Sam Hooker

Sam uses his deep transactional background and extensive network of relationships to lead our acquisition and disposition activities, as well as supervise our capital markets group in Northern California and the Pacific Northwest. In addition to managing our deal sourcing, underwriting, due diligence, and execution activities, Sam is a member of our Investment Committee.

Sam has over 35 years of equity investment, loan origination, and portfolio management experience in commercial real estate. He has sourced and closed more than 300 transactions totaling over $4 billion in property acquisitions and structured debt during his career. Prior to joining Ocean West, Sam was head of capital markets and chairman of the investment committee at Embarcadero Capital Partners (“ECP”), where he oversaw the placement of approximately $1 billion of discretionary equity through five closed-end funds. Prior to ECP, Sam was director of acquisitions for ATC Partners, a San Francisco-based commercial real estate investor. He also provided term, bridge, and mezzanine financing to the commercial real estate market as vice president of Finova Realty Mezzanine and regional director of Finova Realty Capital. Sam is a graduate of University of California at Berkeley.