Charles-Benoit Parent, CAIA

About

Alternative investment professional with over 10 years of mortgage investment banking and capital markets experience, focusing on innovative real estate capital structuring and portfolio strategy representing institutions, REITs, pension, private equity firms and family offices in over $5.0 billion of finance strategies across the province of Quebec. Charles-Benoit holds a Bachelor of Commerce, major in Finance from John Molson School of Business (Concordia University), is a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA), Exempt Market Dealer (EMD) and is a dually licensed Commercial Real Estate Broker with OACIQ and registered Mortgage Broker with the AMF. ______________________________ Passionné d'immobilier, Charles-Benoit détient plus de 10 ans d'expérience en investissement et marchés des capitaux, se spécialisant en investissements alternatifs, structuration de capitaux ainsi que stratégie de portefeuille immobilier pour des comptes institutionnels incluant FPI, fonds de pension, sociétés de capital-investissement et family offices dans plus de 5,0 milliards de dollars de financements structurés immobiliers à travers la province de Québec.

Experience

• Vice President & Managing Director, Quebec at CMLS Financial
  Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 2 mos

• JMEC Instructor, Public Real Estate Markets at Concordia University - John Molson School of Business
  Dec 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 8 mos

  JMSB & IDU - Certificate in Real Estate Management, Valuation & Finance

• Premier Vice-président / Senior Vice-President, Debt & Structured Finance, Capital Markets at CBRE Canada
  Oct 2023 - Jun 2025 · 1 yr 9 mos

• CMLS Financial (Permanent Full-time · 3 yrs 10 mos)
  • Vice President, Real Estate Finance
    Apr 2022 - Oct 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos

  • Assistant Vice President, Real Estate Finance
    Jan 2020 - Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Financial Analyst, National Apartment Group, Capital Markets at CBRE Canada
  Feb 2017 - Dec 2019 · 2 yrs 11 mos