Greg Olbrys
Managing Principal
Mr. Olbrys is responsible for the firm’s strategy, investment, asset management, asset disposition execution, and operations. Mr. Olbrys is a 24-year commercial real estate veteran and prior to Alden Street, co-founded Pinecrest Partners, a development-focused student housing investment company, in conjunction with a Fortune 500 pension fund and a Chicago-based family office. In his role as Principal and CIO, Mr. Olbrys supported the development and implementation of the company business plan, identification of opportunities and the investment process, and management of the New York office. Prior to Pinecrest Partners, Mr. Olbrys was a Managing Director with Greenfield Partners, a Connecticut-based real estate private equity firm, where he spent more than eight years managing the origination, acquisition, and due diligence on 40 investments totaling more than $700 million of projected equity, including multiple student housing projects, and additionally supported Greenfield’s capital markets activities. Prior to Greenfield, Mr. Olbrys worked in commercial real estate lending, helping to establish the commercial real estate Structured Finance platform at CW Capital in 2003 and underwriting and structuring conduit and bridge commercial real estate loans at RBS Greenwich Capital. Mr. Olbrys started his career at GE in corporate finance, is a graduate of GE’s Financial Management Program (FMP) and performed various assignments both nationally and in Europe as a member of the GE Corporate Audit Staff. Mr. Olbrys graduated from Gettysburg College with Bachelor of Arts degrees in Economics and Environmental Studies and is an active member of the Urban Land Institute’s Student Housing Council.