Team

Operators first, investors second.

Lorient is run by people who have built brokerages, developed buildings, and stood behind a hotel front desk. That is deliberate.

Founder

Adam Mahfouda

Founder & Managing Partner

Adam Mahfouda is a real estate entrepreneur, investor, and operator with experience spanning brokerage, real estate investment, hospitality, technology, and mergers and acquisitions.

He is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of FIND Real Estate, one of the largest independently owned real estate brokerages in the Northeast, a platform of more than 1,500 real estate professionals across multiple states. That platform gives Lorient a proprietary view of the New York City market and a sourcing channel most investment firms do not have.

Adam actively acquires, develops, owns, and operates a diverse portfolio of multifamily, office, mixed-use, and hospitality properties. He is the founder of Square42, a hospitality platform focused on repositioning urban real estate into unique accommodations and experiential destinations, and Moofy's, a collection of luxury group retreats.

His investment philosophy centers on acquiring high-quality real estate and businesses with long-term upside, improving operations, and building enduring brands through disciplined execution, technology, and exceptional customer experiences.

Adam earned his Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University, where he played varsity lacrosse.

Leadership

Retta Abraham

Partner

Retta Abraham is a Partner at Lorient Holdings, responsible for capital formation, underwriting and financial strategy across the portfolio, including the programmatic equity raise behind Square 42.

He is the founder and Managing Partner of RDM Partners, a seasoned operator, investor and M&A practitioner with experience acquiring and operating businesses in the consumer retail and manufacturing space. Before RDM he spent over a decade as an investment banker specializing in mergers and acquisitions. He holds a degree in Biological Engineering from Cornell University.

Leadership

Investment & operations

Cole Levine

Partner, Acquisitions

Cole Levine is a Partner at Lorient Holdings leading acquisitions. A commercial real estate broker with ten years of experience in New York City investment sales and leasing, he manages the assets the firm already owns and works alongside the founder on acquisitions and sourcing.

Day to day that means the operating plan for each property, the relationship with lenders, managers and tenants, and the first look at every building that comes through the FIND network, from a first call with the owner to the letter of intent.

Molly Bowman

Chief of Staff

Molly Bowman has worked alongside Lorient's founder since 2015, joining his brokerage as Director of Operations and building the internal systems that carried it from a few hundred agents to the 1,500-agent FIND platform. She came to real estate from a New York proptech startup.

At Lorient she runs the operating cadence across every entity: hiring and onboarding, vendor and compliance workflow, and the reporting rhythm that lets a multi-property portfolio run on a corporate headcount built for one.

Dina Tango

Finance Director

Dina Tango has led finance for the founder's companies since 2012, rising to Chief Financial Officer of the brokerage through the 2020 combination that took it to roughly 800 agents. She holds a degree in Accounting and Business Operations from Baruch College.

At Lorient she owns the financial infrastructure: entity formation at each closing, the ledger behind every property, lender and tax reporting, and the monthly close that produces the statements delivered to partners.

Hospitality operations

The people our guests actually meet.

Hospitality returns are made at the front desk, not in the model. Our guest experience and reservations team works across the portfolio, from Square 42 in Midtown Manhattan to Moofy’s Farmhouse on the Chesapeake, and sets the standard for every property we buy.

Gester Herauda

Guest Experience Manager

Gester Herauda owns the guest relationship end to end: pre-arrival communication, the virtual front desk, in-stay issue resolution, housekeeping and turnover standards, and review recovery across every channel the properties sell through.

In a model with no restaurant, no banquet and no daily housekeeping, guest experience is the entire service layer. It is what holds a 4.97-star average across more than 770 reviews while running a team a fraction of the size of a conventional Manhattan hotel.

John Sorbjto

Reservations Manager

John Sorbjto manages demand across the full channel set: the direct booking engine on each property's website, Airbnb, Vrbo, Hotels.com and Trip.com. He owns rate loading, length-of-stay and minimum-night rules, and inventory allocation between channels.

Reservations is the margin function in this model. Every point of channel mix moved from a 15.5% online travel agency fee to a direct booking falls straight through to net operating income.