CAPITAL INVESTMENTS

Brodie Ruland
Chief Operating Officer & Portfolio Manager — Meridian Fund Series

Mr. Ruland is responsible for overseeing the performance and strategy for all existing investments across the ASB Real Estate funds, as well as all Accounting, Data Analytics, ESG, and IT functions.  Additionally, he serves as Portfolio Manager for the ASB Meridian Real Estate Fund series of value-add investment funds, and as co-head of the Capital Investment Group, he participates in underwriting activities for all new investments.

During his tenure at ASB, Mr. Ruland has also served as Co-Head of Acquisitions, where he was responsible for ASB’s new investment activity nationally, and Northeast Region Head of Investments, where he led both acquisitions and asset management in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New England.  As an Associate and Vice President, he also focused on acquisitions and asset management in the West Coast and Midwest markets. Mr. Ruland is a member of ASB Capital’s Management Committee and Investment Committee and has participated in over $10 billion of transactions across various property types, including industrial, multi-family, retail, life science, and office, and spanning a wide breadth of transaction types in terms of complexity and risk spectrum.

Prior to joining ASB Real Estate in 2008, Mr. Ruland was a Navy Supply Corps Officer assigned to the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program. There, he was primarily responsible for underwriting and due diligence of new real estate and capital project investments for the Program’s R&D laboratories.

Mr. Ruland is a member of the Zell Lurie Real Estate Center of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and the Urban Land Institute.  He received a BBA from Loyola University in Maryland and an MBA from the Wharton School where he was a Leadership Venture Fellow.