Responsible for all P&L of the East Region by leading a team of experienced managers and staff to execute the core business of community development and lot deliveries to homebuilders.

With 20 years of industry experience across the public and private sectors, Eric has worked with major development companies and leading national homebuilders. He has successfully negotiated the acquisition and entitlement of over 5,000 acres of land with a gross realization in excess of $750MM. To date, Eric has developed more than 10,000 residential lots and is responsible for some of the Southeast’s most successful residential communities. As the head of St. Bourke’s Development team, Eric provides strategic leadership, oversees daily operations, and manages every phase of the development process. He leverages his diverse skillset and expertise to ensure St. Bourke creates residential developments and communities where people thrive and long-term value is maximized.

Responsible for the overall Land strategy for the Atlanta Division, including overseeing and leading all land acquisitions and development for the Division.Key Highlights• Strategic member of the Division’s leadership team and intrinsically involved in the overall strategy of the most profitable Division in the Company, which grossed almost $30M in profit in 2014.• Successfully negotiated and closed 25 land deals comprising over 1900 lots and over $100M in land value.• Efficiently oversaw the entitlement, engineering and development of over 1700 lots with a development budget of over $71M.• Strategically support and give leadership to all critical homebuilding operations including Sales, Construction, Purchasing and Architecture in a Division that sold and closed almost 500 homes in 2014.

Responsible for overseeing and facilitating all real estate transactions across the company, including Greenfield development, relocations, expansions and consolidations for a portfolio of over 800 locations across North America. Key Highlights • Effectively managed a volume of up to 300 real estate transactions per year, involving a portfolio which includes rent obligations of over $400 million.• Efficiently interacted with multiple cross-functional teams, including real estate managers, legal, tax, construction and environmental health, in order to successfully achieve the optimum real estate deal flow.

Led the daily operations of one of the leading residential development companies in the Metro Atlanta area. Developed and implemented a strategic vision for the company which grew the business from a residential development company with annual revenues of $11.5 million, to a diversified development company (residential, multifamily, commercial, mixed-use, and resort developments) generating annual revenues of over $160 million. Hired, trained, and mentored a team of professionals in all facets of the company, driving in-depth market knowledge and expert sales/marketing skills to foster an environment of team work and maximum profitability. Strategically involved in the comprehensive feasibility, negotiation, acquisition, development and disposition of a portfolio of properties in excess of $350 million. Key Highlights • Facilitated the successful acquisition of 3,500+ acres of land and entitlement of over 8,000 residential and multifamily units, as well as 1,500,000 square feet of commercial retail and office space.• Successfully negotiated complex, multi-million dollar contracts with publicly held companies such as Pulte/Del Webb, KB Home, and Ryland Homes with a gross value in excess of $150 million.• Equipped, trained and mentored a team of professionals to develop over 1000 residential units and 250,000 sq/ft of commercial pads on an annual basis. • Increased new business through recruiting and managing a guild of over 40 of metro Atlanta’s most prominent custom builders, who built over 250 homes per year in our communities.• Developed, trained and mentored a Marketing and Sales team that increased annual home sales from $25 million to over $100 million in annual revenue.• Efficiently led all aspects of master-planned communities including the community design and development, homebuilding design and construction, marketing and sales, and homeowner association management for multiple communities across metro Atlanta.

The mission sending agency for the Southern Baptist ConventionRapid Advance Strategy Coordination Intern; Responsible for designing and promoting an overall humanitarian strategy to research, understand and help an impoverished people group in Southeast Asia. Engaged in extensive cross-cultural relations with this group through education, communication, and daily life experiences. Conducted extensive anthropological research on this people group. Prepared a marketing plan to raise awareness of and humanitarian support for the people group.Key HighlightsRaised awareness of the existence and needs of this Southeast Asian people group