Fred Gortner
Founder & Head of U.S. Strategy
Paladin Realty Partners

Frederick Gortner is a co-founder, the Chief Operating Officer and Head of U.S. Strategy for Paladin Realty, where he leads the firm’s U.S. apartment platform. Mr. Gortner is involved in all aspects of the firm’s investment activities, management and operations across the Americas. He serves on the firm’s executive, investment and valuation committees.

Prior to joining the predecessor of Paladin Realty in 1994, Mr. Gortner was a co-founder and Director of Enterprise Property Management, Inc., a real estate management company focused on value-added repositioning of Class B/C workforce rental housing in Southern California, as well as a Principal with the Tucker Investment Group, Inc., a Los Angeles based real estate investment and development firm. He began his career at Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan Chase) in New York working on real estate related transactions. He has been a member of various industry organizations including the Pension Real Estate Association, the European Association for Investors in Non-listed Real Estate Vehicles, the Inter-American Dialogue and the Urban Land Institute. He has served on the boards of several civic organizations and led various public-private initiatives including business improvement district formation and zoning code reforms. He is a licensed California real estate broker.

Mr. Gortner graduated from Duke University with a Bachelor’s degree in Economics and Liberal Arts. He also graduated from The Anderson School of Management at UCLA with a Master’s degree in Business Administration, where he was inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma national scholastic honor society and awarded the Wittenberg-Livingston Academic Fellowship for real estate studies.