Danuel Stanger

Danuel Stanger is a Partner Emeritus at Bridge Investment Group.

Previously, he served as Vice Chairman of Bridge Investment Group and Co-Chief Investment Officer of Bridge Workforce & Affordable Housing. Mr. Stanger has experience in every phase of the real estate investment process including finding, analyzing, acquiring, financing, developing, managing, improving and selling properties since 1988. He has been directly responsible for investing in over US$1 billion dollars in real estate assets. Since the inception of Bridge Investment Group, Mr. Stanger has focused his full-time efforts on the remarkable acquisitions available to Bridge that presented themselves as a result of the global financial crisis. He has been the primary driver of acquisitions, management, and disposition of all Bridge investments. Stanger began his real estate career in 1988, on the heels of a banking career with Prudential Federal and American Savings, directing credit restructuring, workouts, management and disposition of all commercial investment real estate and corporate lending foreclosures at American Savings from 1985 through 1988. He left Prudential Federal and American Savings in 1988 to found Strategic Management and Consulting, which focused on property management and the resolution of distressed commercial properties including retail, office warehouse, medical office, hospitality and residential real estate. Mr. Stanger merged this company into Prowswood Companies in 1990, where he became Vice-President and Managing Director of the Equity Investment Division. He left Prowswood in 1997 to form CDS Investments, Inc. the predecessor company to Bridge Founders Group, LLC. Mr. Stanger has a strong belief in community and has been integrally involved in the development of the Community Service programs that Bridge sponsors throughout its portfolio.  He served on the Board of Directors of Neighborhood Housing Services, Utah, and as a Founding Board Member of the Utah Community Reinvestment Corporation (UCRC), an organization established by the banking community to invest in communities around the State of Utah.  Mr. Stanger is a Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) and was the chair of both the Salt Lake & Utah Associations of Realtors Governmental Affairs Committee and PACs.  He served on the National Governmental Affairs Committee for CCIM, and currently sits on the Board of Directors for Project Access, the premier Community Service provider in the apartment industry.