Edwards Monica
Private Equity Investor at Skytree Capital Partners
Profile
Ms. Edwards is a Managing Partner at Skytree Capital Partners focusing on real estate assets.
She has over 25 years of experience in private equity, fund management and real estate finance.
As an entrepreneur and fund manager, Ms. Edwards has invested or managed over $600 million over the course of her career.
Over the past 5 years, Ms. Edwards has focused on alternative industries, gaining first-hand experience by working directly in the field, then evaluating close to $1 billion in transactions.
Ms. Edwards has a passion for impact investment and she has made a personal and professional commitment to helping under-served markets gain access to capital.
She formed her own structured finance consultancy firm, which focused on utilizing federal incentives such as New Markets Tax Credits, Historic Tax Credits and Opportunity Zones to fund real estate development projects.
Prior to that, Ms. Edwards spent five years as a private equity fund-of-funds manager for Citigroup, where she directly invested over $100 million in urban real estate private equity funds and managed a $335 million portfolio of community-targeted investments.
Before her work at Citigroup, Ms. Edwards completed a six-month assignment in Santa Cruz, Bolivia to develop valuation models for Enron’s privatized oil and gas pipeline system, Transredes.
Thereafter, she returned to the U.S.
to focus on domestic economic development issues and was responsible for creating and investing a $40 million urban-focused private equity fund, for which Enron was the lead investor.
Ms. Edwards received her Master’s degree in Business Administration from Clark Atlanta University with an emphasis in Finance.
She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Princeton University, and also completed University of Southern California’s certificate program in Real Estate Development.
Her current board commitments include Pacific Community Ventures, NewCorp Capital and the Greater New Orleans Foundation.
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Skytree Capital Partners
Skytree Capital Partners Investment ManagersFinance Skytree Capital Partners is a private equity firm founded by Erik Allison, Luke Stanton, Monica Edwards, Matt Neely and Darrick Cole. The firm is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. | Private Equity Investor | - |
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Clark Atlanta University School of Business Administration | Masters Business Admin |
Princeton University | Undergraduate Degree |
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Skytree Capital Partners
Skytree Capital Partners Investment ManagersFinance Skytree Capital Partners is a private equity firm founded by Erik Allison, Luke Stanton, Monica Edwards, Matt Neely and Darrick Cole. The firm is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. | Finance |
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