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.

Jody Comeau
Jody is a member of:
Team Comeau
Assistant Vice President, Commercial Financing
902.233.0056
Action oriented. Collaborator. Supportive coach.
Jody joined First National in 2005 in residential financing, and in 2015 he made the transition to commercial financing. Since then, Jody has grown his origination team and expanded his business nationally, while maintaining a specialized focus in Atlantic Canada.
Jody does so much more than simply providing money. He builds long-term relationships with clients, becoming their key advisor and connector for all things real estate.
His business approach is simple but effective. Jody believes in the value of ongoing face-to-face interaction, digging deep to understand clients’ goals and visions and delivering seamlessly. He works to earn the right to be the first person clients think of when they are doing any type of real estate business, whether it’s building, buying or selling. Always looking to connect clients to people and opportunities that can move them closer to their goals, Jody is a consistent and reliable source of information, data, second opinions and market value perspectives.
Working at First National, Jody feels he has the trust and support to pursue business and clients his way. He has built and continues to grow a proficient, high-performing team that values collaboration, candour, quality of work and enduring client relationships.