Throughout his 25-year professional career, Bill Bymel has strived for exceptional. And along the way, he’s never lost his desire to impact our society in a positive manner.

While attending NYU Film School in the early 90s, Bill’s work garnered multiple awards including recognition from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sundance Film Festival among others. His short films and commercials have been featured in movie theaters, at film festivals, and on television. After a brief but successful stint in Hollywood, Bill returned to his hometown in South Florida in 2002 to pursue a career in real estate and raise a family.

Bill’s real estate saga began as a fix-n-flip investor in Fort Lauderdale where he also managed his first real estate brokerage. After his early success in residential brokerage, Bill joined Nate Werner as a Partner in Retail Sites International, a 4-decade old, boutique commercial site selection and development firm with its focus on national restaurant and retailer tenant rep clients. Clients include Darden Restaurants, BJ’s Restaurant & Brewhouse, McDonald’s, Taco Bell, Family Dollar Stores.

Bill’s experience with residential real estate was the driving force behind RSI’s expansion into loss mitigation and asset management in 2008 when Bill and Nate formed RSI Asset Management to cater to the growing number of non-performing mortgages that were flooding the market. In addition to representing private equity and hedge funds, Bill began investing in the NPL market himself, details of which are highlighted in his book about the industry called Win-Win Revolution.

In 2012, Bill was engaged by Peter Slagowitz to oversee a portfolio of real estate and mortgages on behalf of Spurs Capital. From his role as Managing Director and/or VP of several fund entities, Bill was responsible for the valuation, acquisition, asset management, mitigation, and liquidation of over $500 million in real assets, primarily based in Florida.

In 2021, Bill founded First Lien Capital with a vision to create an investment management group with a paradigm for social impact investing. First Lien Capital is a privately owned distressed mortgage investment platform focused on the acquisition and timely resolution of sub-performing, non-performing mortgage loans on residential and commercial real estate, which owns over 700 residential mortgages and REO in over 30 states valued at greater than $100 million.