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Robert A. Kaplan has more than 20 years experience financing, developing, marketing and operating real estate, with a particular focus on housing and mixed-use properties that contain a commercial component. Mr. Kaplan has participated in the development of more than 4,500 residential units, and his expertise spans both rental apartments—market rate, government-assisted, and mixed income—as well as for-sale luxury condominiums. His product portfolio is similarly broad, and includes everything from walk-up apartments to renovated lofts to luxury high-rise rentals.

Prior to founding Ansonia Properties in 2002, Mr. Kaplan was a founding principal of Everest Partners, where he was responsible for all facets of the acquisition, financing, operation and marketing of projects undertaken by the firm. Notable among them was the acquisition of a non-performing mortgage note on a downtown Chicago high-rise, which interest was ultimately converted to ownership of the property as part of its successful repositioning. Also significant was the adaptive re-use of the Florsheim Shoe Company headquarters office into the first residential condominium in Chicago’s Loop, now known as Metropolitan Place.

Previously, Mr. Kaplan was President of Ark Properties, Inc. The company was engaged in transactions valued at more than $100 million as a development principal, provider of turnkey development services, and as an advisor to both non-profit and for-profit owners in the structuring and placement of equity and debt financing. The company specialized in structuring layered financing, characteristically including a mix of private and public funding sources.

Mr. Kaplan began his real estate career with Related Capital Corporation, the real estate finance and acquisition arm of The Related Companies, where he was a senior acquisition officer. On behalf of public limited partnerships sponsored by Related, Mr. Kaplan structured and negotiated the acquisition of more than 2,000 apartments in 17 states.

Mr. Kaplan has a history of leadership in community-based activities, and currently serves as a Director and member of the Executive Committee of Business and Professional People for the Public Interest (commonly referred to as “BPI”), a public interest law and policy center engaged in the issues off affordable housing, public housing transformation, and public education.

Mr. Kaplan received a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Arts in Public Policy, both from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude from Tufts University.