Mr. Keith A. Bawolek joined GCP as Managing Director in June 2011.  Mr. Bawolek has over 30 years of commercial real estate experience including extensive development, acquisition, disposition and loan work-out expertise with some of the country's most prestigious publicly-traded and private real estate firms as well as several prominent financial institutions.

Prior to joining GCP, Mr. Bawolek was a partner and Executive Vice President at ECI Investment Advisors, Inc., a company he co-founded in 2000 to focus on urban redevelopment and real estate investment opportunities nationally. Mr. Bawolek was the on-site partner in charge of ECI’s Midtown Crossing at Turner Park development in Omaha, Nebraska, a one million square foot mixed-use project which has been recognized by the Urban Land Institute as one of the top ten public-private partnerships worldwide.

From 1990 to 2000, Mr. Bawolek was employed by various companies within Sam Zell’s Equity Group, gaining valuable experience in capital raising (public and private) and complex deal structuring. Within the Zell organization, he was a senior executive of Equity Capital Holdings, LLC (a start-up company organized to invest in parking assets), Manufactured Home Communities (a publicly-traded manufactured home community company now known as Equity Lifestyle Properties (NYSE: ELS)) and Equity Assets Management, Inc., which was Mr. Zell's principal operating company for the successful Zell/Merrill Lynch Real Estate Opportunity Funds in which $2.2 billion of equity was raised and invested in a portfolio of real estate assets ultimately worth in excess of $6.0 billion. In addition to business development, Mr. Bawolek’s main responsibilities consisted of financing, selling and acquiring all types of real estate assets within the various publi cly-traded and private companies.

Mr. Bawolek also has 10 years of experience handling workouts and distressed real estate assets for JPMorgan Chase (previously known as the First National Bank of Chicago). As the Chairman of its Foreclosure Committee, he reviewed the original loan underwritings and recommended restructuring solutions for the bank’s troubled loans.

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