TED ROBOTTOM Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Ted Robottom is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Clovis. He has over a decade of direct real estate investment experience across multiple asset classes and capital structures. He started his career at J.P. Morgan where he spent five years in various capacities of the Asset Management arm, most recently as a Real Estate Associate within the Private Bank advising high net-worth clients on their real estate holdings. He has also specifically worked in Acquisitions on behalf of a diverse group of private equity real estate funds, family offices, and developers such as the Lightstone Group to primarily focus on value-add and opportunistic investing, special situations, and ground-up development projects across the country. Throughout his career, he has been directly involved in and/or led a variety of complex real estate transactions, developments, joint ventures, and recapitalizations exceeding $2B in aggregate value. Ted holds a B.S. from Syracuse University and a M.S. in Real Estate from New York University.
He is a member at the Urban Land Institute, International Council of Shopping Centers, NYU REISA, and a Licensed Real Estate Salesperson in the State of New York. He currently resides on the Upper East Side in Manhattan.
BRADEN SMITH Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Braden Smith is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Clovis. He and began his career in Washington, D.C. with Vornado Charles E. Smith in multifamily asset management before joining the Vornado Realty Trust New York City office. There, he worked in both management and leasing of the 3.1m square foot Manhattan retail portfolio. His purview spanned trophy assets such as the St. Regis retail condo and urban thoroughfares such as Penn Station, and everything in between. Braden founded BGS Development in 2018 with a focus on Southeastern residential development. Since its founding, BGSD has developed principally single family luxury assets in Palm Beach, Florida and opportunistically developed multifamily assets in other Southeastern markets.
Braden holds a B.S. from Lehigh University and is a member of the Young Professionals of the Palm Beaches. He currently resides in West Palm Beach, Florida with his family.
GREG SMITH Senior Advisor
Mr. Smith, with over 40 years of broad business experience and especially in multiple facets of the Real Estate industry, brings with him a diverse track record of accomplishments and experience to an organization.
As a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Incentco, Greg Smith provides strategic direction and oversight to the Incentco operation in the areas of strategic planning, finance and accounting, capital funding, legal, human resources, operations and sales management, technology services, as well as investor communications and distributions.
Prior to joining Incentco in 2009, Mr. Smith was an Executive Vice President of Equity Residential (NYSE:EQR). His 14 year career at EQR included key positions on the Executive and Investment Committees, Executive Vice-President and President of EQR’s Central Division, Executive Vice-President of Asset Management, as well as Executive Vice-President of Portfolio Management. While at Equity Residential, he played a significant role in the growth of the company, as it peaked to over 220,000 apartments during his tenure.
Mr. Smith’s extensive senior level career in the Real Estate industry includes positions at Strategic Realty Advisors Inc., (a real estate and advisory company) as Senior Vice President, and VMS Realty Partners, a sponsor of public and private real estate limited partnerships. Mr. Smith also operated and founded Lombard Properties, a private real estate investment and development company based in Dallas, Texas. The firm specialized in the retail and office sectors. He has over 35 years of experience in real estate finance, investment, development, and management business.
Mr. Smith holds an M.B.A. from the University of Manitoba, Canada. He resides in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.