Brendan Wallace

CEO & CIO at Fifth Wall

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Brendan Wallace is CEO & CIO at Fifth Wall, where he guides the firm’s strategic vision. Fifth Wall is the largest venture capital firm focused on technologies for the global real estate industry, including those which decarbonize the sector. Wallace has described the impact of the real estate industry on the environment as "the single-biggest lever we can turn on to mitigate climate change.” Prior to founding Fifth Wall in 2016, Brendan co-founded Identified, a workforce optimization data and analytics company that raised $33 million of venture funding and was acquired by Workday (NYSE: WKDY) in 2014. He also co-founded Cabify, the largest ridesharing service in Latin America, and has been an active investor, leading more than 60 angel investments including Lyft, SpaceX, Dollar Shave Club, Bonobos, Philz Coffee, and TriNet Zenefits. Brendan started his career at Goldman Sachs in the real estate, hospitality, and gaming group, before joining The Blackstone Group’s real estate private equity practice. Brendan is from New York City and splits his time between Park City, New York, and London. He graduated from Princeton University, where he graduated summa cum laude with a BA in political science and economics. He received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arbuckle Leadership Fellowship. Brendan was included on Los Angeles Business Journal’s LA500 List of the most influential business executives from 2019 through 2022, and was also included on Commercial Observer’s Power 100 List in 2021 and 2022.