Grayken Program in International Real Estate 2018 · Wednesday, May 23, 2018
James Seppala
Senior Managing Director, Real Estate and Head of Real Estate Europe, Blackstone
James Seppala is the Head of Real Estate Europe, based in London. Since joining Blackstone in 2011, Mr. Seppala has been involved in a number of Blackstone’s investments across Europe, including Logicor, OfficeFirst, and Mileway.
Prior to joining Blackstone, Mr. Seppala was a Vice President at Goldman Sachs & Co, where he spent 10 years focused on equity and debt investment opportunities in Europe and the United States on behalf of Goldman Sachs’s real estate private equity group.
Mr. Seppala graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 2001. Mr. Seppala currently serves as Chairman of BEPIF. He also serves on the Imperial College Endowment Board, is a governor of the John Lyon's Foundation, and chairs the European Advisory Board of the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center at the Wharton School.
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