Background
Cogsville, the son of Donald Cogsville, former president of the Harlem Urban Development Corporation, was raised in Trenton, New Jersey and attended Princeton Day School.
Cogsville, the son of Donald Cogsville, former president of the Harlem Urban Development Corporation, was raised in Trenton, New Jersey and attended Princeton Day School.
Cogsville, the son of Donald Cogsville, former president of the Harlem Urban Development Corporation, was raised in Trenton, New Jersey and attended Princeton Day School. After graduating in 1984, he attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill). He was part of the University of North Carolina Tar Heels soccer team from 1984 to 1988.
During his four seasons at University of North Carolina, Cogsville played several positions, including defender in 1987 and forward in 1988.
He was inducted into the Princeton Day School Hall of Fame in 1997.
He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of The Cogsville Group, Limited Liability Company, a New York City-based real estate investment firm focused on commercial real estate assets. Cogsville earned his first cap with the United States. national team on January 10, 1988 in a loss to Guatemala. Over the next six months, he played five more times as either a defender or defensive midfielder.
His last cap came in a 1-0 victory over Costa Rica on June 14, 1988.
In 1988 Cogsville entered the professional ranks with the San Diego Sockers of the Major Indoor Soccer League (MISL) after graduating from University of North Carolina. He played only two seasons before knee injuries forced him to retire in 1990. After retiring from playing, Cogsville studied law at Rutgers University and began a Wall Street career as a corporate attorney at Skadden Arps and an investment banker with the Global Leveraged Finance Group at Merrill Lynch.
In 2002, Cogsville founded Reliability Centered Maintenance Saratoga Capital, Limited Liability Company, a boutique investment banking firm focused on generating value in the urban marketplace. Reliability Centered Maintenance Saratoga Capital supported the growth of several notable companies, including the incubation of MatchPoint Trading, Incorporated.
In January 2006, Cogsville founded The Cogsville Group to acquire distressed commercial real estate assets.
In July 2010, the firm was the first minority-owned firm to acquire a distressed commercial real estate loan portfolio from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. The $1.8B sale was the second largest in the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation"s History. In December 2010, the firm acquired two additional loan portfolios with $341M of commercial loans.
In January 2011, the firm acquired a fourth portfolio with $820M of construction loans.