Ian is a real estate professional and serial entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in real estate private equity, equity options trading and start-ups. Ian is Chief Investment Officer at CrowdStreet, overseeing its marketplace, an online commercial real estate investment platform that has completed over 650 offerings totaling over $25 billion of commercial real estate. As one of the commercial real estate industry’s foremost thought leaders, Ian is the author of “The Comprehensive Guide to Commercial Real Estate Investing”, he is a contributing author at Forbes.com, and he serves as the most frequently featured commercial real estate expert guest for The Investor’s Podcast.
Prior to joining CrowdStreet, Ian was VP of Business Development for ScanlanKemperBard Companies, where he managed the firm’s alternative investment platform and served as a senior acquisitions officer. Previously, Ian cofounded and served as CEO of Clarus Property Ventures, a regional real estate private equity firm that focused on multifamily acquisitions. Ian began his career as an equity options market maker and member of the Pacific Exchange.
Ian holds a BA in Economics and a BA in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley as well as Series 7 and 63 licenses.
Specialties: Business development, acquisitions, dispositions, asset management, deal structuring, sourcing deal flow and financial analysis.
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