Eric Silverman

Founder and Managing Director

Eric is a Founder and Managing Partner of Eastham Capital.  Eric supervises company operations and is primarily responsible for capital aggregation for the next Eastham fund.  Eric, along with Matt Rosenthal founded Eastham Capital and launched their first multifamily real estate fund in 2007.  Since that time, Eastham Capital has purchased, renovated and/or sold approximately $3 Billion worth of properties consisting of 35,000 apartments in 150 apartment communities, in six funds.

Eric was also a Founder of St. James Capital, LLC, a Bloomfield Hills, MI based FHA-approved lender specializing in multifamily residential housing financial services.  In 2012, St. James Capital was sold to Pillar Multifamily, LLC, an affiliate of Guggenheim Partners, LLC, and in 2016 the business was sold to SunTrust Banks, Inc., which is now Truist Financial.  From 1995 through 2010, He was the President and then non-executive Chairman of RentGrow, Inc.  In 2010, the company was sold to Yardi Systems.  In 2002, Eric became a founding, non-executive director of Leader Bank in Arlington, MA.

Eric graduated from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine in 1985 with an AB in Mathematics. He is currently on the Advisory Board for the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.  In 1991, Eric earned the degree of Master of Science in Management, with a concentration in Finance, from the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, MA.  He is an active alumnus of MIT, where he previously served on the Board of the MIT Museum.  Eric currently sits is also on the Advisory Board of FIU’s Wolfsonian Museum in Miami Beach, FL.  Eric, his wife Svetlana, and their pet chihuahua live in the Palm Beach area.