Keaton Baum, 29

Growing up in Pittsburgh, Keaton Baum saw firsthand the way real estate can combine theoretical and practical business realities. While interning with a friend’s father at a development firm, he observed the way business plans became tangible when he toured tenant spaces, got out in the field, and saw how market predictions met market realities. 

Years later, after graduating from New York University and working at Time Equities, he’s replicating that experience as part of a team that buys and manages assets across the globe. His team sources and underwrites new acquisition opportunities, crafts detailed business plans, and conducts market- and property-level due diligence — and then oversees management and operations. Since joining Time Equities seven years ago, he’s been involved in $1 billion in acquisitions.

From his first big deal in 2022, repositioning a nearly 270,000-square-foot office building in Phoenix next to the Paradise Valley Mall after buying it for $43 million, to recent work on a $40 million multifamily deal in Ohio, Baum has become familiar with redeveloping and reimagining office space, cementing partnerships across the firm’s wide portfolio. A deal for a 40,000-square-foot apartment in Seattle’s North Lake Union area, for instance, positioned the firm to benefit from the city’s continued tech industry expansion. 

He’s currently working on overseas projects in Scotland, after closing a series of deals for Time Equities in the Netherlands as part of a 35-plus property portfolio worth 100 million euros.

“I’ve gotten that analytical knowledge over the last six years working here, and the ability to fly across the country — or fly to Europe — and sit and have meetings with people who have been in the business for 30 years and feel super comfortable,” Baum said, “I think that’s a strength that I have.”