Meng Joins Brookwood Financial

Susan Meng has joined Brookwood Financial Partners as a VP in its acquisitions group. Meng recently received her MBA from the Wharton School of Business. From 2008 to 2011, she was an associate at HarbourVest Partners.

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BEVERLY, Mass.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Brookwood Financial Partners, LLC (“Brookwood”), a leading real estate investment and asset management company, today announced that Susan K. Meng has joined Brookwood as a Vice President in its Acquisitions Group.

“We are extremely pleased to have someone of Susan’s intelligence, experience, financial acumen and educational background join our Acquisitions Group,” said Thomas Nicholas Trkla, Brookwood’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “We were fortunate to have Susan work for us last summer as an intern. During her time here, she demonstrated tremendous aptitude for deal underwriting and analysis. She is a terrific addition to the firm.”

Ms. Meng recently received her Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of Business. From 2008 to 2011, Susan was an Associate at HarbourVest Partners, LLC, where she evaluated over $18 billion of direct company equity investments and pre-existing limited partnership secondary investments. She analyzed venture, growth and buyout investments across a diverse range of industries. Prior to joining HarbourVest, Ms. Meng was an Analyst in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Jefferies & Company where she worked on mergers and acquisitions in the internet and digital media sectors.

Ms. Meng received an AB in Economics and a Certificate in Finance from Princeton University. At Princeton, she was a member of the varsity tennis team and was a finalist at the USTA National Open. She was also the founder of the Princeton Association of New England’s Summer Internship Program, which successfully placed interns into Boston-area non-profit organizations. At Wharton, she was awarded the Charles Fairman Fellowship for leadership, academic and professional excellence. Ms. Meng is a native speaker in Mandarin.

About Brookwood Financial Partners, LLC – Brookwood is a Massachusetts-based private equity firm that acquires real estate and invests in private companies. Since 1993, Brookwood has acquired 122 properties totaling over 11 million square feet of office, retail, flex and research & development space as well as 143 hotel rooms, 138 condominium units, 572 apartment units and 1,360 residential building lots. Brookwood has acquired real estate throughout the United States including in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, Rhode Island, Texas and Virginia. In addition, Brookwood has invested in private companies in the wireless communications, restaurant, software and outsourcing industries. Brookwood has invested over $529 million in equity to acquire assets with a realized and unrealized value of over $1.4 billion.