George Alva, Founder Mosaic Student Communities

BY MOSAIC / FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Mr. Alva is a Founder and Partner of Mosaic Investment Partners and Mosaic Student Communities (together, “Mosaic”), a fully-integrated real estate company focusing on leasing, property management, marketing, and development opportunities serving the student housing market. Mosaic owns a portfolio of 25 properties with a fair market value of over $60 million. The Company’s core focus is to provide student housing properties to undergrads and graduate students as well as international students in urban in-fill major universities and colleges, with current assets at USC, Cal Poly Pomona and UC Berkeley. At Mosaic, Mr. Alva leads the firm’s efforts in acquisitions and dispositions, financings, strategic planning and capital-raising as well as provides asset management oversight of the 65 properties managed by Mosaic serving approximately 700 student tenants.

Prior to Mosaic, Mr. Alva was a Vice President at Nogales Investor, a private equity investment firm with $345 million under management where he evaluated and executed on highly-structured, non-control equity investments in lower middle market companies. Prior to Nogales, he was an Assistant Vice President for GE Capital’s Global Sponsor Finance business and an Associate with JPMorgan’s Financial Sponsors Group. At both GE Capital and JPMorgan, Mr. Alva advised private equity clients on leverage, capital structure and pricing for potential leveraged buyout transactions. Mr. Alva started his investment banking career as an analyst at Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin, specializing in solvency opinions for recapitalizations, leveraged buyouts and acquisitions.

Mr. Alva was born and raised in the City of Lawndale, California, and graduated from Leuzinger High School and earned a BA degree in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and then a MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Mr. Alva is a Fellow and Alumnus of USC’s Ross Program in Real Estate Development, UCLA’s Riordan Program, Sponsor’s for Educational Opportunity (SEO), INROADS and the Robert Toigo Foundation.

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