Anatole Pevnev is the Founder and President of IntelligentPE and the Chair of IntelligentPE's Advisory Board. Anatole has more than 35 years of experience in real asset management and investment, investment research, securities research, as well as institutional investment consulting. Most recently he served as Managing Director of US Agriculture, a farmland asset management firm he co-founded in 2015. Anatole served as Chair of the NCREIF Farmland Committee and has been a regular speaker at industry conferences.
Prior to the launch of US Agriculture, Anatole oversaw fund manager research and underwriting for The Townsend Group and served on the advisory boards of seven large open-end real estate funds. Anatole oversaw the REIT research group at KeyBank Capital Markets and was a senior member of the investment research teams at both Prudential Real Estate Investors and Aetna Realty Investors.
Mr. Pevnev served as Director of Investment Research at Property & Portfolio Research, where he was responsible for developing and implementing portfolio optimization strategies for public and corporate pension plans. Anatole was the Founder and Publisher of REITcafe.com, launched in 2005, focusing on the global public real estate market. REITcafe was acquired in 2009 by Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC (publisher of Institutional Investor Magazine).
Anatole was a contributing author of the Urban Land Institute's "The Investors Guide to Commercial Real Estate", published in 2014. He earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Management from Boston University and an Master of Science Degree in Real Estate Investment and Development from New York University, where he was a voting member of the New York University Graduate Studies Commission.