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Ram Kalagara
Designing his services on a foundation of transparency and integrity, Ram Kalagara is a renowned private equity/crowdfunding professional who possesses both the financial and real estate development expertise necessary to exceed wealth-building objectives.
As the CEO of Ram Realty Trust, Ram features an extensive 25+ year background involving multi-million-dollar financial planning, real estate development/brokerage and engineering design/construction. With this 360-degree professional view, Ram has cultivated the fundamental skills to maximize quarterly investor dividends and help them achieve sustainable financial freedom.
At the start of his progressive career, Ram graduated from Nagarjuna University in India with a Civil and Environmental Engineering degree and later earned his Master's in Computer and Information Sciences at Cleveland State University in Ohio. With this as his base, Ram went on to work as a respected and seasoned senior software developer, cultivating over 20 years of consultative leadership and design experience within the technology sector. During this time, Ram simultaneously utilized his rooted aptitude for interactive web development and programming, which became the catalyst for him to create tailored applications and immersive technology solutions, master Salesforce, and pioneer advanced organizational growth.
Upon holding several other leadership roles prior, Ram began working for the third-largest engineering design and construction company worldwide, AECOM. Shifting through various roles and responsibilities within this company for 17+ years, Ram strengthened his performance assessment, project management, and design/execution of custom-built software applications, all with a keen focus on safety. Furthermore, Ram worked for numerous other fortune 500 companies, including IBM, Bank of America, Abbott, British Petroleum (BP), and KeyBank. Even more, Ram concurrently was fulfilling his second passion for real estate, as he became a licensed Realtor in North Carolina and South Carolina, a licensed Mortgage Loan Originator in North Carolina originated loans with $15M+ volume, a licensed General Securities Representative (Series 7), and a registered Investment Advisor (Series 66). To date, Ram has collected 9+ years of experience in residential and commercial real estate sales, development, and multi-family property management.
Throughout his 9+ year real estate journey thus far, Ram has built and sold a custom home in Providence Country Club as a licensed general contractor, owns and manages several rental properties in Charlotte, NC, and was a prior managing member of Cloisters Capital, where he acquired, renovated, maintained, and disposed of an 88-unit apartment complex called ‘The Cloisters’ in Myrtle Beach, SC. In addition, Ram was a partner in Aviary Village Capital where he successfully led the acquisition, renovation, and disposition of a 63-unit apartment complex called 'Aviary Village' in Conway, SC and led the development for a 18,000 sqft. retail building called ‘Gateway’ in Indian Land, SC - all of which collectively set a valuable pathway for investors to gain optimal ROI. Along with this, Ram is a managing member of Lancaster Capital, a principal managing member of Arka Heights, which is currently developing a $30+ million, 210-unit multi-family apartments in Monroe, NC. He is also a licensed life and health insurance agent in NC and a restaurateur with partnerships in multiple restaurants AmaravatiGrill.com and BBQNationUS.com. Today, Ram has leveraged that strong and diverse history with his advanced network of banks, builders, brokers, and traders to establish Ram Realty, a brokerage that currently has 35+ agents and has since closed 500+ transactions worth over $155M.
As a dynamic professional and sophisticated investor, Ram has a genuine ardency for helping others obtain their profit objectives and unlock the financially secured futures they deserve. Overall, his goal is to empower investors with in-depth market insight and proactively acquire, manage, and sell the property accordingly to solidify maximum profit returns - all while delivering positive constructive experiences along the way. This, in conjunction with his innate cross-functional leadership skills and commitment to ensuring his investors succeed, is what has positioned Ram to become the endorsed wealth growing asset he is today who continuously strives to not only meet expectations, but exceed them every time.
With his rich inventory of real estate development and financing accomplishments, Ram has demonstrated himself as an industry leader with a core mission to continue raising the standards bar for everyone involved. Overall, he has a deep passion for what he does, and aims to instill positive impacts on both a granular and societal scale. However, when he is not working or expanding, you can often find him playing Tennis, workout at CrossFit, watch movies, being active in his community, and spending time with his amazing wife Sridevi, daughter Sanjana, and son Srikar.