Benjamin Young
Head of Real Estate
Reverence Capital Partners

Benjamin Young joined Reverence Capital in 2025. Prior to joining Reverence, Mr. Young served as Chief Investment Officer at Buckingham, where he oversaw business growth and managed debt and equity strategies. Prior to Buckingham, Mr. Young spent nine years as Managing Director at Blackrock in New York, playing a key role as a senior member in the $100 billion Real Assets Group. As Head of Blackrock’s U.S. Real Estate Private Equity business, he led the growth and management of $11 billion in investments spanning core, value-add and opportunistic investments, and launched the firm’s first closed-end, value-add fund.

Prior to Blackrock, Mr. Young was at Strategic Value Partners, a $12 billion private equity and hedge fund focused on distressed real estate debt and private equity. As Managing Director, he oversaw the global real estate group’s investments in North America, Western Europe, and Japan.

Earlier in his career, at Deutsche Bank/Bankers Trust, he was Global Portfolio Manager – Global Real Estate Private Equity Group, responsible for $7 billion of gross real estate assets and capital raising. He began his career at Kidder, Peabody & Co. as a Financial Analyst – Real Estate Group.

Mr. Young holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School, Columbia University, and a B.S. Degree in Economics, with a dual major in Finance and Real Estate from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.