Kevin Orlando

For twenty-eight years, Kevin Orlando has done two things — raise capital and build the companies that deploy it — and he has never done them separately. The operators who understand capital at its source are the ones who put it to work best.

He started where that understanding begins — on the phone. In 1998, cold calling at Everen Securities for the Corporate Executive Group, Orlando earned his Series 7 and 63. The real education carried no license: rejection, repetition, and the slow art of selling conviction to people with no reason to take his call.

The years moved fast: First Union, Wachovia, a trading desk at TracData, PaineWebber through its merger into UBS — each seat a different angle on how money moves, and where it stalls.

Then he left to build. Sequoia Commercial Realty Group came first: built from nothing, scaled past half a billion in transactions, stress-tested by the 2008 collapse. It held. The lesson was never survival. The lesson was what becomes possible when accountability to the capital is absolute from day one.

He carried it into a Managing Director seat at a two-billion-dollar Greenwich debt fund — origination, the deal side, a close view of institutional thinking hardening into its own obstacle. Out of that friction came GO Realty Capital Partners, where he serves as Founder and Managing Principal.

The portfolio runs wider than real estate. He founded LoanThink to rebuild the infrastructure behind loan origination. He serves as Director and COO of a pre-IPO company in active formation. And he has backed pre-IPO companies for years — among them OpenAI and Anthropic, before either was a household name. Not trades: a point of view, placed early, on where the next decade of infrastructure would be built.

Based in the New York metropolitan area, Orlando operates nationwide.