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Jay Shechtman

Director, Debt, Real Estate

  • Boca Raton

Jay Shechtman is a director on the debt team for Kayne Anderson’s real estate group, responsible for sourcing, structuring, and analyzing potential direct lending investment opportunities and asset-backed securities for the debt platform.

Prior to this role, Jay served on the acquisitions team for Kayne Anderson’s real estate equity group, responsible for origination, analysis, underwriting, financing, deal structuring, and execution of acquisitions, dispositions, and developments. Prior to joining Kayne Anderson in 2016, Shechtman worked as an acquisition’s analyst, asset manager and project manager for Fifteen Group Capital, a private investment firm focused on real estate.

Shechtman earned a B.S. in Economics, with a concentration in Real Estate, at the University of Pennsylvania.