Jeffrey G Rutishauser

Bio

Mr. Rutishauser has 25 years of real estate industry experience spanning equity investment, property development, lending and professional consulting experience. Mr. Rutishauser is a member of the Investment Committee of Berkshire Capital Group. Since 2007, Mr. Rutishauser was CEO of Amstar Global Partners, a private equity real estate firm that raised and invested $330 million of equity in major retail, industrial and hospitality developments in Turkey, Russia and India. Before Amstar Global, he was Managing Director and co-head of AIG/Lincoln, a joint venture with Lincoln Properties that developed over $2 billion of commercial property in central and eastern European countries and Russia. Prior to that, he was a senior investment professional at Westbrook Partners and NorthStar Capital Management leading commercial real estate acquisition activity and investment management at both companies. On the lending side, he led the real estate financing group at DaimlerChrysler Capital ($1.3 billion real estate loan portfolio) and was a leader at GE Capital in the acquisition and financing of over $1.2 billion of opportunistic real estate in the early 1990's. He has also provided professional consulting services as head of Price Waterhouse's Metro NY Real Estate Advisory Practice and as a senior consultant and engagement manager with Booz Allen and Hamilton in their Financial Service consulting practice. Mr. Rutishauser holds an A.B. from Dartmouth College, a B.E. from Thayer Engineering School (Dartmouth) and an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration (Dartmouth).