Our Team

Adam Young, Principal
Mr. Young has been an entrepreneur and real estate investor for the past 20 years. Early in his career, Mr. Young worked as a financial analyst for Edward J. Minskoff Equities Inc. where he analyzed commercial real estate acquisition opportunities across the United States. Like today, the early 90’s was a time when real estate visionaries positioned themselves to capitalize on the wealth transfer that would take place when the market recovered. Believing that today’s market represents a similar opportunity, Mr. Young established Harvard Capital Partners with the goal of earning superior risk-adjusted investment returns.

Mr. Young has also been a principal and investor in several software start-up companies both public and private. Mr. Young was a co-founder in SEEC, a software company that he would be instrumental in taking public in 1997. Mr. Young also has developed multi million dollar single-family residences, residential subdivisions as well as affordable housing condominium projects under Massachusetts Chapter 40B Comprehensive Permit program. Mr. Young earned an AB, Economics from Harvard College in 1986 and a MS Degree in Real Estate Development from Columbia University in 1991. Mr. Young also graduated from the St. Paul’s School in Concord, NH in 1981.

Kent Cram, Principal
Mr. Cram has spent the majority of his career in sales, marketing and new business development primarily in the construction and related industries.  Prior to forming Harvard Capital Partners, Mr. Cram was Director of Business Development for Layton Construction, a Top 100 Construction Management and General Contracting firm, with projects across the United States and in every market segment from hospitality, medical, office, multi-family to industrial and retail.  Mr. Cram was President of GSL Electric, which was ranked by Engineering News Record as the 87th largest electrical contractor in the country prior to his tenure with Layton Construction.  Mr. Cram has been actively involved in providing both debt and equity project financing to real estate developers and construction contractors over the last two decades.

Bruce Rogoff, Advisor
Bruce Rogoff founded The Staten Group with more than 20 years of legal, C-level operating and private equity experience. His founding vision: to build a company solely focused on supporting private equity interests with their underperforming assets. For eight years, Mr. Rogoff served as a partner at Mintz Levin a national law firm based in Boston with more than 300 attorneys. From his experience there, he moved to the $200 million international marketing services company, Trans National Group, where he served as CEO and Vice Chairman for six years. From Trans National, Mr. Rogoff was recruited to become a partner at Great Hill Partners, a $1 billion private equity fund focused on telecom, media and business services. Mr. Rogoff holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University and a Doctorate of Law from Boston University.

Prithvi Reddy, Advisor
Prithvi Reddy is currently interning with the Indian Government’s central planning body, the Planning Commission.  Mr. Reddy will be returning to Boston in August 2010 to pursue his Masters in Business Administration at the MIT Sloan School of Management.  Previously, Mr. Reddy was a Vice President and Senior Research Analyst at Credit Renaissance Partners LLC, a New York based hedge fund that specializes in distressed debt and special situations. Over four years, he worked on investments across a wide range of industries – including commercial real estate. Mr. Reddy has experience implementing financial and operational restructurings both domestically and internationally, in places as far reaching as Asia, Europe, Southern Africa and North America.  Mr. Reddy graduated from Oberlin College with honors in Applied Mathematics and Physics and is a member of the United States Green Building Council.