Forging a new path

In real estate

Founded in 2016 by industry veterans David Boyle and Brad Beanblossom, NW1 Partners is forging a new path in real estate investment management. Reflecting on "what's worked well" over their $3 billion of principal investment experience, David and Brad set out to provide institutional investors access to small cap portfolio roll-up strategies and expert local operating partners.

NW1 Partners has a strategic relationship with Delancey, a leading U.K. property investor, and the managing principals, Jamie Ritblat and Paul Goswell.

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The founders' experience in completing creative and complex investments while at Morgan Stanley, Brookfield, and Equity International positions NW1 Partners to provide a highly tailored and unique offering, by packaging fragmented properties into coherent, institutional portfolios.
David
boyle

Co-Founder & Managing Partner,

London

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Brad
Beanblossom

Co-Founder,

Chicago

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Brooks
Blake

Head of Europe,

London

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Corbin
Decker

Vice President,

Chicago

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Muhamed
Sharafali

Investment Executive,

London

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Jon
Sandstrom

Principal,

New York

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Vanda
Wong

SVP Finance,

New York

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Laura
Coleman

Senior Advisor,

London

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Emily
Jones

Senior Associate,

London

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David
Northey

Associate,

Chicago

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Alexander
Gravina

Senior Analyst,

London

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David
boyle

Co-Founder & Managing Partner,

London

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David Boyle is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of NW1 Partners. Prior to co-founding NW1 Partners, Mr. Boyle was Managing Director, Co-Head & Chief Investment Officer of the AIP Real Estate team at Morgan Stanley. During his tenure at the firm and as Chair of the AIP Real Estate Investment Committee, he set the overall investment strategy and invested over $1.2 billion into co-investments, secondaries, and primary fund investments.

Mr. Boyle enjoyed previous senior roles at Brookfield Asset Management, APG Investments US, and Deutsche Bank. In these positions, he led or was substantially involved in investing more than $1.1 billion into equity and mezzanine debt investments.

Mr. Boyle was formerly on the Board of Directors at Tishman Hotel & Realty and a past Co-Chair of PREA's conference planning committee. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University and a Master of Public Affairs from Columbia University.

Brad
Beanblossom

Co-Founder,

Chicago

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Brad Beanblossom is Co-Founder and Partner of NW1 Partners. Prior to joining NW1, Mr. Beanblossom spent 15 years with Sam Zell's international real estate private equity firm, Equity International (EI). Mr. Beanblossom oversaw EI's investments team as its Senior Vice President, and invested more than $900 million of growth capital for EI's portfolio companies He also was involved in the disposition of over $2 billion of EI's equity positions.

Mr. Beanblossom served as a member of the EI's investment committee and as a member of the board and investment committee of numerous portfolio companies.

Brad began his real estate career in 1997 at Arnold Palmer Golf where he was responsible for originating and underwriting the acquisition of golf courses.

Mr. Beanblossom graduated from DePauw University with a B.A. in History and earned a M.B.A. in finance from the University of San Francisco.

Corbin
Decker

Vice President,

Chicago

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Corbin Decker is a Vice President at NW1 Partners. Since joining NW1 Partners in 2018, Mr. Decker has been actively involved in evaluating potential acquisitions and conducting due diligence on new investment opportunities.

Before joining NW1 Partners, Mr. Decker spent two years as an Associate at Rockpoint Group in Boston, MA, where he underwrote core-plus and opportunistic deals in various U.S. cities, and managed several properties across multifamily, office, retail, hotel, and industrial asset classes simultaneously.

Mr. Decker began his career as an Acquisitions Analyst at Morgan Stanley in the Merchant Banking and Real Estate Investing (MBREI) division in New York, NY. As part of the two-year analyst program, he performed acquisition analyses for Prime Property Fund, the open-ended Core vehicle, as well as the Opportunistic fund, across all asset classes. He also assisted in the fundraising efforts of MBREI's Global VII Real Estate Opportunistic Fund.

Mr. Decker graduated from the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business with a Bachelors in Business Administration (B.B.A.) with an emphasis in Finance, Real Estate, and Strategy.

Muhamed
Sharafali

Investment Executive,

London

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Muhamed Sharafali is an Investment Executive at Delancey Real Estate Asset Management and NW1 Partners. At Delancey, Muhamed is part of the investment team focused on investments and acquisitions, corporate finance matters, monitoring returns, financings and disposals. (www.delancey.com).

Muhamed is focused on underwriting and executing investments acquisitions across various real estate asset classes (including PRS, offices, ground rents), corporates and platforms. He is also involved in monitoring asset and fund returns, other financial modelling, and evaluating opportunities for new joint ventures and partnerships.

Prior to joining Delancey in 2015, Mr Sharafali spent over 7 years at Willis Towers Watson (previously Towers Watson) where he was an Investment Consultant in their Investment Strategy team. As part of this role, Muhamed advised institutional clients (pension funds, insurance companies, sovereign wealth funds and family offices) on their investment strategy, portfolio allocations and, facets of risk and return.

Mr Sharafali has an undergraduate degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and postgraduate degrees from Imperial College London and University of Reading. He is also a qualified Actuary (Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries).

Jon
Sandstrom

Principal,

New York

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Jon Sandstrom is a Principal of NW1 Partners. Prior to joining NW1 in 2021, Mr. Sandstrom was an Executive Director, Portfolio Manager, and Real Estate Investment Committee member in the Portfolio Solutions Group and the AIP Real Estate team at Morgan Stanley, where he worked in the firm’s New York and Hong Kong offices. During his nine years at Morgan Stanley, he was involved in roughly $1 billion of private real estate co-investments, secondaries, and primary fund investments.

Prior to Morgan Stanley, Mr. Sandstrom worked with fund manager Five Mile Capital Partners, where he focused on private real estate high-yield debt and equity investments throughout the US. Prior to that, he worked with Swedish fund manager Niam, where he focused on private real estate investments in the Nordic region.

Mr. Sandstrom began his real estate career in 2000 in the Real Estate Private Fund Group at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ), subsequently Credit Suisse, where he focused on originations and project management for private capital advisory mandates.

Mr. Sandstrom graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from Cornell University.

Vanda
Wong

SVP Finance,

New York

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Vanda Wong is the SVP Finance of NW1 Partners, having joined the firm in early 2022.

 

Before joining NW1 Partners, Ms. Wong was a Senior Vice President at EA RESIG, where she worked for over eight years and worked on NW1’s account. Ms. Wong has more than 16 years of experience in accounting and financial reporting for private equity funds, feeder/blocker structures, opportunity zone funds, debt funds, direct access/open-ended funds, REIT and co-investments. Prior to joining EA RESIG, Ms. Wong worked at AIG Global Real Estate Investment Inc. where she managed the accounting, cash operations, compliance, and financial reporting for four global private equity real estate funds which invested in several major real estate projects in Korea, Hong Kong, Mexico, Singapore and Thailand. Prior to AIG, Ms. Wong was a senior auditor at Deloitte & Touche LLP.

 

Ms. Wong is a certified public accountant and earned her Bachelor's in Accounting from Baruch College.

 
Emily
Jones

Senior Associate,

London

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Emily Jones is a Senior Associate at NW1 Partners. Before joining NW1 Partners, Ms. Jones was an Investor Relations Associate at Nuveen Real Estate where she was responsible for investor relations and reporting across several real estate Funds, SMA’s and Joint Ventures throughout EMEA and APAC.

Ms. Jones has more than 8 years of experience in investor relations and reporting. Prior to joining Nuveen, Ms. Jones worked at Man Group. There, Ms. Jones worked as a Client Reporting Analyst.

Ms. Jones graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from Swansea University and is also a CAIA Charterholder.

 
David
Northey

Associate,

Chicago

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David Northey is an Associate at NW1 Partners. Before joining NW1 Partners, Mr. Northey was a Senior Financial Analyst at Cascade Capital Group where he assisted both the asset management and acquisitions teams.

Mr. Northey was responsible for monitoring and improving the performance of Cascade’s senior living portfolio, underwriting prospective acquisitions and divestitures, and coordinating due diligence throughout the acquisition process. Mr. Northey has 3 years of experience in financial analysis and underwriting.

Mr. Northey graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business from Indiana University, where he majored in Finance and Real Estate.

Alexander
Gravina

Senior Analyst,

London

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Alexander Gravina is a Senior Analyst at NW1 Partners having joined in 2022. Before joining NW1 Partners, Mr. Gravina was an Investment Analyst at ATRUM Global where he analyzed venture capital opportunities.

Mr. Gravina was responsible for analyzing venture opportunities across a variety of industries including real estate, web3, and retail technology. He was also responsible for writing investment committee memos, monitoring existing investments and providing support for fundraising activities.

Mr. Gravina has two years’ experience in investment and financial analysis and graduated with a first-class Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is IMC certified.

Laura
Coleman

Senior Advisor,

London

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Laura Coleman is a Senior Advisor at NW1.

Laura has 20 years of real estate experience in a range of roles including: fund formation, capital raising, investor relations, acquisitions and asset / portfolio management.

Prior to joining NW1, Laura was a Principal and Director of Investor Relations at Benson Elliot for 10 years where she oversaw client relations and fundraising efforts including the formation and fundraise of two pan-European funds of c. 1.2m in equity.

Prior to joining Benson Elliot, Laura spent seven years with O’Connor Capital Partners in New York City where she was responsible for investments in the retail, office and residential sectors for two US domestic opportunity funds of $1.1 bn.

She previously spent time as a project manager for Sciame, a high-end construction management firm based in New York City.

Laura has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Harvard University and is a native of Ireland.

Brooks
Blake

Head of Europe,

London

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Brooks Blake is a Partner and Head of Europe at NW1.

Prior to joining NW1 Partners, Mr. Blake ran real assets investing for three large family offices over eleven years, including the Bain Capital family office. In these positions, Brooks led 92 investments totalling over $850m of equity commitments across real estate, energy, mining and agriculture in Europe, the United States and Asia. He was responsible for investment strategy, portfolio construction, sourcing, due diligence and risk management.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Blake developed over nine million square feet of office, residential, hotel, retail and mixed-use projects for The JBG Companies and Xander Advisors, two large real estate private equity firms. The JBG Companies is now a $2.6bn REIT (ticker:JBGS) after merging with the former Washington DC portfolio of Vornado Realty Trust (ticker:VNO).

Brooks began his career as an Analyst in Mergers and Acquisitions at Morgan Stanley and was an Associate at Winslow Partners, a family office for certain former Partners of Goldman Sachs.

Mr. Blake holds an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School and a dual degree in Economics and Political Science with Honours and Distinction from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar.