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Steven Grady
Steve holds a B.A. from the University of California at San Diego. He also holds a M.B.A. and a J.D. from the University of San Diego. Steve was certified to practice law by the supreme court of California and the U.S. District Court. Steve first practiced law with an emphasis in real estate in San Diego. Subsequently, he served as general counsel for a large real estate development company and the managing partner of numerous commercial real estate projects in Southern California. From 1987 to 1998 Steve was a fifty percent partner in Triarc and Triarc Asset Management (TAM); a San Diego based commercial and residential development company. Triarc successfully developed retail, office, industrial, specialty car wash and residential properties despite the difficult real estate market conditions of the late eighties and early nineties in Southern California. TAM managed Triarc’s properties as well as a large number of 3rd party owned properties. In 1998 Steve formed The Focus Group specializing in the development of single tenant retail properties. The Focus Group has successfully completed over 50 projects, totaling over 1 million square Feet throughout the United States. Mr. Grady has recently been acquiring, rehabilitating, and managing multifamily and other distressed opportunities.
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Mark J. Goethals
Mark obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration Degree from the Indiana University Kelly School of Business with majors in Finance and Economics in 1987. Mark joined Radnor Corporation in 1988. Radnor was a wholly owned real estate investment subsidiary of a major oil company. As the executive member of a Joint Venture team in charge of analysis and due diligence, he was directly involved in the acquisition, planning and subsequent development of many regional sized commercial buildings, retail centers and residential projects totaling more $250MM in development costs. In the early nineties, Mark obtained his contracting license and became “responsible managing employee” for Radnor West Corporation. As contractor of record and along with the Radnor West team, he completed the remaining development work, selling off the residential project in the retail market and divesting the commercial and retail developments in conjunction with Banker Trust Company. In 1997 Mark formed Legacy Development with Steve Grady to develop land, multifamily and single family projects. With the Focus Group Mark has underwritten, purchased and sold off real estate backed notes as well as retail and multifamily acquisition, construction and sales.
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Kathy Jenkins
Kathy obtained her B.A. in accounting from the University of Colorado. Following graduation, she was employed by the Denver office of the international accounting firm of Grant Thornton where her areas of expertise included real estate and banking. After leaving Grant Thornton, Kathy co-founded a CPA firm where she managed a client base of over 200 clients. In 1996, she relocated to San Diego and is currently employed by The Focus Group as the Chief Financial Officer.
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Sasha Zhang
Sasha received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Finance from the University of South Dakota. Sasha attended the University of San Diego and received a Dual Degree for Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Real Estate. Sasha Zhang is an Argus Certified Member, LEED Accredited Professional and the winner of a national real estate competition; the Argus University Challenge. With The Focus Group Sasha has researched and underwritten hundreds of properties, development and notes.
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Rick Hester
Rick has over 25 years of construction experience in acquisition, due diligence, construction management of Apartments, condominiums, single family homes, commercial and mixed use projects. Rick has been a licensed California General Contractor since 1988 and has been licensed by the California Department of Real Estate since 1991. From 1996 to 2008 Rick held the position of Senior Construction Manager for Pacific Property Company, Vice President of Redevelopment Construction at Atherton-Newport Investments and Vice President of Redevelopment Construction for Fairfield Residential. Rick has managed the construction of over 200 separate projects and the renovation of over 30,000 unit interiors during that 12 year period.
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Jay Walker
Jay is a senior Multifamily design and construction executive based out of San Diego California. He has been instrumental in the growth of Fairfield Residential (a national multifamily residential developer) over the past 25 years. As Vice President, Construction and Design for the Western Division of Fairfield Residential from 1986 to 2002 Jay was responsible for all facets of the design and construction related activities. These included coordination of all project design consultants, consultant budgets and schedules, construction contract negotiations with the majority focus on construction hard cost budgets and adherence to construction schedules. Jay possesses deep industry knowledge, is a successful and skilled design, construction development leader with industry experience in the development of over 52,000 dwelling units spanning the western United States with hard costs in excess of $3 billion.
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Jack Feehan
Mr. Feehan holds a B.S. from the United States Naval Academy and an M.B.A from Harvard Business School where he was awarded second year academic honors. He is a licensed California Real Estate Broker 00675347 and a Retired Commander from the United States Naval Reserves. Jack is a real estate professional with over thirty years experience; including Medical Office buildings, Mobile Home parks and multifamily communities. Over the past 20 years he was instrumental in the financial underwriting and closing of 58,000 multi-family units for Fairfield Residential throughout the United States. His background includes market overviews, proforma input and modeling, feasibility studies, and due diligence investigation and coordination.
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Jack Csernits
Jack has 38 years of Commercial Banking and Asset and Wealth Management experience at JP Morgan (formerly Bank One, NBD, and National Bank of Detroit) Michigan. Over the years, Jack served as a Member of the Board of Directors at NBD Bank, Michigan and held senior management positions in a variety of businesses,
including: Market Manager Middle Market Commercial Lending South East Michigan, Commercial Real Estate Lending Michigan, Asset Based Lending Michigan, Foreign Corporate Michigan, and Correspondent Banking Michigan. Other leadership positions during his banking career included: Head of National Commercial Banking for the Western United States, and Head of NBD Bank Corporate Cash Management.
For the last four years, Jack was the Senior Managing Director and Investment Principal for JP Morgan Private Bank and Wealth Management in Michigan. His responsibilities included all of JP Morgan Private Banking business in South East Michigan; helping individuals and families grow, manage, and sustain wealth. These offices were comprised of the Investment, Trust, Financial Planning, Private Banking and Estate settlement businesses. Jack holds the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority licenses Series 7, 9, 10, 24, 63, and 65. Jack has been actively involved in a number of charitable organizations and was the Chairman of the JP Morgan Chase Michigan Charitable Foundation. |
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Brian LaGrange
A 20-plus year veteran of the golf and hospitality industries, joined The Focus Group in 2009. Brian was most recently the managing director of the Grand Del Mar Resort, which was completed in mid-2007. LaGrange oversaw day-to-day operations for The Grand Golf Club, The Grand Del Mar's private championship golf course, as well as sales and marketing activities for The Villas at The Grand Del Mar, a residential enclave within the new luxury resort. Before his tenure at The Grand, LaGrange was V.P. of Operations for The Club at Pronghorn, a golf community outside of Bend, Ore. He also was general manager of and helped launch the Santa Lucia Preserve, (the #1 nationally rated golf community in 2006) an exclusive 20,000-acre golf community on the Monterey Pensinsula. |
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