Three complementary disciplines:
credit underwriting, capital markets,
and quantitative risk.
Alex Plichta
Alex Plichta oversees credit underwriting, fund strategy, and investment decisions for KP Partners. He began on the corporate development team at Quaker Chemical Corporation, supporting syndicated funding efforts for the firm's $1.4B acquisition of Houghton International, backed by over $1.1B in syndicated debt financing. Alex then joined Macquarie Asset Management, coordinating deal origination and screening during the integration of Delaware Investments, Macquarie's then-largest acquisition at $428M, bringing $125B in AUM onto the platform. He subsequently led strategy and due diligence for private equity acquisitions at Bantry Consulting before launching KP Partners.
Justin Kim
Justin Kim leads capital markets, investor relations, and lender origination partnerships for KP Partners, where he has sourced and executed tens of millions of dollars in real estate debt transactions, including negotiating access to over $2.5B in capital liquidity and building a $250M loan pipeline. Justin began his career as a Drill Sergeant in the Republic of Korea Army before managing condominium development projects at KOREX, where he built a network of 550+ industry partners. He went on to underwrite commercial real estate loans at New Empire Corp and worked within a private family office focused on real estate acquisitions and development before co-founding KP Partners. Justin studied Real Estate at New York University and is based in New York.
Adam Shannon
Adam Shannon is responsible for quantitative portfolio construction and risk management for KPP's B-note strategy. Outside KPP, Adam directs an algorithmic medium-frequency futures hedge fund and leads quantitative modelling for a US-based real estate options fund. Prior to this, Adam worked as a Quantitative Researcher at Citadel, where he focused on modelling intraday market effects. Adam specialised in string theory at Trinity College, University of Cambridge, and represented Scotland on the national chess team.