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Chicago, Il, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

TPHC is an early-stage, impact-driven start-up owner/operator of a workforce single-family-for-rent residential portfolio. - Embracing the challenge of transforming a small, regional, highly entrepreneurial platform into an institutional investment-grade organization, implementing professional standards and practices across all functional groups. Attracting and building a talented, diverse leadership and employee team to enhance the company’s performance and drive operational excellence.- Raising capital through joint ventures with limited partners to enable the company to substantially grow the portfolio through acquisitions and scale the operating company.- Outward-facing leader forging new collaborations with potential partners and industry leaders.- Leading in the creation of a corporate mission statement, tag line, and core values to create an employee-centric, performance-driven company culture, fostering a success-oriented, engaged, and accountable environment.

(D/b/a) Northern Lakes Real Estate Services offers expert advisory services for residential and commercial real estate asset/portfolio owners. With nearly three decades of experience in real estate investment management, encompassing portfolio and asset management, development, acquisitions, and property management, all with corporate P&L responsibility, key accomplishments include:• Portfolio Ownership & Management: Restructured and repositioned underperforming, mismanaged, and aging assets for improved performance.• Business Management & Scaling: Grew and scaled two large residential real estate companies, standardizing and streamlining business processes, procedures, and operations while fostering a new corporate culture.• Senior Executive Leadership: Demonstrated proficiency as battle-tested President of two vertically integrated residential real estate companies, and in senior executive roles overseeing multiple functional groups.• Cross-Functional Team Leadership: Provides steady guidance, champions diversity, encourages continuous improvement, enhances productivity, advocates for change, and fosters career growth for internal and external stakeholders through effective communication and consensus-building.• Real Estate Development & Acquisitions: Led the development of more than$1.8B in residential and commercial properties and managed the acquisition of approximately 1.6 million square feet of existing commercial and residential assets.Services on offer:• Interim/fractional executive services, with experience in o Strategic planning o P&L responsibility o Growth management/scaling of business platforms o Crisis management o Change management o Stakeholder engagement/relationship management o Team building/management• SFR asset expertise• Asset management• Portfolio management• Asset restructuring/repositioning• Receivership• P3 advisory services• Due diligence• Negotiations

El Paso, Tx, Us

Hunt Military Communities is a $1 billion owner/developer/operator of approximately 52,000 build-to-rent (BTR), single-family-for-rent (SFR) homes in more than 40 communities across the United States, a portfolio which would rank as the third-largest SFR portfolio in the country. As President, I was responsible for the overall strategic direction of the company, with full P&L responsibility, and oversaw the development, construction, asset management, property management, and partner relationships across the portfolio. • Played a key role in the Hunt acquisition of Forest City Military Communities; designed and led the merger, transition and integration of the two entities into a new, stronger business unit, achieving only a single-digit unplanned attrition rate in the process. • Cultivated strong working relationships with an executive presence among Board of Directors, C-level executives, and governmental agencies, including US Congressional offices, resident groups, and colleagues to engage, influence, promote change, and generate alliances to increase business development opportunities, drive consensus, and foster productive and collaborative partnerships. • Led, coached, and mentored colleagues; provided consistent support, and built a unified culture of trust, respect, and collaboration; invested in people; and led with empathy. • Strengthened a remote office structure (pre-COVID) and unified two large, disparate groups into an effective virtual team working towards a common goal by aligning interests, strengths, defining clear roles and responsibilities, and streamlining processes, procedures, and technologies.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Forest City Enterprises, Inc., which became Forest City Realty Trust, Inc., in 2016, was a NYSE-listed national real estate company with $8.9B in total assets. FCMC was a division of the company focused on build-to-rent (BTR), single-family-for-rent (SFR) residential properties throughout the US. I played a leading role in growing a fledgling business unit, in the process helping to pioneer a burgeoning industry built around a brand-new real estate asset class. I oversaw the overall strategy and financial/P&L performance, as well as supervising the development, construction, asset management, and partner relations for FCMC's entire portfolio. The portfolio contained over 15,000 residential units across eight U.S. states, from Hawaii to South Carolina, with combined development costs totaling approximately $2.9B.• Maximized potential fee income with $2.9B of development costs while initiating 37% overhead reductions over five years.• Closed on five portfolio acquisitions with more than 7,900 end-state units, $990M in total development, and the placement of $700M in bond and related financing.• In collaboration with the Illinois Legislature, successfully negotiated and assisted in writing legislation establishing a new class of property taxation in the State of Illinois.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

As Senior Vice President, I had portfolio-wide supervisory responsibility within FCMC from 2010 until 2014. Prior to that I had regional-level portfolio responsibility from 2007 through 2010, and was originally a project development executive overseeing the development/redevelopment and operation of a ~2,000-unit Midwest-based portfolio from 2005 through 2008.

Cleveland, Oh, Us

Cleveland, Oh, Us

New York, Ny, Us

ORIX was a real estate investor and developer with a focus on retail, office, industrial and apartment development throughout the US. I was focused on office and industrial projects in the Midwest, Mountain, and Pacific Northwest regions, managing the development of over 1.4 million square feet of office space, approximately 660,000 square feet of industrial space, and over 80,000 square feet of specialized retail space.

New York, Ny, Us

Newport Beach, Ca, Us

Dba Birtcher Property Services, BPS was a full-service real estate services company, with a strategic alliance with ABN-AMRO Bank for the purpose of investing in existing real estate assets on behalf of the Bank's southeast Asia-based clients. I managed the acquisition of approximately 1.3 million square feet in assets, with a primary focus on office properties, and a secondary focus on residential and hotel acquisitions, located in the Western, Mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions.

Newport Beach, Ca, Us