Executive Profiles

Greg Lampert
Founder

Mark Bishop
Managing Director

Ryan Bristol
Managing Director

Greg Lampert
Founder

Greg Lampert is the founder and manager of Liquiddium Capital Partners, LLC, a private equity real estate firm. Prior to Liquiddium, Mr. Lampert helped form PropPoint, a real estate investment firm with an emphasis on commercial real estate transactions for 1031 exchange investors.  Prior to PropPoint, Mr. Lampert acquired an internet company for 105 million Euros in late 2004 and subsequently floated the company on the London Stock Exchange in the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) for 180 million Euros the following day. 

Since 1985, Mr. Lampert has been acting as the chief executive officer of International Asset Group, Inc. (IAG), which provides real estate consulting and advisory services to major offshore financial institutions with a strategic focus on Asia.  IAG has provided support to many large Japanese financial institutions in a wide range of real estate transactions.  Acting as both an advisor and principal in transactions, IAG and has been involved in over $2.5 billion in international and domestic real estate development or acquisition projects.

Mr. Lampert began his real estate and financial career in the Tokyo corporate planning division of ITOHCHU Corporation, one of Japan's largest general trading companies. During his tenure at ITOHCHU, Mr. Lampert was responsible for North American business development, leading multiple new business ventures for American and Canadian companies in the Japanese market.

Mr. Lampert later joined King International Group as vice president for business development and project management, where he managed business initiatives for Japanese firms located in California. He was later elevated to the position of managing partner of King International Asset Group, the firm's real estate consulting subsidiary. While at King, Mr. Lampert oversaw real estate consulting assignments for many of Japan's largest real estate and financial institutions.

Mr. Lampert earned a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from California State University, Long Beach, and completed post-graduate work in real estate and finance at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He received his Japanese language training at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Mark Bishop
Managing Director

Mark Bishop is managing director of Liquiddium Capital Partners.  Bishop is responsible for lending and institutional investment for the firm's real estate investments.
 
Previously, Bishop was president of IMPAC Mortgage Acceptance Corporation in Irvine, Calif.  At IMPAC, Bishop serviced investment banking sector clients with the purchase of bulk whole-loans, and the subsequent pooling and securitization of non-conforming mortgage debt, with volume in excess of $2 billion annually.  Bishop also was the president of Novelle Financial Services, where he led the development of the company's sub-prime mortgage loan wholesale and retail origination platform.
 
Bishop began his real estate career as Vice President at Drexel Burnham Lambert, where he advised institutional clients in the national secondary mortgage market.  He later co-founded Brentwood Financial Group, managing the bulk purchase, and subsequent pooling and sales of conforming and non-conforming residential mortgage loans on a national scale.  
 
The Santa Fe, Calif. resident earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. 

Ryan Bristol
Managing Director

Ryan Bristol co-founded Liquiddium Capital Partners with Greg Lampert and previously was the founder and chief executive officer of PropPoint, a Malibu, Calif.-based real estate investment firm with an emphasis on commercial real estate transactions for 1031 exchange investors.

Mr. Bristol's career has been focused in financial services and real estate. Mr. Bristol began his career at Goldman Sachs in San Francisco, where he worked in the Equities division on an equity capital markets team that managed IPO's and secondary offerings for Institutional accounts, whose assets under management ranged from $200 million to $600 billion. Mr. Bristol later joined Morgan Stanley's Investment Management division as a regional vice president. Mr. Bristol was then recruited to join Bank of America's Private Bank as a Vice President in Los Angeles. At Bank of America, he co-led a team that managed $2.1 billion in assets and $500 million in credit products for high net worth individuals, families, private foundations and institutions. While at Bank of America, Mr. Bristol became an active real estate investor, managing his family business that acquired, renovated and sold single family properties in California. With a passion for real estate, Mr. Bristol left Bank of America to focus on real estate investing as a principal and to assist a private Los Angeles real estate investment firm in raising equity for their real estate syndications.

Mr. Bristol earned his MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA and a BS in business administration from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

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