Hammond’s careers in the industry have intersected more than once, to great success. And they’ve reunited again at First National. Jim and Brian combine insight and analysis to effectively identify how to meet a client’s individual needs. With their natural banter, they are able to share ideas until they uncover the right answer with the right timing.
Jim and Brian also have a similar philosophy on getting deals done, which includes investing time with clients, understanding their businesses and simplifying the complex. With a targeted focus in Southwestern Ontario, Jim and Brian support borrowers with financing solutions including CMHC term, bridge and construction. They commit to seeing projects through to completion and take pride in knowing how their collaborations with clients are changing the skylines and cityscapes throughout all of Ontario.
Jim
Foote
- Assistant Vice President, Commercial Financing
- Email Jim Foote
- 519.630.1394
Brian
Hammond
- Director, Commercial Financing
- Email Brian Hammond
- 416.597.5972