Meet Our Team

Chief Executive Officer, Donald Cogsville

• Don  Cogsville  has dedicated his career on numerous  initiatives  to expand access to institutional investment opportunities to underrepresented investors and to revive  communities through investment in commercial and residential real estate while working alongside the federal government and  institutional  capital  partners,  including  the  first  public-private  partnership  between  the  federal  government  and  private investors in which a minority- owned firm had taken stake. Mr. Cogsville experience includes investing in five loan portfolios from  the  FDIC  with  principal  balances  of  $3  billion  secured  by  4,000  commercial  real  estate  properties  in  49  states.

• Mr. Cogsville began his career as a corporate transactional attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, representing clients such as Apollo Global Management, Bank of America, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts, Goldman Sachs and McAndrews & Forbes. After Skadden, Arps, Mr. Cogsville was an investment banker in the Leveraged Finance Group at Merrill Lynch, where he executed in excess of $20 billion of structured and real estate transactions representing financial sponsors in connection with high yield debt and arranging credit facilities for homebuilders and other industries. 

• Mr. Cogsville left Merrill Lynch to found RCM Saratoga Capital LLC, a boutique investment banking firm, focused on generating value in the urban marketplace. Mr. Cogsville launched RCM Saratoga Capital in 2003 with the mission of bringing high-calibre financial services to the inner-city neighborhoods. Mr. Cogsville provided a full range of capital markets, investment banking and asset management offerings to a diversified client base including corporations, financial institutions, government entities and high net-worth individuals. By 2006, RCM Saratoga was generating greater than $5 million in annual revenue. Mr. Cogsville decided to sell his firm the same year entered real estate private equity. 
• Mr. Cogsville was a member of the 1988 US national soccer team and a first round draft pick for the 1990 MISL champion San Diego Sockers. Mr. Cogsville earned his Juris Doctor from Rutgers University and a Baccalaureate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.