Leadership
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Eric M. Bylin Mark A. DeLillo Daniel L. Sachs Pepe Fanjul, Jr. |
David F. Monahan Jeff D. Bastow Craig J. Callaway Jeff M. Quinlivan |
Eric M. Bylin
Founding Member and Managing Partner
Mr. Bylin has approximately 17 years of commercial real estate experience. Throughout his career he has contributed to the execution of approximately $8 billion investment sale offerings and transactions, financings, acquisitions and advisory assignments in retail, office, senior living, development land and other property types. Mr. Bylin has worked on assignments located in over 20 states, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.
Recent significant transactions at BlueGate include the sale of 218 & 231 Royal Palm Way, two "trophy" Class A office buildings located in Palm Beach, FL, the sale of the approximate 2,800 acre Becker B-12 development parcel located in Martin County, FL, and the sale of the Baybrook & Southbrook Power Center Portfolio located in the Houston MSA, TX.
Prior to co-founding BlueGate, Mr. Bylin was a Managing Director and Partner of DTZ Rockwood (“DTZ”), an international property advisory firm, where he worked for approximately 11 years in both their New York City and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida offices. During his tenure at DTZ, Mr. Bylin led the firm’s Palm Beach Gardens office and specialized in retail, office, and development land advisory and transactional assignments.
Preceding DTZ Rockwood, Mr. Bylin was a member of Jones Lang Wootton’s (“JLW”) Investment Sales Group in New York City. Prior experience to JLW includes being a member of PaineWebber’s Corporate Finance Division.
B.A. History
Brown University
M.B.A. Finance
Columbia Business School
Mark A. DeLillo
Founding Member and Managing Partner
Mr. DeLillo has 17 years of institutional real estate and finance experience, and has contributed to the successful completion of more than $9 billion in multifamily, retail, office and land development investment sales, financing, joint venture and acquisition assignments.
Prior to co-founding BlueGate Partners, he was a Managing Director & Partner of DTZ Rockwood, an international property advisory firm, where he worked for 11 years. At DTZ Rockwood, Mr. DeLillo led the firm’s multifamily group, and was responsible for successfully executing in excess of $6.5 billion of multifamily investment sales, financing and advisory assignments. Additionally, Mr. DeLillo originated and executed in excess of $1.5 billion of residential land, retail and office investment sales transactions.
Preceding his accomplished career at DTZ Rockwood, Mr. DeLillo worked at Prudential Asset Management Group, in both its private fixed income and real estate investment divisions. At Prudential Capital Group, he managed and originated over $300 million in private fixed income investments covering a variety of domestic and foreign industrial projects. Mr. DeLillo additionally served as an investment analyst at Prudential Realty Group, where he was primarily responsible for managing Prudential’s investment in CenterMarkProperties, a wholly-owned real estate operating company (and former subsidiary of May Department Stores). On behalf of CenterMarkProperties, (a retail shopping mall development and management company), Mr. DeLillo played an instrumental role in the valuation and disposition of the company’s $1.1 billion national retail portfolio.
B.S.B.A. Finance and Psychology
Georgetown University
M.B.A. Finance
UCLA Anderson School of Management
Daniel L. Sachs
Founding Member and Managing Partner
Mr. Sachs has 20 years of institutional real estate experience and throughout his career has contributed to the origination and successful execution of over $10 billion of retail and office investment sales transactions, financings and advisory assignments.
Prior to co-founding BlueGate Partners, he was a Senior Managing Director and Partner of DTZ Rockwood, an international property advisory firm, where he worked for 13 years. During his tenure, he served as the firm’s national group head of Investment Sales. In addition, Mr. Sachs led the firm’s national retail practice as well as focusing on national office building investment sales.
Previous to his tenure at DTZ Rockwood, Mr. Sachs was a Manager in Coopers & Lybrand L.L.P.’s Real Estate Advisory Services Group, where he served as a real estate consultant servicing clients including financial institutions, investment banks, real estate investors and developers.
While at C&L, he supervised the due diligence activities for rating agency presentation for the securitization of over $1 billion of commercial loans collateralized by office, retail, multifamily and industrial properties. He also assisted clients in restructuring and workout advisory, portfolio asset disposition, and strategic business plan asset reviews.
B.S.E. Finance and Accounting
The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
M.B.A. Real Estate Finance and Finance
Columbia Business School
Pepe Fanjul, Jr.
Founding Member and Partner
Pepe Fanjul, Jr. is Executive Vice President of Florida Crystals Corporation, a Fanjul Company, where he leads the land and real estate division. He provides leadership and serves as a member of BlueGate’s board of directors. Florida Crystals is part of Flo-Sun, Inc. (www.flo-sun.com), an entity with approximately $3 billion of annual revenues, land holdings of approximately 400,000 acres, and is the owner of the 7,000-acre world-renowned Casa de Campo Caribbean resort in the Dominican Republic.
B.S. Business Administration
University of Miami
M.B.A. International Management
University of Miami
David F. Monahan
Managing Director
Mr. Monahan has approximately 15 years of institutional real estate experience. Throughout his career has contributed to the origination and successful execution of over $7 billion of retail and office investment sales transactions, financings and advisory assignments.
Prior to joining BlueGate Partners, Mr. Monahan was a Managing Director of Savills LLC. Prior to joining Savills LLC, Mr. Monahan was a Managing Director of DTZ Rockwood, an international property advisory firm where he worked for more than 9 years. During his tenure at DTZ, Mr. Monahan was responsible for the origination and execution of more than $5 billion of retail and office investment sales transactions, financings and advisory assignments.
Preceding his tenure at DTZ Rockwood, Mr. Monahan was a Senior Associate of Lend Lease Real Estate Investments, where he served as member of the Investment Sales Group and participated in the sale of approximately $1.5 billion of retail and office assets. Prior to Lend Lease, Mr. Monahan was a Senior Analyst of COMPASS Management and Leasing at Peachtree Center, a 2.4 million square foot mixed-use complex in Atlanta, Georgia.
B.S. Finance
Siena College
Jeff D. Bastow
Senior Vice President
Jeff Bastow joined BlueGate as a Vice President and has nine years of real estate experience. Prior to joining BlueGate, Mr. Bastow was a Vice President with Transwestern on their Mid-Atlantic multifamily investment sales team which completed over $2 billion in transactions during his tenure. Prior to Transwestern, Mr. Bastow was with Pembroke Real Estate, a private equity real estate division of Fidelity Investments, focusing on acquisitions in major international cities including London, Paris and Tokyo. While at Pembroke, Mr. Bastow contributed to over $400 million in acquisitions and led their expansion into Washington, D.C. In addition, Mr. Bastow has work experience with GID Investment Advisors. Mr. Bastow is a holder of the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
B.A. Economics
Colgate University
Member
CFA Institute
Craig J. Callaway
Senior Vice President
Mr. Callaway joined BlueGate Partners as a Senior Vice President. Mr. Callaway has 17 years of institutional real estate and finance experience, and has contributed to the successful completion of more than $2 billion in retail, office, multifamily and land development investment sales, financing, joint venture and acquisition assignments. Prior to joining BlueGate, Mr. Callaway was Managing Director of DTZ Rockwood’s Palm Beach Gardens office. Prior to joining DTZ Rockwood, Mr. Callaway was a Senior Acquisition Associate for Koger Equity, Inc. (CRT Properties), a Boca Raton based office REIT with over $1 billion in assets. Mr. Callaway was responsible for the underwriting on all acquisitions, dispositions and financing within the company. Earlier in his career Mr. Callaway worked as a Sales Associate for RJS Realty in Boca Raton. Prior to RJS, Mr. Callaway served as a staff appraiser for Callaway and Price, Inc. in West Palm Beach.
B.A. Economics
University of Florida
M. A. Real Estate
University of Florida
Jeff M. Quinlivan
Vice President
Mr. Quinlivan joined BlueGate Partners as a Vice President and has six years of real estate and finance experience. Mr. Quinlivan has been involved in the acquisition, disposition and/or asset management of over 2,000 single family and multi-family lots; 700 multi-family units; and $400 million in distressed debt.
Prior to joining BlueGate, Mr. Quinlivan was an Asset Manager with MMC Group, LP, a financial consultancy, managing the resolution and the disposition of distressed commercial real estate loan portfolios at failed financial institutions in the southeast. Prior to joining MMC Group, Mr. Quinlivan was a Development Associate with Wood Partners, one of the nation’s largest multi-family developers, in its Charleston, SC office and a Manager with Centex Corporation, a national residential developer and builder, in its Charlotte, NC office. At both Wood Partners and Centex Corporation, Mr. Quinlivan was responsible for the underwriting on acquisitions, dispositions and overseeing development and asset management activities.
B.S. Mechanical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
M.S. Biomedical Engineering
University of Virginia
M.B.A. Finance
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School