Bert Crouch is a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager with Invesco Real Estate (IRE). In this role, he is primarily focused on the strategic, transactional, financing and fundraising sides of both opportunistic investments and credit originations related to commercial and multifamily real estate across the US and Europe. Mr. Crouch is also the Lead Portfolio Manager for the opportunistic strategies, as well as a member of the firm’s Investment Committee and Investment Strategy group. Mr. Crouch joined IRE in 2009, where he led the formation and growth of its Structured Investments platform. Before joining IRE, Mr. Crouch served as the director of acquisitions for Presidio Investments, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hunt Realty Investments, where he was responsible for leading the execution of Presidio’s investment strategy focused on the acquisition of secondary commercial mortgages and investments in public real estate securities. Prior to Presidio, Mr. Crouch worked in the New York office of Wells Fargo’s real estate merchant banking group, where he originated and acquired highly structured commercial mortgage products. He has over 15 years of real estate experience. Mr. Crouch earned a BBA in finance with honors from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He also completed Wells Fargo’s credit management training program in San Francisco.