Gus Alfonso is the Managing Partner and CEO of Florida Value Partners (“FVP”). He has helped guide the company’s growth from $50M in real estate assets under management in 2008 to over $1 billion in acquired assets by 2019 and AUM of over $1.3 billion, including an investment portfolio that spans 11 U.S States.

Mr. Alfonso has managed several high-profile acquisitions, including FVP’s 2012 acquisition of a 3,400-unit multifamily portfolio from LNR and the acquisition of the John Hancock Center in Chicago. He is also responsible for managing the acquisition of over 7,000 units of value-add multifamily investments and FVP’s participation in the development of over 1,000 residential units in the South Florida area.

He is also a co-founding partner – alongside NKP Capital and Leon Mayor & Co. – of Endeavor Schools (a leading top 10 private school operator in the United States), which the partnership sold in 2017 to LEEDs Equity Partners. Mr. Alfonso represents FVP’s interest in two private investment funds with over $1.5 billion in land and development projects in several U.S. markets. He is responsible for the launch of FVP’s development company which is involved in South Florida development projects, including the development of Lazul Apartments (350 units) in North Miami Beach, Park Vista Apartments (212 units) in Hialeah, Ludlum Trails Apartments (314 units) and several other ongoing projects in Downtown Dadeland and the Miami-Dade County Urban Core.

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Ed Farah is a Co-Founding Partner of Florida Value Partners and has served on the FVP investment committee since the firm’s inception. Mr. Farah has over 40 years of experience in private equity, banking, and real estate.

He is the Managing Director of Capital Markets Financial Services Group (“CMFS”) – an FVP affiliate – founded in 2001, having over $2 billion in assets under management. His expertise includes investment management, distressed debt investments in emerging markets, and private equity.

Mr. Farah has played critical roles in several businesses across Latin America and the Caribbean, including managing highly successful investment strategies investing in distressed sovereign debt and emerging markets.

Prior to CMFS, he founded the capital markets affiliate of The International Bank of Miami (“IBM”); At IBM, Mr. Farah grew the asset base to over $1 billion in AUM. Mr. Farah has helped guide FVP’s growth to over $1.4 billion in acquired assets by 2020. He has seen the company’s emergence from an early-stage real estate private equity company focused on distress investing to a leading investor, developer, and asset manager in the Florida and Southeastern U.S. region.

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Alicio Piña holds a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Miami Law School, served as Chief Deputy to Miami-Dade County Clerk of the Courts (1988-1992), and has over 30 years of experience as a private investor and real estate entrepreneur.

Mr. Piña is a co-founding Principal of Florida Value Partners, LLC – FVP’s predecessor fund – where he served as the lead partner for land development and distressed note purchases. Mr. Piña has helped grow FVP’s land portfolio to over 3,000 acres of acquired land.

He has managed the entitlement and disposition of land assets and developments over $250 million and served a critical role in managing FVP’s success in distressed property and debt transactions. As a co-founding partner of FVP, Mr. Piña has served on FVP’s investment committee since its inception.

Given his deep background in opportunistic real estate investments, managing foreclosures, acquisitions of short-sale properties, large-scale land developments, and master-planned communities, he serves as FVP’s lead in regional land assemblage, land investments, and opportunistic investment strategies. He has seen the transition of FVP from a real estate start-up to over 1.4 billion in acquired assets through 2020.

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