Prior to forming Crossroads, David Gillerman was with Och-Ziff, most recently as Managing Director and Head of its European real-estate investment team based in London (2008-2014). David established the European real estate platform at Och-Ziff and has led investments of over $1.0 billion into various real estate strategies, including direct real estate investments, mezzanine financing, NPLs, secondary loans and CMBS.

 

Prior to joining Och-Ziff, David was an Executive Director at Lehman Brothers' Real Estate Partners (1999-2008). At LBREP, David underwrote and executed transactions in excess of $5 billion, comprising of both public and private real estate transactions, primarily in the UK, Germany and Scandinavia.

 

David also established and led LBREP's activity in Central and Eastern Europe.

 

David served five years in the Israeli  special forces and holds both a B.A. and LL.B. with Honours from the IDC University in Israel.