OUR TEAM

Mike Zlotnik has been a debt and equity investor in real estate since 2000. His career began with nearly 15 years in the information technology field managing Risk, Business Intelligence and Quality of complex systems, software and processes. 

While building a successful carrier in IT, Mike’s passion had always been real estate investing because of its predictability of outcome and well-understood risks.

In 2009, Mike joined Tempo Funding, LLC (Mortgage Pool Fund) as a managing partner and Vice President of Funding Operations. 

Beginning January 2014, Mike has assumed the responsibility of CEO and has since founded TF Management Group, LLC, launching four new real estate investment funds: TF Investment Fund II LLC (Income Fund), Tempo Opportunity Fund LLC (Growth & Income Fund), Tempo Growth Fund LLC (Growth Fund) and Tempo Income Fund LLC (Income Fund).

Mike holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Binghamton University.  Mike is a member of multiple real estate and investor mastermind groups such as Collective Genius, Freedom Founders, Venture Alliance, and CA Investors (Private).

Deanna brings more than 12 years of experience in real estate, investor relations, financial services, and compliance experience to Tempo Funding. As an Investor Relations Consultant, Deanna is responsible for managing Tempo’s investor-client relationships - supporting the investor experience including new investor onboarding, investor reporting, investment offerings, communications, and events.

Deanna enjoys researching private commercial real estate investment opportunities around the country of all asset types. She has written and launched numerous offerings to raise funds while focusing on due diligence, communications, and compliance. She has always had an interest in real estate having previously been a realtor and before that, she worked as a paralegal at a real estate and estate-planning firm.

Deanna holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Psychology from the University of Houston – Clear Lake and also an Associate of Science Degree in Paralegal Studies from Edison State College.

Outside of work, Deanna enjoys volunteering, networking, reading, cooking, traveling, sports, music, arts, and culture.

Yuriy Novodvorskiy joined the TF Management Group LLC team in January 2010. As Fund Manager, he oversees portfolio management and risk mitigation for the TFMG family of funds, as well as day-to-day fund operations.
With a background in mathematics and quantitative analysis, he has been essential in maintaining a high level of efficiency and performance while facilitating rapid fund growth.

Yuriy holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a BA in economics from Dartmouth College. His interests include innovative technologies, traveling, and learning languages.

Yuriy Gordiyenko joined the team in May 2015. He has spent over 15 years in the information technology industry, holding various technical and managerial positions. He holds the position of CTO at TF Management Group, LLC, leading our technology strategy and implementation, ensuring a disciplined process of funding operations and project management.

Yuriy enjoys cooking, spending time with friends and playing with his dog.

Davy's vast knowledge across the 5 major business functions serves him well in his role with Tempo. His real world experience in Marketing, Sales, Customer/Client Service, Business Operations, and Accounts Receivable enables him to not only improve our internal systems, but also to enhance our client experience as well.

For over three decades, he has shared his proven strategies and techniques with $500K+ start up entrepreneurs to $1B+ companies including Microsoft, Kellogg's, FedEx, Manpower and the Walt Disney Company just to name a few. 

Lilia joined the Tempo team in July of 2019. She oversees and manages day-to-day office operations and client communications. She also maintains and updates the company's website as well as the social media platforms.

Lilia holds a Bachelor's degree in economy and computer science. She has experience in internet technology, economy, management and legal fields.

Lilia enjoys creative photography, travel and spending time with her cat

Steve Harris has built a solid reputation as a proactive leader that builds businesses through multifaceted marketing campaigns that deliver revenue for over 20 years.  Expert in Paid and Unpaid Media, and also creating and executing content strategies to grow his clients, Steve Harris creates marketing machines for his clients that drive results.

Mikhail Zemtsov is a versatile, results-oriented Senior Executive and Sales leader with over 23 years of REAL ESTATE ~ BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ~ PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT  experience.

Mikhail has an extensive commercial and residential real estate background, including industrial, multi-family, retail property asset, and portfolio management. Vital in developing and executing effective marketing, commercial, customer, and brand strategies resulting in more significant sales growth, recognition, and loyalty of customers both locally and internationally. Exceptional ability in liaising with existing networks and generating a new network of local and international investors interested in Real Estate.

Mikhail holds an MBA degree from The University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business and a CCIM designation in Real estate.

Timur (Tim) Rovinsky is a multi-tasking seasoned Finance professional with 10+ years of experience in:

 - Real Estate Finance and Investment

 - Portfolio & Asset Management

 - Private Equity & Venture Capital.  During his career Timur had a privilege to work in different professional environments (governmental, corporate and start-up) and was responsible for executing a variety of "CFO-like" tasks (from budgeting, controlling to data analytics and financial reporting), building complex financial models for more than 10 industries, incl. Real Estate (Development, Acquisitions, all subclasses), sourcing, underwriting, and closing private equity and venture capital deals. Timur ran multi-asset portfolios in Family Offices with AUM of $100-$300M, raised more $150M in debt and equity financing for different projects and co-founded a successful EdTech start-up.

Timur holds a BA in Economics & a MS in PPP Management with honors (Financial University, Moscow), MSREI (JHU, Carey Business School, Washington, D.C.) and CFA designation.

Timur is also happily married since 2019, and enjoys travelling, soccer, collecting books and REIT investing & research.

Alexander Valdez joined the TF Management Group LLC team in October 2022. As Portfolio Management Associate, he plays a key role in providing financial analysis and underwriting support for our investment team.

Alexander holds a B.S in Finance from Saint John’s University (NY). He enjoys sports, traveling, and spending time with family.