Kenneth Schechter
Advisor, Highland Street Capital
Principal, Parallel Capital and Parallel Asset Management
Kenneth Schechter serves as an Advisor at Highland Street Capital and provides oversight of the firm's strategic direction with over 35 years of experience in commercial real estate investment and management.
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Mr. Schechter also serves as Principal at Parallel Capital and Parallel Asset Management, focused primarily on investment of equity and debt capital in and development of commercial real estate, including retail, industrial, residential and office properties. Mr. Schechter was previously the President and Founder of Parallel Capital LLC, a national real estate lender and one of the first non-bank conduit lenders, with more than 20 offices throughout the United States. Mr. Schechter was also previously Managing Partner of TCS Group, L.P., a New York City owner and operator of several thousand apartment units in the New York metropolitan area. Before TCS, he was a joint venture partner with Hamilton Savings Bank, a California institution, overseeing the bank’s real estate loan investments on the East Coast.
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Mr. Schechter is a graduate of Vassar College and of the New York University School of Law.
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