Speakers

Eddy O’Brien, CFA is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blaze Capital Partners. Mr. O’Brien is responsible for the strategic oversight and growth of the Company and jointly manages all day-to-day activities of Blaze. Specifically, he is actively involved in the creation of investment strategies, managing partnership relationships, capital markets activity, investment origination, and oversight of portfolio performance and execution. In this capacity, he has helped establish Blaze Capital Partners as a pre-eminent boutique rental housing investment platform with a growing footprint across the Southeast and $2.5B invested on behalf of institutional capital partners.

Prior to co-founding Blaze Capital Partners, Eddy was previously a Managing Director of Investments at Greystar Real Estate Partners where he served in multiple capacities across the Company’s investment management platform. Most recently, he led the Company’s investment strategy function where he was actively involved in the creation and capitalization of multiple investment vehicles totaling over $4 billion in equity with strategies across the global rental housing spectrum.

In this capacity, Mr. O’Brien also started and oversaw Greystar’s active adult platform where he was involved in the growth of a $1.5 billion portfolio of development and acquisition projects across the United States. Prior to Greystar, Eddy worked as a REIT analyst with JP Morgan Asset Management in New York where he covered the healthcare and senior housing space and was involved in the management of a $1.5 billion global real estate securities portfolio.

Mr. O’Brien received a BA in economics from the University of Notre Dame, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He is also a CFA charterholder. Eddy and his family reside in Charleston, SC.”