Ferhat Guven serves as JBB Advanced Technologies’ Chief Investment Officer, leading the company’s new acquisition and investment strategies. These responsibilities include leading and managing JBBAT’s renewable energy, real estate, and other advanced technology investments. Ferhat is also responsible for capital raising (debt and equity) and identifying strategic partnerships and future acquisitions.

Ferhat has 25-years of global entrepreneurial private equity and investment and capital raising experience spanning the United States, Europe, Middle East, and Latin America. Prior to joining JBBAT, Ferhat was a Managing Director and co-founder of Domain Real Asset Ventures, a subsidiary of Domain Capital Group, an institutional investment manager based in Atlanta, GA managing over $8.0 billion asset on behalf of institutional investors in the U.S. and Europe. Here Ferhat was responsible for establishing and capitalizing joint venture platforms in renewable energy, real estate and credit investments. Ferhat also served as senior director for Rubenstein Partners, a value-added office manager with over $3.4B in AUM, where he led the firm’s capital raising team for direct co-investments and co-mingled debt and equity funds. Previously, Ferhat led the U.S. real estate group in New York on behalf of Threadmark, a global placement agent headquartered in London, where he was responsible for U.S. capital raising and origination across a number of mandates including real estate secondaries, office, and retail strategies.

During his career, Ferhat has started and built several successful entrepreneurial businesses including one that developed strategic opportunities on behalf of a private real assets investment group with portfolio activities across the United States, Middle East, Europe and Latin America, and one designed as a real estate private equity investment manager and operator focused on real estate investments in emerging markets. Prior to launching these businesses, he worked in the private investment banking group for UBS in London.

Ferhat began his private equity real estate career overseas, focusing on emerging markets, where he lived and worked for over 15 years in Turkey, London, Dubai, and Latin America.

Ferhat, originally from Lubbock, TX, is a graduate of Texas Tech University with a dual BA in Political Science and History and holds a MSc. in Management and Finance from the London Business School, where he was a Sloan Fellow. He is a current member of Pension Real Estate Association was previously a member of the IREI Editorial Board. Ferhat serves on the Dean’s Circle Advisory Board Member for the College of Arts and Sciences at Texas Tech University.