Quintin E. Primo III (born March 14, 1955) is the Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Capri Capital Partners, LLC, one of the largest minority-owned real estate investment management firms in the United States. Primo, whose firm has $6.04 billion in assets under management in domestic and international commercial real estate, is ranked on the

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' ''Top Twenty Richest African American's in the World'' list. Primo, a regular contributor on

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, has been recognized in the real estate industry for his achievements. In 2000, under Primo's leadership, Capri Capital launched one of the first real estate

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s. As a minority-owned firm, Capri Capital was also an early investor in under-served urban markets such as

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. In 2006, Capri capital purchased Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, a Los Angeles

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. In 2012,

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named Capri Capital as its Financial Services Company of the Year. In September 2013, under Primo's direction, Capri Capital launched Capri Global Capital, Limited, formed as part of a strategic alliance with Money Matters Financial Services Limited in

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. The Indian company was renamed Capri Global Capital Limited. Primo is the non-executive chairman and director of Capri Global Capital Limited's Board of Directors in India. Primo becomes one of, if not the first, African-American to serve on the board of an Indian-registered publicly listed company. Primo is known for his

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as the founder and chairman of the Primo Center for Women and Children, a transition

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. He is a 1973 alumnus from

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in Flossmoor, Ill. He is the son of Episcopal Bishop Quintin E. Primo Jr.

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