Ari M. Shalam is founder and Managing Partner of RWN Real Estate Partners LLC, a NYC-based middle-market real estate private equity investment platform. RWN targets direct and controlled, joint venture investment opportunities and focuses on most value-add property types in New York City, Texas, North Carolina and Miami. Since June, 2011, RWN has acquired nearly of $800mm of real estate with approximately $350mm of total invested equity across 25 transactions.

From 2009 to 2011, Mr. Shalam was the President of Enterprise Asset Management, Inc. a real estate centric multi-family office and from 2003 to 2009, he was a Senior Partner and Director of Acquisitions of Taconic Investment Partners, a fully integrated real estate investment and development company focused in New York City. Previously, he was the Director of Acquisitions for the Kaufman Organization. Throughout his real estate career, Mr. Shalam has led nearly $2.1 Billion in real estate investments.

Mr. Shalam is a member of the board of directors Voxx International Corporation (NASDAQ: VOXX), a member of the board of the Good+ Foundation and an advisory board member of the Institute of Urban Research at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, Mr. Shalam is a professor of real estate entrepreneurship at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a former trustee of the Trinity School in New York City.

Mr. Shalam received his BS in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania cum laude and his MBA from the Harvard Business School. Mr. Shalam lives in New York City with his wife and four children.