Executive Leadership
Andy Chien is President & Co-Founder of Bridge33 Capital. Prior to Bridge33, Dr. Chien worked at Morgan Stanley in London. He initially spent time in the European real estate finance group originating large-balance commercial real estate loans. In 2008, he moved to the Investment Banking Division where he was engaged on mandates with British and European banks as well as the British Government. As part of these mandates, he advised banks on restructuring and divestments of their real estate portfolios. In aggregate, he worked on M&A and capital markets transactions totaling $80 Bn in consideration. Dr. Chien holds a Doctor of Medicine and a Bachelor of Arts in Biological Sciences, both from the University of Chicago.
Alex Banchero is Executive Vice President of Operations at Bridge33, responsible for asset management, leasing, and construction. Prior to Bridge33, he worked at Prologis, most recently as a Director in the Value Added Investment group, where he helped launch the Value Added platform across North America and was responsible for repositioning infill industrial assets in the San Francisco Bay Area. Mr. Banchero holds a Master of Science in Real Estate from the University of Washington and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from Lawrence Tech University.
Arshad Sultan is an integral member of our in house property management team, where Bridge33’s value-add strategy is defined by hard work and an aggressive approach towards decreasing expenses, increasing revenue, and continuously seeking new opportunities through deep relationships with tenants and vendors and a "pound the pavement" philosophy. Before joining Bridge33, Mr. Sultan worked at New York Life, where he managed variable and fixed-product service for U.S. operations. Mr. Sultan received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Nebraska.
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Douglas Abbey is a co-founder of IHP Capital Partners, a provider of equity to homebuilders and a developer of horizontal apartments. He previously co-founded two investment management organizations: AMB Property Corporation (merged with Prologis: NYSE), now the largest global industrial REIT, and Swift Real Estate Partners, a value-add office investor.
He is a past Global Board member of the Urban Land Institute, the past Chairman of the ULI Foundation and the Chair of the ULIF Capital Campaign: Our Cities: Our Future. He is an emeritus board member after serving 20 years of Bridge Housing, the leading non-profit affordable housing developer on the west coast. Mr. Abbey is a supporter of the Abbey Master in Real Estate Development + Design at UC Berkeley. He is also a Governor of the Nantucket Yacht Club. Since 2005, he has taught the real estate class at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Mr. Abbey holds a B.A. from Amherst College and an MCP from UC Berkeley.
George B. Huber is a Managing Partner of Finback Investment Partners, a Miami based private equity firm he Co-Founded with Governor Jeb Bush. Mr. Huber also is the Founder/Chairman of Equity Investment Group, a diversified real estate and investment company. He was the Co-Founder/Managing Partner of the real estate private equity firm Blue Vista Capital Management and Peak Campus, one of the country’s largest student housing companies. Mr. Huber serves as a Trustee for Vanderbilt University Board of Trust. He also currently or formerly served as a Board member or Advisor for numerous public and private real estate and finance/investment companies. Among his philanthropic endeavors, Mr. Huber is on the Board of Directors for New Story Charity, a nonprofit community-building innovation company with a mission to end world homelessness. Mr. Huber holds a B.A. from Vanderbilt University and an M.B.A. with Honors from the University of Michigan.
Gayle Starr has had a distinguished career in real estate, including the past 27 years at Prologis/AMB where she was the Managing Director of Capital Markets and originated and oversaw debt for the company. During her tenure at Prologis, she closed over $38Bn in financings with over 70 lenders in 9 different currencies. Gayle is also a Global Governing Trustee for ULI and is on the Executive Committee of the Women’s Leadership Initiative of ULI.
Leshya Wig is currently the lead partner and managing director at Wig Properties, a Pacific Northwest owner, property manager, and developer of commercial real estate. She leads financing, acquisitions, development, leasing, and the company’s hotel portfolio. Most recently, Ms. Wig assembled 15.5 acres of land in the City of Bellevue, navigated a 7-year rezone approval process, and is currently designing and developing a 3.7M SF mixed-use development across from the light rail station on the acquired site. Ms. Wig holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a Bachelor of Arts in both Economics and Psychology from Claremont McKenna College.
Jahan Moslehi is CEO & Co-Founder of Bridge33 Capital. Prior to Bridge33, Mr. Moslehi worked at Morgan Stanley in various capacities including marketing and distribution of Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS), developing a business plan for trading distressed and small-balance commercial real estate loans, developing the firm’s securitization business in the Middle East and North Africa, and other roles within the CMBS and Fixed Income Management groups.
Mr. Moslehi holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts in Biological Sciences from the University of Chicago.