Valiance Capital
Stephane Dessus is a seasoned real estate professional with extensive experience in property development, investment, and brokerage. Currently serving as Vice President of Development at Valiance Capital since February 2023, Dessus specializes in transforming undervalued assets in the multifamily and student housing sectors. As Managing Partner at Calwide Investments Collective LLC and previously at REA Collective LLC, Dessus has focused on buying, rehabilitating, and selling properties in the Bay Area. Additionally, Dessus has held roles as a Realtor and Associate Broker at Community Realty & Investments and Bay Valley Realty, providing full services to buyers and sellers. Dessus is also a seed investor in TiqAssist and Zimcode Inc, and has background experience in business development at Paymentwall. With a Master's Degree in Finance and dual Bachelor's Degrees in Business Administration and International Business from California State University - East Bay and Lycée Général et Technique Edgar Quinet, respectively, Dessus combines solid academic credentials with a robust professional portfolio.
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Valiance Capital
Valiance Capital is a vertically-integrated investment, operating and development real estate firm with a specialized in-house property management platform, known as The Berkeley Group, with a single market focus on student housing around UC Berkeley, home of the #1 public university of the world. Our strategy creates new housing supply and revitalizes old properties in the best locations, while significantly increasing quality and density to generate highly attractive risk-adjusted returns to investors. Starting in 2010 with just 2 units to now over 1,000 beds within some of the best locations around UC Berkeley, Valiance Capital is the pre-eminent private student housing owner-operator in the Berkeley submarket. We seek to add value at every step of the investing cycle with our vertically integrated platform, leveraging our extensive local expertise, with access to off-market opportunities and unique competitive advantages due to our deep relationships built over 15 years of proven operational execution.