Andrew Murphy
Executive Committee, Chief Investment Officer
Andrew Murphy serves on the Executive Committee and oversees new investments for FPG. Andrew is also Chief Investment Officer of Woodbridge Pacific Group where he oversees the companies land acquisition, finance and control functions. Prior to joining FPG/WPG in 2014, Andrew held leadership roles in the Southern California homebuilding and real estate development industry for over twenty years, serving in top management positions at Fieldstone Communities & American Property Enterprises. Andrew’s relationship with the WPG leadership team began in the late 1990s when, while at Fieldstone, he teamed with IHP’s Carl Neuss to originate and execute several homebuilding joint ventures located in Southern California.
Between 1992 and 2006, Andrew was a member of the executive team at Fieldstone Communities, a leading California homebuilding company. At Fieldstone, Andrew served as President of the South Counties Division, managing a two-office, two-county division that constructed about 400 homes annually and produced revenues of over $200 million per year. He also served on the Fieldstone Executive & Land Committees. Previously, Andrew was corporate Treasurer, arranging both joint venture equity and construction debt. After the early 1990s recession, Andrew managed the resolution and restructure of a company $180 million land loan, which resolution re-positioned Fieldstone for rapid growth in the follow-on economic upcycle.
Between 2006 and 2014, Andrew served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for American Property Enterprises (APE), a diversified real estate investment and operating firm based in San Diego. At APE, Andrew was responsible for the acquisition, asset management, leasing, and operations of the company’s multi-tenant income property portfolio and land investment portfolio (including over 1,000 Southern California lots between 2008 and 2010). Previous to this, Andrew served as Vice President at Birtcher, an office/industrial development company, where he assisted in a $100 million partial sale of the company to Mitsui Inc. Early in his career, Andrew served as a commercial real estate loan officer at First Interstate Bank.
Andrew has a B.A. in Economics from UCLA and an MBA from U.C. Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, graduating with honors . He has been married to his wife, Martha, for twenty-five years and lives in Orange County, CA with the youngest of their five children. He has previously served as President of the Building Industry Association of San Diego, as Vice Chairman of the YMCA of San Diego County, and as Chairman of the Residential Real Estate Committee at the University of San Diego’s Burnham-Moores Center for Real Estate. He is a licensed California Real Estate Broker.