Ernie Calabrese
Head of Transaction Management
Ernie Calabrese is the Head of Transaction Management at Saluda Grade. He joined Saluda Grade in June 2022 and has spent much of his 26+ year career focused on mortgage-backed securities, securitized products, and warehouse lending. After starting his career at S&P, Mr. Calabrese joined Bear Stearns, where he was responsible for building a whole loan conduit and a third-party securitization business. He was recruited to join Deutsche Bank in 2006, where he was Co-head of the RMBS Securitization Group. He was most recently a Director on the Asset Finance team at Credit Suisse where he covered originators and aggregators in building warehouse lending relationships and underwriting business. Mr. Calabrese earned a BA from Rutgers University.