RELPI adds Poloner as managing director, strategy

Manhattan, NY The Real Estate Limited Partner Institute (RELPI) has added Ephraim Poloner to its executive team as managing director, strategy. In this capacity, Poloner will help expand RELPI’s platform of successful meetings, events and conferences devoted to the global institutional investment community for the commercial real estate class.

Established in 2021, RELPI offers “proximity” as its prime value proposition, delivering intimate, ultrahigh-value gatherings to enable business connectivity. Poloner will focus on broadening RELPI’s events and conference offerings, global footprint, content generation and bringing in the next generation of industry leadership.

Poloner most recently served as a corporate development lead at IDT Corp., where he focused on strategic initiatives and supported growth efforts across one of the company’s fintech businesses. Before joining IDT, he worked in investment banking (M&A) at RBC Capital Markets, advising on corporate transactions, and earlier gained experience in real estate and alternative investments. He also founded and successfully exited a small technology venture, reflecting his interest in innovation and business building.

“We are excited to bring Ephraim on board to broaden RELPI and take us into new areas of business growth and development,” said Jonathan Schein, RELPI’s chief executive and founder. “Now entering our fifth year, RELPI is poised to take advantage of new areas that were unforeseen in just this short period of time. I am confident that Ephraim has the talent, intellect, and drive to take us to the next level.”

RELPI has hundreds of community members taking part in programs that bring together real estate institutional investors, fund managers, operating companies and those organizations allied to the industry. RELPI has hundreds of members from both the institutional investor and private equity sides.

“RELPI has created a strong and engaged community around the people and ideas shaping institutional real estate,” Poloner said. “I’m excited to help accelerate its growth, strengthen the ways we bring people together and continue advancing Jonathan’s vision for aligning interests and creating dynamic meaningful connections between investment professionals and capital sources in fresh contexts.”