Christopher Beda

Biography: Beda is a 30-year veteran of the US multifamily housing industry. He is an expert in multifamily housing having held various executive positions in real estate finance, investment, portfolio management and asset management. He is passionate about affordable housing in the US and is currently philanthropically pursuing a mission of impacting affordable housing in the United States. Beda founded and runs Wabash Partners, a private real estate investment and advisory firm. Wabash Partners focuses on US multifamily real estate sector and is engaged in managing and investing in US multifamily real estate. Wabash will also provide advisory services and capital to emerging managers and businesses. Prior to founding Wabash Partners, Beda was Senior Managing Partner, Chief Investment Officer for Carmel Partners, Inc., a private real estate investment firm. Beda was a founding partner at Carmel and responsible for managing Carmel Partners' investment activities across the country. From 2004 to 2017 he helped the firm raise and invest $4.0 billion in equity while growing the firm into the preeminent national multifamily investment firm with offices in New York, DC, Denver, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Honolulu. Prior to joining Carmel Partners, Beda was the Acquisitions and Dispositions Officer for the Western United States at Equity Residential (NYSE:EQR). He joined Equity Residential's transactions group in 1994 when the company owned approximately 35,000 apartment units. During Beda's tenure, the group acquired over 200,000 apartment units through individual transactions, portfolios, debt purchases, partnership transactions, joint venture developments and company mergers. Beda started his real estate career in the real estate lending group at Continental Bank, N.A. in Chicago, IL. Beda graduated from the University of Wisconsin - Madison and considers himself a Midwesterner at heart despite the fact that he curren