Charles Purse, Senior Managing Director is a co-founder of the Park Hill Real Estate Group and is based in New York.

Before joining Park Hill Real Estate, Mr. Purse was a Managing Director of the Real Estate Private Fund Group ("REPFG") at Credit Suisse First Boston. Previously, he was a Managing Director - Marketing and Portfolio Management and minority owner of DRA Advisors, Inc., a $3.5 billion real estate investment advisory firm located in New York City.

Prior to joining DRA, Mr. Purse was a Senior Vice President - Marketing for The Yarmouth Group, a major real estate investment management firm based in New York and a subsidiary of Lend Lease Group (Australia). Also, Mr. Purse spent nine years in a variety of real estate roles with Citibank's Chicago, Sydney, and New York offices.  He started his career as a real estate lender with The Northern Trust Company in Chicago.

Mr. Purse received a BS from Dartmouth College and an MBA from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.