Buckingham Companies, an Indianapolis-based, national vertically integrated real estate development and investment company has hired Benjamin J. Young as CIO and managing director. Young will lead Buckingham’s asset management and investment division as the company expands its successes in institutional capital raising, client engagement, and investment performance.
Young is a prominent real estate private equity investor with over three decades of experience in the field. Most recently he was responsible for Blackrock’s U.S Real Estate Private Equity business where he managed $11 billion worth of investments across core value-add opportunities to opportunistic investments while also leading the firm’s first closed-end value add fund launch initiative .
Bradley B Chambers , Founder & CEO at Buckingham commented on this new hire stating “Ben’s deep expertise acquired from some of world’s largest private equity firms makes him uniquely qualified to lead our strategic expansion into institutional real estate investing”.
