Chad C Burkhardt

Chad Burkhardt is a Managing Director in the Private Real Estate Group. Since joining CenterSquare in 2013, Mr. Burkhardt has been responsible for portfolio management, acquisitions in the Eastern United States, and serves as a member of the Investment Committee. Before joining CenterSquare, Mr. Burkhardt led real estate acquisitions in the United States and Puerto Rico for a New York based family office. Prior to that, Mr. Burkhardt was a Vice President at D. E. Shaw & Co., a multi-strategy hedge fund based in New York, where he oversaw commercial real estate acquisitions, and was responsible for real estate credit, which included the purchase of senior and subordinate debt positions, as well as CMBS and REIT securities. In addition, he was responsible for portfolio management and the disposition of select real estate assets globally. Mr. Burkhardt started his career at Merrill Lynch & Co. as a Vice President in Global Principal Investments, the group responsible for investing the firm’s balance sheet in commercial real estate debt and equity, with a focus on the Americas. Mr. Burkhardt graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Hotel Administration with a concentration in Real Estate Finance and Management. Mr. Burkhardt serves as a Director of NYPEN Real Estate and Girard College Foundation.