Experienced Leadership Across Real Estate, Capital Markets, and Institutional Investment
Kinect Real Estate Partners is led by a team that combines decades of hands-on operating experience with institutional investment discipline and deep capital markets expertise.
Founding Partners
Benjamin (BJ) Kuula
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
BJ serves as Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Kinect Real Estate Partners and as Chief Executive Officer of American Capital Group (ACG), the firm's affiliated operating platform. With more than two decades of experience in the real estate sector, Mr. Kuula's expertise spans various domains including design, development, construction, acquisition, property management, asset management, and finance. His notable career achievements encompass $2 billion in real estate development, $1.5 billion value add acquisitions, and nearly $4 billion in real estate finance.
BJ is member of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) and serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Boys and Girls Club of Bellevue, where he leads the Revenue Development Committee. He was nominated for Globe St.'s Top 50 under 40 in Commercial Real Estate in 2021.
BBA, University of San Diego; MBA, University of Washington Foster School of Business
Mike Paulus
Co-Founder & Strategic Partner
Mike serves as Co-Founder and Strategic Partner of Kinect Real Estate Partners. He is the Founder and CEO of PCM Encore, a multi-billion-dollar wealth management firm, and brings over 15 years of real estate investment experience with more than $300 million deployed across the asset class. Mike's career spans entrepreneurship, venture capital, and institutional finance at the highest levels. He co-founded Assurance, an insurance technology company acquired by Prudential Financial for $2.35 billion, and served as Founding President of Addepar, a wealth management technology platform that today reports on over $7 trillion in assets. Mike has also served as a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, one of the world's leading venture capital firms with over $42 billion under management.
Through his family office, Mike has been a long-standing General Partner and strategic capital partner of American Capital Group, a relationship that served as the foundation for Kinect's formation.
BA Economics and MS Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University
Capital Formation & Investor Partnerships
Anna-Marie Allander Lieb
Director
Anna-Marie leads fundraising and investor relations for the west coast region at Kinect Real Estate Partners, responsible for capital formation and the development of strategic fundraising initiatives. She brings direct experience, having spent 10 years leading the real estate investment team at Crowd Street, a premier online platform offering accredited investors direct access to private market investment opportunities. Prior to Crowd Street, Anna-Marie held roles at PNC Bank, as part of their Tax Credit Investment Group.
BS Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Ali Winrow
Director
Ali leads fundraising and investor relations for the east coast region at Kinect Real Estate Partners, responsible for capital formation and development of strategic fundraising initiatives. Ali brings institutional real estate experience from Clarion Partners, one of the world's largest real estate investment managers, as well as prior roles at T-Rex Capital Group. Her earlier career includes experience at Deloitte and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
MBA, Columbia Business School; BS Finance and Accounting, Villanova University