Roe Corporation is a real estate holding company with key strengths in development, investment management, and transactional services.
To maintain consistent performance, the firm's Principals use their expertise to manage in-house departments, including acquisition, finance, construction and management. Their hands-on system of team work ensures that projects are carefully planned and that costs are controlled while quality is maintained.
Roe Corporation’s success can be attributed to the founders' shared philosophy. Quality process ensures quality results.
EXECUTIVE TEAM
Buhm Jung Roe
PRINCIPAL
Buhm Jung Roe has over 40 years of experience in real estate ownership, acquisition, management, development and construction of numerous residential and commercial properties in New York City. He has extensive private real estate fund managing experience and has syndicated and successfully completed multiple projects in New York City. In addition, he has solid development and construction experience from residential and commercial buildings to luxury condominium buildings from the ground up. Buhm Jung Roe graduated from Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea.
PRINCIPAL
John Roe
John Roe is the Co-Founder of Roe and New York Immigration Fund. He provides strategic leadership, investment direction, and operational oversight for both companies.
John brings over 25 years of experience as a principal investor in the development, financing, and management of properties throughout New York City. The Roe Real Estate family office has been involved in the ownership of New York City real estate for over 40 years.
John has extensive experience in real estate investment and development, spanning residential and commercial projects from acquisition through completion. He plays a key role in the companies’ investment decisions and development processes. John has directed and overseen the investment of approximately $1 billion of capital into $5 billion of real estate projects in the New York City metropolitan area.
He is instrumental in the negotiation and structuring of each deal. John’s strong local knowledge of the New York City real estate market, combined with his attention to detail, enables him to lead a team of professionals who partner with Roe Corporation and New York Immigration Fund to deliver consistent results.
A lifelong New Yorker, John holds a Bachelor of Science in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University.
Robert Roe
PRINCIPAL
Robert Roe graduated from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. He is responsible for monitoring the sales and marketing efforts for the company's new developments and projects. Prior to working at Roe Development, Mr. Roe evaluated risk in various IPOs and Biotech IPOs throughout the world for National Union in New York
Eli Pomanski
CONTROLLER
Eli Pomanski is responsible for all day to day financial aspects of the business. After close to two decades in public accounting practice that focused heavily on real estate, Eli brings solid experience to financial and tax facets of development and properties management.
CONSTRUCTION CONSULTANT
Louis Katsos
Louis Katsos has over 35 years of experience in the New York Real Estate and Construction Management market. A known leader in the industry in New York he has for over 30 years held senior executive positions with major firms including serving as the Executive Vice President of Tishman Construction Corp. and Chief Operating Officer as well as President of his own firm Jekmar Associates, Inc. a consulting firm to New York Developers. As Project Executive he has built over 10 million square feet of High Rise buildings and as a Corporate Executive managed the construction of millions more. He holds a B.E. in Civil Engineering and an M.B.A. and is a professor at the Chanin School of Architecture at Cooper Union.
