Capital Square hires managing director, institutional fundraising head

Ben Vonderhaar joins Henrico real estate investment firm

Published September 28, 2020 by Sydney Lake

Henrico County-based real estate investment company Capital Square announced Monday it has hired Bernard R. “Ben” Vonderhaar as managing director and head of institutional fundraising.

Vonderhaar was most recently the managing director of fundraising at BlackGold Capital Management LP and has also served as managing director and head of the endowment and foundation, health care and family office practices at Highland Capital Management LP, as well as managing director of the Central and Southwest division at Commonfund.

“We are thrilled that Ben Vonderhaar has joined Capital Square to assist with institutional fundraising,” Capital Square founder and CEO Louis Rogers said in a statement. “Capital Square has sponsored more than $2.2 billion of tax-advantaged real estate investments through the retail broker-dealer, RIA and wealth manager channels. It is a natural progression for Capital Square to use its growing platform, skills and expertise to sponsor larger, institutional investment programs and Ben is the right person to help us get there.”

Vonderhaar is a guest lecturer at William & Mary Mason School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin’s McCombs School of Business, Southern Methodist University’s Cox School of Business and the Rice University Jones Graduate School of Business. He also has served as an adjunct professor at the Naveen Jindal School of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. He earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting from the University of Findlay and his master’s degree in business administration with a concentration in economics from Ashland University.

“I am pleased to join Capital Square to expand its institutional fundraising,” Vonderhaar said in a statement. “Capital Square has proven expertise in successfully sponsoring and managing real estate investments that would benefit institutional investors seeking superior risk-adjusted returns.”