Arash Gohari
Chief Executive Officer
27 Capital

Arash Gohari is the founder and CEO of 27 Capital, a real estate private equity company focused on mid-size value add multifamily and development in South Florida. As a real estate investor, Mr. Gohari has purchased over $1 Billion dollars worth of real estate across all asset classes.

Prior to founding 27 Capital, Mr. Gohari was the Co-Head of Real Estate at WeWork in the United States, Canada and Israel as well as its Executive Vice President of Global Real Estate. Mr. Gohari Joined WeWork in 2015 after a long career in Finance, Private Equity and Entrepreneurship. Mr. Gohari has over 25 years of experience and an extensive background in finance, deal structuring, valuation, business development, and the building of fast-growing companies.

Mr. Gohari started his career at Lehman Brothers in 1997 as the Associate Global Chief Investment Strategist. Aside from developing Lehman’s view on the equity and debt markets, Mr. Gohari was part of the team that managed Lehman Brothers’ internal stock portfolio fund which had over $2 billion under management.

In 2002, Mr. Gohari left Lehman Brothers to co-found Aston Partners, a private equity firm and remained there until 2010. In 2003, Mr. Gohari co-founded and assumed the role of Vice President of Dava Pharmaceuticals. After the founding of Dava, Mr. Gohari left day to day operations at Aston and focused on growing Dava Pharmaceuticals from a company with no revenue in 2003 to a significant player in the pharmaceutical industry with over $300 million in revenue. In 2014, Dava Pharmaceuticals was sold to a public company, Endo International, for $600 million.

Mr. Gohari left the day to day operations as Aston and Dava to found The Xerxes Group in 2010. At Xerxes, Mr. Gohari and his partner purchased over $500 million of real estate in New York, Miami, Boston and San Francisco.

Mr. Gohari attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School as well as the Masters Program at The Stern School of Business at NYU. Mr. Gohari completed his undergraduate degree at The Stern School of Business at NYU.