Berkeley Partners

Berkeley Partners and its affiliated entities comprise a fully integrated principal investment firm focused exclusively on multi-tenant light industrial real estate. Since 2005, our affiliates have sponsored a series of investment vehicles dedicated to the light industrial sector. With its national footprint, the company is one of the premier institutional industrial operators and fund managers.

Real Estate Specialization
Industrial
Investment Type
Acquisition/Fee Simple
Investment Style
Core
Value-add
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Founding Partner

Aaron Snegg

Mr. Snegg is the Managing Partner of Berkeley Partners. Since 2005, through Berkeley Partner's affiliates, he has led the acquisition of over 5.0 million square feet of multi-tenant industrial real estate. Mr. Snegg has been instrumental in building Berkeley Partners into one of the premier institutional multi-tenant industrial operators. Prior to founding Berkeley Partners, Mr. Snegg has held various officer positions at Snegg & Snegg LP, his family’s real estate holding company, and Workstream Inc. Mr. Snegg holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley.

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Partner

Matthew Novak

Mr. Novak is a principal at Berkeley Partners. Mr. Novak has over 14 years of real estate experience in asset management, acquisitions, dispositions, development, and construction. He started his career with Arthur Andersen in San Francisco in the Real Estate Valuation Group. He then spent over five years on the investment management team for National Office Partners (a partnership of CalPERS and Hines) focusing on portfolio and asset management for over $1.0 billion of assets. Most recently, Mr. Novak worked as a developer in the Bay Area focusing on entitlements, project management, and construction of infill development projects. Mr. Novak holds a BA in Economics from Cornell University.

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Principal

Andrew Holmberg

Mr. Holmberg serves as the Director of Investment and Fund Management at Berkeley Partners. He is responsible for investor relations and capital raising, as well as portfolio strategy and analytics, financing and research. He has worked in real estate capital raising, investor relations and as a principal investor his entire career. Previously, Mr. Holmberg was one of the primary investor relations professionals at The Davis Companies, a Boston-based real estate investment, operating and development company. Prior to The Davis Companies, he worked at Long Wharf Real Estate Partners where he helped the Sponsor spin-out from Fidelity Investments to become an independent company. Mr. Holmberg also worked as an investment analyst at Landmark Partners, where he was involved with investing Landmark's series of discretionary real estate funds into a variety of real estate-related opportunities globally. Mr. Holmberg holds a BA in Economics from Cornell University.

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Director of Acquisitions

Chris Wycoff

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Founding Partner

Norman Villarina

Mr. Villarina is on the Investment Committee for the Berkeley Partners' funds and is involved with oversight of major decisions, investor relations and fundraising. Mr. Villarina also serves as a Partner at Industry Capital. In 1999, he co-founded Industry Ventures, a $2.5 billion venture capital firm specializing in the secondary market, and served as a general partner from 1999 to 2003. Prior to that, he was a private and public equity portfolio manager at Eos Partners and Cassandra-Chase Partners in New York City from 1995 to 1999. Mr. Villarina has also held various officer positions in Wells Fargo Bank’s commercial lending group and Lehman Brothers. Mr. Villarina holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia University.

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Leasing Manager

Kyle Walker

Key Focus Areas
Acquisitions Asset Management Property Management
Geographical Area
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