John Hirschfeld

Chairman & CEO at HomeRiver Group

Speaker

John is a founder of HomeRiver and responsible for all aspects of HomeRiver Group®’s activities. Over the course of his career, John has played a key role in executing over $10 billion in real estate transactions. Prior to co-founding HomeRiver, John was Senior Managing Director of Strategic Development for AZ Bidder, the country’s only national single-family home foreclosure bidding service. Before that, John cofounded and served as CEO of Class Green Capital Partners providing landmark funding and sustainability solutions to municipalities and states. Prior to Class Green, he served as EVP and Head of Acquisitions for U.S. Realty Advisors, one of the leading buyers of single-tenant, net leased properties in the United States. John also served as Managing Director at Eastdil Secured, where he managed its national Corporate Real Estate Investment Banking business. Before Eastdil, John was Managing Director in charge of Citigroup‘s Global Real Estate Equity and Structured Finance group where he built the bank’s global sale-leaseback advisory practice and oversaw the disposition of $5 billion of Citigroup’s foreclosed real estate assets. Prior to Citigroup, John served as a First Vice President in the multifamily acquisitions and syndications group at Integrated Resources. John has also practiced real estate, corporate and securities law at the New York firm of Robinson, Silverman (now Bryan Cave). An honors graduate of Harvard College and Fordham Law School, John is based in New York City, where he lives with his wife, Meg. They have three grow justify-content-centern children.