Blue Ocean Equities - Meet The Team

Meet the Team

For more than 20 years, Mr. Cohen has been actively involved in commercial real estate acquisitions. Specializing in repositioning properties to their highest and best uses.
Cohen has experience negotiating land entitlements for the purpose of selling at market value at completion as well as ground up developments with strategic partners.
For the last two years Mr. Cohen has also completed more than $150,000,000 in multiple asset classed including hospitality and multifamily apartment communities.
He is a licensed Real Estate Broker providing financing for residential and commercial properties in the state of California.

Simantov is a successful business operator and entrepreneur.
He has over 18 years of investing experience including commercial and residential properties and specializes in value added projects.
Simantov’s real estate investing background has included both property in California and Florida markets.
Additionally, he has owned and operated assisted living facilities.
Simantov investments have always considered strategic locations to maximize the best land use, and maximum profit potential.

Daniel Sadeh develops, sources, structures, and participates in conversions and direct investments since 1995.
He has a vast international portfolio, that runs across a variety of sectors including residential, commercial, and industrial.
Daniel founded several successful investment and real estate companies and is currently a part of several of their board of directors.
Throughout the years, he became an investment and real estate business consultant, training many executives from all over the world.

Karin Gafter is our Investment Relations Manager at Blue Ocean Equities.
Karin leads the procedural execution of all transactions, overseeing, compliance and funding mechanisms.
In addition to managing the accounting resources function in the company.
With nearly 15 years of experience In executive business management, Karin is bringing a diverse established experience In strategic corporate operations, regulatory compliance and resource management.
Prior to joining Blue Ocean Equities, Karin served in various senior management roles in the construction, accounting, and services industries.

Paul brings 33 years of Architectural and Engineering experience.
His academic background from California State University Fresno includes graduate studies in Urban and Regional Planning and Civil Engineering.
Paul started his own Architectural firm with experience in designing a variety of educational, commercial, medical, municipal, industrial, and residential mixed use, and recently working with hotel conversions to multi-unit housing.
In addition to architecture and planning Paul works with sustainability and LEED certification bringing outstanding results to our projects.

Jovani has over 17 years in the construction industry.
Early 2012 Jovani started and has grown his construction company to one of the larger companies serving Bakersfield, Kern and Los Angeles Counties.
As a commercial contractor Jovani has performed many critical trades in house specializing in hotel renovations.
He has extensive knowledge in HVAC, plumbing, structural, and all other components of a complete building assembly.