Ben is the Managing Director of Lerner Associates, a London based boutique M&A Advisory practice, set up by Ben in 2019. Lerner Associates focuses purely on PropTech transactions, both global and cross-border, across the spectrum of investment management, corporate, commercial, residential, multifamily, agency, workplace, facilities management, construction and real estate data solutions. Ben has over 20 years of experience working in the real estate software space, both strategically and operationally as a seasoned PropTech executive, and more latterly within corporate finance, M&A and investment. From prior to selling his family business, Qube Global Software, to MRI Software, and throughout his time with MRI and beyond, Ben has been actively involved in M&A on deal sourcing, structuring, due diligence and general advisory. Ben maintains excellent long term relationships both with real estate tech business owners and management executives, as well as with private equity and investment banking firms, leveraging these relationships to provide an exceptional advisory service to both sellers and buyers. With a keen interest in the startup community Ben also advises a number of PropTech focused venture capital firms and mentors for a number of startup accelerator programs.
