About Suneet Singal
Suneet Singal is a well-established entrepreneur and senior finance architect from California with extensive experience in New York. His knowledge is used in various industries, including consumer retail, fintech, low-carbon real estate, disruptive technology, and green energy, including renewables. Over the last two decades, entrepreneurs have owned and run several highly successful businesses.
Outside of work, he is passionate about several charitable causes and has a variety of hobbies and interests. Among her interests are music, sports, travel, food, and wine. The happily married father of four is a frequent blood donor and business mentor, a little league baseball and flag football coach, and an active community member.
Current Role & Duties
Singal is the chairman of the board of a prestigious privately held former real estate investment company that has transitioned to a general holding company and advisory firm. The senior finance architect has been in this position for over five years. The New York-based firm provides liquidity access to one of the world’s largest but least liquid asset classes. The company works in the public real estate sector.
Suneet Singal’s team and the respected chairman assist clients in identifying assets and prospective partners willing to transact in exchange for equities. They have a track record of success, having completed approximately $1 billion in real estate acquisitions. The chairman of the board and his team’s duties include: Investing in stabilized assets to preserve dividends, Identifying and acquiring underperforming and distressed assets, Creating opportunities to secure significant future value, Developing land via a vertically integrated platform, Maximizing value creation for shareholders and investors, Evolving undeveloped land into valuable real estate, and Unlocking and monetizing value in assets via public markets.
Before assuming the role of chairman of the board, Singal was the firm’s CEO for over four years.
Career Background
Singal previously served as the chairman of a successful equity real estate investment trust. He has also previously served as CEO of a Nasdaq-listed real estate operating firm and as acting CEO of a well-known business development firm.
In addition, the California-based entrepreneur and senior finance architect have held several other C-level positions. In addition, he serves on the boards of several public and private companies. He has also worked independently, developing and selling private businesses and assets in various markets.
Academic Background
Suneet Singal was born and raised in Santa Clara, California. He attended Sacramento’s prestigious Jesuit High School, studied industrial engineering at California Polytechnic State University, and earned a finance degree from California State University, Sacramento.
The famous Golden State school, also known as Sac State, is a higher education institution that celebrates diversity and fosters lifelong prosperity for its graduates. Singal earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in finance with a concentration in investments from Sac State.
He was heavily involved in several student societies and activities while attending California State University, Sacramento. The Cultural Club at the university was one of these activities and societies. Singal created “A Taste of the World,” which featured many different cultural organizations promoting diversity through activities such as historic food, dance, music, and art at Cal Poly and Sac St. These events were highly regarded, and established traditions would last for many years. The Cultural Club invites Sac State students to experience the world through the eyes of international students and others from other countries.
Professional Skills and Experience
Suneet Singal manages highly complex sophisticated transactions and brings a broad skill set and a wide range of solutions, including but not limited to financial structuring, direct investment, equity and debt placement, acquisition, disposition, finance and structure negotiations, entity structure foreign and domestic, board and management formation and selection, advisory committee formation and selection, litigation management, partner buyouts, capital market exits foreign and domestic, and entity structure foreign and domestic. He spent much of his previous career developing real estate master plans. Commercial real estate, land entitlement, principal sponsorship, and transportation-oriented development were all included.
His current focus is on a mix of real estate and non-real estate assets and business ventures, including those centered on green energy, specifically renewable energy. His clients include family offices and other large asset portfolio holders. Singal counsels these clients on capital structures, including complex domestic and international transactions. Highlights from his career thus far include: Turning a $250,000 asset into $175 million in less than four years, Establishing three separate publicly traded companies in under three years, The creation of multiple companies with several hundred employees each, Turning around distressed situations and generating positive shareholder growth, Further creation of hundreds of additional new jobs, Numerous high-profile asset success stories
He oversaw a $350 million real estate acquisition in 2019. The agreement also included a $100 million stock distribution to shareholders. His colleagues highly value his abilities in new business development, land acquisition, real estate, real estate development, and real estate economics.
Association Memberships
Suneet Singal has previously served on the boards of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, the American Association of Private Lenders, and the International Council of Shopping Centers. The National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts is a professional organization based in Washington, D.C.
It represents those involved in managing equity and mortgage real estate investment trusts. Along with real estate investment trusts traded on major stock exchanges, there are also public non-listed, and private trusts.
Meanwhile, the American Association of Private Lenders is the leading industry membership organization of its kind in the United States. Its headquarters are in Dawsonville, Georgia, and it serves those in the private real estate lending market. It is the defining organization in the United States for setting standards on behalf of private lenders and associated industry professionals.
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