Benjamin Adams has been a board member since July 2019. He was Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Ten Capital Management, an independent, fundamental value-driven private equity real estate firm based in Cleveland, Ohio where he was responsible for the strategic direction and oversight of all firm activities.

Most recently, Mr. Adams is a co-founder and partner of Rockhouse Capital, an opportunistic alternative investment management firm which recently sourced and advised on the acquisition of the Townsend Group, one of the world’s largest independent gatekeepers and advisors on institutional real estate. Townsend advises over $230 billion of assets under management and advisement on a global basis. Mr. Adams serves as an independent director on its board.
 
From January 2008 to April 2011, Mr. Adams was a Portfolio Manager with Townsend, where he oversaw $1.7 billion in private equity real estate assets under management within the firm’s discretionary investment management business, and was actively involved in product development and structuring.

Prior to Townsend, Mr. Adams was a Vice President and General Counsel of Lionstone Development LLC, a Miami-based, principal balance sheet investor. Mr. Adams practiced law with Greenberg Traurig LLP in New York, New York, and served as the Special Assistant to the White House Counsel in the Clinton Administration. Mr. Adams has a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and a Bachelor of Arts from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.