Joel Hammer

As Chief Financial Officer of Castellan Real Estate Partners, Mr. Hammer is responsible for leading and directing the Finance and Accounting functions.Mr. Hammer has more than 25 years of experience in leading the financial, accounting, operational and administrative aspects of real estate investment and management companies. He has deep experience with investor administration and reporting, the creation of tax efficient investment vehicles, in addition to involvement with acquisition and disposition transactions.Mr. Hammer spent the early part of his career at KPMG, specializing in private and publicly registered companies in a broad range of industries, including real estate and emerging businesses. Subsequently, Mr. Hammer spent 17 years as the Chief Financial Officer at AIG’s Global Real Estate group, playing a significant role in the group’s expansion from startup to a company whose global portfolio had more than $25 billion of assets under management, with upward of 53 million square feet in more than 50 countries.Mr. Hammer, a CPA, graduated magna cum laude from the University at Albany, SUNY with a Bachelor’s degree in accounting. Mr. Hammer is also an Adjunct Professor at Baruch College teaching Real Estate Finance and Investments.