Brian McAlpine

Managing Director and CIO

Brian is a Managing Director and serves as the Chief Investment Officer at the firm responsible for the management, coordination and execution of Crestlight’s investment activities.

Prior to Crestlight, Brian worked as a Director of Investments at ValStone Partners, a private equity real estate fund manager with nearly $1 billion in assets under management.  While at ValStone, Brian led a team responsible for acquiring both debt and equity investments across multiple property sectors and geographies primarily located within the United States. Prior to ValStone Partners, Brian worked as an Assistant Portfolio Manager at The Townsend Group, one of the largest global institutional private equity real estate advisors and multi-manager investment platforms.  At Townsend, Brian was primarily responsible for investment and portfolio management related activities on behalf of the firm’s discretionary special situations accounts which currently total approximately $15 billion.

Brian is a Chartered Financial Analyst ("CFA"), a member of the CFA Institute, a member of the Detroit CFA Society, and a member of the Urban Land Institute.  Brian received a BS in Finance with a minor in Economics from the Richard T. Farmer School of Business at Miami University (OH).  Brian and his wife currently live in their hometown outside of Detroit with their two children.