Flexible accommodations for the future

Bio

Roman Pedan is the Chief Executive Officer of Kasa Living, Inc., a flexible accommodations brand he founded in 2016.

Roman has over a decade of experience in real estate investing and technology entrepreneurship. He was an early team member at KKR's Real Estate Private Equity group where he worked on hotel transactions totaling $1.2 billion across the U.S. and was involved in every hotel transaction that KKR closed during his tenure. Roman was also an early team member at Juniper Square, a market-leading investment management platform, and was the founder of a startup called book.ly, a profitable, vertical e-commerce website that sold more than $15mm of textbooks.

Roman earned a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Pennsylvania, a B.S. in Economics with a Real Estate and Finance concentration from The Wharton School, and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. In addition to leading Kasa, Roman is an avid skier, traveler, and reader with particular interests in hospitality organizations, history, and leadership.

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Jordan joined Kasa in 2021 as Vice President, Head of Real Estate and Growth. Jordan has significant real estate investment experience in both the hospitality and apartment sectors, uniquely positioning him to drive the overall growth strategy of the organization.

Prior to joining Kasa, Jordan spent 15 years at private equity real estate investment manager Walton Street Capital LLC.  Most recently, Jordan was responsible for all of firms investment activities in the Southeast US and New England across its investment vehicles.  Jordan closed over $5B of real estate transactions and was personally responsible for  over $2.5B of real estate acquisitions and development in the hotel, apartment, office, single family rental, and industrial sectors.  

Jordan graduated with a BS from the  School of Hotel Administration at Cornell University with a concentration in real estate.  While at Cornell, Jordan played safety for the varsity football team.  He earned an MBA from the  Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University with a concentration in finance.  Jordan is a national product council member of the Urban Land Institute. 

Outside of work, Jordan lives in Chicago with his wife, two children, and beloved lab Charlie.  He loves spending time with his family, enjoys home cooking,  and is an avid, yet mediocre, golfer.

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Mike joined Kasa in 2018. He focuses on forming partnerships with real estate owners, investors, and lenders, as well as managing Kasa’s ongoing financial performance and liquidity initiatives. He brings a blend of real estate, corporate finance and capital markets expertise to ensure Kasa’s financial success amid rapid growth.

Real Estate: Mike was one of the early members of Apollo’s real estate private equity acquisitions team, helping scale AUM from $5bn to $15bn. He has acquired and managed over $2bn of hotels, office, retail and residential real estate. He was also the primary investment professional responsible for building and managing Apollo’s single family rental platform.

Corporate Finance: Mike was on a two-person team managing a $1.5bn, long/short real estate securities portfolio at Citadel Global Equities. He analyzed and managed active positions in over 50 gaming, leisure, lodging and real estate companies, including the multifamily and lodging REITs. 

Capital Markets: As an investment banker, Mike advised REIT clients on structured debt initiatives (CMBS, private placements), as well as M&A advisory for REIT and lodging clients. 

Outside of work, Mike is an avid skier and hiker who enjoys exploring new destinations across the globe.

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Aaron joined Kasa in 2021, responsible for developing and executing Kasa's growth plan with multifamily owners & investors coast-to-coast. 

Aaron spent a decade at AMLI Residential in a variety of key investment roles, spanning acquisitions, dispositions, development and asset management. From 2015-2021, he focused exclusively on evaluating and executing apartment acquisition opportunities & asset dispositions in Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, Houston, Seattle, South Florida and Southern California. During that time, AMLI’s two-person deal team bought and sold $3B+ of assets (12.1K units across 33 properties).

AMLI is a vertically integrated luxury apartment owner & developer that invests on behalf of Morgan Stanley’s Prime Property Fund (PPF), a $34B+ institutional open-ended core real estate fund.

Aaron graduated with a BS in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with concentrations in real estate & finance.

Outside of work, Aaron enjoys Peloton, reminiscing about the 1990s Chicago Bulls, perfecting morning smoothies and international travel.

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Luke joined Kasa in 2021 and is responsible for leading Kasa’s investment activities in the independent and boutique hotel space.

Prior to joining Kasa, Luke spent nearly 14 years at The Chartres Lodging Group, an industry leading hotel owner-operator dedicated to the acquisition and repositioning of distressed hotel assets. While at Chartres, where he most recently led the group’s acquisition and development activities, Luke was directly responsible for over $2.0bn of total transaction activity, including the acquisition of more than 9,000 hotel rooms, investing alongside leading institutional investment partners such as KKR, Elliott Management Corporation, and Morgan Stanley.

Luke graduated with a BS from the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration, in his hometown of Ithaca, NY, with a concentration in real estate finance and development.

Luke lives in New York City with his wife, daughter, and dog. Outside of work and time with family, he’s an avid New York Rangers fan, and enjoys travel, golf, and the increasingly occasional triathlon.

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Brian joined Kasa in 2021.

Previously, Brian worked at Rockpoint Group, a real estate private equity firm headquartered in Boston. Most recently he was a vice president evaluating the merits of real estate investment opportunities across various markets, product types, and return profiles.

Prior to Rockpoint, Brian worked at Goldman Sachs as an associate in the Real Estate Investment Banking groups in New York and London. He advised clients on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, debt and equity financings, and hostile raid defense across the real estate, gaming, and lodging sectors.

Brian graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Science from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College. He holds dual concentrations in finance and accounting.

Outside of Kasa, Brian enjoys running (slowly), reading, and attending Celtics games.