Meet Mosaic Student Communities Investment Partners

BY MOSAIC / April 16, 2020

Mr. George Alva and Mr. Carlos Delherra are founders 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 and focuses on leasing 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.

George Alva

George Alva 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 insolvency opinions for recapitalizations, leveraged buyouts, and acquisitions.

Carlos Delherra

Prior to Mosaic, Carlos Delherra was a management consultant executive in the Technology Group at Accenture for 8 years. His primary focus was delivering and leading software development projects, systems integration, and business process improvements for Fortune 500 clients such as Microsoft, Verizon, and Qualcomm. At Accenture, Carlos led global teams as large as 30 from various global client sites such as Seattle and The Netherlands. After Accenture, Carlos served as a Program Manager at Yahoo! for two years in their Entertainment Division. At Yahoo!, Carlos led large teams and was responsible for overseeing the management of large scale technology projects for websites with 20 Million plus unique users such as Yahoo! Music and Yahoo! Sports.

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