Benjamin Young

Managing Director & Head of Real Estate

Benjamin Young joined Reverence Capital in 2025. Prior to joining Reverence, Mr. Young served as Chief Investment Officer at Buckingham, where he oversaw business growth and managed debt and equity strategies. Prior to Buckingham, Mr. Young spent nine years as Managing Director at Blackrock in New York, playing a key role as a senior member in the $100 billion Real Assets Group. As Head of Blackrock’s U.S. Real Estate Private Equity business, he led the growth and management of $11 billion in investments spanning core, value-add and opportunistic investments, and launched the firm’s first closed-end, value-add fund.

Prior to Blackrock, Mr. Young was at Strategic Value Partners, a $12 billion private equity and hedge fund focused on distressed real estate debt and private equity. As Managing Director, he oversaw the global real estate group’s investments in North America, Western Europe, and Japan.

Earlier in his career, at Deutsche Bank/Bankers Trust, he was Global Portfolio Manager – Global Real Estate Private Equity Group, responsible for $7 billion of gross real estate assets and capital raising. He began his career at Kidder, Peabody & Co. as a Financial Analyst – Real Estate Group.

Mr. Young holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia Business School, Columbia University, and a B.S. Degree in Economics, with a dual major in Finance and Real Estate from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Jeff Nabi

Senior Vice President

Jeffrey Nabi joined Reverence Capital in 2024 and has more than 30 years of capital markets experience. Prior to joining Reverence, Mr. Nabi served as Head of Capital Markets for Imperial Fund, where he helped launch the fund’s securitization program, producing 15 deals totalling $4.9 billion in non-qualified mortgage loans. He also supervised day-to-day capital markets as a key member of Imperial’s executive management team, with oversight of warehouse funding relationships and development of key alliances with funding partners, investment banks, and rating agencies. Prior to that, Mr. Nabi served as Chief Financial Officer and Head of Capital Markets at education lender Funding U; Managing Director - Debt Capital Markets at Cantor Fitzgerald and held senior positions at bond insurers Assured Guaranty, Ambac and Financial Security Assurance, in addition to positions at Deloitte & Touche and Goldman Sachs. Mr. Nabi received a B.B.A in Accounting and Finance from the Wisconsin School of Business at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Beau Fenske

Vice President, Asset Management and Commercial Real Estate Underwriting

Beau Fenske joined Reverence Capital in 2020 and has over 28 years of underwriting, structuring, and loan management experience. Prior to Reverence, he spent 22 years at Goldman Sachs where he most recently served as Vice President and Head of Asset Management, creating and developing the infrastructure, processes, and reporting regimen to manage the growth and credit quality of a portfolio of over $10 billion of CRE, residential, and consumer loans and warehouse lines in support of the Securities and Investment Banking divisions. Prior to this role, he spent over 15 years originating, underwriting, structuring, and managing commercial real estate loans for the Investment Banking division’s CMBS conduit and balance sheet lending businesses. Before joining Goldman Sachs, Mr. Fenske spent several years in the business banking unit of Norwest Bank lending to small and middle-market companies. Mr. Fenske received a BBA in Finance from Baylor University and an MBA from Texas Christian University.

Alexander Rothbard

Senior Associate

Alexander Rothbard joined Reverence Capital in 2025. Prior to Reverence, Mr. Rothbard worked at Castlelake L.P. as an Investment Professional focused on commercial and residential real estate debt investments. Mr. Rothbard began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Piper Sandler. Mr. Rothbard earned a B.A. in Political Science from Washington University in St. Louis and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. 

Nicole Timmens

Senior Associate

Nicole Timmens joined Reverence Capital in 2025. Prior to Reverence, she was the Real Estate Lead at Teamshares, a fintech startup where she led real estate acquisitions and asset management of the real estate portfolio. Prior to Teamshares, she worked on the origination, underwriting, and closing of CMBS and floating rate loans in Bank of America’s Real Estate Structured Finance group.  Prior to Bank of America, she was at Fitch Ratings, spending time in both the RMBS and CMBS groups. Ms. Timmens received a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Texas at Austin.

Matt Richards

Head of Investor Relations & Project Management - Credit and Real Estate

Matt Richards joined Reverence Capital in 2025. Prior to Reverence, Mr. Richards was a Director at TPG Angelo Gordon and the firm’s Head of Market Intelligence across their credit and real estate strategies. Prior to TPG Angelo Gordon, Mr. Richards was a Vice President at J.P. Morgan in various roles across asset management, investment banking, and commercial banking. Mr. Richards started his career covering U.S. and Hong Kong institutional clients at PIMCO. Mr. Richards received a B.S. in Management & Finance from Case Western Reserve University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Jen Vance

Assistant Manager - Capital Partnering

Jen Vance joined Reverence Capital in 2023. Previously, Ms. Vance worked at Jefferies in the Private Funds Group as an Assistant Vice President. Her prior experience includes roles at The Blackstone Group, Imagineer Technology Group, and Guggenheim Partners. Ms. Vance received her B.B.A. in Finance from Loyola University Maryland.