Thomas Dreyer

As president and co-head of CA Capital Advisory, Tom Dreyer is responsible for the oversight of all alternative equity strategies employed across CA’s wide range of commercial real estate asset classes.
Tom provides oversight and strategic leadership for all permanent capital vehicles / private REITs, commingled funds, co-investments, direct investments and EB-5 financing.
Tom has been actively involved with CA Ventures since the launch of an EB-5 JV in late 2016 with operations based in South Africa.
Between 2007 and 2016, Tom was actively involved in both private equity and EB-5 advisory work focused on Mainland China and headquartered in Shanghai.
Between 1999 and the end of 2006, Tom founded, managed and sold one of the first long / short hedge funds focused exclusively on publicly traded, real estate related securities.
Between 1993 and 1999, Tom was a co-founder and managing director of FBR Capital Markets real estate investment banking group where he was involved in over $2 billion in real estate transactions primarily focused on recapitalizing private real estate developers into publicly traded REITs.
Tom began his career with LaSalle Partners, now Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE: JLL) in Chicago in late 1988.
Tom graduated from the Edwin L.
Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University in 1988.