Gidi Cohen
Founder & CEO @CGI+ | Real Estate Investments
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Founder & CEO @CGI+ | Real Estate Investments
Los Angeles, CA, US
Gidi Cohen is the Founder and CEO of CGI+ Real Estate Investments, a Los Angeles based private equity multifamily investment and development firm. For close to 30 years, he’s been steering complex real estate deals across the country, leading the development, acquisition, and disposition of projects.Cohen’s career started in 1994 when he bought a small construction company in Los Angeles. Under his leadership, the firm grew tenfold before he sold it in 2008. In 2006 he launched what would become CGI+, initially investing in retail and multifamily properties throughout Southern California. Even during the toughest years of the U.S. economic downturn, he continued operating industrial, retail, and residential assets. By 2012, he sharpened CGI+’s strategy around value-add and opportunistic multifamily and expanded beyond California, closing early investments in Atlanta and Orlando. Today, CGI+ is known for navigating complexity, uncovering value others miss, and executing at an institutional level while maintaining an entrepreneurial edge.Born and raised in Israel, Cohen lived in Australia before moving to the United States in 1991. The family currently resides in Bel Air, California.Cohen serves on the Advisory Board of the NYU Chao-Hon Chen Institute for Global Real Estate Finance and on the U.S. Board of Aharai. He remains deeply engaged in community and philanthropic work, including Verbum Dei Jesuit High School’s Corporate Work Study Program.
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ABOUT GIDI COHEN
CGI invests in strategically located, ground-up developments and income-producing real estate throughout California and key cities in the Southeastern and Southwestern U.S, particularly in the underserved secondary or tertiary markets. Our portfolio includes apartment buildings, mixed-use development and broken condominium projects as well as notes secured by those assets. We specifically target assets that can be acquired at attractive valuations and whose upside has been affected by operational inefficiencies caused by neglect, mismanagement or under-capitalization. We then apply a disciplined investment and risk management approach to each investment. We carefully analyze local and regional market conditions such as job growth, barriers to entry, and real estate trends, to help us identify the most profitable exit strategy.We have a strong track record for turning around underperforming properties to the advantage of our investors.
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