Co-Founder @ Alpaca Real Estate General Partner @ Alpaca VC Co-Founder @ Soil Connect Wharton MBA
Investor, builder & entrepreneur. My focus in around the intersection of Real Estate & Innovation. My passion is scaling innovative investment platforms.
Alpaca Real Estate is an opportunistic private equity real estate firm investing at the intersection of the physical and digital worlds. We layer innovative operating platforms on top of traditional real estate to unlock asymmetric upside potential.
Mentor
Boost
Jul 2022 - Current(4 years 3 months)
The Boost Program is a selective, high energy, intensive, 6-week accelerator program in which construction industry experts roll up their sleeves alongside early-stage property and construction technology start-up companies to help them break industry boundaries.
Information marketplace connecting architects and manufacturers
Strategic Advisor, Technology
Corigin
Sep 2020 - Current(6 years 1 month)
Member Board Of Directors
Trade Hounds
Jan 2020 - Current(6 years 9 months)
Trade Hounds is an online community for the hard-working trades people of America.
Co-founder
Soil Connect
Jan 2019 - Current(7 years 9 months)
Soil Connect is a platform created for excavators, contractors, builders, landscapers and other building professionals who work with soil on a regular basis. Our platform connects those who have soil, with those who need soil.
Alpaca VC is a multi stage venture capital firm. We invest in the people, products and processes that power commerce in the physical and digital world. We believe when you layer technology over daily life, it transforms how the world works.
Board Seats (Past & Present): Trade Hounds (Director), Acelab (Director), Doorkee (Observer), Prevu (Observer), Diamond Age (Observer), The Guild (Observer).
Investor & Advisor
Instrument Capital
Jan 2018 - Current(8 years 9 months)
Formerly a co-founder & COO, transitioned to Advisor role as Instrument Capital launches Fintech Fund 1 - an investing vehicle to support the next generation of promising Fintech companies.
Corigin is a real estate investment firm. We apply a conscious and dynamic approach to our business by making purposeful decision that take all stakeholders into consideration. With deep roots in the industry, we seek to constantly innovate and evolve through changing markets, while staying true to our core values.
Venture Capital Fellow
Chestnut Street Ventures
Jan 2017 - May 2017(5 months)
Assisted Managing Partner with fundraising, sourcing & due diligence efforts.
Co-Founder & COO
Instrument Capital
Oct 2016 - Dec 2017(1 year 3 months)
Instrument Capital is democratizing a level of portfolio personalization that historically has only been available to UHNW Clients in Private Banks. Our statistical algorithms are designed to consider a consumer’s occupation (by industry), real estate (by zip code) and several other “non-traditional” factors during the portfolio construction & asset allocation process.
The Penn Wharton Innovation Fund (PWIF) is “a catalyst to stimulate innovation at Penn and to surface the brainpower of its students.”
Fellow & VP of Sourcing
InSite
Sep 2016 - May 2018(1 year 9 months)
InSITE Fellows and alumni make up a global network of entrepreneurs and leaders in technology and venture capital.
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MBA Summer Associate
Third Kind Venture Capital
May 2016 - Jul 2016(3 months)
3KVC is an early stage Venture Capital fund. Worked directly for one of the best early stage investing teams in the business: Shana Fisher & Alex Binkley.
Private Banker in the Financial Institutions Group (FIG) focusing on individuals in Venture Capital, Tech, Real Estate & Hedge Funds
Associate
JP Morgan Private Bank
May 2013 - Dec 2014(1 year 8 months)
Associate in the Executive Wealth Group focusing on Executives of public companies
Financial Analyst
JP Morgan Private Bank
Jul 2010 - Apr 2013(2 years 10 months)
Summer Analyst - Investment Banking Group
Cushman Wakefield
Jun 2009 - Aug 2009(3 months)
C&W Investment Banking Group
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Real Estate Analyst
G Capital Partners LLC Real Estate Private Equity
Jun 2007 - Aug 2008(1 year 3 months)
Boutique Real Estate Private Equity Firm
Education
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Master of Business Administration (MBA, Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital
The Wharton School
Jan 2016 - Jan 2018(2 years 1 month)
Business, Finance & Accounting
University of Michigan Stephen M Ross School of Business
Jan 2006 - Jan 2010(4 years 1 month)
Projects (professional or personal)
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InSITE Fellows - Genacast Ventures
Genacast Ventures is the seed-stage arm of Comcast Ventures. Genacast Ventures is a leading venture capital firm in the Northeast investing in the most promising B2B technology startups at the seed-stage. Our team worked with Roger Chen (Principal) & Liz Crawford (EIR) on a project involving B2B e-marketplaces. The project guidelines included:
1) Identify a framework by which we can evaluate B2B e-marketplaces. 2) Compare industry leaders to such a framework in order to evaluate applicability 3) Use developed framework to source investment opportunities
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InSITE Fellows - Jornaya Market Analysis Study
Consulted for Jornaya, a Philadelphia technology startup, to develop a qualitative and quantitative market analysis plan tackling the following challenges:
a) What does Jornaya's current and potential client industries look like? b) How does Jornaya evaluate and prioritize these industries? c) Which industries should Jornaya tackle next?
Our team conducted vast research across 38 industries and developed a quantitative and qualitative model for Jornaya to reference and build upon as they grow, ranking potential industries across a wide range of factors.
About Jornaya
We began our journey in 2011, when we set out to solve a pervasive problem in the lead marketplace, an industry in whic