Rob Naso

Managing Partner & Head of Asset Management at BGO

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Rob Naso is a Managing Partner and Head of U.S. Asset Management for BGO. In this role, Rob is responsible for working with the investment and asset management teams on the business plan execution activities for all real estate holdings across all of the US portfolios. He oversees the firms asset management, development, construction, loan workout, marketing, leasing and research activities. He also oversees US insurance, sits on multiple US Investment Committees and is a member of the firm’s US Management Committee.

Rob has 30 years of institutional real estate experience throughout the United States, including a 13-year period based in Asia where he worked across the region and lived in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Singapore. Rob’s broad experience has covered acquisitions and dispositions, asset management, capital markets, and capital raising/investor relations while managing both hard assets and entity-level investments. Rob’s property type exposure has been incredibly diverse with past responsibilities including asset level and OpCo/PropCo interests with both equity interest and mezzanine lending asset management oversight. Rob’s previous work experience includes his role as founder and Managing Director at Green Bridge Asia Capital in 2012 and Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing in 2002, where he was also Head of Asset Management for Asia-Pacific. Prior to that, Rob spent 10 years with Prudential Real Estate Investors involved in both asset and portfolio management.

Rob is currently a Non-Executive member of the Board of Directors for GreenFort Capital, a Brisbane Australia based development company. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Scranton and has an MBA from New York University.