Senior Investment Professionals

David DeSantis, Managing Director

David is the head of Northport Capital, LLC ("Northport"), Resource America's middle market corporate lending platform. Northport directly originates corporate loans to both sponsor and non-sponsor backed companies to support growth activities, buyouts and debt re-financings.

David has over 15 years of financial services experience. He started his career with General Electric Capital as a member of its Financial Management Program ("FMP"), a corporate finance and management training program. After successfully graduating from FMP, David moved into GE Global Sponsor Finance where he focused on middle market corporate loan origination, underwriting and asset management. David joined Medley Capital in early 2007 where he continued to originate, underwrite and manage middle market corporate loans. In over six years at Medley Capital, he held various roles including Managing Director and leader of the New York based investment team.

David joined Resource America in 2013 and subsequently founded Northport Capital. David has a B.S. from Boston College's Carroll School of Management, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude, as well as an M.B.A. from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.