BEVERLY, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Brookwood Financial Partners, LLC (“Brookwood”), a leading real estate investment and asset management company, today announced Ericka L. Ayles has joined the firm’s senior management team as Managing Director and Director of Finance at its Beverly headquarters.
Ms. Ayles will be responsible for supervising the general accounting, financial reporting, budgeting, financial analysis and tax reporting for Brookwood and all of its affiliated entities. In addition, Ms. Ayles will oversee the cash management and banking relationship functions for Brookwood and assist in the acquisition, asset management and disposition process for each of Brookwood’s portfolio investments.
“We are thrilled to have someone with Ericka’s management, accounting and reporting expertise join our team,” stated Thomas Nicholas Trkla, Brookwood’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. “She is a well-respected and proven leader in the real estate industry and has tremendous experience building and running portfolio accounting teams.”
Prior to joining Brookwood, Ms. Ayles worked for JDJ Family office Services, a private financial and administrative service company for high net worth families and individuals, where she was a client manager providing accounting, tax coordination and planning, estate planning, financial management and business consulting services to a portfolio of clients. Previously, Ericka worked at New Boston Fund, Inc., (“New Boston Fund”), where she was a Vice President of Portfolio and Financial Reporting. Ms. Ayles worked at New Boston Fund from 2002 until 2014 and managed a staff of 25 property and portfolio accountants and was directly involved with property, portfolio and fund accounting. Ms. Ayles began her career in public accounting at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP as an Associate and Senior Associate focusing on technology and higher education clients.
Ms. Ayles is a graduate of Bryant College where she received her BS degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting.
About Brookwood Financial Partners, LLC – Brookwood is a Massachusetts-based private investment firm founded in 1993 that specializes in acquiring and managing commercial real estate and corporate securities on behalf of a select group of institutional and high net worth investors, family offices and trusts. Since its inception, Brookwood has invested over $750 million of equity to acquire a portfolio of 158 assets with a realized and unrealized value of $2.0 billion that has spanned multiple asset classes, geographical markets and industries across the United States.
