Mr. Giller has worked in the real estate private equity sector for over 25 years and has closed real estate investments totaling $3 billion. His experience includes the acquisition, asset management, structuring, financing, underwriting, pricing, and closing of transactions in the U.S., the UK, Western Europe, Latin America, and Asia. During his career, Mr. Giller has made investments in individual properties, programmatic joint ventures, large portfolios, real estate operating companies and private equity secondaries and recapitalizations in the real estate private equity, distressed commercial mortgage and commercial real estate mortgage backed securities sectors.

Prior to forming Clairvue Capital Partners, Mr. Giller was a Managing Principal and the Chief Investment Officer of Liquid Realty Partners, where he played a key role in acquiring and managing real estate private equity secondary investments, portfolio management and building and guiding the strategic direction of the firm. Prior to joining Liquid Realty Partners, Mr. Giller held senior positions in or formed various real estate private equity investment firms. From 1993 until 2000 Mr. Giller was with JER Partners, a leading global real estate opportunity fund manager. In addition to focusing on acquiring distressed debt portfolio acquisitions and properties in the U.S., Mr. Giller served as Managing Director of JER France, SA, where he started and was responsible for building and running JER’s European investment platform. After leaving JER in 2000, Mr. Giller became a founding partner of real estate fund managers Towbes Capital Partners and Somera Realty Value Fund Advisors. Mr. Giller began his career as an acquisitions analyst and associate at Metric Realty Advisors (the predecessor to Blackrock Realty Advisors), investing on a separate account basis for pension plan sponsors such as CalPERS, and the Alaska Permanent Fund.

Mr. Giller earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley, and his Masters in Business Administration from the University of Virginia. He has been a member of the Pension Real Estate Association, the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate, ULI and a founder and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of American Riviera Bank, where he now serves as a Director Emeritus. Mr. Giller is a frequent lecturer at academic institutions including, during 2011, at the Haas Graduate Business School at UC Berkeley, the Columbia School of Business, USC Law and the PREA Institute. Mr. Giller is also a speaker at prominent industry conferences including events sponsored by ULI, PERE, IMN, SuperInvestor IREI, IGlobal, and the UC Berkeley Fischer Center for Real Estate.