Suneet Singal is an accomplished entrepreneur and senior finance architect with an extended career in New York. He is originally from California. His knowledge is applied in various industries, including consumer retail, fintech, real estate with a low carbon footprint, disruptive technology, and green energy, including renewables. During the preceding two decades, the entrepreneur has owned and served as the chief executive officer of several highly successful enterprises.
Outside of his professional life, he is passionate about several charitable organizations and loves a variety of hobbies and other pursuits. Among these passions are music, sports, travel, and food & wine. The happily married father of four is a frequent blood donor, business mentor, a little league baseball and flag football coach, and an active community member.
Current Role & Duties
Singal is the board chairman of a prestigious privately held former real estate investment company that has transformed into a general holding company and consultancy organization. The senior finance architect has maintained this position for over five years. The New York-based company provides liquidity access to one of the world's largest but least liquid asset classes. The company operates in the commercial real estate sector.
The esteemed chairman and Suneet Singal's staff assist clients in discovering assets and potential partners eager to deal for equity. They have a track record of success, having acquired approximately $1 billion in real estate. The chairman of the board and his team's duties include: Investing in stabilized assets to preserve dividends, Identifying and acquiring underperforming and distressed assets, Creating opportunities to secure significant future value, Developing land via a vertically integrated platform, Maximizing value creation for shareholders and investors, Evolving undeveloped land into valuable real estate, and Unlocking and monetizing value in assets via public markets.
Before becoming board chairman, Singal served as the company's CEO for nearly four years.
Career Record
The former chairman of a profitable equity real estate investment trust is Singal. He previously served as CEO of a Nasdaq-listed real estate operating company and interim CEO of a highly renowned business development firm.
The California-based entrepreneur and senior financial architect have held various C-level positions elsewhere and served on the boards of directors of many public and private companies. He has also successfully built and sold private enterprises and other assets in various sectors while operating independently.
Academic Heritage
Suneet Singal was born and raised in Santa Clara, California. He attended the famous Jesuit High School in Sacramento, majored in industrial engineering at California Polytechnic State University, and earned a degree in Finance from California State University, Sacramento.
Golden State University, sometimes known as Sac State, is a renowned institution of higher education that celebrates variety and fosters graduates' long-term prosperity. Singal received a Bachelor of Arts in finance specializing in investments from Sacramento State.
While at California State University, Sacramento, he participated in several student organizations and activities. Among these extracurricular activities and organizations was the university's Cultural Club. At Cal Poly and Sac St., Singal organized "A Taste of the World," which featured a variety of cultural organizations encouraging diversity through activities including historic food, dance, music, and art. These gatherings were highly acclaimed and established traditions that endured for decades. The Cultural Club invites Sac State students to experience the world through the perspective of international students and those from outside.
Professional Knowledge and Abilities
Suneet Singal manages highly complex and sophisticated transactions. He offers a wide range of solutions, including but not limited to financial structuring, direct investment, equity and debt placement, acquisition, disposition, finance and structure negotiations, foreign and domestic entity structure, board and management formation and selection, advisory committee formation and selection, litigation management, partner buyouts, and capital market exits foreign. He devoted most of his previous career to creating real estate master plans. This includes commercial real estate, land entitlement, major sponsoring, and transportation-oriented development.
Today, he focuses on a mix of real estate and non-real estate assets and commercial endeavors, including those centered on green energy and, more precisely, renewable energy. His clientele consists of family office administrators and other big asset portfolio holders. These clients are advised by Singal on capital structures, including intricate local and international transactional arrangements.
Highlights from his career thus far include: Turning a $250,000 asset into $175 million in less than four years, Establishing three separate publicly traded companies in under three years, The creation of multiple companies with several hundred employees each, Turning around distressed situations and generating positive shareholder growth, Further creation of hundreds of additional new jobs, Numerous high-profile asset success stories.
He supervised a successful $350 million real estate deal in 2019. In addition, the transaction included a $100 million equity payout to shareholders. Peers vouch for his proficiency in new business creation, land acquisition, real estate, development, and economics.
Organizational Memberships
Suneet Singal is a former member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts member, the American Association of Private Lenders, and the International Council of Shopping Centers. The National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts is a professional organization established in Washington, D.C.
It represents those functioning in sectors that control equity and mortgage REITs. This is in addition to REITs listed on major stock exchanges and public non-listed and private trusts.
The American Association of Private Lenders is the leading membership organization of its sort in the United States. Its headquarters are in Dawsonville, Georgia, and serves the private real estate lending industry. It is the leading group in the United States for creating standards on behalf of private lenders and other industry experts.
Charitable Involvement
Singal is a devoted philanthropist who contributes to numerous charities, non-profit organizations, and other worthy causes. These include blood donation, disaster assistance, humanitarian aid, economic empowerment, and human rights, to name a few.
Suneet Singal has previously served as a flag football and baseball coach for children and continues assisting local youth. The seasoned entrepreneur and senior finance architect previously served as coaches for three seasons each.
He continues to donate blood frequently and encourages others to do the same—donors of blood aid patients around the United States daily. Accident victims, people facing cancer, and those undergoing heart surgery and organ transplants are among these patients.
Personal Pursuits
Singal, born in the United States, is of East Indian origin. His parents raised him in Santa Clara, California. Currently, he lives in both California and New York. Singal has several hobbies and interests outside his professional activities, including piano, boxing, dining out, international travel, professional sports, weightlifting, and wine tasting.
In addition, he is committed to raising his family with his wife. Singal has four children and is married to his high school sweetheart. His family resides in El Dorado Hills, California, amid the historic Sierra Nevada mountain region, which is renowned for its harsh terrain and rolling hills.
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