Our Team

Co-Founder & Managing Partner
eric@invictus-rep.com
+1 646-450-8055
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Eric co-founded Invictus in 2020 and is responsible for originating and structuring investments, risk and portfolio management, raising capital and asset management. He is a real estate attorney and banker by trade, with over 31 years of experience in real estate equity investments and structured debt, joint ventures, property developments, and restructurings and workouts.Prior to Invictus, Eric spent 10 years as a Partner and General Counsel at Glacier Global Partners, a New York private equity company, where Eric originated deals, raised equity and debt, structured, closed and executed the business plans on all projects.  Prior to Glacier, Eric spent 3 years as Managing Director and General Counsel of Madison Realty Capital, a real estate debt fund where his principal responsibilities were structuring and closing new debt originations and re-structuring and working out existing portfolio loans. During his tenure, Eric led the workouts and foreclosures, of over 150 transactions.

Prior to Madison, Eric worked at Bear Stearns & Co., as a Director in the CMBS group, structuring and closing over $3.7 billion of commercial mortgages and managing the group’s $1.5 billion balance sheet lending platform, consisting of construction, redevelopment, bridge and mezzanine loans. Prior to Bear Stearns, Mr. Scheffler spent 11 years as a commercial real estate attorney at Winston & Strawn LLP and Blank Rome LLP.Eric resides in Scarsdale, NY with his wife and three daughters.  When he’s not working, Eric competes in triathlons, ultramarathons and plays guitar in a local “mid-life crisis” band. Eric received a B.A. in economics and philosophy from Colgate University and a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law.

Co-Founder & Managing Partner
chris@invictus-rep.com
+1 646-761-0754
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As a co-founder of Invictus Real Estate Partners, Chris is responsible for sourcing and underwriting equity and debt originations, as well as capital raising, asset management and residential and office development. With just under 24 years of experience and almost 4 million square feet of development expertise, Chris brings hands on knowledge in project management, planning and execution. His most recent development was the recipient of a 2019 Building Brooklyn Award from The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce for best adaptive reuse for an office development.

Chris is a real estate developer with over 23 years of experience in ground up construction and conversions of residential and office real estate properties. His knowledge of zoning and massing analysis, construction methodologies and financial evaluation enable him to quickly discern the economic viability of equity and debt investments.

Prior to Invictus, Chris spent 10 years as a Principal at Glacier Global Partners, a New York private equity company. Chris’s responsibilities included sourcing acquisitions, residential and office development, debt originations, underwriting, financial procurement, product positioning, property management, project management, leasing and general implementation of development objectives.  Prior to Glacier, Chris was the Director of Development and Acquisitions for Triton Realty Holdings, a real estate company where his principal responsibilities were sourcing acquisitions, underwriting, financial procurement, product positioning and general implementation.  Involved in all facets of due diligence, financial analysis, team selection and marketing approach. Chris co-managed the entire development process from acquisition to final construction documents and project completion.

Prior to Triton, Chris formed Newport Development Group which specialized in the investment, acquisition, and development of real estate in NYC. Individually, through joint ventures and partnerships, he was actively involved as a principal in the ownership and development of numerous residential and commercial properties. Prior to Newport, Chris was previously an institutional equity trader for Goldman Sachs and Valores Finamex International. He was primarily involved with institutional sales and trading in Latin American Equities and Foreign Exchange.  He actively traded a $150 million proprietary trading portfolio as well as manage and cultivate institutional accounts that held in excess of $500 billion in assets under management.

Chris resides in Carroll Gardens, NY with his wife and son.  Mr. Pardo is a native of New York and attended Columbia University with a concentration in economics and Polytechnic University with a concentration in electrical engineering.

Portfolio Manager
mike@invictus-rep.com
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Mike joined Invictus in 2023 and is responsible for managing new debt investment opportunities as well as Invictus’ existing portfolio.

Mike’s previous experience includes a debt investment role at Yieldstreet, an acquisitions role at Onyx Equities, and a capital markets position on UBS’ CMBS banking desk.

Mike holds a B.A. in physics from Rutgers University.

Vice President - Investments
rhett@invictus-rep.com
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Rhett joined Invictus in 2025 and is responsible for underwriting new investment opportunities and supporting asset management.

Prior to joining Invictus, Rhett was a Senior Associate in the commercial real estate group at Yieldstreet, where he was responsible for the origination, underwriting, and asset management of equity and debt investments across various property types. He began his career as an Analyst in the Commercial Real Estate Originations group at U.S. Bank.

Rhett holds a B.S. in Real Estate from The Pennsylvania State University.

Investors Relations Director
RichL@invictus-rep.com
+1 917-602-3642
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Richard joined Invictus in January of 2020 and is currently responsible for raising capital from individuals of high net worth, family offices, and institutional and non institutional sources that focus on direct investments in real estate debt origination, as well as equity investments in multi-family properties.

Prior to joining Invictus, Richard was an accomplished institutional equity sales trader with over 28 years of experience.  He cultivated and managed accounts with a combined $500B in assets under management.  Building valuable and meaningful relationships has been the foundation for his success.  Additionally, Richard was for  several years at Cantor Fitzgerald as a US Institutional Sales Trader covering mainly hedge funds with a combined $80B under assets executing options, futures and equities, and raising assets for capital market investments.  Before his sojourn at Cantor, Richard spent 10 years at Direct Access Partners as a silent partner helping to grow a 9 person operation in the NYSE to a platform with more than 150 employees, offering debt, equity and banking.  Previously Richard had been 6 years at Instinet where he worked both in the US desk and International desk covering accounts all throughout Latin America. While attending NYU for his BS in Finance, Richard started his career in Wall Street at Valores Finamex where he spent 6 years running a $25MM book trading Latin American equities and Forex exchange.  His expertise of both the English and Spanish language was essential to his success in trading the Latin American markets.

Richard resides in Miami FL with his wife and son, where he enjoys playing golf every opportunity he gets and hopes to get his son to be the next Tiger Woods.