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Maxwell Bruce Drever
Founder & Chairman
Maxwell has been a value-added real estate investor of apartments as well as industrial, office, and retail properties for approximately 40 years. Mr. Drever formed Concierge after the sale of his predecessor firm, Drever Partners, Inc. ("DPI"), to Walden Residential Properties, Inc. (NYSE) in 1997 at a value of over $600 million. DPI's portfolio consisted of 79 apartment communities with over 18,000 units. DPI, formed in 1985 in San Francisco, raised successive private equity funds to close purchases more quickly than its competitors and acquire thousands of apartment units and notes from troubled borrowers and financial institutions including the U.S. government-owned Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC).
Contact:
415.789.1773
Ted M. Kerr, Jr.
President & CEO
Ted is responsible for acquisitions and the oversight of all operations including due diligence, construction, asset leverage, property management, asset management, and surveillance. He has over 20 years of experience in real estate asset management, property management, acquisitions, dispositions, finance, and development. Between 1992 and 1997, he was Director of Asset Management at Drever Partners, Inc. Following DPI's merger with Walden, he managed a 43,000-unit multifamily portfolio as Walden's Executive Vice President of Property Operations. Prior to rejoining Concierge, he served as President of Coach Realty Services and oversaw the development, leasing, and sale of multifamily properties as well as management of a 3,000-unit apartment portfolio. Previously, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer for Olympus Real Estate Partners' $1.8 billion multifamily portfolio.
Contact:
713.439.1773
ted@drever.net
Charlene “Charlie” Geiss
Managing Director of Finance & Equity
Charlie rejoined Concierge in 2006 and is primarily responsible for asset-level financing. She has over 25 years of experience in successfully brokering, acquiring, and disposing of multifamily residential properties, creating development joint ventures, and securing project financing. She was also a multifamily lender for eight years, and headed the "work out" department for troubled loans at a major S&L. Her experience includes serving as Director of Finance for Drever Partners, Inc. from 1988-1997, where she completed the financing and refinancing of approximately 18,000 apartment units, including hybrid lines of floating acquisition financing with built-in features to convert to fixed-rate permanent financing. Just prior to rejoining Concierge, Charlie headed a mezzanine debt program for Camden, a public REIT. Charlie received her Bachelor of Science degree in Education from the University of Texas, did post-graduate studies in real estate at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, and is a licensed Texas real estate broker.
Contact:
713.439.1773
charlie@drever.net
Edward Baker
Chief Financial Officer
Edward, as Chief Financial Officer, is responsible for all financial aspects of Concierge, its properties, and its funds. He is an English Chartered Accountant, having qualified in 1986, and has extensive experience from his positions as Chief Financial Officer of a residential mortgage lender (which had $4 billion of on-book assets) and of the U.K.'s largest privately owned Internet Service Provider, and in corporate finance with the U.K.'s largest residential real estate brokerage company. His financial and corporate finance skills include acquisition evaluation and negotiation, budgeting, compliance, financial control, and financial management. On moving to the U.S. in 2003, he became involved as a principal and co-promoter in industrial and commercial property ventures before joining Concierge in 2005. Mr. Baker has Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Cambridge.
Contact:
415.789.1773
edward@drever.net
Jenifer Paneral, CPM®
Senior Vice President of Property Management
Jenifer is responsible for property operations and asset management, and accountable for profit-and-loss management, marketing, and developing the teams to execute the Concierge vision. She has been in the multifamily industry for over 25 years and is experienced in managing growth companies, property repositioning, renovations, efficiency programs, new construction, and lease ups. Before joining Concierge, Jenifer was Senior Vice President at Alliance Residential Management, LLC. Her portfolio consisted of up to 55,000 apartments in five regional markets. Prior to Alliance, she was Vice President at SCG Realty Services. Jenifer also serves as a Board Member and Treasurer for the Houston Apartment Association (HAA) and as a Board Member for the Texas Apartment Association (TAA), where she is active with the Media Relations and Budgeting committees. She was awarded Executive of the Year 2001 by HAA and received national recognition for her lease-up of new construction while she was with SCG Realty Services.
Contact:
713.439.1773
jenifer@drever.net
Michael T. Oliver, CFA
Executive Director – REIT Business Development
Mike is involved with business development and is also the Managing Director of CM REIT Fund, a private, opportunistic fund being formed and sponsored by Concierge Asset Management and an internationally recognized investor. He has spent the last 40 years primarily involved with all aspects of investing in real estate and publicly traded real estate securities. Mike is a retired State Investment Officer of the Alaska State Pension Investment Board (“ASPIB”), Real Estate and Private Equity. In that position, he was responsible for the real estate, agriculture, energy, hedge funds, and private equity investments for ASPIB, which amounted to about $2.5 billion. He has also held various analytical and portfolio management positions with Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, Alex. Brown and Sons (where he helped start Alex. Brown Realty, which is now part of LaSalle Realty), JMB Institutional Realty, and Kennedy Associates Real Estate Council. Mike was a co-founder and Chairman of PRA Securities Investors, a firm investing in REITs for institutions. He also spent four years working with various Asian government agencies to help them develop laws for publicly traded real estate securities
Contact:
425.223.2725
mikeo@drever.net
Lori D. Perro
Managing Director – Joint Ventures
Lori is involved with business development. She formerly held a similar position with Argus Realty Investors, LP (a Drever-affiliated company). Lori has over 21 years of real estate and financial services experience with public, private, and institutional investors. She was a Vice President of the Manager at Metropolitan Real Estate Equity Management, where she was responsible for business development and client services, and supported the due diligence and fund selection processes. Her experience also includes serving as a Managing Director in charge of marketing at Timbervest, LLC; a Vice President of Investment Management and Acquisitions at Lend Lease Real Estate Investment, Inc. (now owned by Morgan Stanley); and an auditor of real estate-related firms at Ernst and Young, LLP.
Contact:
704.895.3304
lori@drever.net