Sebastian Kawiorski
Co-Founder, Chairman & CEOCo-Founder, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Strategy, Origination, Structuring & Capital Formation
Sebastian leads OKETO's strategy, origination, sponsor-side structuring, capital formation and transaction execution across private markets in Europe and the United States.
He previously served as General Manager of Classic Properties LLC in South Carolina from 2002 to 2006. During his tenure, the company completed more than 400 wholesale and retail real-estate transactions. His responsibilities included real-estate finance, structuring seller-financed acquisitions and sales through promissory notes, working directly with investors and reporting directly to the company’s founders.
He later co-founded estatedealer.pl, a brokerage business that completed more than 5,000 real-estate transactions and grew to approximately 100 agents at peak. Across estatedealer.pl and other real-estate businesses he helped build, he worked with nearly 100 property developers and homebuilders on project launches, sales strategy and transaction execution. In 2020, he conceived, led and executed a nationwide multimedia campaign across Polish television and digital media, with a planned media reach of 15.05 million.
FROM THE CO-FOUNDER, CHAIRMAN & CEO
OKETO is being built as a sponsor-led private-markets platform. We originate selected opportunities, work alongside founders and operating partners, and help shape the structure, governance and capital plan from the outset. Our objective is not simply to present transactions, but to remain aligned in the vehicle and help create investable structures capable of standing up to serious diligence and long-term execution.