Team
CRAYS
The Next Evolution in Real-Estate Private Equity
We are industry veterans with 20+ years of experience and $30 billion in real estate transactions. Our team has owned and operated nearly 70 hotels over 40 years, partnering with Marriott, Starwood, IHG, and Hilton. As one of the first professional teams in short-term rentals, we bring decades of hospitality expertise to this maturing market.
Capabilities
Our experience spans vertically across the diverse landscape of real estate with institutional acumen and rigor!
- Ground up construction
- Property and asset management
- Investment fund structuring
- Underwriting
- Acquisitions
- Risk management
- M&A advisory
- Loan origination
- RMBS/CMBS structuring and securitization
Track Record
Our team has a history of success...
Our team has a history of success in the evolving investment landscape, identifying misalignments between managers, investors, lenders, servicers, and borrowers. These dynamics create hidden or ignored risks that impact economics but aren’t priced into forecasts. Our mission is to offer an institutional-grade investment with better transparency, flexibility, and closer investor relationships. We leverage distributed ledger technology and our proprietary platform to provide a superior product, experience, and management tool, along with our top-tier asset strategy.
Team Experience
The Crays Fund Team
Institutional finance, hospitality, technology, and lifestyle experience in one global Crays team.
The Crays Fund Team is the human operating layer behind the brand: built for capital, culture, events, and real-world belonging.
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Crays brings together community, lifestyle, and real-world belonging through a visual language that feels warm, international, and unmistakably human.
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Brand Manifesto
Crays is where strangers become stories —
and global citizens feel at home before they even check in.
Crays inspires us to focus on what truly matters in life. It will always represent the core values of mental freedom, creative use of spaces, and shared community experiences.
Take care of your family, friends, and everyone at Crays
You are what you believe
Work how you want, where you want, and whenever you want
Grow relationships, not just transactions
Don’t be cool—ask stupid questions
Live your life sustainably, in a green and healthy way
Be whatever you want to be—but always be nice and honest
Great organizations are driven by purpose, not profit alone
Young is a state of mind
Think different — change lives