Driving

Alpha through

Active Real Estate

Management

EXPLORE OUR PORTFOLIO

Founded in 2009, GAIA is a real estate private equity firm in New York City that consistently delivers outsized returns for our institutional and high net worth investors through strategic outside-the-box acquisitions. GAIA invests alongside our partners and has owned $3.8 billion of real estate in the residential sector.

VERTICALLY INTEGRATED

GAIA’s full-service, in-house property management company is one of our hallmark advantages. Property management is fully hands-on with headquarters staff and on-site teams who coordinate with GAIA’s asset managers to design and implement comprehensive, property-specific business plans. Such vertically integrated management boosts operational efficiency and maximizes value for the firm’s residential assets across our multi-region portfolio.

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BY THE NUMBERS

Since our inception GAIA has posted the below achievements:

$3.8B

AUM

86

PROPERTIES

37%

REALIZED IRR

19,500+

UNITS

OUR TEAM

GAIA’s founders are investment professionals with almost a century of combined real estate experience. They have assembled an accomplished and reputable senior management team that has helped turn GAIA into the success it is today.

MEET THE TEAM

CEO & CO-FOUNDER
Danny has more than 25 years of extensive international experience in real estate investment, private equity and venture capital, investment banking and asset management. Danny co-founded GAIA in 2009. He previously founded and was Co-CEO of Tamir Fishman, an Investment bank and asset management company with billions in assets under management. He has held board positions with numerous government housing, development, and real estate investment companies and is the former co-head of the Israeli government’s privatization unit.
Mr. Fishman earned a B.Sc. in Economics and an M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

CO-FOUNDER & BOARD MEMBER
Ken has over 40 years of experience developing, owning, and managing billions of dollars of real estate assets throughout the United States - in both the private and public sectors. He previously served as CEO, and is currently the Chairman and Founder of Extra Space Storage Inc. (NYSE: EXR), the second largest self-storage REIT in the US. Ken is the current Chairman of American Homes for Rent (NYSE: AMH). He is also the former Chairman of Nevada West Development and its subsidiary WestCorp Management Group ("WestCorp"), which he founded.
Mr. Woolley earned a B.A. in Physics from Brigham Young University, an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business, and a Ph.D. from Stanford Graduate School of Business. Between 1978 and 1998, Mr. Woolley served as an Associate Professor of Business at Brigham Young University.