Alex Westra

Managing Partner at Lakeland Capital

Speaker

Alex Westra is the Managing Partner of Lakeland Capital, a Charleston, SC based private investment firm spe­cializing in multifamily properties. The firm has acquired and repositioned more than $200mm of assets across 1,000 units through more than 30 transactions in the Southeast, New England and the mid-Atlantic.

Previously Westra was a Managing Director and member of the Finance Committee at Hines Interests, one of the largest private real estate devel­opment and investment firms globally, where he participated in approxi­mately $3.5bn of trans­actions. Prior to Hines, Mr. Westra worked in the Bloomberg Administra­tion in New York and with Morgan Stanley’s Invest­ment Banking Division in London.

He holds a BA, magna cum laude, from Middle­bury College where he was a Fulbright finalist, and an MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Busi­ness.

Mr. Westra is a guest lecturer at the Darden School where he continues to mentor students and established an endowment to support real estate career develop­ment