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Brandon Cohen

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Director of Asset Management, US Real Estate at Harbert Growth Partners

Birmingham, Alabama, United States

About

Brandon Cohen is Director of Asset Management at Harbert Management Corporation, overseeing portfolio strategy and capital execution across a diversified U.S. real estate platform that includes industrial, retail, multifamily, office, and self-storage assets. He manages business plan execution across acquisitions, lease-up, repositioning, refinancing, recapitalization, and disposition strategies, and has executed over $1.6 billion in dispositions, refinancings, and recapitalizations across 4,400+ units and 7.4 million square feet. Cohen holds a BBA and MBA in Finance and Real Estate from the University of Alabama and is a CFA charterholder; he also serves on NAREIM's Asset Management Committee.

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Experience

  1. Harbert Management CorporationDirector of Asset Managementcurrent2019 — presentBirmingham, Alabama
  2. Harbert Management CorporationAsset Manager - Private Equity Real Estate2012 — 2018Greater Birmingham, Alabama Area
  3. NAREIMMember, Asset Management Committeecurrent2025 — present
  4. Grandbridge Real Estate CapitalCommercial Real Estate Analyst2008 — 2012Birmingham, Alabama Area
  5. Alabama Center for Real EstateGraduate Assistant2008The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
  6. GCP (Graham Commercial Properties)Summer Intern2007Birmingham, Alabama Area

Education

  1. University of Alabama, Manderson Graduate School of BusinessMBA, Finance & Real Estate2006 — 2008
  2. The University of AlabamaBachelors of Science, Finance with a concentration in Real Estate and minor in Economics2002 — 2006

Skills & more

Microsoft Office1Debt FinancingValue-Add InvestingInvestment AnalysisLeasing StrategyAsset Management1Real Estate Private EquityCapital MarketsPortfolio Management7Joint VenturesReal Estate InvestmentValue-Add Execution
+12 moreInvestor RelationsReal Estate DevelopmentLease NegotiationsFinancial ModelingCapital BudgetingWritten CommunicationProblem SolvingPresentationsCommunicationChartered Financial AnalystReal EstateCommercial Real Estate
  • Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Charterholder — CFA Institute

From Brandon's professional profile.

Same school

Also attended University of Alabama, Manderson Graduate School of Business5

Michelle ClaiborneVice President at Harbert Growth PartnersBrett BuskeAssociate at Arrowroot CapitalZach TannerHead of Portfolio Finance at Elsewhere PartnersDevon LaneyEcosystem Advisor at Cortado VenturesChad QuisenberryFounding Partner, Managing Director, Public Equity at Ajeej Capital

Shared employers

Also worked at Harbert Management Corporation33

Hamza Abu SammourAssociate at Harbert Growth PartnersLiz AdamsVice President and Director of Internal Audit at Harbert Growth PartnersWade ArmstrongDirector of Investments at Harbert Growth PartnersMelissa BabbSenior Managing Director at Harbert Growth PartnersMike BauderVice President and Chief Compliance Officer at Harbert Growth PartnersRyan BenevidesPrincipal, Portfolio and Asset Management at Harbert Growth Partners

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Colleagues at Harbert Growth Partners

Adam Arnold
Managing Director at Harbert Growth Partners
Alison G. McKinney
Senior Associate at Harbert Growth Partners
Ally English
Senior Associate, Investor Reporting at Harbert Growth Partners
Amanda Brown
Director, Fund Accounting at Harbert Growth Partners
Andrew Dietrich
Vice President, Fund Accounting at Harbert Growth Partners
Asher Curnutte
Associate, Investments at Harbert Growth Partners
Ashley Clements
Accounts Payable Manager at Harbert Growth Partners
Brian Carney
General Partner at Harbert Growth Partners