Meet Our Team
Jeff Guberman – Founder, CEO
Mr. Guberman is the Founder and CEO of Ivy Capital, where he leads the firm's strategic direction, capital formation, and company growth. Before founding Ivy Capital, Jeff spent two decades as a serial entrepreneur, founding, acquiring, and scaling over a dozen companies across multiple industries. Most notably, he served as CEO and later Chairman of McVeigh Global Meetings and Events (MGME), a private equity-backed platform that earned recognition on the Inc. 5000 list before being successfully recapitalized in 2022. He continues to passively own and operate American Stories Travel.
Jeff has been an active real estate investor since 2007, having owned and managed a portfolio of single-family and small multifamily assets across the Northeast, completing three exits in Hudson County, NJ at greater than 4.0x MOIC. Mr. Guberman approaches each asset as its own business, developing tailored operating plans and building the teams and communities needed to execute them, with a consistent focus on identifying underserved and overlooked opportunities others miss.
Jeff is a graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program and a member of YPO, bringing a proven track record of execution and strategic growth to Ivy Capital's expanding portfolio.
Brian Ford – Director of Investor Relations
Brian Ford serves as Director of Investor Relations at Ivy Capital, leading capital formation and investor engagement while helping build the firm’s product strategy and growth capabilities.
Over a career spanning more than two decades, Brian has worked across alternative investments, private markets, private credit, real estate, fixed income, and capital markets, and has raised more than $1.5 billion. He has held senior roles at firms including Benefit Street Partners, Atalaya Capital Management, TCW, and PIMCO, developing relationships across institutional investors, HNW, consultants, family offices, RIAs, and private wealth channels. In addition to his institutional investing and capital formation experience, Brian is an entrepreneur and founder, having built url.ventures, a digital-asset venture studio focused on pricing intelligence, market structure, AI-enabled product development.
Throughout his career, Brian has focused on connecting investors with differentiated alternative investment opportunities, building durable relationships, and helping growing investment organizations translate strategy into scalable capital partnerships.
Brian received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his BA in Economics from Yale University, where he played varsity football.
Matt Baum – Head of Acquisitions
Mr. Baum is the Head of Acquisitions at Ivy Capital, overseeing the sourcing, underwriting, and execution of new multifamily and student housing investments. His primary focus is growing the firm’s portfolio through targeted acquisitions and detailed financial analysis. He works closely with equity partners and lenders, supporting capital raising and investor relationships from initial evaluation through closing.
Prior to joining Ivy Capital, Matt led acquisitions at Paredim Partners, a vertically integrated multifamily owner-operator focused on the Northeast. He underwrote approximately $1.2 billion in multifamily assets and closed four transactions totaling over $200 million in capitalization, while also supporting asset management initiatives across a $450 million portfolio. Mr. Baum began his career at Arbor Realty Trust, a publicly traded mortgage REIT, where he underwrote and closed 20 multifamily agency loans totaling more than $400 million nationwide. During this period he undertook independent acquisition work, supporting $10 million across three multifamily investments, while also earning multiple certifications in real estate financial modeling. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Management from Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business, with a major in Finance and a minor in Real Estate.
Zac Cameron – Asset Management
Mr. Cameron oversees asset management at Ivy Capital, where he is responsible for the operations, capital management, and investor reporting of the firm’s real estate portfolio. He focuses on maximizing asset value through hands-on oversight, detailed budgeting, and the execution of key capital improvement initiatives.
Prior to joining Ivy Capital, Zac worked at Stonemont Financial Group, a real estate investment firm with over $5.3 billion in assets under management. There, he supported both the acquisitions and asset management teams across the firm’s industrial and medical office platforms and underwrote over $90 million in industrial development. He also worked as an asset manager at Holmes Companies, where he oversaw a portfolio of single-family, multifamily, and student housing properties across the Southeast. Zac holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with a minor in Business from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he pursued a concentration in real estate through the Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Aesha Mehta – Investor Relations Manager
Ms. Mehta leads Investor Relations at Ivy Capital, where she oversees capital raising, investor communications, and relationship management across the firm’s real estate investment platform. She plays a key role in investor onboarding, coordinating capital activity, and maintaining ongoing engagement with both prospective and existing investors. Prior to joining Ivy Capital, Ms. Mehta worked in Investor Relations at Driftwood Capital, a vertically integrated hospitality-focused real estate private equity firm. She managed onboarding and subscription processes for investors, supported capital raises, and served as a primary point of contact for over 700 investors. She collaborated closely with asset management, acquisitions, and accounting teams to deliver investor reporting, capital calls, and distributions. She worked alongside the Chief Compliance Officer to oversee AML and KYC processes.
Ms. Mehta was a Financial Markets and Real Estate Associate at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she advised over 20 clients across CMBS transactions, real estate valuation, and financial analysis. She began her career at Wells Fargo in Real Estate Banking, contributing to the underwriting and closing of over $900 million in real estate loans. Ms. Mehta holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Real Estate from the University of Miami and a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Supply Chain Management with a concentration in Real Estate from Rutgers Business School, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude.
Samuel Money – Acquisitions Associate
Mr. Money is an Acquisitions Associate at Ivy Capital, where he supports deal sourcing, underwriting, and pipeline execution for the firm's student housing and multifamily investments. He works closely with brokers to identify new opportunities and partners with the acquisitions team to screen and evaluate deals from initial review through close. Prior to joining Ivy Capital, Samuel was an Analyst at Newmark, where he screened over 2,000 commercial assets weekly across multiple markets and built broker relationships to source pricing trends, lease comps, and off-market intelligence. He also owns and operates his own portfolio, Oxford Property Management, where he structured over $1,000,000 in acquisition financing, focusing on both short and long term residential, retail, and commercial properties across Alabama and Mississippi. He began his career as a broker with Keller Williams, executing full transaction lifecycles.
Samuel holds a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Real Estate & Finance from the University of Mississippi.
Ignacio de la Canal – Acquisitions Associate
Mr. Ignacio de la Canal is an Acquisitions Associate at Ivy Capital, where he focuses on sourcing and evaluating off-market student housing and multifamily investments. He is responsible for building the firm's off-market pipeline and supporting opportunities through underwriting and due diligence.
Prior to joining Ivy Capital, Ignacio was a Principal Financial Analyst at Syneos Health, where he led M&A research across the pharma and healthcare sectors in the Americas. He sourced and screened acquisition targets, built valuation models and investment memorandums, and presented risk-adjusted recommendations to senior leadership. Before Syneos, he was a Private Equity Research Associate at PwC, supporting European private equity clients with commercial due diligence, market sizing, and LBO and DCF modeling in regulated industries. Mr. de la Canal began his career in transfer pricing at Ernst & Young, structuring intercompany pricing policies for multinational clients, and later led a team of analysts at ABECEB producing economic forecasts and financial risk reports. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Universidad Católica Argentina (UCA) in Buenos Aires and is a CFA Level I candidate.