Rockwood announces advancements in strategic planning

Rockwood Capital has appointed Peter Falco to role of senior strategic advisor beginning in January 2018.

Previously, he was the senior managing partner and a co-founder.

Consistent with the firm’s succession planning, Walter Schmidt, senior managing partner and a co-founder, Tyson Skillings, managing partner, and Peter Kaye, managing partner, the other current members of the firm’s management committee, will remain in their current management roles with the continued support of the firm’s other partners: Bob Gray, a co-founder, David Becker, Tony Lariño and David Streicher. Messrs. Schmidt, Skillings and Kaye have been with Rockwood, including its predecessors, for 31, 15, and 15 years, respectively.

In addition to firm management, Falco has held leadership positions in client strategies, portfolio management and debt capital markets.  In his new role, he will advise the firm with respect to client strategies, trends in global capital flows and policy initiatives that impact domestic real estate investment.  Skillings will assume oversight of the client outreach efforts previously coordinated by Falco.

In addition, as part of the firm’s ongoing strategic planning, Rockwood has hired Alexia Gottschalch as a managing director and global head of client strategy.

Gottschalch comes to Rockwood from J.P. Morgan Asset Management – Global Real Assets, where she was head of business development and client strategy, real estate Americas.  In that role, she led a team of eight client portfolio managers and was responsible for executing a capital strategy for the $70 billion real estate platform.  Prior to that, Gottschalch held senior positions with Grosvenor, PGIM, Tishman Speyer and ING.