Kovi Elkus
Senior Managing Director
Kovi Elkus, based in the company’s Los Angeles office, joined Meridian in 2010 and currently serves as a Senior Managing Director of Capital Markets.
Mr. Elkus has worked on some of the firm’s iconic transactions, including procuring a $1 billion line of credit, financing Nvidia’s headquarters in Santa Clara, CA, T-Mobile’s headquarters in Seattle, WA, and Netflix’s headquarters in Los Gatos, CA, as well as financing numerous Amazon office and industrial buildings spanning tens of millions of square feet across the United States.
Over the course of his career, Mr. Elkus has negotiated billions of dollars in financing for multifamily, office, retail, industrial, and other property types throughout the country.
Prior to joining Meridian, Mr. Elkus worked at REIS, where he wrote research reports on real estate markets nationwide; Eurocom GRE, as an asset manager and consultant for an international real estate firm; and National Australia Bank, as a financial adviser.
Mr. Elkus holds a degree in Business and Computing from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in Melbourne, Australia, a Certificate in Real Estate and Finance from New York University in New York, NY, and a Postbaccalaureate in Psychology from Yeshiva University in New York, NY.