Brookwood Securities Partners, LLC, the broker-dealer affiliate of Brookwood Financial Partners LLC, a leading real estate investment and asset management company, today announced that W. Onnie Mayshak has joined the firm's Institutional Sales and Investor Relations group as a Senior Vice President.
Mr. Mayshak's primary responsibility is to raise capital for Brookwood's various fund offerings and separate accounts from institutional investors across the United States and Canada. "Onnie has a unique and varied background in finance, with relationships that span the financial services sector, which will be highly accretive to our efforts to expand our roster of institutional clients," stated Jayne M. Rice, Brookwood's Director of Institutional Sales, Marketing and Investor Relations. "We are thrilled to have someone with Onnie's background and experiences join our team."
The expansion of Brookwood's institutional sales practice mirrors the firm's growth over the last several years. Since re-entering the market in 2010, Brookwood has acquired 8,401,327 square feet of real estate worth over $1,200,000,000 and has expanded its staff to 109 employees located in 24 offices across the United States. Brookwood also recently launched BW Gas & Convenience Holdings, LLC, d/b/a Yesway, a new gas station and convenience store chain with locations in Iowa and expansions underway across the Midwest, which is expected to employ 1,000 people by the second quarter of this year.
Prior to joining Brookwood, Mr. Mayshak was a Director of Institutional Sales at Guggenheim Partners, where he was responsible for a book of business that included Asset Managers, Hedge Fund Managers and Private Wealth Managers in Boston. Prior to this, he was the Northeast Director of Institutional Sales at Ned Davis Research, where he managed a sales team responsible for the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Regions.
Mr. Mayshak has a bachelor's degree in environmental science and public policy from Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees for the Boys and Girls Club of Boston, and previously served as a mentor at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Massachusetts Bay.
About Brookwood Financial Partners, LLC – Brookwood is a nationally-recognized private equity investment firm that specializes in acquiring and managing value-add commercial real estate and related operating businesses on behalf of a select group of institutional investors, family offices and high net worth individuals. Since its founding in 1993, Brookwood has raised over $860 million of equity to acquire a portfolio of 223 commercial real estate and convenience store properties, with a realized and unrealized value in excess of $2.4 billion. The portfolio has spanned multiple asset classes, geographical markets and industries across the United States. www.brookwoodfinancial.com
