Primary Job Title Founder ,Managing Partner & CEO Primary Organization Jade Hill Investments
Location Houston, Texas, United States Regions Greater Houston Area, Southern US Gender Male
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Nester Clark is the Founder and Managing Partner of Jade Hill Investments LLC and is responsible for all investment advisory activities. Mr. Clark started his investment career in 1998 as an analyst for Goldman Sachs’ Whitehall Real Estate Funds and Asian Special Situations Group where he facilitated the deployment and management of real estate and
distressed debt investments for Goldman Sachs in the U.S., Japan, China, Thailand, and South Korea involving transactions totaling over $4.0 billion.
He later became the youngest partner ever at Soros Real Estate Partners, jointly managing a $1.0 billion private equity fund and where he led the build out of Ishin Hotels Group, a Japanese hotel and resort platform then owning over $800 million in Japanese hotel and resort assets. Mr. Clark and his partners at Soros Real Estate Partners spun out of the Soros umbrella in 2004 and created Grove International Partners, where he was directly responsible for new asset acquisitions and platform formations in Japan, and which currently manages over $3.0 billion in global equity capital. Mr. Clark also co-lead the successful fund raise of the $1.2 billion Cypress Grove Investors Fund under the Grove / Soros umbrella.
Mr. Clark later served as Senior Director at the Westmont Hospitality Group in North America before establishing Jade Hill Investments in 2009. Mr. Clark received his AB with Honors from Harvard University in 1998 where he also served as Co-Captain of the Harvard Boxing Team and Captain of the Harvard Kendo (Japanese Fencing) Team. In 1997, Mr. Clark trained in Kendo (Japanese Fencing) with Japanese Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto, the Tokyo Imperial Guard, and the Tokyo Police Department. Mr. Clark also holds a first degree Black Belt in Karate, and actively practices both Wado-Ryu and Shotokan styles.
