BOB RATLIFFE is the President of Silver Creek and chairs the firm’s Management Committee. As Head of Real Assets, he serves as the Co-Portfolio Manager of the firm’s real asset strategies, each developed in partnership with an experienced operator.  He established Silver Creek’s real assets business in 2015 with the launch of Twin Creeks Timber, a business line with $1.6 billion in committed capital. In 2018, Mr. Ratliffe led the launch of Silver Creek Aggregate Reserves Fund, a fund with $830 million in committed capital that buys aggregate reserves beneath operating rock quarries. The firm’s third strategy, Silver Creek Manufactured Housing Communities, has over $400 million in committed capital to acquire and improve undermanaged communities primarily in the Midwest and Southeast.  Silver Creek is now raising $500 million for its fourth real assets strategy, focused on industrial outdoor storage and strategic supply chain assets in major U.S. markets.

Prior to joining Silver Creek, Mr. Ratliffe spent nine years as a senior partner at BentallGreenOak, now BGO, managing U.S. institutional separate account portfolios across the office, industrial, multi-family and hospitality sectors. He served on the firm’s Board of Directors, as well as its Management and Investment Committees. Previously, he was a principal at Eagle River Investments, a private equity firm formed by telecommunications pioneer Craig McCaw, and spent ten years in senior management roles at McCaw Cellular Communications, Inc.

Mr. Ratliffe holds a B.A. from the University of Washington and received a Certified Commercial Investment Member designation in 2003. Outside of Silver Creek, Mr. Ratliffe serves on the Board of PayScore and Cristo Rey Jesuit Seattle High School and on the Executive Committee of the Board of the Behind the Badge Foundation. He is a past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Seattle University.