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Ryan Simonetti
Founder of Ease Capital
New York, New York
Overview
Ryan Simonetti is the CEO and Co-Founder of Convene and the Chairman and Co-Founder of Ease Capital, with a background in real estate economics, investments, and structured finance. With experience at Lehman Brothers Real Estate Group and Gramercy Capital Corp, Ryan has successfully invested in companies like Branch and CompStak, showcasing his expertise in real estate and financial investments.
Work Experience
Co-Founder & CEO
2013 - Current
Convene is a global hospitality company that manages a growing portfolio of lifestyle brands focused on revolutionizing the way people meet, work, and gather. It creates hospitality-driven experiences and uniquely designed destinations across its various brands with the singular mission of fostering human-to-human connection. With hospitality at its core, each brand and product offers on-site culinary, in-room A/V, production services, and dedicated hospitality support. As the largest single provider of non-hotel meeting and event venues in the U.S. and UK, and with a growing footprint of flexible office space, the Convene portfolio of brands has a network of nearly 40 locations across nine global cities.
Principal
2009 - 2013
Convene is a hospitality company that designs places to meet, work, and host events.
Raised $281,550,000.00 from Brookfield Asset Management, Conversion Ventures, QuadReal Property Group, ArrowMark Partners, RXR Realty, Revolution, Elysium Capital Management, Revolution Growth, Durst Ventures and Declaration Capital.
Co-Founder & Chairman
2021
Ease is a tech-enabled commercial mortgage lender that combines data, technology and world-class customer support to streamline the multifamily financing process from end-to-end. Our vision is to make multifamily ownership faster, simpler and more accessible.
Ease Capital is a financial services company that offers loan programs for multifamily assets.
Raised $13,949,994.00 from Brewer Lane Ventures, Evolution Ventures, Vera Capital, Cambrian Ventures, Mischief, Laconia and Nine Four Ventures.
Vice President
2006 - 2009
Gramercy Property Trust is a commercial real estate firm based in New York.
Analyst
2005 - 2006