Meet the Team

Principals

  • Shak is responsible for the company’s strategic direction, management, and the pursuit of business development initiatives.

    Shak is an accomplished professional in the real estate investment industry. Before founding 26th Street, he held various leadership positions at Jamestown since joining in 2006. He was the Head of Capital Markets and Co-Chief Investment Officer, overseeing acquisitions, financings, recapitalizations, and dispositions. Shak served as an Investment Committee member for Jamestown’s flagship, open-end institutional investor vehicle and closed-end retail investor funds. Shak began his career as a corporate investment banking analyst at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, then moved into real estate with Wells Real Estate Funds and WestWind Capital Partners.

    Shak graduated from Vanderbilt University.

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

  • Andrew is responsible for the company’s acquisitions, dispositions, development investments and portfolio strategy.

    Andrew has extensive experience in the real estate space. Prior to co-founding 26th Street, Andrew served as a Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer at Jamestown where he oversaw the acquisitions group and the firm’s new investments across all product types and U.S. geographies. Over the course of his tenure at Jamestown, Andrew led over $4 billion in acquisitions and dispositions activity. Prior to this work, Andrew started his career in the Equity Research department at Raymond James & Associates.

    Andrew graduated from Washington University in St. Louis.

CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER

  • Noah oversees the company’s day-to-day operational, corporate, and business functions.

    Noah has a diverse background in legal, operational, and business functions. Prior to co-founding 26th Street, he was Managing Director and General Counsel at Jamestown, where he oversaw the company’s legal, risk, and sustainability operations. Alongside Shak, he also served as an Investment Committee member for its open-end and closed-end timberland funds. Additionally, Noah worked with the acquisitions team for six years where he worked on nearly all the company’s acquisitions transactions. Prior to this work, Noah practiced in the Real Estate and Capital Markets group at King & Spalding LLP. He began his career as a business journalist at CNN in Atlanta, Georgia.

    Noah graduated from Williams College and the University of Georgia School of Law.

CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER

Team

  • Alexis leads asset management across 26th Street Partners’ portfolio, with a focus on business plan strategy and execution, leasing, and oversight of property teams. She takes a hands-on, collaborative approach, working closely with tenants, ownership, and property teams to enhance asset performance and create places that positively contribute to the surrounding neighborhood and city.

    Prior to her current role, Alexis built and led the asset management function at Urban Villages, where she managed a mixed-use portfolio across Denver and Seattle and played a key role in shaping and executing portfolio strategy on behalf of a family office owner. She was previously with Jamestown, where she worked on asset management for a large mixed-use portfolio in Washington, DC. She also held roles at Branch Properties, focusing on grocery-anchored retail assets across the Southeast, and at EY, where she worked in commercial real estate transaction consulting.

    She studied finance, real estate, and economics at Emory University Goizueta Business School.

ASSET MANAGEMENT

  • Lily is responsible for sourcing and underwriting acquisitions, evaluating investment opportunities across the firm’s target markets. She focuses on deal origination, financial modeling, and transaction execution across asset classes. Lily also supports asset management across the portfolio, collaborating with leasing and property teams to advance business plan execution and drive asset performance.

    Prior to her role at 26th Street, Lily was a member of Eastdil Secured’s industrial investment sales team, overseeing the marketing and underwriting of property and portfolio sales and recapitalizations across the country. She started her career as a generalist with Eastdil, underwriting residential, retail, office, and industrial transactions and financings.

    Lily studied finance, real estate, and computer science at University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce.

Acquisitions and Portfolio
Management