Ben Weprin

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Ben Weprin (June 28, 1978) is the founder and CEO of AJ Capital Partners, [1] a private real estate investment company based in Nashville. [2] [3] [4] Weprin and AJ Capital founded Graduate Hotels in 2014, later selling it to Hilton Worldwide in 2024. [5] [6]

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Early life and education

Weprin was born and raised in Oakwood, Ohio, a Dayton, Ohio suburb. [4] He graduated from the University of Tennessee. Mr. Weprin completed his MBA at Kellogg School of Management. [7] [4]

Career

In 2008, Weprin founded AJ Capital Partners. In Chicago, he restored the Hotel Lincoln, Chicago Athletic Association, Soho House and Thompson Chicago. [4] The current portfolio includes projects throughout Nashville, as well as Chicago Athletic Association in Chicago, The Pontchartrain Hotel in New Orleans, Memoir Residential in Portland, OR, New Orleans, LA, and Nashville, TN, among others. [8] He founded Graduate Hotels in 2014, [5] Marine & Lawn Hotels & Resorts in 2021, [9] and Memoir Residential in 2023. [10] In 2023, AJ Capital announced a partnership with Starwood Capital Partners to create Field & Stream Lodge Co., which will roll out properties in 2025. [11] Additional active projects include The Armory in San Francisco; Wedgewood Village in Nashville, TN; Belle Meade Plaza in Nashville, TN; as well as the Rusacks St. Andrews overlooking the Old Course in St. Andrews, Scotland, which opened in July 2021 and is part of Marine & Lawn Hotels & Resorts. [12]

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  2. ↑ Grossman, Evan (June 8, 2015). "How AJ Capital is Developing a Unique Value Proposition". Lodging.
  3. ↑ Brown, Adam (January 4, 2016). "The revivalist: A young hotelier with an eye for an aged luxury gem". Forbes.
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