David C. Friedman - Founder
David C. Friedman brings over 25 years of experience in global commercial real estate debt and equity investments, including acquisitions, financings and restructurings. His experience extends across opportunistic, value add and core real estate investments in all asset classes including hotels, office buildings, parking, storage, retail and residential real estate. Since founding Ella Valley, David invests on behalf of, asset manages and counsels numerous family offices, high net worth individuals and multi-generational real estate families with respect to their real estate portfolios. Prior to founding Ella Valley, David was a Managing Director, Co-Head of Asset Management and General Counsel for Marathon Real Estate, the global real estate equity and debt platforms for Marathon Asset Management. At Marathon, David managed a portfolio of real estate that included a portfolio of parking garages, ground-up development, conversion of residential rental units to condominium, renovation of and repositioning of office buildings, as well as many other projects around the continental U.S. and abroad. David joined Marathon in 2005 from Proskauer Rose, where he was an attorney in the firm's real estate department for 12 years representing institutional lenders, developers, equity sponsors, and special servicers in connection with acquisitions, sales, financings, workouts, debt and equity structuring, restructurings, and dispositions. David holds a B.A. from Cornell University and a J.D. from New York Law School.
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J. Fostin Cotchen
Fostin joined Ella Valley Capital in 2017 bringing over 15 years of experience in real estate around the world. At Ella Valley, Fostin specializes in asset management, financing, underwriting, structuring, and reporting. Prior to joining Ella Valley, Fostin worked for Corridor Holdings Corp., a Manhattan-based real estate developer and advisor to several multinational best-in-class developers and investors. Prior to that, Fostin was a Vice President at Walton Asset Management, a real estate investment manager and developer with $4 billion in real estate under management across the U.S. and Canada, where he established three real estate funds totaling in excess of $380 million in equity capital. Fostin also worked in real estate private equity in Europe for nine years, where he worked on acquisitions across Europe and the U.S. Fostin’s specialties include real estate valuation, financial modeling, acquisition underwriting, real estate asset management, and investment reporting. Fostin holds a B.A. in Economics and Slavic Languages with honors from the University of Chicago and an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management at Yale University.
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Burt Miller
Burt Miller has 30 years of experience in the real estate industry with expertise in new business development, acquisitions, capital markets, and project oversight. Burt began his career as a tenant rep office leasing broker in New York City at Murray Hill Properties. In 2004, he co-founded KMG Partners, a platform to execute real estate investments and developments, creating condominiums, office, and retail assets and acquiring and executing value-add strategies with multifamily properties in New York, Florida, and Texas. In the course of his career, Miller secured in excess of $600 million in equity and debt financing from partners such as: J.P. Morgan, Lehman Bros., Silverpeak Real Estate Partners, Canyon-Johnson Urban Funds, Marathon Asset Management, Urdang, Petra Capital and more. Miller’s experience also includes the acquisition and land/horizontal development of numerous residential communities in Central and Western North Dakota; assisting in the launch of a boutique capital markets group which was created by and with ABS Real Estate Partners which formed ABS Altman Warwick; and most recently been a senior executive with a boutique ground-up residential development company.
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Scott Murphy
Scott Murphy brings over 30-years of commercial real estate in the United States and Latin America. At Ella Valley, Scott specializes in asset management and property investment, including experience with industrial, office, retail, multi-family, mixed-use development, and land for development. Prior to joining Ella Valley Investments, Scott was a principal/investor structuring real estate syndications with institutional and private equity investors in the United States and Latin America. His responsibilities included market evaluations, sourcing property acquisitions, securing investor equity, property underwriting, financing, asset management, business plan execution, and investor reporting. He was a Regional Director in charge of leasing and acquisitions for Prentiss Properties Trust in Los Angeles and the Senior Vice President in charge of leasing for Insignia Commercial Group on the West Coast. Scott began his professional career in public accounting at Arthur Andersen & Company in Los Angeles. Scott graduated from California State University, Northridge, with a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Accounting and completed the Executive Management Development Program at the UCLA Anderson School of Management.
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Jennifer D. Rowland
Jennifer has over 12 years of experience in the commercial real estate industry with a diverse background in asset management, property management, leasing, acquisitions, and dispositions. Prior to joining Ella Valley Investments in 2022, Jennifer was Director of Operations for SB Management/Black Equities Group, a real estate investment and operating company based in Beverly Hills, California. Prior to that, Jennifer was a multi-location franchise owner and operator of an IT Training Company. Jennifer holds a B.A. from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and is a licensed Real Estate Broker within the State of California.
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