Highly successful business professional with over 30 years of experience in commercial real estate investments, finance, accounting and non-profit management. Proven success in business development, relationship building and deal making. Career Highlights• Engaged as a business and financial consultant by various companies and organizations to evaluate operations, develop business strategies, prepare financing and capital plans, manage projects, and advance organizational goals. • Contributed executive leadership for start-up private equity firm, developing and implementing its business strategy which led to the company’s position as an industry leader.• Served as a key employee for a new subsidiary of a major institutional investment advisor, contributing to development of the new organizational structure, managing growth and creating new business initiatives. • Founded a non-profit organization and served as Executive Director, building a volunteer team and producing events to raise money to fight pediatric cancer. • Provided leadership and financial management experience as a board member and officer of several non-profit organizations, contributing to the organizations' growth and financial stability. Demonstrated areas of expertise include:• Sourcing, analyzing and evaluating new business opportunities to support and expand the organization’s goals. • Managing complex deals and negotiations, closing over $3 billion of transactions. • Developing and managing business relationships.• Developing and implementing strategic plans and business strategies, leading to increased operating profits and investment returns. • Providing strategic and creative vision to achieve and exceed goals and expand the business.• Budgeting, profit and loss management, financial analysis and cash flow projections.• Preparing investment presentations and managing investor relations. • Researching and analyzing markets and demographics.