Peter Kopacz Email & Phone Number

New York, NY, US

New York City Metropolitan Area

New York City Metropolitan Area

New York City Metropolitan Area

Berlin Area, Germany

• Used extensive real estate experience to grow business and improve products at realxdata, a Berlin-based start-up for automated data science-based analytics of real estate data
• Customer onboarding: Reviewed, analyzed, and prepared 25-50 customer Excel files per week for database upload and migration to business intelligence application
• Problem solving: Worked with product and engineering teams to improve client data ingestion dashboard by testing and implementing solutions for handling complex files
• Defining requirements: Wrote user stories, clarified business needs, and logged bugs in Jira; employed business knowledge and user empathy to prioritize new features and improvements that drove value for real estate.

Greater New York City Area

• In roles that included investment analysis, project management, and market research, helped establish Pretium into an asset manager with $10bn+ of assets under management, and into the third largest operator of.
• Market research: Increased investment capacity by 50% to 10,000+ home acquisitions per year by proposing additional investment geographies; analyzed 40,000+ U.S zip codes and competitor footprints to select and size.
• Forecasting: Developed metro-level models to forecast rents and home prices in U.S. markets that determined quarterly investment allocations on a $1bn real estate fund
• Business development: Conducted competitor landscape analysis to form new investment products including the first open-ended single-family rental fund
• Project management: Collaborated with a large cross-functional team to oversee the organization of three annual conferences for 200+ investors
• Content development: Developed and updated content for new company website as part of a $500k rebranding; managed external team of developers to maintain deadlines

Greater New York City Area

• Investment analysis: Analyzed 10+ rental portfolios for purchase, comparing scenario returns, identifying value-add strategies, and determining fit within current portfolio
• Team management: Supervised acquisition team of half a dozen analysts; scrutinized underwriting assumptions, disqualified unattractive investments, and defined comprehensive investment guidelines to streamline approvals
• Reporting: Developed procedures in Salesforce and Excel to track acquisition, property management, and construction tasks; reduced project timelines and costs by 50% with daily task reports, exception calls with each.

Greater New York City Area

• Investor relations: Composed quarterly investor letters, monthly portfolio update reports, and fund documents for multiple $1bn+ real estate and mortgage funds
• Data driven decision making: Designed a model to automate data collection for valuing rental properties that decreased decision timelines, improved accuracy of assumptions, and created the capacity to submit bids for.

Greater New York City Area

• Scenario analysis: Modeled mortgage payments of distressed commercial mortgage-backed securities to determine feasibility and performance of multiple investment scenarios

Greater New York City Area

• Business expansion: Researched prospective clients, designed marketing materials, and set up outreach campaign to expand customer base at a real estate and mortgage broker

Greater New York City Area

Bachelor Of Science, Business And Political Economy

Activities and Societies: Study Abroad in London and Shanghai

High School

Activities and Societies: Study Abroad in Göttingen, Germany