Ariel Shtarkman

Ariel is the Founder of Orca Capital, a boutique investment practice focused on real estate and real estate technology and is an active angel investor in the PropTech sector. She is also the Co-founder and Managing Director of Atom Assets, a real estate investment platform for family offices in Hong Kong, where she structured debt instruments for real estate developers, REITs and private equity funds.

As well as experience in Citibank, she has worked in real estate private equity funds sponsored by ING Clarion in New York (covering the US) and ING Real Estate Investment Management in Hong Kong (covering Asia).

Ariel holds an MBA from Columbia Business School with concentration in Real Estate and a BSc from Tel Aviv University with a double major in Computer Science and Business Administration. She serves as Senior Content Advisor for ULI Asia Pacific, is a member of the ULI North Asia Executive Committee and a founding member of the Columbia Business School Alumni Network of Hong Kong. Ariel is fluent in English, Hebrew and Russian and conversant in Spanish and Mandarin Chinese. Her other interests include martial arts, travel, the integration of technology and real estate and the future of education.