Ryan Williams

About Ryan Williams

Ryan Williams is an entrepreneur. Most recently, Founder and CEO of Cadre, a leading real estate technology platform that democratizes access to high-quality commercial real estate opportunities for individual and institutional investors. With twenty years of experience in the industry, Ryan has a deep passion for leveraging data, technology, and innovation to transform the way people invest in real estate.Under Ryan\'s leadership, Cadre has achieved remarkable growth, scale, and impact. Cadre has closed over $5 billion in real estate transactions, generated a net annualized return of over 25% for its investors, and developed the industry\'s first secondary marketplace for real estate investments. Cadre has also expanded its investor base to more than accounts, and launched several new investment products and initiatives, including a fund focused on driving greater diversity and inclusion of operators in Cadre\'s ecosystem program. Ryan\'s mission is to empower more people to build wealth through real estate, and to make the asset class more transparent, efficient, and liquid.

Experience

1. Founder, CEO, Executive Chairman, Co-chairman of Investment Committee

   Cadre

   Dec 2013 — Present

   Full time focus on leading team, driving key strategic initiatives for Cadre’s future growth – corporate and platform fundraising, leading investment strategy and portfolio oversight, embedding data science into our entire investment process, close and launch of new investment products, accelerating our philanthropic initiatives to promote greater diversity and inclusion in the real estate industry.