Jon Kling is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Municipal Acquisitions and leads all of the firm’s investment and strategy initiatives. Mr. Kling has nearly 30 years of real estate, investment banking, and principal investment experience. Mr. Kling earned a B.A. from Tulane University and an M.S. in Real Estate with a concentration in Institutional Real Estate Portfolio Management from Johns Hopkins University. He is a member of the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School Dean’s Advisory Council, the Johns Hopkins Real Estate and Infrastructure Advisory Board, and the Corporate Advisory Council of Children’s National. He is active in numerous professional organizations, such as Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) and the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) and has lectured on real estate finance at the graduate level.

Municipal Acquisitions is a private real estate investment firm based in Washington, DC. With over $450 million in our current portfolio, we are an established and reliable investor with a demonstrated record of successfully closing transactions that meet our programmatic parameters. To date, more than fifty of the world’s most respected insurance companies, pension and retirement funds, mutual funds, and family offices have co-invested in our transactions.

Director of Student Ventures at The Johns Hopkins University

Josh oversees all FFU initiatives facilitating JHU’s student hub for entrepreneurship and innovation. With a diverse background in higher-education administration, he works with the rest of the team to accelerate ventures that create change and expand opportunity in Baltimore…and beyond! He likes talking with ventures at every level of starting up and will work diligently to help make the connections to ensure the next level of success.

FastForward U works with all students, from undergrad to post-doc, to support their entrepreneurial pursuits and turn good ideas into investible businesses. Our student startups launch innovative products and services in an array of sectors. Grounded in Baltimore, with an eye toward the world, we empower creators and change-makers, entrepreneurs and innovators, doers and go-getters.