Jan Brzeski
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Jan B. Brzeski is the Founder & Managing Director at Sage Credit Investment Partners, LLC, a real estate lender and investment manager in Durham, NC, operating in North Carolina and California.[1] Founded in 2024, Sage focuses on providing short-term financing for residential and commercial real estate projects and pooling these loans in lower-risk, higher yielding funds for investors.[2]
Before forming Sage, Brzeski was Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of Crosswind Financial and Arixa Capital Advisors, LLC, a private real estate investment advisor in Los Angeles that he founded in 2006. While with Arixa, Brzeski oversaw an organization that funded 1,800 loans totaling more than $3.5 billion from 2010 - 2023; the firm recently announced that it has surpassed $5 billion in loan originations since inception.[3] In 2021, Brzeski was named one of Southern California’s Banking and Finance visionaries by the Los Angeles Times.[4] Brzeski holds a B.A. in physics from Dartmouth College[5] and an M.A. in economics (PPE) from Oxford University.
Career
[edit]Prior to forming Arixa Capital in 2006, Brzeski was Vice President of Acquisitions at Standard Management Company, a real estate investment and management company founded by Samuel K. Freshman. While at Standard Management, Brzeski's responsibilities included identifying properties to acquire, underwriting, and negotiating to purchase income property and land. Brzeski has purchased properties including shopping centers, industrial projects, agricultural and development land in Los Angeles, Kern, Riverside, San Bernardino, Placer and Yolo Counties in California.
Before joining Standard Management, Brzeski was a successful entrepreneur. He co-founded and was CEO of STV Communications, Inc.,[6] a media services businesses that he sold in 2000.[7]
Previously, Brzeski worked at Goldman Sachs as an investment banking analyst where he contributed to initial public offerings, secondary stock and bond offerings, as well as mergers and acquisitions of leading technology companies.
Other Activities
[edit]Mr. Brzeski is the author of the 2010 book, The Common Sense Guide To Real Estate Investing,[8] and numerous articles in real estate trade publications.[9] [10]He is a past moderator and co-organizer of the UCLA Real Estate Conference and several UCLA Anderson School of Management real estate symposium events. He was formerly an instructor for UCLA Extension Real Estate Program.[11] He is a California licensed real estate broker.[12]
References
[edit]- ^ "Sage Credit Investment Partners". Sage Credit Investment Partners. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ "Sage Credit Investment Partners". Sage Credit Investment Partners. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ "$5 Billion and Growing: Arixa Capital Surpasses New Originations Milestone During Record Year". ARIXA CAPITAL. 2024-12-09. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ "Jan Brzeski". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ "Dartmouth Office of Alumni Relations News"
- ^ X; Instagram; Email; Facebook (1999-02-15). "Buying Into E-Commerce". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
{{cite web}}:|last2=has generic name (help) - ^ New York Times, "COMPANY NEWS; SONIC FOUNDRY IN DEAL FOR STV COMMUNICATIONS"
- ^ Brzeski, Jan (August 12, 2010). The Common Sense Guide to Real Estate Investing. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. ISBN 978-1453715055.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link) - ^ Writer, Guest (2020-07-13). "How covid-19 has made small US real estate a lenders' market again". Private Debt Investor. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ Brzeski, Jan (2019-10-10). "Step Into the Light". Scotsman Guide. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ "Real Estate Courses & Certificates | UCLA Extension". www.uclaextension.edu. Retrieved 2024-12-14.
- ^ https://pplinfo2.dre.ca.gov/PPLInfo/PplInfoStart?LicenseID=01408081