About Our Team

Team with the right experience -
Helping you with your Tokenized Real Estate Investment

Every Investment opportunity that comes to RedSwan CRE is reviewed and analyzed by our team with over 65 years of combined private equity CRE and technology commerce. We have conducted over $3 Billion in acquisitions, dispositions, and private equity transactions. Our expertise in digital technology and blockchain makes us the #1 choice for providing security token capital market solutions. Investing in commercial real estate has never been easier with a great team.

Leadership

Ed Nwokedi
CEO

Edward Nwokedi has 17 years experience with brokerage and client advisory services working with Colliers International, and for the past 15 years, as Cushman and Wakefield’s Executive Director of Capital Markets Group. He is one of Houston’s repeat top performers with over $2 billion in successful transactions. Prior to his CRE career, Edward was a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur who founded and exited a venture-backed startup he built for $100M to a Fortune 500 Company.

Don Oparah
Head of Technology

Don has a PhD in IT from University of Cambridge, UK and is a TED speaker and Oxford University speaker on tech innovation. Don has over 20 years in enterprise and startup technology as early employee at publicly traded technology company Agilysys and later as Founder and Director of The Venture Accelerator at University of California, Santa Barbara. Don participated in launching over 20 startups in his career, many of them were successfully backed by leading venture funds and several acquired by Fortune 500 companies.

Tom Williams
Director of Finance and Investor Relations

Tom Williams is a senior financial executive with more than two decades experience advising high net worth, institutional and corporate clients. A key focus has been marketing and structuring semi-liquid, registered securities into private wealth management platforms at firms such as Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan and UBS. He is also an Iraq War veteran with an MBA-Finance from UCLA Anderson and a BSc fromthe United States Naval Academy.

Simon Herrmann
Director of Sales

Simon Herrmann has 20+ years of experience in sales and creating strong working relationships. As managing director at Cushman & Wakefield, he managed the National Multihousing Advisory Group and National Land Practice Group in Northern California. He also worked in the capital market division and assisted institutional investors within the multifamily market. Prior to joining RedSwan CRE, Simon was managing director at Greyston & Co., in San Francisco and a VP at CB Richard Ellis.

Sachin Patel
Director of Hospitality

Sachin is a second-generation hotelier with 30 plus years of experience in every aspect of the hospitality business, originating from his families hotels. For the past 20 years, he has been a licensed financial advisor to family offices around the globe looking to place capital into US commercial real estate. Sachin graduated from Emory University with a BA in Economics and minor in International Finance. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and two teenage daughters.

Kirill Artsymenia
Director of Marketplace Technology

Kirill is a project manager at heart and helps in maintaining our marketplace technology. He is a founder of Bloom, Cheefmates, and Co-founder of Henri. He has strong skills in market analysis and testing, business and monetization modeling, funnel optimization, scoring, profiling, mapping/journeying, pivoting, ui/ux, prototyping, interviewing, distribution/acquisition channels development, data analysis and visualization.

Daniel Connolly
VP of Strategy

Daniel Connolly is a seasoned technology executive with over twenty years of experience. Building and leading go to market initiatives has been his forte' in the networking and software industries from startups to publicly traded companies. Starting out during the telecom boom at Nortel he made the shift to SaaS (Spigit), PaaS (Twilio) and most recently open source with the dominant platform, GitHub. A native of Boston, Daniel is an alumnus of Colby College and St Mary's of California and he currently resides in the the Washington D.C. Area.