Crew CCMO · Emerson on Astoria · PREP NSM
Jason Douglas Kjellson
Crew chief capital markets officer 2017–2025. Emerson Equity recipient on the Astoria Form D. CRD 3009986. PREP Securities national sales manager since Aug 2025.
He ran capital-markets / national sales for the Nelson → Versity → Crew book for eight years, then sold the same DSTs as an Emerson Equity rep on at least Astoria.
- Nov 2018: NB Private Capital managing director. His hire announcement put Bradley Davidson on the internal sales desk. Brian Nelson is quoted in the same release on CP Cincy and Element.
- Jun 2022: Versity Invest executive vice president and national sales manager. Company line at the time: ~$800 million investor capital, $1.6 billion real estate owned or managed. Press contact was Tanya Muro.
- Feb 2017–Aug 2025: LinkedIn / AltsWire title is chief capital markets officer, Crew, Aliso Viejo. He posted the Versity→Crew rebrand (May 2024) and presented student housing as an alt at Opal Group AIS (Dec 2023).
Forum docket-readers still treated him as a named voice on investor calls, not a principal. Gregory Owens described a ~2024 meeting with Kjellson, Peterson, and his broker: Kjellson said “despite what you may think, there isn’t anything nefarious going on.”
The Astoria Form D lists him as an Emerson Equity sales recipient (CRD 3009986). BrokerCheck as of 20 Aug 2026: PREP Securities LLC (CRD 188522) since 4 Aug 2025 — DPP, Park City, Utah. AltsWire (8 Aug 2025): national sales manager at PREP’s captive BD, which runs the selling group for PREP Property Group (retail-center repositioning / net lease — not this student-housing book). He arrived with Max Peterson (sales desk manager); PREP’s Kevin Hull said they “already having history together.” Series 7, 22, 63. One judgment / lien.