Bluerock Real Estate has announced the appointment of Jeffrey Schwaber as CEO of Bluerock Capital Markets, which manages the company’s investment products and funds. Schwaber’s immediate mandate will be to grow distribution of Bluerock’s interval fund, the Total Income + Real Estate Fund (NASDAQ: TIPRX, TIPPX and TIPWX) as well as Bluerock Residential Growth REIT’s Redeemable Preferred Stock and Bluerock’s rapidly expanding 1031 exchange division, Bluerock Value Exchange. Schwaber joins Bluerock from Griffin Capital Securities where he served as President and Head of Distribution and was a founding partner and Head of Capital Markets and Distribution at Behringer Harvard.
“Jeff is one of the most accomplished and highly regarded capital market heads in the investment management business and his track record of success in raising capital is well-known in our industry,” Ramin Kamfar, Founder and Chairman of Bluerock commented. “He has not once but twice built companies to capital raising leadership and we are delighted to match his distribution expertise with our real estate expertise and industry leading suite of investment products.”
