Location Palm Beach, Los Angeles, Park City
Michelle LeRoy

Michelle LeRoy

President and Founder
Head of Private Placements

Michelle is between Los Angeles, Park City, and Palm Beach and has over 30 years experience in real estate working with fund managers, public and private REITs, operators and institutional investors. Prior to forming CrossCon, she was head of capital raising for the Macquarie Real Estate Group. Michelle has been a Managing Director at Bear Stearns where she led origination, due diligence and capital raising efforts for third party real estate managers. She launched her career with Kenneth Leventhal in 1991, and has held senior positions at SL Green Realty as Head of Investor Relations, Citigroup Property Investors where she assisted in launching one of the first real estate fund of funds and Ernst and Young where she co-developed the Private Equity Real Estate Funds consulting group. Michelle holds FINRA Series 7, 22, 63 registrations and is a former CPA.

Personal Interests

Michelle is an aspiring chef blending recipes and spices from travels throughout Africa, Europe and Central America. She is a wildlife conservationist who believes we can all live in harmony. To support this cause, she co-owns a safari lodge in South Africa which is home to the Big 5 and one of the leading Rhino preservation programs in Africa. Michelle’s lineage is Tyrolean, Irish and Belgium and from great uncles Mervyn and Warner LeRoy. When not roaming the globe, you will find Michelle on the ski slopes in Park City, running the strand in Manhattan Beach or enjoying beef bourguignon at La Goulue in Palm Beach. Her life moto: We don’t stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.

Experience prior to forming CrossCon

Diversity in capital markets, audit and tax, due diligence, investor relations, marketing, global consulting and project management.

Kenneth Leventhal

Audit / Tax Staff, Real Estate

  • Audit / Tax Staff
  • RTC Workouts
  • NPL Securitizations
  • UpREIT IPOs
  • REIT Audits & Tax Compliance
  • CPA (former as of 2017)

Ernst & Young (Kenneth Leventhal)

Senior Manager, Real Estate

  • Co-developed PERE Funds Consulting Group
  • Back Office Re-engineering
  • Technology Implementations
  • PERE Consulting Asia / Europe
  • PERE Industry Whitepapers
  • REIS Committee

Citigroup Property Investors

VP, Operations

  • Launched 1st Real Estate Fund of Funds
  • Investment Due Diligence
  • Asset Management Re-engineering
  • Yardi Implementation
  • PREA Affinity Group

SL Green

VP, Head of Investor Relations

  • Gramercy IPO
  • Preferred Equity Offerings
  • Shareholder Calls & Scripting
  • Annual Meetings
  • Press Releases
  • Quarterly & Annual Reporting
  • Capital Markets

Bear Stearns

MD, Head of Real Estate Private Funds Group

  • Sold Crane Capital to Bear Stearns
  • 1st PERE Fundraise: Apollo VEF 7 $700M
  • Fundraises: Secondaries, European Funds
  • Series 7, 22, 63

Macquarie Real Estate

MD, Head of Americas Capital Introductions

  • Institutional Investor Relations & Sourcing
  • International Investor Liaison
  • Listed Property Trust (LPT) Portfolio Sales
  • MGPA $5.5B
  • Club Ventures
  • New Product Development

Broker Dealer

CrossCon holds securities licenses with RCX Capital Group (“RCX”). As needed, CrossCon can leverage RCX for additional resources and investor relationships in the RIA and family office space.

RCX, a registered broker-dealer and FINRA member, is an investment and merchant banking boutique focused exclusively on the real estate sector that is focused on two core areas: Capital Raising & Advisory and Wealth Transfer.  Our focus has become substantially more centered on fintech and includes business lines and services well beyond where the firm began in 2001.  Our recent name change reflects the substantial growth and success of our 1031 Exchange/Delaware Statutory Trust (DST) business, technology platform, and expanding strategic partnerships with best-in-class partners and RealConnex, the first and only online B2B platform that connects real estate professionals to capital, investments, services, and to each other in a fraction of the time and cost of traditional methods.

https://rcxcapitalgroup.com
Securities offered through RCX, a registered broker-dealer, member FINRA/SIPC.