Brian Goray

Professional Focus

• 30 years’ experience in real estate, including executive and consulting roles focused on investment, financing, development and management of nearly all product types
• Extensive experience sourcing opportunities and creating value by identifying key players, asking insightful questions, identifying critical details, and following up through to completion
• Strong business acumen with proven success in negotiating and closing complex transactions
• Experience serving on investment committees and boards of directors

Business Expertise

• Co-founded real estate development companies to take advantage of opportunities in niche sectors, including alternative energy and senior housing
• Managing Director at a national commercial real estate specialty lender whose business combined profitability with sustainability by driving energy efficiency and alternative energy in commercial and industrial buildings
• Managing Director at a development/investment firm with institutional funding to create sustainable communities, remediate contaminated sites for productive redevelopment, and -- with additional funding from a high-net-worth family office - to acquire distressed real estate assets
• Development Partner for an international private equity fund with commitments from institutional and high-net-worth investors to deploy capital in profitable, socially responsible real estate developments
• Principal in a development company, pioneering creative mixed-use development in a re-emerging urban environment
• Vice President for an institutional investor-funded development and management company, with capital allocated for rental apartments in growth markets
• Vice President of Equity Research at a major investment bank, covering financial institutions and real estate investment trusts
• Earlier roles include underwriting mortgage bond issues and funding apartment development for a major investment bank, and liquidating the commercial real estate assets of failed banks.

Sector Expertise

• Real Estate
• Financial Services
• Financial Consulting
• Investment Banking
• Asset Management
• Private Equity

Education & Certifications

• MBA from University of Michigan, Ross School of Business
• Bachelor’s degree in economics from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Morehead-Cain Scholar)

Affiliations & Awards

• Guest Lecturer for graduate-level real estate courses and conferences at major universities  
• Board Member and President for a non-profit serving at-risk children in Palm Beach County, FL
• Board Member and Vice President for a non-profit providing housing and support services to low-income workforce families in Palm Beach County, FL
• Former Board Member for a non-profit providing counseling, housing, other social services to families in North Carolina
• Former President and Board Member of a 500+ member homeowners association
• Former Finance Council Chair and Council Member for a 15,000-member parish