Beaumont invests in or alongside specialist partners with a true edge in their strategy and market niche, compounding durable value across cycles.
Since 2013, Beaumont has partnered with exceptional operators to build institutional platforms across real estate and private equity, anchored in durable income and structural advantage.
Beaumont is led by principals with a long and distinguished track record of senior investment and operating experience, building and investing in scaled real estate and private equity platforms across multiple cycles.
Capital preservation is central to Beaumont's investment philosophy. The firm prioritizes downside protection while preserving meaningful upside participation in fundamentally sound investments.
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We are highly selective in the markets we enter and the teams we back. Conviction comes from research, structure, and alignment.
Intensive research identifies markets where fundamentals or structural shifts create platform opportunities. We then back operating partners with a proven record, deep local knowledge, a wide network, and shared values.
Platforms generate proprietary deal flow as each aims to lead its sector. At critical mass with dedicated management, they create exit optionality for the assets and the platform alike, with partner interests aligned through co-investment and incentives.
We target advantageously structured senior financing opportunities designed for compelling returns with strong downside protection.
Programmatic partnerships in preferred and common equity aggregate diversified, quality residential portfolios across ground-up development and thematic acquisitions, compounding appreciation alongside current income.
Rendering of full developmentOne of the last fully entitled master planned communities in Greater Los Angeles with full approvals for ~16,000 residential lots, ~700,000 square feet of shopping, schools, recreation, public services, and ~5,000 acres of parks and open space. The development opportunity is to create a town of 50,000 people in a market where demand for workforce housing runs well ahead of supply.
Beaumont invested alongside Extell for the acquisition of a full city block, adjacent to Central Park in New York City's Upper West Side, which is under construction for an 86 story luxury condo tower.
Financing for the acquisition and re-entitlement of a 100-year-old golf course in Los Angeles. A century of surrounding development has made it one of the largest and most prominent remaining undeveloped parcels in the city.
A Class A office campus in the Bellevue submarket, leased and anchored by T-Mobile and Mindtree on ten-year leases, with stabilized cash flow and downside protection.
A four-star hotel acquired well below replacement cost and repositioned into one of Canada's leading student and young-professional housing operations.
A downtown hotel converted to student housing across from McGill University, stabilized above 95% occupancy and since sold to a leading Canadian investor.
Selective positions in companies with category-defining technology and durable structural advantage, across energy, climate, consumer technology, and food.
An energy technology company whose Subsurface Compressor System places a compressor thousands of feet downhole to raise production and recovery from existing natural gas wells while lowering emissions intensity.
A manufacturer of high-performance thermal management and air handling systems for data centers, healthcare, and life sciences, engineered around energy and water efficiency.
The first dual-screen smart television, provided to consumers at no cost and supported by advertising.
A category-defining plant-based food company whose products are distributed across grocery and foodservice channels nationwide.
An energy venture deploying Upwing's subsurface compression across producing natural gas assets, pairing proven downhole technology with field operations to enhance output and recovery.
A digital manufacturing company that turns physical spare parts into validated digital assets and produces them on demand through additive manufacturing, built for the energy sector.
A Swiss wellness footwear company built on its patented Glide'n Lock sole, engineered to reduce impact and support natural, healthy movement through the day.
More than 150 collective years across global private equity and institutional real estate.
Beaumont Team
AVMr. Vahabzadeh is a Managing Partner at Beaumont, where he leads the firm's private equity strategies.
From 2009 to 2013 he was the Co-Founder and President of Safanad, a global principal investment firm that has executed on approximately $10 billion of transaction value across the healthcare, education, industrial, data center, and real estate sectors. From 1994 to 2009 he was the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of the BV Group, which built a significant portfolio of private equity and real estate holdings in the US, Europe, and Asia.
He has developed several successful real estate operating platforms and led the aggregation of $1+ billion portfolios in the specialized sectors of government-leased office buildings and healthcare real estate facilities. Over the past 25 years he has led investments in over 100 private equity transactions and funds, and has served on the advisory board of several venture capital and corporate buyout funds in which his group is an investor.
Mr. Vahabzadeh holds a BBA in International Business from George Washington University.
RWMr. Wirta is a Managing Partner at Beaumont, where he leads the firm's real estate strategies. He served as Chairman of CBRE Group from 2014 to 2018, having previously been its Chief Executive Officer from 1997 to 2005. CBRE is the largest real estate services company in the world, with annual revenues exceeding $40 billion and more than 155,000 employees in over 100 countries.
He was also at the Irvine Company from 2010 to 2019, the last two years as President, and from 1981 to 1996 at The Koll Company, a significant developer of office and industrial real estate, the last five years as President. He continues to play an active role at The Koll Company as its current Chief Executive Officer, and is Chairman of both Arrimus Capital and RW Holdings.
Mr. Wirta holds a BA in Economics from California State University, Long Beach, and an MBA in International Management from Golden Gate University.
SRMr. Romeih is a Managing Partner at Beaumont, where he leads the capital formation activities of the firm. He splits his time between New York, Riyadh, and Dubai.
He has over 30 years of experience, including investment banking at Deutsche Bank and Goldman Sachs and, most recently, as a Founding Partner at the SoftBank Vision Fund. He served as a member of the Vision Fund Investment Committee, led the operating group across more than 250 portfolio companies, and closely managed the firm's strategic relationships in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
He also served as a Board Member of SoftBank Investment Advisors. Mr. Romeih is a director and member of the Executive Committee of Beyon (Batelco) and a member of the Board of Advisors of the Georgetown McDonough School of Business.
He is a graduate of Georgetown University and holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Romeih is a UK, French, and Saudi national and is fluent in Arabic, Japanese, French, and English.
TVMr. Vahabzadeh is a Partner at Beaumont, where he focuses on the origination, structuring, and execution of complex investments across real estate, hospitality, and emerging technology platforms.
He is actively involved in a broad range of Beaumont's investments in real estate equity and credit, venture capital, and corporate private equity transactions. Earlier in his career he led business development for RW Holdings, a fund which aggregated a portfolio of commercial real estate assets across the United States, and led sales for MVSATX, a holding company which managed a significant land assemblage in Texas.
He previously served as a Director at EVO Montreal, where he led business development and marketing for a student housing platform. He began his career in investment research and real estate roles in New York and internationally, including positions with the Tristar Group, Relationship Science, Miles Howland & Co, and Shaza Hotels.
Mr. Vahabzadeh holds a degree in Management and International Business from the University of London.
DMMr. Marcoot is a Managing Director at Beaumont Partners, where he leads the firm's due diligence and closing functions.
Over the course of his career he has overseen the closing and documentation of real estate transactions totaling in excess of $5 billion. Prior to joining Beaumont, he was an Associate Vice President of Originations at a venture-backed multifamily real estate investor for four years and was directly responsible for over 15 closed investments during that span.
He began his career with IDS Real Estate Group, underwriting the firm's institutional acquisition pipeline for one of the country's largest public pension funds. Mr. Marcoot graduated with a degree in Economics, Accounting, and Finance from Claremont McKenna College.
MKMr. Karimi is a Managing Director at Beaumont, where he leads the firm's Oil & Gas investment structuring, and is a partner in BCF Energy. He is an experienced petroleum engineer and subsurface manager with a strong international track record in operating and optimizing oil and gas assets across the North Sea, Trinidad and Tobago, and other key producing regions.
His expertise spans subsurface leadership, well operations, drilling and workovers, and joint venture and business management within complex upstream portfolios. He has consistently delivered value through the application of innovative technologies, particularly in late-life gas fields where technical challenges require both engineering depth and operational execution. Mr. Karimi holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Petroleum Engineering from the University of Portsmouth.
RBMr. Beau is CFO of Beaumont Partners and has over 20 years of extensive experience in Swiss and international accounting, finance, legal, and tax matters. He manages all legal and corporate structuring for Beaumont.
He started his career with Elf Aquitaine as a tax lawyer and was elected group representative for Switzerland during the French privatization of public companies in 1993. He was then with Vivendi Universal as General Counsel, and later joined Arthur Andersen in 1999 as Head of Tax & Legal Private Client Services for Swiss Romande. In 2002 he founded BEAU HLB, one of the leading fiduciary service providers in Switzerland.
In addition, he sits on the boards of various major firms in the wealth management and private estate planning industries. Mr. Beau holds a Master of Law from the University of Geneva.
KHMs. Hanko is an Executive Assistant at Beaumont Partners, supporting the firm's senior leadership across operational, administrative, and logistical functions. Since joining in 2014 she has managed complex international travel and executive schedules, coordinated inbound meetings and communications, and overseen the day-to-day requirements of a fast-paced international investment environment, acting as a central point of coordination between leadership, external partners, and service providers.
She also oversees global travel logistics and vendor relationships and manages access to senior leadership. She was previously an Assistant Relationship Manager at Falcon Private Wealth Ltd. and holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology with a Minor in German Language from The University of Surrey.
Senior Advisors
DFMr. Frosh is a Senior Advisor at Beaumont and the Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Bancorp Funding, a mortgage brokerage and bridge lending firm based in Santa Ana, California. He is also a partner in Chassis Leasco, a national intermodal chassis leasing provider, and a general partner in Silverwood, the Southern California master-planned community comprising roughly 15,000 homes and 1.2 million square feet of commercial space.
He previously co-founded and served as Managing Partner of Center Street Lending, which grew into one of the largest fix-and-flip real estate lenders in the country, and spent six years as President of SVN International, where he led the firm's national expansion and oversaw a fifteenfold increase in profit and revenue. Earlier he was President of CAM Commerce Solutions (NASDAQ: CADA), a point-of-sale and payments software company whose market capitalization rose roughly twentyfold during his tenure, twice earning recognition from Fortune as one of the fastest-growing small-cap public companies.
He has served on the boards of companies across real estate, manufacturing, and financial services, including the Fritz Duda Company, Watt Capital, Pacific Union Real Estate, and EV Roberts. He holds an Executive MBA from the Drucker School at Claremont Graduate University.
RMMr. Miles is a Senior Advisor at Beaumont and the founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Miles Howland & Co., a New York based investment firm he established in 2005. He works closely with Beaumont on the development of its energy platform and related initiatives.
He has nearly three decades of executive and investment experience as a founder, managing director, or chief executive of three private equity and alternative asset firms, and has served on 23 corporate and fund boards, with committee experience spanning audit, compensation, executive, finance, and nominating. He co-founded Miles Howland Education Partners in 2013 and Miles Howland Brand Partners in 2021.
From 2001 to 2005 he was a Partner and Managing Director at BV Group Ventures, a global alternative assets firm, and from 1995 to 2001 a Founding Partner and Managing Director at Blue Water Capital, a venture capital firm. He began his career in technology at IBM and graduated with honors from Claremont McKenna College.
JMMr. Mansour is a Senior Advisor at Beaumont Partners and has owned, developed, and operated income-producing properties in California, Missouri, and Texas. He is also the Founder of Accord Interests, LLC, focused on identifying and implementing new development opportunities across conceptualization, design, finance, and management.
Prior to forming Accord, he practiced law with Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro and Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison in California, in real estate, corporate restructure, and bankruptcy. He graduated with honors from the University of Missouri, and with honors and Order of the Coif from Washington University School of Law.
RSAs a Senior Advisor, Mr. Spikerman brings over 45 years of global, board-level business experience at both public and privately held major industrial and financial companies to Beaumont.
From 2000 until he retired in 2015 he provided advisory and consulting services to large, privately held companies across private equity, financial institutions, natural resources, and technology in the US, Europe, and the Middle East, often serving on their boards, including as Chairman of one of the world's largest privately held industrial holding companies. Prior to 2000 he was a banker, serving on the Board Executive Committees of Republic National Bank of New York and Safra-Republic Holdings with responsibility for international banking across 35 foreign offices, and earlier at Wells Fargo Bank International and American Fletcher National Bank, where he established and managed its Luxembourg bank.
He is an Honorary Life Member of the Bankers Association of Finance and Trade and a Chevalier de la Court du Couronne du Chene of the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg. A native of The Netherlands now residing in Naples, Florida, he holds a BS in Business from Indiana University and an Executive MBA from the Graduate School of Credit and Financial Management in London.
Jun 2026Booming town of Silverwood where homes are $400KSilverwood has sold 225 homes since opening its first neighborhoods, with developers projecting roughly 300 families in the community by the end of 2026. The Hesperia development, known for its kindness pledge and homes priced from the low $400,000s, plans to add 500 to 700 households a year as it scales toward 15,000 homes.
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May 2026Silverwood sets a new standard for lifestyle-led master plansA Zonda case study in the Master Plan Outlook profiled Silverwood as a model lifestyle-led community, citing its blend of attainable pricing, placemaking, and disciplined execution across a broad buyer pool. The Southern California development was named Master-Planned Community of the Year for 2025.
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Feb 2026Silverwood named Masterplan Community of the YearSilverwood took top honors at the 2025 SoCal MAME Awards, with general manager John Ohanian recognized as Industry Leader of the Year by the Building Industry Association of Southern California.
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Jul 2024Silverwood names its first national buildersDMB Development named Lennar, Richmond American Homes, Watt Capital Developers, and Woodside Homes as Silverwood's first builder partners, with more than 20 floorplans planned across Phase 1.
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Mar 2022Barnett lands $900M for Disney UWS campusGary Barnett's Extell Development secured financing to acquire part of the former Walt Disney / ABC campus on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
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Mar 2022DMB breaks ground on SilverwoodScottsdale-based DMB Development began work on Silverwood in Hesperia, a master-planned community set to bring more than 15,000 homes to Southern California.
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Jul 2021Hesperia's 15,663-home Tapestry project starts constructionConstruction began on the Tapestry development in Hesperia's High Desert, planned for 15,663 homes across the Cajon Pass.
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