David has 15 years of real estate investment experience. He purchased his first duplex in 2006 and currently owns over 200 units. Over the past five years David has been slowly unwinding his single family and duplex/four-plex portfolio holdings and focusing on larger multi-family investment opportunities.
David founded and is the Managing Director of Cape Sierra Capital where he focuses on deal sourcing, asset management and investor relations. David started his career in industrial distribution with McMaster-Carr and became a management consultant focusing on mergers, acquisitions and performance improvement for private equity investors and their management teams. He has served as interim CIO for a $550M contract manufacturer of cosmetics, as Chief of Staff to the CEO of a $250M dairy products manufacturer among other corporate roles. Before starting his own management consulting firm David held senior leadership roles at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young, and LM+CO (now part of BDO USA).
David received his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He has a Masters in Liberal Arts from the University of Chicago and a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is an entrepreneur at heart and one summer in college drove an ice cream truck. David grew up in Ukraine and Sierra Leone before coming to the US for college. David speaks five languages, enjoys snowboarding, dancing salsa, biking, swimming, playing soccer and has completed 10 full marathons. David lives in Ann Arbor, MI with his wife and their four daughters.