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Charles F. Wu

Charles F. Wu

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

Senior Lecturer of Business Administration

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Charles Wu has been investing in institutional real estate since 1985.  He recently retired from his role as Managing Director and founding partner of BayNorth Capital, a Boston-based private real estate equity firm.  BayNorth and its affiliates had invested approximately $2.6 billion of equity capital for over $10 billion of real estate for 45 institutional clients.  Investments included equity, participating debt, joint ventures, land acquisitions and partnerships.

Prior to co-founding BayNorth Capital in July 2004, Charlie co-founded the private equity firm Charlesbank Capital Partners in July 1998.  He was a Managing Director of its predecessor firm, Harvard Private Capital Group, the private equity and real estate investment unit of Harvard Management Company.  Before joining Harvard Private Capital in 1995, Charlie was a Managing Director at Aldrich Eastman & Waltch, where he directed the restructuring group and was a portfolio manager.  Prior to AEW, Charlie worked at Morgan Stanley in their corporate finance department.

Charlie has an MBA, with distinction, and a BA, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University. 

Charlie serves on the Facilities and Capital Planning Committee for the Harvard Corporation and is a Trustee of Newton-Wellesley Hospital.  He was a founding Board member of the Rose Kennedy Greenway Conservancy, a past President of the Newton Schools Foundation, and was recently appointed by Governor Baker to the five school University of Massachusetts Board of  Trustees. He is also a Board member of the University of Massachusetts Building Authority.

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