Miami

MANNY MELENDEZ

Regional Vice President - Florida

Mr. Melendez is a seasoned executive and strategic advisor with over two decades of experience spanning private equity, venture capital, high-growth startups, wealth management, and industrial operations. Throughout his career, he has led transformative growth initiatives, structured complex capital raises, managed M&A transactions, and helped scale businesses across a range of sectors.  

In his current role as Regional Vice President, Manny leads relationship development efforts throughout the state, connecting entrepreneurs and small-to-mid-sized enterprises with non-traditional financing solutions.  His focus includes bridge loans, specialty funding, and growth capital strategies tailored to help businesses scale effectively. Known for his financial acumen and consultative approach, he is a trusted partner to clients navigating evolving capital needs. 

 In addition to his leadership role, Manny has worked closely with a wide range of technology-driven ventures—including companies in fintech, health-tech, and logistics SaaS—as an advisor on investor relations, go-to-market strategies, and operational scaling. He has helped structure multi-million-dollar funding rounds and served in interim leadership roles such as Fractional COO and Executive Director to support operational turnaround and growth execution.  

Manny previously led an out-of-home media company through a successful asset sale to a strategic buyer and spent over a decade advising high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and institutional investors on risk management and long-term portfolio strategies within a global financial institution.  With extensive experience in cross-border business development—particularly between the mainland U.S., Puerto Rico, and LATAM—Manny is known for identifying key growth inflection points and creating actionable roadmaps to support founders, boards, and investors.  He also dedicated a decade to serving on the advisory board of a prominent university entrepreneurship program, where he mentored aspiring business leaders and supported initiatives that foster innovation and higher education. 

Mr. Melendez holds both an BA in Finance and an MBA from Inter American University in San Juan, Puerto Rico.  

Please contact Manny to discuss any commercial real estate lending or business funding requests you may have via email at manny.melendez@southcapfunding.com

JACK “BUBBA” ROBY

Area Market Manager - Florida Gulf Coast

Mr. Roby is our Area Market Manager on the Florida Gulf Coast concentrating on servicing the Destin, Ft. Walton, Panama City, and Pensacola markets. Bubba has over 25 years of experience working with small and medium sized companies helping them grow their business by advising them on options for funding growth by comparing the costs and benefits of traditional lines of credit, personal assets and A/R based solutions such as factoring and asset-based lending facilities.

Prior to joining Southern Capital Funding Network, Bubba held the titles of Vice President – Federal National, Vice President of Sales – Marquette Transportation Finance, Vice President of Business Development – Transport Financial Solutions, and VP & Business Development Officer – Bibby Transportation Finance.

Mr. Roby is a graduate of Auburn University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance.

Please contact Bubba to discuss any commercial real estate lending or business funding requests you may have via email at broby@southcapfunding.com.

PAUL TSCHIEDER

Area Market Manager - Tallahassee

Mr. Tschieder is our Area Market Manager for Tallahassee and the southern Georgia markets. Paul started his career in lending in 2004 as a residential mortgage loan officer, and since then has held lending positions within Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, Bank of America and loanDepot. 

Paul works with investors on growing and managing their real estate portfolio. With over 20 years of personal real estate investment and property management experience he has learned to successfully navigate this highly competitive market and generate continuous positive cash flow from these assets.

In 2010 Paul expanded his lending experience into the private equity market to meet the credit needs of North Florida’s business community. Working with a group of investors he originated, underwrote and presented business loan proposals to the credit committee.

Paul is a Graduate of Florida International University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration.

Please contact Paul with any commercial real estate lending or business funding requests at 850-345-6200 or via email at paul@southcapfunding.com

DON MITCHELL

Area Vice President/Area Market Manager - Tampa/St. Pete

Don serves as our Area Vice President/Market Manager for the Tampa Bay/St. Pete markets and has over 25 years of experience in commercial and residential lending, business to business sales and account management, and transportation and marine financing.

Mr. Mitchell spent seven years as Managing Partner of South Shore Mortgage and Funding which provided prime and subprime mortgages to a referral network of over 100 realtors. Under Don’s leadership, the company consistently generated over $350 million in yearly volume.   Don has previously held positions as Director, Best Commercial Funding, Regional Finance Manager for the Hartford Group, as well as the Sale & Finance Manager for Sports USA Marine.

Don is a graduate of Central Michigan University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Communications and The College of DuPage. 

Don is also a USCG 25 Ton Boat Captain.

Please contact Don with any commercial real estate lending or business funding requests via email at don.mitchell@southcapfunding.com.