Toni Moss is the founder and CEO of AmeriCatalyst LLC and EuroCatalyst BV, “sister” advisory firms with specialized services for investors and companies engaged in global housing finance, residential real estate and Single Family Rental (SFR). She is also Chairman of the Board of The AmeriCatalyst Idea Lab, a non-profit that generates viable ideas to improve the products, processes and practices of the housing industry, as well as stabilize and sustain the housing ecosystem.
Toni is a very unique force in housing; with an entrepreneurial background in corporate intelligence, strategy and scenario planning, market positioning and trend forecasting, she is both a catalyst and connector to move agendas forward. Moss has hands-on operational and senior management experience in 23 national markets around the world, and is one of few housing experts with a truly global perspective on the industry.
In one of the most important roles of her career, From 1996 to 2001 Toni was the Director of Corporate Development for Bouwfonds in the Netherlands. In that role, she was instrumental in facilitating the first mortgage securitization in Continental Europe, and was pivotal in creating the first and largest third-party, cross-border servicer in Europe; the world’s first structured covered bond, and the world’s first shared servicing utility (in Spain). From 2001 to 2009, she was responsible for some of the largest new market / cross border entries for firms engaged in investment banking, mortgage origination, mortgage servicing, mortgage insurance, and title insurance in the European Union.
Frequently among the first to identify significant trends and articulate their impact, she is known for calling a series of international government meetings and giving industry-wide presentations and interviews (beginning in 2001) to draw attention to the role of international housing finance and investment as “the epicenter of the global economic fault line”. She believed that this role, in combination with over-leverage and the accelerating forces of globalization were likely to cause an unprecedented and irreparable global economic fracture that would lead (among other things) to nationalism around the world.
To amplify her efforts, the following year (in 2002) Toni launched the revolutionary annual EuroCatalyst conference series to share research, observations and ideas among the most respected peers in global housing finance. The series continued as the AmeriCatalyst conference from 2009 to 2020. Renowned for its unparalleled content and powerhouse of participants, the event was considered the most influential, prescient and intellectually challenging conference experience in the industry. In 2024, Moss has made a comeback with a new event, GOING TO EXTREMES, focused on the impact of climate change on the US housing and finance industry.