Rebecca Stafford
Rebecca Stafford is a Managing Director and the CFO/COO at Strada Investment Group, a real estate investment and development firm, where she manages investments on behalf of large institutions; structures and finances joint ventures and programmatic platforms; and ensures governance and compliance within. Prior to joining Strada in 2014, she was a Portfolio Manager of a family office-backed start-up investment fund that acquired portfolios of non-performing loans and developed an in-house technology solution to aid in restructuring into performing assets. (Alas, it did not work!) From 2005 through 2013, Rebecca was an Investment Officer at the University of California pension and endowment funds, where she managed the hedge fund and real estate portfolios, each with a $3B allocation, and sat on the Advisory Boards of portfolio investments. Before joining UC, she was a Vice President at Rosen Consulting Group, a real estate economics research firm headed by UC Berkeley economist Ken Rosen. Rebecca began her career in corporate finance, including work at a fund of hedge funds, a Chilean bank, and in the turnaround consulting group at Arthur Andersen. Rebecca holds an M.A. in economics from Duke University, a B.S. in accounting from the State University of New York at Albany, and is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York. She is a current Advisory Board member at the U.S. Green Building Council.