Javier Benson is the VP of Business Development at RealtyShares. Javier’s responsibilities include developing programmatic capital partnerships, corporate partnerships, and new sponsor relationships, as well as capital markets strategy and analytics. He was formerly a Director of Investments at the firm, where he helped to source and underwrite real estate transactions for the RealtyShares platform.
Javier graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, and after, applied his analytical training as a management consultant, while at Accenture and DiamondCluster (now PwC Diamond Advisory Services). He then attended the Wharton School for an MBA with concentrations in real estate and finance. Post-MBA, Javier advised on M&A, IPO and debt transactions within the Investment Banking Division at Barclays. He then followed up his investment banking experience as VP of Acquisitions at 643 Capital Management, a San Francisco-based real estate private equity firm, where he focused on investment strategies including for-sale and for-rent multifamily acquisitions, land development, real estate credit and the formation of single-family residential REIT.