Mr. Buckley is a Director to Marlin Operations Group, Inc., focused on performing real estate due diligence on prospective acquisitions, overseeing portfolio company property leasing and executing on real estate sale transactions globally.
Previously, Mr. Buckley was a Partner at Apollo Realty Advisors, a leading private equity firm which has invested over $13 billion across more than 570 transactions worldwide, where he was responsible for business development, acquisitions and negotiating joint venture equity partnerships. Prior thereto, he was a Managing Director and shareholder of Ramsey-Shilling Commercial Real Estate Services, a boutique real estate firm in the greater Hollywood submarket of Los Angeles, where he participated in over $1 billion in closed transactions across all property types. Mr. Buckley earned a B.S. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and is a current member of the Urban Land Institute.
*Members of the Operations Group assist Marlin in its operational due diligence, financing and other transactional support for prospective and consummated transactions and in its post-closing operating and other initiatives for portfolio companies, including manufacturing, sales, marketing, finance, tax, technology, information technology, debt and equity financing, legal, real estate/facilities management, financial planning and analysis, human resources, acquisition integration, data analytics, procurement and other services. Operations Group members are either employees of Marlin Operations Group, Inc., an exclusive consulting firm affiliated with Marlin Management Company, LLC, or independent contractors. Subject to limited exceptions, Operations Group members are not employees of Marlin Management Company, LLC and are compensated by portfolio companies and/or investment funds sponsored and managed by Marlin and its affiliates (including the Fund and other investment funds that may be formed in the future) (collectively referred to herein as the “Marlin Funds”), and such compensation is not covered by the management fee paid by a Marlin Fund.