The APEX Real Estate Investments Story
Apex Real Estate Investments is powered by a senior management team with an average tenure of 25 years of real estate experience. Based out of Portland, Oregon, we leverage an extensive network of industry relationships and hold a broad reputation as a creative, seasoned, and reliable buyer.
Apex Real Estate Investments is an affiliate of Apex Real Estate Partners, which engages in all aspects of real estate investment and operations including acquisitions, dispositions, development, financing, property management, asset management, leasing, design, and construction supervision. The seamless integration of investment and operating functions within our business platform gives us an unsurpassed ability to evaluate and execute capital transactions while protecting and enhancing value during the holding period. We have a reputation for quickly and reliably closing complex transactions.
Partnership is at the core of the Apex approach. We are driven by community values, a deep commitment to shared prosperity within our community, and the advancement of social equity.
David Thompson
Founding Partner
David Thompson has served as general counsel and chief operating officer for a number of companies over the past 10 years. As a part of his role as chief operating officer, he led the real estate team and in one role lead a nationwide expansion that had over 750,000 sq/ft of industrial land under lease.
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David Thompson
Founding Partner
David Thompson has served as general counsel and chief operating officer for a number of companies over the past 10 years. As a part of his role as chief operating officer, he led the real estate team and in one role lead a nationwide expansion that had over 750,000 sq/ft of industrial land under lease. For the past twenty years, David has owned and operated a small multifamily residential real estate business focused in Southwest Portland.
David’s unique background in industrial and residential real estate positions him perfectly to lead Apex Real Estate Investments LLC.
David received Juris Doctorate from Santa Clara University and his Masters in Business Administration from the University of Oregon.
Nathan Sasaki
Founding Partner
Nathan has built a stellar reputation based on his exceptional ability to understand his clients’ needs and offer key insights that help them capitalize on market opportunities. His extensive industry knowledge is built on almost 20 years in real estate.
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Nathan Sasaki
Founding Partner
Nathan has built a stellar reputation based on his exceptional ability to understand his clients’ needs and offer key insights that help them capitalize on market opportunities. His extensive industry knowledge is built on almost 20 years in real estate, focusing on tenant and landlord representation as well as investment property acquisitions and dispositions.
With a nationwide total of more than 18 million square feet of completed lease transactions and $1 billion in sales transactions, Nathan has a proven record of meeting his clients’ needs, exceeding their expectations, and building strong relationships locally and nationally.
Shawn Menashe
Founding Partner
Shawn Menashe, one of the Founding Partners of APEX Real Estate Investment, LLC, is a fourth-generation Oregonian (Portlander). Born and raised in Portland, he attended Lincoln High School and later graduated from U of O with undergraduate BA his JD.
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Shawn Menashe
Founding Partner
Shawn Menashe, one of the Founding Partners of APEX Real Estate Investment, LLC, is a fourth-generation Oregonian (Portlander). Born and raised in Portland, he attended Lincoln High School and later graduated from U of O with undergraduate BA his JD. His family’s involvement in the community and real estate go back to the turn of the century.
Although his primary profession out of Law School was in the legal field, he has always been an involved in real estate. For over 10 years, he ran his family’s real estate investment company while at the same time managing their legal practice. Over time he has developed a history of syndicating single asset real estate opportunities. Many of the deals over the last 10 years were organically partnered with Nathan Sasaki. He maintained an active role in the management of each deal while also managing the legal aspect of the transaction and ownership of the property. The two have quietly built a very solid track record over the last decade.
Matt Cole
Founding Partner
Matt is a versatile communicator adept at building loyal, trustworthy relationships with top brokers and tenants, successfully serving as both the brand ambassador for the Portland office and the tenant brokerage community.
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Matt Cole
Founding Partner
Matt is a versatile communicator adept at building loyal, trustworthy relationships with top brokers and tenants, successfully serving as both the brand ambassador for the Portland office and the tenant brokerage community.
Matt uses his extensive real estate knowledge to track trends, optimally anticipate fluctuations and penetrate target markets. This allows him to create profitable action plans for his clients to successfully navigate complex market fluctuations and warrant fiscal stability.
Thomas Alberini
Director of Investments
Thomas is a specialized real estate advisor with institutional-level experience in commercial real estate finance, acquisition, and leasing.
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Thomas Alberini
Director of Investments
Thomas is a specialized real estate advisor with institutional-level experience in commercial real estate finance, acquisition, and leasing.
He began his career with Crown Acquisitions, a privately-held owner-operator and brokerage firm based in New York, NY, as an Associate underwriting core and value-add retail and mixed-use acquisitions throughout the New York City metro area. While Thomas was with Crown Acquisitions, the company acquired notable properties including 650 Madison Avenue from The Carlyle Group under a partnership with JP Morgan Asset Management and Vornado Realty Trust for $1.3 billion and a 50% stake in Olympic Tower for $419 million. In addition to underwriting for prospective acquisitions, Thomas also conducted both in-house landlord as well as third party tenant representation for national luxury retailers under the guidance of Crown’s highly experienced brokerage team. More recently, Thomas held an analyst position at Cantor Commercial Real Estate (CCRE) in Los Angeles, where he was directly involved in the origination of over $250 million in CMBS fixed and floating-rate commercial property loans across all asset classes for institutional and mid-level sponsors. Of note, CCRE is a subsidiary company of Cantor Fitzgerald, LP and BGC Partners and originated over $10 billion of commercial debt in 2014.
Thomas received his BS in Business Administration at the Questrom School of Business at Boston University in Massachusetts, and holds the following professional affiliations: Commercial Association of Brokers (CAB), International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), Portland Metropolitan Association of Realtors (PMAR), National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP), and Urban Land Institute (ULI)