Team Bridgeton

Atit Jariwala is a real estate executive who has been involved with real estate management and investment his entire life. As a partner and co-founder of several real estate companies, Atit has been involved in the acquisition, development and management of dozens of properties across the United States. In total, Atit has been involved in the acquisition and development of over $2.5 billion of real estate throughout the U.S. directly as a principal.

Prior to Bridgeton, Atit was at CIM Group, the $30 billion real estate private equity firm, and a real estate private equity firm which had over $1 billion in assets under management. Prior to his development and investing career, Atit was an investment banker at Salomon Smith Barney (now Citigroup) and Wells Hill Partners. In addition, he managed a number of hotel properties. Atit’s professional career spans 19 years.

Atit graduated from Yale University with a degree in Economics, cum laude with distinction, and received his MBA from Stanford University.

Akash Sharma has over 15 years of real estate experience, including sourcing, evaluating and executing direct investments in excess of $2 billion in total capitalization, and asset management of over a two million square feet portfolio of core, value-added and opportunistic assets.

Akash formally began his investing career at CIM Group, the $30 billion real estate private equity firm. During his tenure, Akash completed over $700 million in investments and worked on a variety of transformative projects, including the acquisition of 432 Park Avenue. To complement his equity side transactional experience, Akash joined Clairvue Capital Partners (now Stepstone Real Estate Group) in early 2012. At Clairvue, Akash’s responsibilities entailed undertaking secondary investments in funds and evaluating preferred equity investments in operating companies and joint ventures.

Akash graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Economics, Dean’s List.

Christina Maloney has been managing employee relationships and compliance matters for over 25 years, focusing on the management of human capital, employer compliance, liability management and leadership development. She currently oversees Bridgeton’s HR and compliance functions.

Prior to Bridgeton, Christina spent 4 years as Head of Operations for the New York and London offices of Ripplewood Advisors LLC, a family investment office, and 20 years as HR Manager at Ripplewood Holdings LLC, a New York Private Equity firm. Christina Began her career in New Business Development at Ketchum, an international advertising agency.

Christina earned a degree in Sociology from the State University of New York at Genesco.

Ankit Patel is a Certified Public Accountant, with over 17 years’ experience, who has been deeply involved in accounting, valuation and company leadership throughout his career. Ankit came to Bridgeton from a consulting firm where he spent his time at a large real estate development company working with their controllership group to develop, implement and improve accounting processes. Prior to that, Ankit worked at Hyatt as a member of the Global Policies and Procedures group where he created and updated company-wide accounting policies, and participated in the AICPA Hospitality Revenue Recognition Task Force.

Ankit started his career in Atlanta at Deloitte where he gained experience within their external audit practice before moving to their Transaction Services group working on buy-side and sell-side due diligence.

Ankit earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Saint Louis University.

Jeffrey Haroldson has over 35 years of experience as a CEO, COO, fund manager, investment banker and lawyer originating and overseeing complex international businesses and transactions.

Jeff began his career in 1981 at the international law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy specializing in banking and securities regulation and transactions. In 1994, the global banking group HSBC recruiting Jeff to serve as General Counsel of the Corporate, Investment Banking and Markets (“CIBM” businesses for North America where he was responsible for legal and compliance matters for a wide variety of financial services businesses, including Treasury, Fixed Income, Equities, Investment and Merchant Banking, and Corporate Banking. While at HSBC, Jeff was promoted first to COO for CIBM, directly managing and coordinating the support functions for the CIBM businesses, and later to Head of Investment Banking and Merchant Banking for North America. In that capacity, Jeff had responsibility for M&A, Corporate Finance, Real Estate Investment Banking, Islamic Finance, Private Placements, Mezzanine Finance, Loan Syndications and Private Equity.

Jeff was later recruited by HDG Mansur Capital Group, a U.S. real estate development and advisory company, to become CEO of its fund and asset management businesses. Jeff grew those businesses from ~$650 million in AUM to a peak of $2.5 billion, representing over 8 million square feet of CRE assets.

Jeff earned his bachelor’s from the University of Michigan and graduated from Cornell Law School.

Romil Patel serves as Bridgeton platform’s VP of Strategy & Operations focused on executing strategic initiatives such as new business launches, and special projects across subsidiaries and teams.

Prior to Bridgeton Capital, Romil was a venture capital investor focused on enterprise software, consumer-tech and e-commerce infrastructure. Prior to investing, Romil led strategy and operation teams at several VC backed businesses across different industries and stages.

Romil graduated from the George Washington University with a Biomedical Engineering degree, cum laude, and a Master of Engineering Management degree from Dartmouth College’s Thayer School of Engineering and Tuck School of Business.

Akash Sharma has over 15 years of real estate experience, including sourcing, evaluating and executing direct investments in excess of $2 billion in total capitalization, and asset management of over a two million square feet portfolio of core, value-added and opportunistic assets.

Akash formally began his investing career at CIM Group, the $30 billion real estate private equity firm. During his tenure, Akash completed over $700 million in investments and worked on a variety of transformative projects, including the acquisition of 432 Park Avenue. To complement his equity side transactional experience, Akash joined Clairvue Capital Partners (now Stepstone Real Estate Group) in early 2012. At Clairvue, Akash’s responsibilities entailed undertaking secondary investments in funds and evaluating preferred equity investments in operating companies and joint ventures.

Akash graduated from University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Economics, Dean’s List.

Ritesh (RJ) Jariwala is responsible for Bridgeton’s Hospitality division, overseeing just over 500 employees with nearly $150M in annual revenue. He brings more than three decades of experience in hospitality operations, positioning, development, food and beverage, branding, and residential living.

His previous projects include development of such brands as Walker Hotel Collection, Jade Hotel, GEM Hotels, Marram Resort, Journey East Hampton and Hero Beach Club.  RJ is focused on experiences and guest interactions while staying attentive on hospitality trends and the ever changing guest profile.

RJ received his MBA from the University of Missouri and graduated from Michigan State University with a degree in Hospitality Business.

Philip Cham brings over 20 years of hotel management experience with a variety of affiliations including Marriott, Hilton, Choice, Wyndham and IHG hotel brands. He has extensive experience in hotel operations, property openings, sales and marketing, property repositioning, revenue management, associate development and profitability strategies. Phil oversees the day-to-day operations of Bridgeton’s portfolio assets.

Prior to joining Bridgeton, Phil was the Vice President of Branded Hotel Operations for Gemini Hospitality Management, overseeing the operations of hotel brands including Choice, Wyndham and IHG. Phil’s prior experience includes general manager positions of New York City branded and boutique properties along with Regional Director responsibilities for multiple properties in the Northeast.

Phil received his degree in Economics from the State University of New York at Albany.

Bourke Lee is an experienced operator and manager with 18 years of experience in property management. Prior to Bridgeton, Bourke oversaw operations at various luxury and upscale hotels while with Interstate Hotels & Resorts and Tharaldson Lodging.

Bourke graduated from the State University of New York at Albany with a BA in Economics and Business.

Conor O’Byrne has spent more than two decades overseeing construction and development in national and international markets. Project types have included residential, hospitality, sports, entertainment, transportation and healthcare. Prior to joining Bridgeton, Conor worked with Kiewit Corporation’s Rocky Mountain Region on major projects in excess of $1 billion; New York based Claremont Group on projects in the Tri-State Area and overseas; and in the residential sector in the Northeast, Midwest and abroad.

Conor holds a BA in History from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and a BS & MS in Civil Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder