Danuel Stanger

Mr. Stanger has 32 years of experience in every phase of the real estate investment process including acquisition, analysis, property and asset management, financing, development, and disposition. He has been directly responsible for investing in over US$6 billion dollars in real estate assets including investments with a specific emphasis on multi-family, commercial office, and resort properties. This track record includes significant double-digit returns even in difficult time periods.

Since 2009, Mr. Stanger has focused his full-time efforts on the Bridge strategies, as the Chief Investment Officer for Bridge Multifamily and Workforce & Affordable Housing, along with providing direct oversight of the fully integrated real estate operating and finance entities within Bridge through 2017.

Prior to the aforementioned, Mr. Stanger was one of the two founding partners of Bridge Investment Group, LLC in 1997 (a Bridge Investment Group affiliate), and the CEO for the majority of his tenure.

Mr. Stanger began his real estate career in 1988, on the heels of a banking career with Prudential Federal, and American Savings & Loan. In this last assignment he directed credit restructuring, workouts, management and disposition of the commercial investment real estate and corporate lending foreclosures at American Savings from 1986 through 1988.

He left American Savings in 1988 to found Strategic Management and Consulting, which focused on property management and the resolution of distressed investment properties including retail, office warehouse, medical office, hospitality, along with several residential communities. Mr. Stanger joined the Prowswood Companies in 1990, where he became Vice-President and Managing Director of the Equity Investment Division, specializing in "value add" investments. Mr. Stanger met Mr. Young at this time and they formed many investment partnerships that became the foundation of CDS Investments, Inc., which was formalized in 1997, and was the predecessor to the Bridge Investment Group, noted above.

Mr. Stanger has a strong belief in community and has been integrally involved in the development of the Community Services programs that Bridge sponsors throughout its portfolio. He has been a member of many community organizations, and served on the Board of Directors of Neighborhood Housing Services, Utah, and as a Founding Board Member of the Utah Community Reinvestment Corporation (UCRC), an organization established by the banking community to invest in communities around the State of Utah. Mr. Stanger is a Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM), and was the chair of both the Salt Lake & Utah Associations of Realtors Governmental Affairs Committee and PACs. He served on the National Governmental Affairs Committee for CCIM, and currently sits on the Board of Directors for Project Access, the premier Community Service provider in the apartment industry.