Peter Susko

Peter Susko is the Chief Financial Officer of Homestead Capital, a San Francisco–based farmland investment firm, a role he has held since 1 July 2015 according to SEC-adviser records. He brings more than two decades of experience across investment management, real estate, tax, and fund operations. He is both an attorney and a CFA charterholder, and has practiced tax and real estate law in California.

Susko holds a JD (with a focus on taxation) from UCLA School of Law and an MBA in Finance from the University of California, Berkeley's Walter A. Haas School of Business. Prior to Homestead, he worked in institutional real estate investing, including a period associated with Deutsche Bank / RREEF, one of the largest global real estate asset managers.

He has also been closely involved with Swift Real Estate Partners, a San Francisco commercial real estate private equity firm, where he served in a portfolio-manager / acting COO–CFO capacity for private equity real estate funds — overseeing legal, tax, accounting, fund operations, and investor relations. More recent aggregator listings (e.g., Crunchbase) also describe consulting work (Capital Strategies Group), consistent with a finance/operations advisory profile alongside his CFO role.

At Homestead, Susko sits on the finance and operations side of a firm led by co-founders Daniel Little and Gabe Santos (both with prior backgrounds at firms such as J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs). The firm manages roughly 120,000 crop acres across 160+ transactions on behalf of institutional investors including pension plans, endowments, foundations, insurance companies, and family offices.

• Susko is a fund CFO, not a personal angel investor — the investment thesis below is Homestead Capital's institutional farmland strategy, which he supports on the finance and operations side.
• Asset class: Direct ownership of operating U.S. farmland, pitched as offering "key diversification benefits, such as inflation-resistance, high yields, low correlation with other asset types, and asset stability."
• Strategy: Value-add farmland — acquiring farms and investing in infrastructure, irrigation technology, and drainage improvements to enhance productivity and value.
• Diversification: Across 20+ crop types and multiple U.S. agricultural regions (Pacific, Pacific NW, Mountain West, Delta, Midwest) to reduce single-crop and single-geography risk.
• Discipline: Combines "on-the-ground" agricultural insight with institutional-grade due diligence, portfolio construction, and risk management.
• Investors: Institutional LPs — pensions, endowments, foundations, insurance companies, and family offices — via closed-end funds (four funds; ~$1.6B committed capital).