Mr. Joe Karlowitsch, Managing Director and Founder of Rockpointe Capital, serves as the firms chief officer and manages all real estate operations for the firm. His career has spanned over 30 years and has been involved with real estate transactions totaling over $5 billion.
Prior to founding Rockpointe Capital, Mr. Karlowitsch served as Executive Vice President of Allied Capital Group, a prominent real estate investment banking firm where Mr. Karlowitsch was involved with the financing of over $2 billion of transactions. Previous positions include Vice President within KeyBank’s Commercial Real Estate Group providing real estate Clients with construction, equity, mezzanine, bridge, and term financing solutions. KeyBank is one of the nation's largest commercial real estate Lenders. Prior to KeyBank, Mr. Karlowitsch was a Vice President and Partner of R&J Realty Advisors- Raydra Capital Group (RCG) where he also provided real estate Clients solutions within the areas of income property financing, acquisitions & development, dispositions, portfolio & property repositioning, loan workouts, financial analysis & due diligence, leasing, construction project management, and market research support. Prior to RCG, Mr. Karlowitsch was a Senior Asset/Acquisition Manager for Cordary, Inc., an investment real estate firm, and previously held senior real estate portfolio positions with Coast Federal Bank and National Partnership Investments Corp. (NAPICO).
Mr. Karlowitsch received his B.S., Business Administration, with a concentration in Accounting from California State University, Los Angeles and has been a member of ICSC, NAIOP and ULI.
Mr. Eric H. Hancock has over 25 years of experience in the real estate industries. In 1995, he established Circa Homes, a custom-home construction company specializing in luxury single- and multi-family houses. During this time, Mr. Hancock also worked with investors in raised capital for high end real estate project which ranged from $800,000 to $2,000,000. Mr. Hancock later took a position with MB Lane and Associates in their appraisal group performing commercial appraisals.
Mr. Hancock made the move to Metro Bank, NA, in 2006 as Assistant Vice President of Appraisal Review, where he was responsible for the managing and administration of the bank’s internal review department. While at Metro Bank, he reviewed over 300 commercial-appraisal reports in addition to appraisals for the bank’s commercial loans. Mr. Hancock also worked closely with Metro Bank’s special-assets group in dealing with distressed real estate.
Prior to co-founding Battalion Holding, LLC, Mr. Hancock worked with Davidson Gill, LLC, from 2010 to 2012 as a real estate analyst and valuation specialist. He was responsible for developing a pipeline of business by forging inroads with bank executives and negotiating new opportunities. His experience in reviewing non-performing loans (NPLs) and real-estate-owned properties (REOs) as well as assisting client investors with asset evaluations and strategies helped to provide guidance in navigating the purchase process of bank-foreclosed properties.
Mr. Hancock founded BlueRock Real Estate Partners. BlueRock entered into an alliance agreement with Rockpointe Capital to provide real estate investment banking services to developers and investors. These financing services encompass both traditional and alternative forms of equity and debt capital.
Joe Karlowitsch
Principal
RockPointe Capital
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