Eric Hadar is the co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Allied Partners Inc., a real estate investment, development and asset management company headquartered in New York with offices in Miami. Since founding the company in 1993, Eric has led Allied’s emergence as among New York’s most talented and highly regarded real estate investment firms. Eric is well known for unique investments where he applies highly creative strategies to solve complex challenges that add value in all market environments. Allied has consistently produced positive returns, while prioritizing downside protection over risk: a strategy that has consistently generated returns well in excess of the overall market. Allied focuses on opportunistic real estate acquisitions in the commercial, retail, hotel and residential sectors but also acts as a lender to affiliated and non-affiliated parties along with the acquisition of real estate service companies including brokerage, management and insurance services. To date, Allied under Eric’s leadership has acquired more than 30 properties and the origination of numerous private mortgages with a total transaction value in excess of $3 billion. Eric has taught, lectured and authored real estate case studies for Columbia Business School’s Real Estate Department and is a frequent industry panelist. Since 2001, Eric has served as a member of the Board of Governors of REBNY. In 2015, Eric founded the Eric D. Hadar Family Foundation, which is dedicated to funding institutions at the forefront of research in the field of substance abuse treatment and prevention. Eric received his bachelor’s degree with highest honors from Hobart College in 1986 and earned an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1989. Prior to forming Allied, Eric worked for Sonnenblick-Goldman Company in New York.