Catherine Bradley
Senior Investment Associate
SCOPE OF EXPERIENCE
Catherine Bradley is a Senior Investment Associate at Appian Investments, focused on asset management and driving performance across the firm’s real estate portfolio. She supports business plan execution through financial analysis, asset-level oversight, and coordination with leasing, construction, and property management teams. She has also supported development and acquisition underwriting, overseen renovation and capital improvement initiatives, and played a key role in executing condominium conversion strategies. Catherine joined Appian in January 2022 as a Senior Financial Analyst and was promoted to Senior Investment Associate in 2023.
BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE
Catherine is a graduate of Wofford College and previously spent more than five years as a Financial Analyst at OTO Development, supporting a national portfolio of Marriott, Hilton, and Hyatt properties.
Ty Underwood
Chief Investment Officer and Managing Principal
SCOPE OF EXPERIENCE
Ty Underwood serves as Chief Investment Officer and Managing Principal at Appian Investments, where he leads the firm’s investment platform, strategic growth initiatives, and capital formation efforts. With more than 25 years of leadership experience across investment, development, acquisitions, dispositions, brokerage, capital markets, and asset management, Ty has been directly involved in more than $4 billion in real estate transactions throughout his career.
BACKGROUND & EXPERIENCE
Prior to joining Appian, Ty served as Chief Strategy Officer and Managing Principal at AmCap Incorporated, where he oversaw platform expansion, investment strategy, and institutional capital relationships. Before that, he was CEO of Atlas Retail Capital and Atlas Interests, leading acquisition, development, and portfolio-level initiatives across multiple growth markets.
Earlier in his career, Ty held senior positions with NAI Global and NAI Brannen Goddard in New York and Atlanta, ultimately becoming a Senior Vice President/ Senior Director and founding member of NAI Global’s Institutional Services Group (ISG). In these roles, he led both private and institutional projects across the U.S. and internationally, including China, the United Arab Emirates, South Korea, Europe, and Malaysia. He began his career in the Investment Properties Group at CBRE as a Senior Associate.
Ty earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a major in Finance from the University of Florida’s Warrington College of Business, followed by an MBA with concentrations in Finance and Real Estate from Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business, where he also served on the advisory board.