Company Description
The Company was formed to invest in real estate projects in the United States. The Company will focus primarily on multifamily value-add properties but will also look for opportunities across other commercial real estate sectors, including industrial projects, data centers, self-storage, and medical office projects. The Company might seek to identify existing projects that have become distressed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but distressed projects will not be its principal focus.
Management Team / Advisory Board Bios
Craig Cecilio
Chief Executive Officer
BackgroundMr. Cecilio is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of the Sponsor, DiversyFund, Inc. Mr. Cecilio has worked in the real estate industry for nearly 20 years. Over the course of his career, Mr. Cecilio has participated in the development of over 1,000 single family residences in California as either a joint venture equity partner, lender, or sponsor. Previously, Mr. Cecilio owned a real estate lending business, Coastal California Funding Group, Inc., which underwrote and financed residential renovations and ground-up construction in California coastal markets such as San Diego, Orange County, Los Angeles and San Francisco, and a loan servicing business. Additionally, Mr. Cecilio founded a real estate debt fund in 2013, which manages a portfolio of real estate-backed bridge loans used primarily to “pre-fund” many of the Manager’s real estate projects. Since 1997, Mr. Cecilio has financed nearly $500 million of real estate assets, having raised over $100 million in debt or equity for real estate transactions in the last three years, and has developed and managed over $50 million of residential property (renovations and ground-up). Mr. Cecilio is a graduate of the University of Colorado at Boulder.