Waterfall Asset Management

Brian Breakstone is a Partner and the Chief Financial Officer at Waterfall Asset Management, having rejoined the firm in 2024.  Brian had previously served as Partner and Chief Financial Officer at Waterfall through 2021 and then managed his own consulting firm from 2021 through 2024.  Prior to joining Waterfall in early 2008, he was the Capital Markets CFO and Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers. Brian was a Vice President and CFO of the Global Structured Finance business at JP Morgan. Previous to both of those roles, he held various business controller and risk management positions at Deutsche Bank, Bankers Trust and Citigroup. He began his career as a CPA at Ernst and Young. Brian graduated with his B.B.A from the University of Michigan in 1990 and his M.B.A from New York University’s Stern School of Business in 1995.