Suneet Singal is a well-known business owner and senior finance architect from California who has worked for a long time in New York. His skills are used in many areas, including consumer retail, fintech, real estate with a low carbon footprint, disruptive technology, green energy, and renewables. In the last 20 years, the business owner has owned and run several successful businesses as CEO.

Outside work, he cares deeply about several good causes and has hobbies and other interests. Among these are music, sports, traveling, and food and wine. The happily married father of four gives blood often and helps businesses. He also coaches little league baseball and flag football and is involved in his community.


Current Role & Duties
Singal is the board chairman for a private, well-known company that used to invest in real estate but has changed into a general holding company and advisory firm. The senior finance architect has had this job for more than five years. The company, based in New York, gives access to liquidity to one of the world's largest but least liquid asset classes. The company works in the area of public real estate.

The well-known chairman and Suneet Singal's team help clients find assets and potential partners willing to trade for equity. They have a track record of success, having bought about $1 billion in real estate. The chairman of the board and his team's duties include:

• Investing in stabilized assets to preserve dividends.
• Identifying and acquiring underperforming and distressed assets.
• Creating opportunities to secure significant future value.
• Developing land via a vertically integrated platform.
• Maximizing value creation for shareholders and investors.
• Evolving undeveloped land into valuable real estate.
• Unlocking and monetizing value in assets via public markets.

 

History of Work

Singal was the chairman of an equity real estate investment trust that did well. He has also been the CEO of a Nasdaq-traded real estate operating company and the acting CEO of a well-known business development company.

California's entrepreneur and senior finance architect have held several C-level jobs elsewhere. In addition, he has served on the boards of directors of both public and private companies. He has also worked on his own, building and selling private businesses and other assets in different markets with success.
 

History in school

Suneet Singal grew up in the California city of Santa Clara. He went to Sacramento's Jesuit High School, studied industrial engineering at California Polytechnic State University, and got a degree in Finance from California State University, Sacramento.

The famous Golden State school, which is also called Sac State, is a college that celebrates diversity and helps its students do well for the rest of their lives. Singal has a Bachelor of Arts in finance with an emphasis on investments from Sacramento State.

He was involved in many student groups and activities while he was a student at California State University in Sacramento. The Cultural Club at the university was one of these activities and groups. Singal made "A Taste of the World," an event at Cal Poly and Sac St. that showed off many different cultural groups and promoted diversity through activities like historic food, dance, music, and art. People looked forward to these events and started traditions that lasted for many years. Students at Sac State can join the Cultural Club to learn about the world through the eyes of international students and other people from other countries.
 

Professional Skills and Experience

Suneet Singal handles very complicated and sophisticated transactions. He has a wide range of skills and a wide range of solutions, including but not limited to financial structuring, direct investment, equity, and debt placement, acquisition, disposition, finance and structure negotiations, entity structure (both foreign and domestic), board and management formation and selection, advisory committee formation and selection, litigation management, partner buyouts, and foreign capital market exits. He worked in real estate master plan development for most of his past career. This included commercial real estate, getting permission to use land, principal sponsorship, and building around transportation.

Today, he focuses on a mix of real estate and non-real estate assets and businesses, including ones that focus on green energy and, more specifically, renewable energy. His clients include people who run family offices and who have large asset portfolios. Singal advises these clients on capital structures, such as handling complicated domestic and international transactions.

Highlights from his career thus far include: Turning a $250,000 asset into $175 million in less than four years, Establishing three separate publicly traded companies in under three years, The creation of multiple companies with several hundred employees each, Turning around distressed situations, and generating positive shareholder growth, Further creation of hundreds of additional new jobs, Numerous high-profile asset success stories.

In 2019, he was in charge of a successful $350 million property deal. There was also a $100 million stock distribution to shareholders as part of the deal. His peers agree that he is good at starting new businesses, buying land, buying and selling real estate, and developing and selling real estate.
 

Joining an organization

Suneet Singal has been a part of the International Council of Shopping Centers, the American Association of Private Lenders, and the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts. The National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts is a group of professionals with its headquarters in Washington, D.C.

It comprises people who work in the areas that control equity and mortgage real estate investment trusts. This is in addition to public non-listed and private trusts and real estate investment trusts that trade on major stock exchanges.

On the other hand, the American Association of Private Lenders is the largest group of its kind in the country. It has its main office in Dawsonville, Georgia, and helps people in the private real estate lending market. The main group in the United States sets standards for private lenders and other professionals in the same field.
 

Charitable Involvement

Singal is a generous person who helps a lot of charities, non-profits, and other good causes. Some good causes are giving blood, helping after a disaster, helping people in need, helping people get ahead financially, and standing up for human rights.

Suneet Singal has helped kids in the community as a volunteer flag football and baseball coach, and he still does. The well-known business owner and senior finance architect had each held these coaching jobs for three seasons.

He often gives blood and encourages other people to do the same. Blood donors help people all over the United States every day. Some of these people have been in accidents, while others have cancer or are getting heart surgery or organ transplants.
 

Interests of one's own

Singal was born in the United States but had East Indian roots. He grew up in Santa Clara, California, with his parents. He spends time in both California and New York now. Singal has many hobbies and interests outside his work, such as playing the piano, boxing, eating, traveling to other countries, watching professional sports, weightlifting, and tasting wine.
He is sure he and his wife will raise their children together. Singal is happy to be the father of four children and to be married to the girl he loved in high school. He lives with his family in El Dorado Hills, California. This town is in the famous Sierra Nevada mountain range, known for its rough terrain and rolling hills.