NEEL SHETTI

Neel Shetti currently serves as Chief Investment Officer for Russell Glen.  He brings over 15 years of real estate experience with expertise in market analysis, due diligence and underwriting, financial modeling, and lease and sale contract negotiations.  Neel has worked across various asset types, including multifamily, single-family residential, office, industrial, retail, and hotel. 

Before joining Russell Glen, Neel was a Vice President with Goldman Sachs, where he actively managed $1.5 billion in equity investments and commercial whole loans. Property types included stabilized and under-construction office, retail, hospitality, industrial, multifamily, and land.  Neel successfully minimized risk and ensured investment recovery by working closely with General Partners and borrowers, leasing teams, general contractors, and property managers to identify and create solutions to credit weakness, emerging risks, performance, and monetary defaults.

Born in New Jersey, Neel began his real estate career at his family’s single-family residential development firm. He grew to manage diverse portfolios at global institutional firms, including First Industrial, CBRE, and ColonyCapital.

Neel received a B.S. in engineering from Columbia University and an MBA from the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.  A family man with three young children, Neel enjoys woodworking, cooking, and volunteering with Boy Scouts and is President of the Dad’s Club at children’s school.