Four new hires — Angela Johnson, Jon Hong, Ofer Harduf and Tommy Wesely — have joined proptech venture capital firm Fifth Wall, expanding the team to more than 45 employees across multiple funds.
Johnson, named a partner on the capital formation team, oversees capital raising and investor relations. Previously, she was director of business development at Torchlight Investors, where she focused on capital raising and new product development. She was also a director at KKR, where she focused on real estate capital raising globally.
Hong is a partner, co-leading the real estate technology Investment team. Previously he was an investment director at the SoftBank Vision Fund, investing in and serving on the boards of companies ranging from Gopuff to ShipBob to Cameo. Before joining SoftBank, he was a vice president at PointState Capital focused on public global technology, media and telecom investments. He started his career at Goldman Sachs’ investment banking division.
Prior to Fifth Wall as a partner on the LP coverage and capital markets team, Harduf was an executive director and co-head of PropTech at J.P. Morgan’s real estate, gaming and lodging investment banking group. While at J.P. Morgan, he advised SmartRent on its $2.2 billion merger with Fifth Wall Acquisition Corp. He also worked at UBS Investment Bank in the mergers and acquisitions group. He started his career as a financial analyst at GE Healthcare and served as a lieutenant in the Israel Defense Forces.
Wesely, Fifth Wall’s first chief marketing officer, joins from BuzzFeed where he was senior vice president of Content and operations, overseeing editorial video, branded content and operations teams for the digital publisher. At BuzzFeed, Tommy also served as Editorial Director, helping scale and operationalize editorial teams. He began his career at Condé Nast.
