Instructor
Adam Gower Ph.D.
Veteran Real Estate Professional, Educator
About me
Expertise:
Real estate crowdfunding and syndication, helping investors finance their deals, real estate investing education
Adam Gower Ph.D. is a highly sought-after expert in crowdfunding helping real estate professionals finance their projects without having to spend all their time searching for investors. Learn more about how he does that at GowerCrowd.
Adam has more than 30 years and $1.5 billion of transactional experience in commercial real estate finance and investment. Since 2012, he has built a digital marketing agency at GowerCrowd where he advises real estate pros on how to raise capital by helping them build and convert their investor lists. To date his clients have raised over $1 billion in equity using the Investor Acquisition System, Adam’s proprietary system for raising capital.
Experience:
Adam has held senior management positions at some of the largest companies and institutions in the world including running real estate for Universal Studios and Paramount Studios (Asia Pacific), heading the distressed real estate group at a major California bank ($1 billion portfolio), running real estate workouts and sales at Colony Capital ($6 billion portfolio) and others.
When the JOBS Act of 2012 was passed, Adam realized that commercial real estate finance would be transformed by the new regulations by permitting equity to be raised online. Seeing that this would revolutionize the industry he formed GowerCrowd, an agency geared to assisting real estate developers raise money online by crowdfunding, and to educating investors on what to look for.
His goal is to liberate real estate entrepreneurs from the shackles of in-person equity raising by automating the process for them so they are free to buy the deals they want, grow their portfolios and provide passive income to for themselves and their investors while building long term wealth.
Publications:
Adam has published multiple books, including Leaders of the Crowd, (Palgrave Macmillan: New York, 2018), which examines how the origins of crowdfunding and how real estate has come to dominate the industry, Real Estate Crowdfunding: An Insider’s Guide to Investing Online, Routledge: New York, 2020) gives investors the inside scoop on what to look for when investing in crowdfunded deals, SYNDICATE, a practical guide to how to raise money online, UNLEASHED, where he quantifies the sheer scale of how big the real estate crowdfunding industry has grown, The Secret World of Real Estate and Crowdfunding, geared to accredited investors that reveals the hidden benefits of online commercial real estate investing and Capital Calls and RESCUE Capital, which discusses what to do when deals go wrong and is written for passive and professional investors alike.