Kyle Ellis

Mr. Ellis is Head of Asset Management and co-founder of Abacus Capital Group LLC, responsible for overseeing all asset management activities, and is a member of the firm’s Management Committee, Investment Committee, and is an equity partner.

Prior to co-founding Abacus, Mr. Ellis served as the Director of Greystar Manhattan Management and as a Director of GREA from 2001-2004. While at GREA, Mr. Ellis built a team and implemented the leasing, asset management and renovation strategy for GREA’s portfolio. Prior to joining GREA, Mr. Ellis served as the Vice President of Asset Management for Walden Residential in Dallas, Texas from 1997 – 2001. At Walden Residential, Mr. Ellis managed a team overseeing a portfolio of 20,000 apartment units in the southeast, Arizona and California. Mr. Ellis was responsible for developing and implementing individual asset strategies, budgeting, reporting, asset repositioning and dispositions. In 1997, Walden Residential acquired Drever Partners, where Mr. Ellis was a construction manager and asset manager from 1990 – 1997. Mr. Ellis’s responsibilities included asset repositioning, strategy implementation, performance monitoring and fund reporting.

Mr. Ellis earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration from Miami University of Ohio.