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Danilo Galvez Gil - Senior CRE Analyst

Location: Peru

Compensation range discussed (USD): $1,500 - $2,100

LinkedIn Profile | email: danilo.galvez.gil@gmail.com | Phone: +51 952030040

Summary

Regional Investment Analyst with 2+ years of experience in Real Estate Private Equity and Market Research. He has direct experience in commercial, manufacturing, and industrial real estate across Peru and Mexico, currently working at Logistic Properties of the Americas. He actively evaluates cross-border investment opportunities alongside US-based firms such as Jaguar Growth Partners and Farallon Capital Management. His expertise centers on financial modeling (DCF, LBO) and translating complex asset data into institutional-grade marketing materials, including teasers, pitch decks, and investment memoranda. He conducts discounted cash flow and direct capitalization property appraisals that incorporate broker opinions. Proactive in process optimization, he implemented AI tools to enhance visual presentation materials and significantly reduce evaluation times for the property pipeline. His technical scope includes leveraging Argus Enterprise, Bloomberg Terminal, and Refinitiv Eikon to underwrite acquisitions and evaluate joint ventures.

Meet Danilo

This video from our screening interview provides a look into Danilo's background and experience.

Candidate Snapshot

US-Based Real Estate Experience

• Direct Capital & Stakeholder Management: Interacts directly with U.S.-based fund managers to evaluate cross-border capital deployment. Notably, works in tandem with Jaguar Growth Partners (the principal owner of the current firm) and analyzes convertible bond opportunities with Farallon Capital Management.

• New York Market Alignment: Structures all investment memorandums and pipeline reports to meet the strict regulatory and fiduciary requirements of a New York Stock Exchange-listed real estate platform and its New York-based Investment Committee.

• Market Intelligence: Continually monitors key US and Latin American macroeconomic and real estate markets to produce market intelligence reports that inform capital deployment and strategic acquisitions.

Real Estate Documentation Development

• Deal & Loan Packaging: Beyond standard pitch decks, actively prepares comprehensive loan packages required to secure building financing. Synthesizes market data into actionable corporate presentations for both industrial asset acquisitions and divestitures.

• Valuation & BOV Integration: Applies direct capitalization and discounted cash flow (DCF) techniques to conduct property appraisals that systematically integrate broker opinions of value into the final market analysis.

• Underwriting Frameworks: Designed and executed a custom BOE underwriting framework specifically utilized to streamline decision-making (accept/decline) across the commercial pipeline.

Commercial Real Estate Expertise

• High-Value Transaction Record: Demonstrated proven financial results by raising $26.0MM in equity across various real estate developments and securing over $150.0MM in senior debt and mezzanine financing from regional financial institutions.

• Asset Management Scope: Oversees financial performance for multinational logistics leases, notably managing operations at logistics parks in Lurín and a major ground lease joint venture at the Callao international airport in Peru.

• Targeted Yield Strategy: Routinely screens complex ground lease opportunities, maintaining a strict analytical focus on profitability by targeting Internal Rates of Return (IRRs) of 15% or greater to ensure project viability.

Education

• Scholarship, Forward Program 2025 | McKinsey (September 2025 - December 2025)
• Finance Extension Program | Universidad de Ciencias Aplicadas (2024)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Economics | Universidad de Lima (2024) - Graduated with a 4.0 GPA

Tools & Technologies

• Real Estate Data & Analytics: Argus Enterprise, @risk, Advanced Excel (LBO and DCF modeling).
• Financial Research: Bloomberg Terminal, Reuters, Refinitiv Eikon.
• Corporate Presentations: Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Workflow Automation: AI tools.

Key Qualifications & Highlights

• AI-Driven Process Optimization: Proactively identified visual and structural bottlenecks in commercial presentation workflows. Implemented AI tools to elevate the graphic impact and data clarity of pitch decks, successfully transforming previously basic presentations into institutional-grade materials.

• Rapid Pipeline Evaluation: Designed and implemented a new evaluation form that allows country managers to review and either accept or decline new real estate opportunities in approximately one minute, significantly reducing the evaluation time for a high-volume property pipeline.

• Advanced Financial Structuring: Holds a Financial Modeling & Valuation Analyst (FMVA) certification. Built and analyzed comparable multiples and LBO models to optimize capital structures, specifically working with PIK instruments and dividend recapitalizations to maximize investor returns.

• Cross-Border Deal Execution: Executed the partial acquisition of an industrial asset in Mexico through a strategic joint venture with a local constructor (ALAS). Holds hands-on experience supporting the structuring and negotiation of Shareholder Agreements (SHA) and Share Purchase Agreements (SPA) with co-investors, defining key terms such as drag-along, tag-along, earn-outs, and put/call options.

• International Academic Acumen: Served as a Volunteer Teaching Assistant for the University of Wisconsin, establishing early familiarity with U.S. academic environments, complementing strong macroeconomic data analysis skills gained during a prior tenure at the Central Reserve Bank of Peru.

Screening Interview - Key Observations

• Extracurricular Projects & Continuous Learning: Outside of regular work hours, he acts as an advisor for a Finance and Investment Club at PUCP, analyzing energy (e.g., Fenix Power) and agro-industrial companies to support junior analysts with educational projects. Additionally, he completed a financial modeling course with Wall Street Prep to systematically improve his technical capabilities.

• Process Improvement & Change Management: He demonstrated strong proactivity by implementing AI tools for commercial presentations. Navigating initial resistance from senior management who lacked trust in new technologies, he introduced these improvements incrementally. This step-by-step approach successfully earned the committee's approval, leading him to train new analysts on the optimized workflow.

• Analytical Communication: He emphasizes that analyzing an opportunity in Excel "doesn't serve" its purpose unless the financial data is concisely synthesized into one-pagers, teasers, and memorandums. He thrives at translating complex data into clear corporate presentations tailored for joint venture partners and investment committees.

• Task Preference & Time Optimization: Highly motivated by efficiency, he actively seeks to eliminate manual bottlenecks. Noting that evaluating cross-border opportunities across multiple countries is a difficult and time-consuming routine, he designed a specific evaluation form that enables country managers to assess and decline non-viable real estate opportunities in under a minute.

• Familiarity with U.S. Terminology: While highly capable in valuation methods (Discounted Cash Flow and direct capitalization), he initially did not recognize the specific U.S. terminology for "Broker Opinion of Value" (BOV). Despite this, he confirmed he executes the exact required function, systematically integrating broker market indicators into formal property appraisals.

• Motivation & Queries: He expressed genuine enthusiasm for combining the Commercial Real Estate sector with AI technology, specifically noting an attraction to working within a Y Combinator startup environment.