Chase Bolding

If you’d have asked Chase Bolding what he wanted his career to be when he left the University of Texas at Austin in 2007, he’d have told you he wasn’t exactly sure. He said he was both “impressed by and jealous of those people” who left school knowing what they wanted to do. 

While figuring things out, he went to work for a small real estate private equity fund in Connecticut called Greenfield Partners, asking if he could do an unpaid internship to gain some experience. 

“Despite having no history of interns nor any analysts, they said sure and put me up in Stamford for the summer,” he said. “They surprised me with a small check at the end of the summer, and that remains one of the most memorable and meaningful forms of compensation I’ve ever received.”

He worked for Greenfield for four years before joining Invesco in 2010, in the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis. Part of his business was buying distressed assets, an experience that, because of the learning opportunities and the people he got to work with, Bolding called “an absolute blast.”

Today, Chase is president of Invesco Real Estate Income Trust (INREIT), which invests in stabilized properties including health care, office, multifamily, industrial, self-storage, retail and student housing. This month, the platform announced the full subscription of IREX II Self Storage Portfolio Delaware Statutory Trust, an $87.5 million portfolio of eight self-storage properties across four states. As of May 31, INREIT’s total asset value was $945 million across 59 properties that have an average occupancy of 92 percent, according to INREIT’s website. 

Connecting with people and forming lasting relationships — whether it is with colleagues or clients — is what drives Bolding. It’s also what he views as his biggest career accomplishments. 

“It’s the relationships — internally with colleagues and externally with partners, advisers and our investors — that speak more to my professional achievements,” he said. “We’re in the business of beating various benchmarks, so it all ladders up to that report card, but building durable partnerships to tackle problems and grab opportunities has a huge return on effort.”