About

Murad’s leadership ability, investment acumen, and operational knowledge has been developed on the buy-side in various asset classes, as an owner-developer in real estate, shareholder-manager in private equity as well as an analyst-fund manager for equity securities. He has a seasoned record of working internationally in India and UAE in real estate and related private equity opportunities. Murad was the Managing Partner for Bristow Commons, an upscale mixed-use development in the Washington DC suburb.

Previously, Murad served as the President of The Plan Source, a civil engineering consulting firm focused on land development planning, engineering and design with an operational office in Bangalore, India. Murad has been a founding member and active shareholder in Bristow Montessori School LLC that has been in operation for over a decade as a premier private school offering in its market as well as ABMS (sold in 2016), which was a facility management company based in Dubai, UAE with over $1
billion in assets under management (AUM) since starting in 2011.

Murad has successfully raised rounds of debt and equity funding in his investments by modeling, structuring, marketing, and closing transactions. He has created economic value for himself and his shareholders by generating 13x return on assets in his commercial real estate investments. Prior to his entrepreneurial roles, Murad co-managed a Morningstar four star rated Mid-Cap Growth Equity Fund with $250MM in assets under management and also a four star Large Cap Growth Fund with $1.4B in assets under management at MTB Investment Advisors. As a planner for the US region at ExxonMobil Fuels Marketing, Murad had the responsibility of an annual capital budget of $300MM. He has delivered over $300MM in assets at various stages of the development cycle and has managed through the real asset lifecycle: from land assemblage, entitlements, permitting, lease up, construction, property management to divestment.

Murad has an undergraduate degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering from Virginia Tech with Magna Cum Laude and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a dual major in Entrepreneurial Management & Marketing. Murad served as the Founder & former Chairman of the Board of Advisors for Bristow Montessori School, Advisory Board Member of Ascent Group in Kashmir, India, and former Board Member for the MCC Medical Clinic, Silver Spring, MD. He enjoys skiing, golf, squash, tennis, photography, motorsports and the outdoors.