Co-President & Chief Investment Officer

As Co-President and Chief Investment Officer, Ryan oversees all investment and acquisition aspects of the company. Ryan is a member of the firm’s investment committee.

With over 29 years of real estate acquisition experience, Ryan has completed over $5.6 billion in multifamily transactions throughout his career. Since joining BCE in 2009, he has directed the acquisitions of 128 properties valued at over $4.7 billion. Over the course of his career, Ryan’s investment expertise has created a multitude of opportunistic ventures: buying out distressed partnerships, recapitalizing underperforming properties, and acquiring distressed assets which since have become some of BCE’s top-performing properties. Ryan was integral in the genesis of the prior BCE Funds, which collectively raised more than $200MM of equity.

Prior to joining BCE, Ryan served as Vice President of multifamily sales and acquisitions at RK Properties, a private equity firm in Long Beach, CA. He facilitated the closings of over $500MM in multifamily assets in Southern California, Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, and Utah. Ryan began his career in real estate in 1994 at the San Diego office of Marcus & Millichap.

Ryan received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Real Estate from San Diego State University.