Senior Leadership
Karen Ward
Co-founder & Managing Partner
Direct: (212) 620 2648
Fax: (212) 620 2665
130 W42nd Street, 10th Floor
New York, NY 10036
Email: kward@centercapgroup.com
Prior to forming The CenterCap Group, LLC, Ms. Ward joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch as a coverage officer in the Real Estate Gaming and Lodging group of the Investment Bank in 2004. She lead the multifamily / student housing coverage efforts and was responsible for coverage within the Central Region in order to build out the firm's investment banking efforts alongside the commercial bank. As a senior calling officer, Ms. Ward was in charge of origination, structuring, execution and related activities for public and private companies across all aspects of M&A, equity and debt advisory. She focused largely on middle market advisory providing senior leadership to the banking teams entrusted with deal execution across multiple real estate sectors including multifamily, student housing, office, healthcare, real estate services, storage, hospitality, unlisted REITs and specialty finance companies. She closed more than $28 billion of transactions including joint ventures, equity and debt capital raises, and buyside and sellside M&A assignments. While with the bank, she was on the advisory board of the Women's Banking Forum and was selected three consecutive years as a committee member of the firm's global associate review process.
Previously, Ms. Ward was a senior investment banker in the Mergers & Strategic Advisory group at Goldman Sachs where she was in charge of all aspects of deal execution for major general industrial, financial institution, healthcare and consumer products clients. Ms. Ward was selected to execute on the Goldman Sachs purchase of Spear, Leeds & Kellogg, an IDD Deal of the Year, and was nominated to teach M&A modeling to associates globally.
Previously, Ms. Ward held positions with Morgan Stanley and Andersen Consulting.
Ms. Ward holds a B.A. in Human Biology from Stanford University and an MBA in finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She maintains her real estate salesperson and brokerage licenses in North Carolina.
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