Team

Gregory Pappas, Principal

Mr. Pappas is a founding partner of Blackswan Real Estate Partners, one of the General Partners of GYB Investors, LLC. BlackSwan is engaged in the formation and management of real estate partnerships that seek to invest in assets and businesses that provide superior risk adjusted returns for its investor partners. Current affiliated companies include BlackSwan Water Resources, LLC, which owns and manages Nerro Supply and Gulf Utility Service. Nerro Supply is a regulated water and wastewater utility in the State of Texas that provides water and wastewater treatment to over 4,500 residential customers throughout southeast Texas. Gulf Utility Services is a licensed water and wastewater operator that manages and provides operations services to Nerro Supply and other 3rd party owners of water and wastewater treatment systems including municipal utility districts, cities, and public water systems. Previously, Mr Pappas was a Senior Managing Director at HFF, Inc., where he was primarily responsible for arranging over $2 billion of capital in 225 transactions. Closed transactions include fixed and floating rate loans, participating loans, construction loans, entity level equity, joint venture equity, preferred equity, mezzanine debt, and property sales. Mr. Pappas has executed transactions in all major property types including office, apartments, retail, industrial, hotels, land, and condominiums across the United States. He is a 1992 graduate of Texas A&M University with Bachelors and Masters of Science Degrees in Agricultural Economics.