Coleman Skeeter '03 #MorehouseMenUnderForty 9/150

Coleman Skeeter ’03 – New York

#MorehouseMenUnderForty 91/150 #Morehouse150

May 5, 2017

B.A., Finance

M.B.A., Columbia Business School, Columbia University

Investment Professional, Bedrock Real Estate Partners

Co-Founder, CEO, Truman James

Coleman leads underwriting and financial analysis at #BedRock Real Estate. BedRock is a real estate private equity firm with over $700mm in AUM. Prior to Bedrock, Coleman worked at MacFarlane Partners, managing & underwriting over $6 billion in real estate assets including Time Warner Center and 15 Central Park West.

Coleman is the co-founder and CEO of Truman James, an Interplay portfolio company. He is a commercial real estate advisor focused on the space needs of forward thinking companies. Truman James is a “subversive commercial real estate advisory that partners with creators to discover, develop and acquire inspirational real estate.”

In addition to nearly a decade of real estate investing, fundraising and development experience, Coleman served short stints in early stage investing with First Round Capital, a New York based venture capital firm, and New Island Capital, a San Francisco based impact investment firm. Coleman started his career in the investment banking division at UBS, and he holds an MBA from #Columbia Business School.

While at Columbia, he co-founded Urbavour, a #Columbia Business Lab venture that built an online farmers market to directly connect urban consumers with local farmers and food producers. Through the platform, farmers and artisans could easily acquire customers, sell products and manage inventory.

Coleman is also a DJ and an avid cook, and has been featured on Brooklyn-cooking.com.

Source: bedrockllc.com, trumanjames.com

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