TruAmerica Multifamily expands and strengthens national acquisitions team to support growth

Salt Lake City, UT TruAmerica Multifamily made a strategic reorganization of its acquisitions leadership team. The move deepens regional coverage, expands leadership capacity and execution depth across priority markets, and positions TruAmerica to accelerate growth across its value-add platform and adjacent investment strategies.

The promotions and new hires reinforce TruAmerica’s acquisitions strategy under Wes LaBar, executive managing director and head of acquisitions, who continues to lead the firm’s national acquisition efforts. The moves follow a period of strong momentum in 2025, during which TruAmerica completed $2.5 billion in combined transaction volume across acquisitions, dispositions, refinancings, and recapitalizations, reflecting the scale and pace of the firm’s national acquisitions activity. Collectively, these leadership changes are designed to support continued growth across TruAmerica’s flagship value-add platform, investment management business, and expanding complementary strategies.

“The scale of activity we’ve seen over the past year required us to continue investing in leadership and structure,” said LaBar. “By expanding responsibility across key regions, we’re ensuring the organization is positioned to execute consistently and support continued growth as market activity accelerates.”

To further scale its national acquisitions business, TruAmerica has elevated and added senior acquisitions leaders to expand regional oversight and execution capacity:

● Ammanuel Metta, managing director, acquisitions, will oversee acquisitions across the Central and Northeast regions, including Texas, the Midwest, Tennessee, the Mid-Atlantic, Boston, and suburban New York and New Jersey. Working with teams based in Dallas and Washington, D.C., Metta’s expanded role strengthens in-market leadership across TruAmerica’s core growth regions.

● Julien Lipps, director, acquisitions, continues to lead TruAmerica’s Southeastern acquisition platform, with expanded responsibility across Florida, Georgia, and North and South Carolina, supporting continued growth in high-demand Southeastern markets.

● Dylan Barreira has been promoted to senior director, acquisitions, leading acquisition efforts across the Western Region, overseeing activity from the Pacific Northwest through California and the Desert Region. Based in Salt Lake City, Barreira manages a team of acquisitions professionals supporting the firm’s Western growth strategy.

● Colin Riley has joined TruAmerica as director, acquisitions, leading acquisitions across targeted Western markets including Colorado, Utah, Washington, and Oregon, while supporting execution across the broader Western Region from the Salt Lake City office.

“This is about positioning the firm for durable, long-term growth,” said Bob Hart, CEO and president of TruAmerica Multifamily. “Under Wes’s leadership, we’ve built a team with the experience and regional reach to execute at scale while maintaining the discipline that has defined TruAmerica’s approach.”