Bereket Selassie, Managing Partner and Co-Founder

Mr. Selassie has 18 years’ experience as an executive for large real estate investment firms. He has sourced and developed $4.4 billion of housing-focused projects across the United States. Prior to founding RVC, Mr. Selassie was Senior Managing Director at Urban Atlantic. Before Urban, Bereket a Director for CRC Partners (formerly Clark Realty Capital), where he led business development.

Bereket earned a JD/MBA from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School and a BA in English from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Stephan Rodiger, Managing Partner and Co-Founder

Mr. Rodiger has over 20 years of experience developing affordable, mixed-income and luxury housing, hotel/hospitality projects and master planned, multi-phased, mixed-use communities for large real estate organizations, such as Redbrick LMD and Kettler. He has developed $2 billion of projects around the country. encompassing all aspects of development: sourcing and structuring new developments, underwriting and project budget analysis, management of pre-development activities including feasibility, zoning, entitlement, design development, securing third-party debt and equity, coordinating and overseeing the construction process.

Stephan earned a BS from Cornell University and a MCRP from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Aole Ansari, Managing Partner and Co-Founder

Mr. Ansari has 19 years’ experience as an executive for larger real estate investment firms and principal investor for urban infill development projects. Prior to founding Rift Valley, he was Chief Operating Officer for Great Gulf (GG) Build to Rent (now branded Beacon Residential), where he led acquisition, development and operations. Before joining GG, he was an executive Manager at Corvias and Lendlease where he led student housing, medical office and PPV business units. He is skilled in public-private partnerships having secured and negotiated over $6 billion in development value for mixed-use residential, healthcare, hospitality and student housing projects.

Current and past Board positions include Citizen’s Bank, the University School of Nashville, and Nashville’s public housing agency, MDHA.

Aole earned his MBA for the Darden School at University of Virginia and a B.S. in Economics from the US Naval Academy

Jeff Lamont, Partner and Co-Founder

Mr. Lamont is an entrepreneur in both the technology and real estate sectors. He has built four successful companies in his career having sold 3. He has a 30+ year track record of co-investment with Bereket Selassie. Mr. Lamont is responsible for accounting and finance, legal and tax compliance, and investor relations. He has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA with honors in Economics from the University of Illinois.