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Remy Raisner
Remy Raisner is a French-American entrepreneur, real estate investor and author.

He is the founder & CEO of The Raisner Group (formerly known as Proteus Capital Management), a real estate private equity company headquartered in New York City. He best known as one of the New York real estate entrepreneurs credited for leading the urban renewal of Brooklyn, NY.

He has also been a leading voice of the real estate industry and has been a contributor for Forbes, the HuffPost and Le Monde. He has also written about foreign affairs and in particular the French-American relationship. In 2020 and upon the covid19 pandemic, he has predicted the come back of urban real estate.

Early life and education
Raisner was born and grew up in Paris to a French-Serbian mother raised in Los Angeles, and a French-German father. He played professional basketball in France and thereafter moved to the United States at age 19 to play Division 1 basketball in college at Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Career
Raisner first worked as an equities trader for a New York hedge fund. He then graduated from Columbia Business School in 2008 during the Financial Crisis. He formed a company, Proteus Capital Management (later renamed The Raisner Group), in 2009 to focus on US real estate investments and restructure apartment buildings bankrupt by the subprime crisis. He then turned around over 30 properties in the neighborhoods of Bushwick, Bed Stuy and Prospect-Lefferts Gardens. In 2020, Crain's New York named him a 'Rising Star in Real Estate'.

Advisorships & Memberships
He is a CFA Charterholder, a Foreign Trade Advisor to the Government of France and a member of the French-American Foundation. He is a frequent lecturer at universities and conferences , and is involved in various New York City organizations committed to ending homelessness and economically empowering lower-income communities. He has been a pro-bono adviser to the Saint Vincent de Paul church in New York in its efforts to be architecturally preserved. He serves as an advisor to the Concordia Summit.

Early stage tech investing
Raisner founded Raisner Tech Ventures in 2013 and made angel and seed round investments in startups focused on real estate technology including RealCrowd, Nooklyn, Enertiv, TheGuarantors, Plotbox and LeasePilot. He oftentimes serves as an advisor to these companies.

Writing
Raisner has written numerous articles, most often op-eds, on subjects related to real estate, urbanism and foreign affairs. His work has been widely translated and published in multiple countries such as the United States, France , Italy , Swizterland , Canada and Mexico. It has been featured in media outlets including Forbes, The HuffPost , Le Monde, Medium , The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Observer , The World Economic Forum and L'Express.

Personal life
His father was award-winning harmonica player and TV host Albert Raisner  and his mother is Miss France 1978 Brigitte Konjovic. He has a younger brother, Richard and is a descendant of Milan Konjovic, Petar Konjovic, Djordje Konjovic and Dimitrije Konjovic. His godmother was Jacqueline Monsigny.