About Us

Mr. Schwaber serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Bluerock Capital Markets and oversees the company’s capital markets, securities sales and distribution operations. As a 38-year veteran of the securities industry, Jeff brings a wealth of executive-level experience to Bluerock.

Jeff’s diverse career accomplishments include senior executive roles in several key areas of the investment and securities industries. Prior to joining Bluerock, Jeff served as President and Head of Distribution for Griffin Capital and EVP and Head of Distribution for Behringer Harvard. Since 2003, Jeff has overseen the equity raise of over $24 billion, making him one of the most successful and highest capital raising executives in the history of the alternative investment industry. He was also President and Chief Operating Officer of a publicly-listed NASDAQ corporation, and Senior Vice President of Houlihan, Lokey, Howard and Zukin, an M&A and valuation leader in investment banking, giving him unique perspective into the inside world of public capital markets and corporate finance.

Earlier in his career, Jeff was President and CEO of Lifetime Asset Management, Inc., a financial advisory practice focusing on sophisticated wealth accumulation and wealth transfer strategies for ultra-high net worth individuals and corporate clients. Having owned his own successful financial advisory firm, he is intimately familiar with the needs of the financial advisors with whom he interacts daily. Jeff started his securities career wholesaling, later becoming the National Sales Director for Star Partners, the largest independent financier of major motion pictures in the world, financing Warner Bros and MGM/United Artists films including Rain Man, Moonstruck, Thelma and Louise, A Fish Called Wanda, The Color Purple, Overboard, Spies Like Us, Little Shop of Horrors, Heartbreak Ridge, Superman II, III and IV, Rocky V, James Bond’s License to Kill and dozens of others, credited with Academy Award wins in every major category including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Screenplay, Best Musical Score and others. Known industry-wide as a distinguished and entertaining speaker, he is frequently invited to present and keynote at major broker dealer and investment industry conferences. He has also been a regularly invited guest on CNBC including interviews with both Ron Insana and Neil Cavuto, Fox Business News’ The Claman Countdown with Liz Claman, TD Ameritrade Network with Oliver Renick, Barron’s, and Financial Planning.

Jeffrey Klepacki serves as Executive Vice President and National Sales Manager. In this role, Mr. Klepacki is responsible for supervising and managing the company’s senior national sales teams and supporting the strategic growth and development of Bluerock investment programs across all intermediary distribution channels including the independent broker-dealer, RIA/family office, bank trust, regional member firm and wirehouse distribution channels. Mr. Klepacki directly oversees the growth of Bluerock offered investment programs with key 3rd party distribution partner platforms. 

Mr. Klepacki brings more than 23 years of securities industry experience and 16 years of sales management experience to his role at Bluerock. Prior to joining BCM, Mr. Klepacki held prominent senior distribution roles with some of the largest asset management firms in the industry including Vontobel, Aberdeen Standard, Capital Group/American Funds, Delaware Investments and Allianz Global Investors. In his new executive role, Mr. Klepacki will report directly to BCM’s CEO Jeffrey Schwaber. 

Mr. Klepacki resides in New Jersey and is a three-time Olympian who represented the United States in three Olympic Games (Barcelona 1992, Atlanta 1996 and Sydney 2000) on the men’s rowing team as well as in multiple World Championships. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Rutgers University and holds FINRA Series 7, 24, 63 and 65 securities licenses. 

Paul E. Dunn is Executive Vice President of Bluerock Capital Markets, LLC, the broker/dealer affiliate of Bluerock Real Estate. In addition to supervising the Bluerock Capital Markets wholesaling team, Paul serves as Chief Compliance Officer for Bluerock Capital Markets and is responsible for building the firm’s internal/external compliance infrastructure as the company continues to expand. He is also principal liaison to Bluerock’s mutual fund underwriter. 

Before joining Bluerock, Paul was President and Chief Investment Officer of Greenbook Investment Management, where he was directly responsible for approximately 3,000 accounts representing over $950 million. Earlier in his career, he was a managing director of SEI Investments, then the nation’s largest consultant to pension plans, endowment funds and foundations, including the Hewlett Packard Retirement Plan, the Yale University Endowment and the Ford Foundation. There, he helped build and implement a groundbreaking institutional investment solution for individuals that grew to $26 billion in assets during his tenure. In addition, he served as President of Southland Trust Company; a Dallas based bank and held a similar role for The McNeil Companies, a real estate investment sponsor with more than 63,000 apartment units across the nation. 

Paul’s perspectives have been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Pension and Investments and other publications, as well as his own radio program, Money Talk with Paul Dunn, on an ABC affiliate in Dallas. 

He is a graduate of Brown University and Suffolk University School of Law and resides in Newport Beach, California. 

Mr. Hoffman serves as President of Bluerock Value Exchange and Managing Director, Due Diligence and Marketing for Bluerock Capital Markets which he joined in 2009.

Mr. Hoffman has extensive securities issuer experience overseeing product structuring, securities operations, marketing and due diligence of multiple product structures including: public, closed-end interval funds, publicly traded REITs, private and public non-traded REITs, 1031 exchange, and regulation D programs with total capital raise experience in excess of $4 billion.

Mr. Hoffman received his B.A in Business Administration from Boise State University. He currently holds FINRA Series 7 and 63 licenses.

Ms. Calcagno brings more than 20 years of capital markets experience to her role as Executive Vice-President, Head of National Accounts. Prior to joining Bluerock Capital Markets, Ms. Calcagno held multiple leadership roles, most recently as Head of National Accounts for Morgan Stanley Investment Management from 2011-2018.

From 2008-2010, Ms. Calcagno served as Vice President, Relationship Management for RiverSource Investments. From 1999-2008. Ms. Calcagno served as Senior Vice President, Director Relationship Management for J&W Seligman.

Ms. Calcagno earned her B.A. in Economics from Trinity College (Hartford, CT) and maintains an active Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) designation and FINRA registrations 7, 24, and 63.

Mr. Emala brings more than 15 years of legal experience to his role as General Counsel at Bluerock Capital Markets.  Prior to joining Bluerock Capital Markets, Mr. Emala held senior legal positions at a number of sponsors/broker-dealers in the alternative investment space, including Cantor Fitzgerald and RCS Capital.  Prior to these roles, Mr. Emala was a securities lawyer at international law firms White & Case, LLP and Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP.

Mr. Emala earned a B.S. in Finance from the University of Maryland, College Park, a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School and an LLM in Securities and Financial Regulation from the Georgetown University Law Center.  Mr. Emala maintains a FINRA Series 14 license.

Mr. Richens brings more than 20 years of capital markets experience to his role as Senior Vice President, Head of Internal Sales. Prior to joining Bluerock Capital Markets, Mr. Richens held multiple leadership roles, most recently as Head of Internal Sales for Griffin Capital Securities from 2012-2017. 

From 1998-2010, Mr. Richens worked for two of the largest US based Insurance companies, AXA/Equitable and MetLife and served in Senior Vice President, Sales Resource Center for Annuities, Life Insurance and LTC Insurance, leading multiple sales desks based in Irvine, CA, Hartford, CT and St Louis, MO. 

Mr. Richens earned his B.S. in Finance, Real Estate & Law from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona and maintains FINRA registrations Series 7, 24, and 63.