Paul N. Arena

Paul Arena is the Founder and Managing Partner at Ex Voto Capital. 

Paul has more than three decades of financial services experience, spanning a variety of leadership roles and across multiple alternative asset classes. Before founding Ex Voto Capital, Paul served as Chief Operating Officer of MIM Investment Management, a mid-market private equity real estate investment manager. Prior to that, Paul ran Vauxhall Advisors, a boutique private capital advisory firm specializing in raising institutional capital and executing structured finance transactions across a range of real estate sectors. 

Paul spent nearly 20 years at some of the most prominent global and national commercial real estate services and capital markets advisory firms, including Newmark, The Carlton Group and Atlantic-Pacific Capital, where in aggregate he originated, negotiated and/or closed more than $50Bn in structured finance transactions. Paul also ran, as Chief Operating Officer, an open-ended, offshore real estate opportunity fund for almost a decade. Paul began his career with Lehman Brothers in New York.

Paul holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in Economics and Financial Theory from Fordham University in New York.