Experienced Capital Raiser for Real Estate Strategies Joins Investment Management Firm
February 22, 2018 – New York – Rubenstein Partners, L.P. (Rubenstein), a vertically-integrated real estate investment manager headquartered in Philadelphia and specializing in value-added office property opportunities in major U.S. markets, has hired Ferhat Guven as Director of Investor Relations. In this senior role, Mr. Guven will lead Rubenstein’s capital raising efforts in coordination with the firm’s senior leadership team. Mr. Guven joins Rubenstein with more than 15 years of fundraising and direct investment experience for a variety of real estate strategies, and will be based in the firm’s New York City offices.
“As our firm expands, we continue to refine the roles of our senior leadership and make select hires for key positions,” said David B. Rubenstein, Founder and Senior Managing Partner of Rubenstein Partners. “Ferhat is the latest senior-level addition to the Rubenstein team, and we believe that his capital raising experience will be a significant asset for us as we move forward.”
Mr. Guven joins from Threadmark, LP, the U.S. arm of a U.K.-based placement agent, where he served as Senior Vice President. Previously he founded Altitude Advisors, where he raised capital for a variety of direct real estate strategies. Prior to that, he worked in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America for Jamestown, Paladin Realty Partners and UBS.
At Jamestown, Mr. Guven was a managing director responsible for capital raising and investor relations as part of the group’s founding international investment team. During his tenure at Paladin Realty Partners, Mr. Guven was a London-based managing director responsible for fund raising and investor relations in Europe and the Middle East.
Mr. Guven graduated from the London Business School with a Masters of Science degree in management, where he was a Sloan Fellow, and from Texas Tech University with a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science and History.
About Rubenstein Partners
Rubenstein Partners, founded in September 2005, is a private real estate investment management and advisory firm with operations throughout the United States. The firm is led by its founder, David Rubenstein, and a group of senior real estate executives, and is focused on directing and managing value-added office real estate investments in major U.S. markets. Rubenstein Partners’ predecessor company, The Rubenstein Company, LP and affiliates, founded in 1969, was one of the largest private owner operators of Class A office real estate in the Mid-Atlantic, owning and operating a portfolio of assets valued at approximately $1.2 billion at the time of its disposition in 2004. Since 2005, Rubenstein Partners has, on behalf of its investors and clients, invested in more than 10 million square feet of office real estate assets throughout the United States. For more information, visit www.rubensteinpartners.com.