Friday, October 30, 2009

Jeff Barcy Real Estate Guru


Jeff Barcy is an experienced investment executive with a proven track record of real estate investment and finance. He began his career on New York City’s Wall Street after graduating from Harvard with honors and completing his MBA from the Harvard Business School. He first joined the Los Angeles office of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette which later on merged in 2001 to become Credit Suisse First Boston. There he worked his way up in investment banking from Associate to Director of real estate investment banking. During his time at Credit Suisse, Jeff Barcy worked on $20 billion of financings and mergers for a wide range of clients, including lodging companies, homebuilders, gaming companies and REIT (Real Estate Investment Trusts).

Jeff Barcy was asked in 2005 to join the management team at Hearthstone, a leading institutional investor in for-sale residential real estate. Based in San Francisco, Jeff Barcy sourced and managed deals for an opportunistic real estate opportunity fund, which he helped grow from $75 million to approximately $1 billion of committed capital. At this time, he is the CEO and co-founder of Ridgeback Partners, an investment management firm formed in 2007 to take advantage of compelling distressed residential opportunities in the U.S. market. Ridgeback Partners principals have previously managed several billion dollars of investor capital, 125 residential investments, and a company of 75 people. Ridgeback’s management team previously worked together at Hearthstone, one of the largest institutional investors dedicated to residential real estate.

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