Frank Apeseche
Lecturer in Real Estate

Frank Apeseche is a long standing faculty member of the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. His research interests target how innovation, strategy, leadership, and capital formation influence enterprise performance. His courses have included Real Estate and Advanced Real Estate Finance Development and Management, Building and Leading Real Estate Enterprises and Entrepreneurship, Real Estate Private Equity I and II, Environment Economics and Enterprise, and the Harvard Master of Real Estate Practicum. Frank is also part of the senior faculty team of Harvard’s Advanced Management Development program, and formerly was acting Co-Director of Harvard’s Real Estate Academic Initiative, Co-Coordinator of the GSD’s MDes program in Real Estate and the Built Environment, Director of the real estate student/alumni imitative, and Career Services Liaison for the Master in Real Estate program.
Frank’s practice focuses on optimizing the performance of real estate organizations. Over the past three decades he served as Chief Executive Officer of two national corporations, Treasurer of two NYSE REITS, and a Board member of seventeen additional companies.
Frank is currently Chairman of Amstar, an international real estate private equity firm. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Launchpad Venture Group where he specializes in financing disruptive growth companies in the real estate proptech and cleantech industries. Previously he was Chief Executive Officer of The Berkshire Group. During his twenty six years at Berkshire Frank helped launch and grow more than a half dozen subsidiaries in the multifamily, long-term care, hospitality, real estate private equity, and mortgage finance industries. He subsequently took three companies public on the NYSE, another on the TSX, grew and sold Berkshire’s mortgage enterprise to Deutsche Bank AG, and then created its U.S. institutional manager, Berkshire Residential Investments, which now has $30 billion AUM. Frank received his BA from Cornell University and his MBA from the University of Michigan.