Mehul Chavada

Mehul M. Chavada is the Founder & Managing Partner of 3i Capital Partners, where he sets the firm’s strategic vision and leads capital formation, investment execution, and portfolio management. He partners with family offices, institutions, and operating companies to source and structure proprietary investment opportunities, while ensuring disciplined risk management and long-term value creation.

Mehul brings more than 18 years of experience and $5B+ in transaction history across multifamily, student housing, and mixed-use assets globally. Most recently, he served as President & CIO of Casoro Group, overseeing global growth strategy, P&L, and portfolio allocation for the firm’s affiliated single-family office. Earlier, as Head of Investments at Nitya Capital, he scaled AUM to $2B+, built a 10,000-bed student housing platform across seven states, and expanded the firm’s multifamily footprint nationally. Prior to that, as a Director at Hines, he managed five global real estate funds (~$2B in equity), delivering large-scale developments across the U.S., EU and Asia.

Mehul holds graduate degrees from Virginia Tech (M.S. Civil Engineering) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.S. Real Estate). He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Real Estate Private Equity at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business, is active in YPO, and advises several real estate start-ups in Texas. He holds an M.S. in civil engineering from Virginia Tech, and an M.S. in real estate from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.