Bernard Clevens

Mr. Clevens founded Thematic Capital Group in 2022 to build an industrial portfolio across the SunBelt. His career includes stints at some of the nation’s top real estate and private equity companies. He began his career in Denver, Colorado working in real estate development for a middle-market real estate private equity company. He led the financial modeling, entitlement process, and project execution for a Harley-Davidson sales facility build-to-suit, medical office build-to-suit, and industrial spec development and also supported the capital sourcing efforts for two new funds. He then joined Prologis (NYSE: PLD), the global leader in logistics real estate, focusing on acquisitions and dispositions of property, portfolios, and companies. While there, he led the financial modeling, investment committee presentations, due diligence, and closing for 50+ industrial real estate acquisitions and dispositions totaling $3.2B across 66M square feet in North America. He was a key member of the team responsible for the financial analysis that underpinned the company’s M&A activity, including the $9B acquisition of DCT, the $4B acquisition of Industrial Property, the $14B acquisition of Liberty Property Trust, and the competitive bidding for GLP, which lost to Blackstone for $18.3B. He also assisted with 1031 planning, overseeing the execution of over 80 exchanges. Mr. Clevens is a 2015 graduate of Bowdoin College and a 2022 graduate of Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. He co-founded the Emory Real Estate Conference in 2022 which featured Sam Zell in its inaugural year. He finds great joy in continuing to steward the conference planning and execution today. He splits time between Atlanta, Georgia and Melbourne, Florida with his wife, two children and two dogs.

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  Emory University (MBA) Bowdoin College (BA)