Bio

Albert L. Lord III is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Lexerd Capital Management LLC. Albert began personally investing in real estate private equity in 2001. Since establishing Lexerd Capital Management LLC in 2006, he has gained experience in land acquisition, real estate financing, golf course construction, apartment to condominium conversions, student housing, residential real estate and multifamily properties. Albert formed Lexerd Capital Partners High Yield Fund I in 2011 when he decided to exclusively focus on multifamily real estate investments. This focus will remain consistent as the Fund pursues portfolio investments within the multifamily real estate market. Prior to founding Lexerd in March 2006, Al spent 16 years in various positions with Morgan Stanley & Company, including seven years in Tokyo where he was Chief Operating Officer for Investment Banking and a member of the firm wide Tokyo Operating Committee. Prior to being named Chief Operating Officer, Al was head of the Corporate Finance Execution Group for Investment Banking in Tokyo. He spent five years in New York in corporate finance, global capital markets and private wealth management, and four years in London in debt capital markets. Al spent one year as an accountant with Arthur Young & Company, a predecessor firm to Ernst & Young. His highlights at Morgan Stanley Japan include managing Investment Banking in Tokyo as COO to 3+ years of profitability, including its first ever; serving as a member of the Board of Directors of Morgan Stanley Properties, the real estate management company which provided institutional caliber proactive real estate services designed to add value, minimize cost and maximize returns from investments in real estate assets; and leading the execution of several high profile financings, including the Initial Public Offering for Shinsei Bank’s YEN 250 billion (US$2.4bn) IPO in February 2004 (Asia money’s “IPO Deal of the Year Award”). His notable transaction as a deal team leader in Corporate Finance in New York included KPMG Consulting’s (BearingPoint) $2.3bn IPO, which was the first of the “Big Five” consulting firms to go public and was the second largest IPO to be listed on the Nasdaq. He received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in Finance from Drexel University in 1989.