John Diedrich of CAVentures

CHICAGO, IL – CA Ventures has promoted John Diedrich to globalhead of investments. In the newly created position, Diedrich willoversee all acquisition and development activity throughout the US,Europe and South America.

As global head of investments, Diedrich will focus onmultifamily and student housing. In his expanded role, he willassist in streamlining new projects approvals, he will aim toestablish further underwriting process consistency and he will workto expedite capital raises and project closings. Diedrich willoversee corporate revenue projections, direct balance sheetmanagement and grow the firm's alternative investment products andEB-5 business through CA Ventures Finance.

Diedrich joined CA Ventures more than a decade ago, in 2008, asa senior financial analyst, after receiving his bachelor's degreein finance from the University of Illinois. He was later promotedto executive vice president of investments at the firm.

Throughout his tenure at the firm, Diedrich has played a part inevery deal that CA Ventures has executed. During this time, thefirm's portfolio valuation grew from $400 million to $10 billion.He has also been heavily involved in expanding the firm acrossasset classes and geographic markets, both domestically andinternationally.

The firm intends to utilize Diedrich's expertise in the role,aiming to nearly triple the value of its portfolio in the next fiveyears, to $30 billion.

CA Ventures LLC is a Chicago-based real estate investmentholding company, which handles a portfolio of $10.2 billion inassets throughout the US, Europe and Latin America. Working with awide range of industry sectors, the firm specializes indevelopment, renovation, institutional joint-ventures, value-addinvesting, equity and debt sourcing and asset managementservices.

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