Benjamin Young Email & Phone Number

Ben oversees Buckingham’s asset management and investment division, with a focus on institutional capital raising, client engagement and investment performance to build an industry-leading institutional real estate investment platform. Ben has been a prominent real estate private equity investor and asset manager for more than three decades. Most recently, he was a Managing Director at BlackRock in New York for 9 years and a senior member of the $100 billion Real Assets Group. As Head of BlackRock’s U.S. Real Estate Private Equity business, he was responsible for the growth and management of $11 billion in investments ranging across core, value-add and opportunistic investments, and raised the firm’s first closed-end, value-add fund. Prior to BlackRock, Ben served in leadership roles at Strategic Value Partners, a $17 billion private equity and hedge fund focused on distressed debt and private equity, as well as Deutsche Bank/Bankers Trust.