John Waters

Partner & Head of Investments, Real Estate

Mr. Waters is a partner and head of investments for the real estate team.

Prior to StepStone, Mr. Waters was a vice president at Clairvue Capital Partners, a real estate investment manager which integrated with StepStone to establish StepStone Real Estate. At Clairvue, Mr. Waters focused on sourcing, underwriting and managing investments in the U.S. and Europe.  Prior to Clairvue, Mr. Waters was an acquisitions associate at Starwood Capital Group, a leading global private equity firm, where he focused on underwriting investments for the firm’s opportunity and debt funds. Before Starwood, Mr. Waters spent over two years as an analyst in the Real Estate Investment Banking group at Banc of America Securities, working on a variety of M&A transactions.

Mr. Waters received his BBA from the University of Georgia.

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