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What Inspires Us

I am always in awe of the energy and creativity that rises when a group of committed individuals with different skills and backgrounds come together and collaborate to build something unique. At OCP, we love finding properties with untapped potential and envisioning what they can become, putting together the right teams for each opportunity, and working closely with these experts to bring assets to their fullest expression.

Virgilio De La Piedra, CEO

 

 
 

 The Team

OCP’s team is composed by a cohesive group of seasoned real estate professionals with experience in several fronts such as construction, design, project management and investment management.

 

Virgilio De La Piedra
Founder

Mr. De La Piedra’s 25-year career demonstrates a strong track record of success in corporate and entrepreneurial settings across many disciplines, including construction, design, and investment management. As the son of a renowned Peruvian architect whose mentor was Frank Lloyd Wright, real estate is part of Mr. De La Piedra’s DNA. Mr. De La Piedra began his career as a structural design engineer for large office, hotel and residential projects in Lima, Peru. In 2005, Mr. De La Piedra joined the Global Real Assets Group of J.P. Morgan Asset Management. During his tenure, Mr. De La Piedra played a key role in over $1.5 billion in equity of acquisitions and dispositions and personally managed over $3 billion in commercial real estate assets. He also pioneered J.P. Morgan’s investment strategies for real estate in Chile, Colombia and Peru and served as an investment committee member of J.P. Morgan’s first foreign fund focused on developing real estate properties in India. In 2013, Mr. De La Piedra became a partner at Amancay Partners, an open mandate private equity start-up, where his role was to invest in real estate assets in North and South America. After three years at Amancay, Mr. De La Piedra started his own investment and consulting firm – Oceanica Capital Partners LLC. Mr. De La Piedra received his degree in civil engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú and holds an MBA from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He is also a Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA). Mr. De La Piedra is President and founding member of Help Peru, Inc., a non-profit foundation in New York City providing underprivileged Peruvians access to education and healthcare.

 
 

Greg Hill
Acquisitons

Greg Hill is a seasoned financial analyst, working with investors, developers and commercial real estate brokers. His 25+ years of commercial real estate experience includes acquisitions, dispositions, development, re-development and financing with direct involvement in transactions totaling over $5.7 billion. Mr. Hill started GM Hill & Associates in 2004, building on previous positions with McCord Development, Grubb & Ellis and Trammell Crow Company. Throughout these years Mr. Hill has been extensively involved in the financial and operational details of numerous projects, largely from an ownership perspective and with bottom-line responsibility. Mr. Hill received his bachelor’s degree in finance and an MBA from Houston Baptist University.

Amit Kaluskar
Acquisitions

Amit Kaluskar has been working in the real estate industry for over 18 years with a particular emphasis on the multifamily, office, and hospitality sectors. Mr. Kaluskar started his career working on the brokerage side before moving to Prescott Realty Group where his primary responsibilities included market research, underwriting of potential acquisitions and valuation of existing assets. Subsequently, Mr. Kaluskar joined Forest City Enterprises (now part of Brookfield) where he worked on several multifamily and mixed-use renovation projects. Mr. Kaluskar has also been a financial consultant focused on due diligence and underwriting. Mr. Kaluskar graduated from Southern Methodist University where he studied Economics.
 
 

David Fawer
Advisor

David Fawer was most recently a Senior Managing Director of Blackstone’s Real Estate Debt Strategies Group where he focused on residential mortgage credit and was a member of the Real Estate Investment Committee for both Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies and Blackstone Real Estate Advisors. Prior to joining Blackstone, Mr. Fawer was Vice Chairman of OneWest Bank, N.A., a $22 billion regional commercial bank headquartered in Southern California. Mr. Fawer was instrumental in the formation, growth and turnaround of OneWest which acquired three failed banks from the FDIC and was ultimately sold to CIT Group Inc. generating a 3.5x multiple on the original invested capital of $1.6 billion. Prior to joining OneWest, Mr. Fawer was a partner of Dune Capital, a broad-based credit hedge fund, and Dune Real Estate, an opportunistic real estate private equity fund. Mr. Fawer worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. from 1997-2003, first as a member of the Principal Finance Group and then as Chief of Staff to the Technology Division. Mr. Fawer started his career at the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton. Mr. Fawer received a B.A. with Distinction from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and a J.D. Magna Cum Laude from Boston University. Mr. Fawer currently serves on the board of Seritage Growth Properties Inc. (NYSE: SRG), Westaim Arena Holdings II, the parent of Arena Investments a broad-based opportunistic investment platform with over $1B AUM, and is a board observer for Roosevelt Management Company which specializes in residential mortgage related investments.

Justin Murphy
Advisor

Justin Murphy has over 30 years of experience in the real estate industry. Prior to retiring from the Global Real Assets Group of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, he was a managing director and portfolio manager of the Special Situation Property Fund, a $4.0 billion value-added real estate investment vehicle. Previous to his role as portfolio manager, Mr. Murphy had responsibilities in acquisitions and dispositions, including acquisition team leader for the northeast and mid-Atlantic regions from 2000 through 2006, where he was responsible for approximately $6 billion of investment activity. He started his career as a real estate appraiser at Landauer Associates, Inc., a national real estate consulting firm and at Edward F. Heberger & Associates, an appraisal and consulting services firm based in Connecticut. Mr. Murphy holds a Bachelor of Science in real estate and urban economic studies from the University of Connecticut. Mr. Murphy is currently a Council member for Prologis, Inc. (a global industrial real estate investment trust). He is also a member of the Parish Council, Grand Knight of the local Knights of Columbus Council, and founder of Helping Hands of Madison, Inc., a non-profit which provides needed services to the elderly and financially struggling in the local community.