Kase Abusharkh
Dallas, TX
Kase Abusharkh is a Partner at Bear Equities and Founding Principal of The Kase Group. Mr. Abusharkh started his real estate career in 2001, and has since built extensive experience in the acquisition, finance, and development of commercial real estate.
Most recently, Mr. Abusharkh served as the Chief Investment Officer for a publicly registered non-traded REIT, American Realty Capital – Retail Centers of America, Inc. in New York City. During his 3-year tenure as Chief Investment Officer, he helped successfully complete a $1 billion equity raise and oversaw the acquisition of over $1 billion worth of multi-tenant retail shopping center space, concluding his time there by successfully seeing through a large merger to create a $4 billion diversified REIT.
Bear Equities was formed as a single family office investing in real estate, technology and food & beverage businesses. As a principal investor, Bear Equities has acquired and disposed of over 30 commercial real estate assets with an aggregate value exceeding $125,000,000 since 2020.
Mr. Abusharkh founded the Kase, Jacob and Jeannine Abusharkh Endowment, which provides a 4-year scholarship to a deserving student whose life has been touched by illness at Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory. He also supports kidney transplant research through the Kase, Jeannine and Jacob Abusharkh Endowment in association with Stanford University Hospital’s Department of Surgery in the School of Medicine.
Mr. Abusharkh currently serves as a member of the Board of Regents of Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory in San Francisco and is a recipient of The Heart’s of Gold Humanitarian of the Year Award. Hearts of Gold reimagines the future of homeless mothers and their children, together, by helping them to become confident and self-sufficient as they prepare to transition out of the New York City shelter system to permanent homes.
Mr. Abusharkh is a recipient of the Real Estate Forum’s 50 under 40 and is currently pursuing a master’s degree at Brown University in Providence, RI.