Jay Shechtman is a vice president on the debt team at KA Real Estate where he is responsible for performing due diligence, underwriting and analyzing potential direct lending investment opportunities for the debt platform.

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Prior to joining Kayne Anderson in 2016, Shechtman worked as an acquisitions analyst, asset manager and project manager for Fifteen Group Capital, a private investment firm focused on real estate. There, he completed comprehensive due diligence analysis, created detailed financial analysis and managed reporting for potential and acquired properties. He was previously a financial analyst at LNR Property, LLC.

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Shechtman earned a B.S. in Economics, with a concentration in Real Estate, from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.