Primary Job Title Founder/Senior Managing Principal Primary Organization 
Silver Portal Capital
Location San Diego, California, United States Regions Greater San Diego Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Jon Haahr is the Founder of Silver Portal Capital and a Senior Managing Principal with over 25 years of experience in the capital markets and a track record that exhibits a depth of investment banking, real estate advising, and capital raising expertise for both private and public companies. He has been managing underwriter, placement agent and
advisor in over $17 billion of equity, debt and financial advisory transactions for the real estate industry from 1992 to the present, involving more than 140 transactions. Mr. Haahr was Co-Head and Managing Director of Real Estate Investment Banking for Wachovia Securities from 1999-2001, and founded and ran the Real Estate and Lodging Group at EVEREN Securities (successor firm to Kemper Securities), from 1991 until joining Wachovia. Mr. Haahr received his MBA in Finance from the Henry B. Tippie School of Management at the University of Iowa, holds a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Iowa State University and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). He is a past and present member of multiple corporate boards, currently serving as a director of Clarion Partners Property Trust and Reven Housing REIT, and previously served as Trustee of the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at the University of Wisconsin.
