Mark D. Lester, CEO and Founding Principal
mlester@landcorealestate.com

President, Principal, graduated from the University of Santa Clara in 1983 with a Bachelors of Science in Commerce. Immediately following graduation, Mark went to work with CDM corporation located in Northern California where he participated in construction, management and development of apartment and retail real estate projects. Beginning in 1988, he worked for Norris Beggs and Simpson, a west coast real estate lending and leasing company specializing in office and industrial product.

Beginning in 1992, Mark committed his full time to a real estate company that became known as American Union where he focused on acquisitions of apartments in Texas. As president of AU, Mark helped the company grow by assisting with the identification and acquisition of several property management companies to a point of 7,000 apartment units and 10,000,000 square feet of leased commercial space. Mr. Lester remained with the company and retained an equity position until its sale in 1997.

In 1998, Mark co-founded LANDCO with a group of private investors for acquisition of land assets. LANDCO redirected its focus to income producing property in 2002 with an emphasis on multifamily. Mark currently participates on the investment committee where he, along with the firm’s principals, participates in evaluating CMBS, whole loan, and direct real estate investment opportunities.

Mark Foxx, Principal
mfoxx@landcorealestate.com

A licensed general contractor, real estate broker, consulting engineer and geologist, Mr. Foxx graduated from Washington State University in 1975 (B. S. Cum Laude in Geology) and from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1984 (M. S. in Earth Science). Mark Foxx joined LANDCO in 1998 and has a primary role in LANDCO's acquisitions, due diligence and construction oversight. With an extensive background in land use planning, land entitlement, permitting, development and construction, Mark is active in raw land development opportunities as well as strategic identification of markets, submarkets and individual multi-family housing opportunities for LANDCO.

In 27 years as a consultant, general contractor and project manager, Mark has solved numerous complex entitlement, engineering, and construction problems, drawing on each of his many technical and professional disciplines. He has managed the acquisition and development of approximately 100 properties and has worked as a consultant on about 1,000 other projects.

David Rosenbaum, Principal
drosenbaum@landcorealestate.com

A real estate professional since 1976, Mr. Rosenbaum has held executive positions in several growth-oriented companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, among them Plaza Pacific Equities, Diablo Lakes Development Corp., Intrust, Senior Equity Resources, and Lynch Investments. His responsibilities have encompassed property management, asset management, acquisitions & sales, construction & development, finance, corporate administration and planning.

During the course of his career, Mr. Rosenbaum has acquired, sold, financed and/or managed nearly 12,000 apartment units, over 500,000 square feet of retail space, and more than 500,000 square feet of commercial space. In addition, he has been instrumental in developing and building two condominium projects, four garden office buildings, a handful of single family homes, and an 860-acre tract for residential subdivision. Four times in his career, Mr. Rosenbaum has helped implement 10-fold growth in the companies he has joined. Today, he is a LANDCO Principal – sourcing and executing real estate investment opportunities with the company. Mr. Rosenbaum received a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1972 and a Master’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1976, both degrees in English Literature.

Gary A. Beason, Principal, Development
gbeason@landcorealestate.com

Mr. Beason has in excess of 25 years real estate experience with approximately 20 years home building experience with a top 50 home builder.

Gary is a seasoned financial and accounting executive with large company real estate development experience, capital market fund raising and SEC reporting experience, successful tenure as an entrepreneur, big-four public accounting background, team player and consensus style manager.

Prior to his association with LANDCO, Gary served as chief financial officer for The Corkie McMillin Companies where he reported directly to the chairman. There he resided on the Company’s executive committee and information systems executive committee. Additionally, Gary supervised the corporate finance, treasury and accounting and control functions with approximately 100 personnel.

Gary holds an MBA and is a certified public accountant (CPA).

Robert Woodard, Principal, CMBS
rwoodard@landcorealestate.com

Mr. Woodard has over 20 years of experience in analyzing and managing fixed income investments. Prior to his association with LANDCO, Robert was an Executive Director and Senior Portfolio Manager at UBS Global Asset Management responsible for all credit-sensitive securitized products, including CMBS.

AT UBS Global AM, Robert oversaw a portfolio of over $8 billion in CMBS assets. The portfolio included all asset and origination types and CMBS bonds rated from below-investment grade to AAA. He has a consistent record of recognizing undervalued and overvalued securities and sectors well in advance of the market, and positioning the portfolio accordingly.

Becky Burad, CFO
bburad@landcorealestate.com

A licensed CPA and successful financial operations consultant, Becky Burad is the CFO of LANDCO, providing corporate financial planning and analysis for our business entities along with due diligence, budgeting, and accounting operations oversight.

Ms. Burad has over 12 years of experience as a private financial consultant through her firms The Burad Company and Bridgeway, LLC, both of which supply CFO and financial consulting services to a variety of clients. Ms. Burad has provided financial consulting services to real estate development, investment and management clients, in addition to a number of start-up companies.

Prior to forming The Burad Company, Ms. Burad served for four years as the President and four years as Chief Financial Officer of MacKenzie Securities, Ltd., a real estate investment company specializing in the secondary market for real estate limited partnerships. Concurrent with her assignment as CFO of MacKenzie, Ms. Burad served as the Chief Financial Officer for The Klingbeil Company, a residential real estate development and management company.

Ms. Burad is a Certified Public Accountant, and is a member of the AICPA and the California Society of CPAs. Ms. Burad received a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Washington in 1978 and a Bachelor of Business degree from Pacific Lutheran University in 1974.

Michael C. Dugan, Principal, Construction/Asset Management
mdugan@landcorealestate.com

A licensed general contractor with over 25 years of experience in complex construction management, Mr. Dugan plays a key role in LANDCO’s construction operations, whereby value is added to existing properties. From 1999 through 2005, Mr. Dugan was Divisional Controller for U.S. Home/Lennar Corporation in Tucson, delivering over 1,700 homes and revenue of $300MM.

Mr. Dugan graduated from the University of Florida in 1970 and obtained a MBA from the University of Wisconsin in 1974. Returning to Florida, he began a career in commercial banking before joining the construction industry with Taylor Woodrow, Ltd.

Moving to Tucson, Arizona, in 1978, Mr. Dugan joined Codd Construction, an established commercial general contractor. He became Vice President and part owner of in charge of accounting, estimating and administrative departments. His duties included negotiating contracts for property acquisition and for subcontracted construction. While acting as Controller for the company, he was also Project Manager on the Municipal Complex for South Tucson, the remodeling of La Cholla High School, and a Luby’s Cafeteria. Holding both a commercial and residential general contractor’s license, he has personally remodeled 9 homes for resale. He also serves as an officer on three different Homeowners Associations.

Blane Lickteig, Principal, Construction/Asset Management
blickteig@landcorealestate.com

Mr. Lickteig graduated from University of California at Berkeley with a Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1987 and an MBA concentrating in Real Estate and Finance in 1989. He then worked for Sinclair-Bayfield Development, an affordable multifamily housing developer, to secure financing and assist in the pre-development phase of a tax credit project in southern California. Mr. Lickteig came to work for American Union in 1991 as Director of Operations where he oversaw all of the acquisition and rehabilitation of American Union properties in Texas. He also established and maintained the primary management entity overseeing the Texas portfolio. When American Union was sold, Mr. Lickteig pursued independent investment dealings in the real estate and equities markets. Mr. Lickteig joins LANDCO Partners Fund as an operating Principal with primary focus on Texas property. He has overseen rehabilitation and construction on over 1,500 apartments for LANDCO.

Tami L. Nishi, Director of Operations
tnishi@landcorealestate.com

Ms. Nishi joined LANDCO in 2006 with 17 years of experience as an accounting and project manager in the real estate investment and development industry. She is currently serving as Director of Operations for LANDCO. Tami’s extensive real estate experience includes accounting, finance, acquisition, law, project management and property management. She holds a State of California Public Notary License, Certificate of Commercial Construction Project Management, has met all of the requirements to obtain a State of California Real Estate Salespersons License and is currently pursuing a Real Estate broker’s license.

Ms. Nishi began her career in real estate and construction in 1989 with an insurance repair contractor in San Diego, CA, where she learned job costing, plan reading, Owner and Subcontractor negotiations and contract administration. In 1994, she moved to a large insulation and drywall contractor specializing in large tracts/phases of single and multi-family production building. She managed the accounting, purchasing and administrative staff and was vital in the development of a commercial steel stud framing division. Ms. Nishi has spent the six years prior to her tenure at LANDCO working for various clients, owning her own consulting business and performing multitudes of duties specifically relating to multi-family development and operations. She has been involved with the development and operation of over 5,000 housing units in five states.

Charles E. Steidtmann, Esq., Legal Advisor
csteidtmann@landcorealestate.com

As an attorney, Mr. Steidtmann has over 20 years of experience representing clients in a broad array of real estate and real estate tax matters. In addition to running his private law practice, Mr. Steidtmann serves as an officer of LANDCO, advising from time to time on legal matters as well as coordinating appropriate counsel for the formation of various single-purpose entities necessary for LANDCO to carry out its work.

A graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California at Los Angeles Law School, Mr. Steidtmann also holds a Masters of Law in Taxation from New York University. Until 1998, Mr. Steidtmann was a partner at the San Francisco law firm of Tichell, Maltzman, Mark, Bass & Ohleyer. He then left to create his own practice devoted entirely to commercial real estate transactions and tax issues.