Miami-based RE firm appoints CFO

Raul Ramirez has been named chief financial officer at Lloyd Jones Capital, a Miami-based private equity real estate firm.

Ramirez will also sit on the company’s investment committee. He has previously worked in the tax department at PwC, and in real estate development at luxury homes developers Toll Brothers and WCI Communities.

Lloyd Jones invests in multifamily real estate in Texas, Florida and South Carolina. It targets assets with a minimum of 150 housing units and has a preference for value-add properties that are underperforming or require refurbishment.

In other news, private equity consultancy Accordion Partners has added Rishi Jain to its team as managing director and head of the western region.

The New York-based firm works in the financial office of companies that private equity funds have acquired to improve operational performance and strategy.

“The CFO at a PE portfolio company has a greater deal of responsibility that a normal day-to-day company CFO,” Jain says. “He or she is still managing all the regular finance blocking and tackling, but in a changing operational environment while also needing to provide very routing insight to the PE sponsor.”

The firm currently has 150 private equity clients across the US.