With vast experience in development, construction and investment, each of the team members at SunCap shares our philosophies on open communication, hard work, competitiveness and trusted relationships. Beyond projects, we develop longstanding relationships and work directly with you to understand your vision and deliver a product that exceeds expectations.
Fred has 30 years of experience in the development, construction, acquisitions and management of mixed-use and multifamily developments and leads SunCap's efforts in those areas. He has national expertise with seasoned experience in most major metropolitan cities throughout the US and has worked in both public and private companies as well as national REITs, including Post Properties, Colonial Properties and UDR. Throughout his career he has been involved in the development and construction of over 15,000 multifamily units located throughout the Southeast and Sunbelt regions.
Immediately prior to joining SunCap, Fred was senior vice president of Adolfson & Peterson Construction and was responsible for all aspects of the Atlantic Region's daily operations, heading over $350 million of mixed-use and multifamily construction.
Fred received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Business Administration from West Virginia University and has been active in several community and professional associations throughout his career. He currently serves on the ULI Transit-Oriented Development Council and has served on the ULI Charlotte Management Committee.
With over 25 years of legal experience in commercial real estate, Jason has served as General Counsel since 2011. His primary responsibility is advising and representing SunCap regarding all legal matters related to SunCap's business activities in commercial real estate development. Jason's unique business and legal background, which includes real estate development work outside of the legal department, allows him to balance business risks and legal decisions from an informed and experienced perspective.
Prior to SunCap, and following private law firm practice, Jason spent two years as Associate General Counsel for Lauth Property Group, at the time, the 13th largest commercial real estate developer in the US. Jason handled over five million square feet of contract negotiations for retail, office, industrial and healthcare projects across the US. While at Lauth, Jason transitioned from the legal department to spend three years as Senior Director of Office and Industrial Development, serving as the project executive for five master-planned industrial parks where his responsibilities included marketing, land sales, leasing, and pursuing development opportunities, including build-to-suits. During that time, he won several leasing awards and oversaw the development of the largest industrial building in the state of Kentucky at 936,000 square feet.
Jason earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Political Science from Ball State University; a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from Indiana University; and a Certificate in Construction Project Management from Purdue University.
Armed with an in-depth understanding of the commercial real estate landscape, Curt serves as a trusted advisor, helping SunCap make informed decisions for its client base. Curt spent 38 years with two of the leading firms in the industry, Trammell Crow Company and CBRE where he led numerous regions and global lines of business during his career. Most recently, he served as President of Global Principal Project Management for CBRE.
Curt has been involved in numerous industry groups and local community boards including: Society of Industrial and Office Realtors (SIOR), CoreNet Global, YMCA of Greater Charlotte, American Heart Association of Charlotte, Project 658, Hope Community Clinic and The Harvest Center of Charlotte.
As President of SunCap Property Group, Brian is responsible for leading the executive and project teams, focusing on client-centered, collaborative real estate development services. Brian joined SunCap in 2010, bringing over 20 years of real estate development experience working with national firms, delivering office, industrial, retail, healthcare and multifamily projects. While with SunCap, Brian has been responsible for the delivery of over $3 billion in successful development while providing leadership to several divisions of SunCap, including construction and development operations.
Brian began his career in the Northern Virginia / Washington, DC market with the Charles E. Smith Companies, working with that group through mergers with Vornado Realty Trust and Archstone Communities Trust. While there, Brian led the capital improvement and redevelopment efforts of numerous commercial office, retail and mixed-use properties, leading several key accounts, including the Patent and Trademark Organization, Department of Defense and General Services Administration. Work with these agencies required advanced security clearances, complicated and precise building standards, and 100% on-time delivery.
In 2003, Brian left Northern Virginia for Charlotte, NC to grow his career and family. Working with several regional and national firms, he continued focus on account-based work, building and developing for national retail banks, healthcare organizations and industrial clients. While with Lauth Property Group, Brian was a key member of teams responsible for developing medical office buildings for holistic cancer treatment, outpatient surgery centers and NASCAR's 19-story regional headquarters in uptown Charlotte.
Brian holds a degree in civil engineering from Virginia Tech University and is a licensed general contractor.
Paxton has over 25 years of experience in commercial development, brokerage, management and investment of all product types within the commercial real estate industry. Paxton's primary responsibility is furthering the success of SunCap's build-to-suit delivery program by establishing client partnerships for initiating new developments across the Southeast and evaluating speculative development opportunities for SunCap throughout the region.
Prior to joining SunCap in 2014, Paxton was Vice President and Director of Business Development with JE Dunn Construction. There he was responsible for brand recognition as JE Dunn transitioned from its acquisition of R.J. Griffin and Company, helping grow the company's revenue an average of 200% per year. Paxton began his real estate career with Lincoln Harris in Charlotte, leaving in 2004 to join two colleagues in the establishment of the first regional office for Lauth Property Group. For six years he managed the Southeastern Retail Development Team and all facets of the company's retail developments including procurement, entitlement, anchor tenant negotiations, construction and disposition.
Paxton graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Communication. He has also studied Business Communication abroad at the University of Trondheim in Trondheim, Norway and FSU London in London, England.
Austin has been actively involved in the commercial real estate industry for over 30 years. He brings a wealth of knowledge in the areas of: investment strategy; development management; portfolio/asset management; finance; due diligence; leasing; marketing; acquisition; product strategy and repositioning; debt/equity restructuring; partnership relations and financial reporting. Over the course of his career, Austin has managed over $5 billion of assets in diversified global real estate portfolios, multiple Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design-certified development projects and a development pipeline in excess of $1 billion measured by construction volume.
Prior to SunCap, Austin served as the chief operating officer for Dividend Capital Diversified Property Fund, a $3.1 billion Denver-based public real estate investment trust that invests in a diverse portfolio of real properties and debt investments. DPF's portfolio consisted of 116 properties totaling approximately 20.1 million square feet of office, industrial and retail properties in over 30 geographic markets.
In 2004, Austin joined Lauth Property Group, ultimately serving as the company's executive vice president and chief investment officer, where he established a national operating platform, co-directed the investment committee and provided strategic leadership across four product types for this privately held commercial real estate development company with 450 employees and eight regional offices.
Additionally, Austin served as a visiting professor at the University of Colorado's Leeds School of Business and is actively affiliated with the Office Development Council of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC) and the National Association of Industrial & Office Properties (NAIOP).
Austin holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from Williams College and a Master of Business Administration in finance from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Based in SunCap's Charleston SC office, Derek oversees both build-to-suit and speculative industrial development efforts across the lower Southeast region. Prior to joining SunCap, Derek served Director of Industrial Development for WestRock Land & Development, where he was involved in the development of +12,000 acres of industrial land across ten campuses and completed transactions totaling $150 million. He has delivered projects for companies such as Magna International, Milliken, SHL Medical and Home Depot and has been involved with several economic development projects including Volvo Cars US, Thorne Research and Juliska.
Derek is a member of numerous professional associations, is a past board president at the Dee Norton Lowcountry Children's Center, and is currently serving on the board of the Charleston Regional Development Alliance. In 2016, he was named to Charleston Business Magazine's "50 Most Influential" list and was a member of the 2015 "Forty under Forty" class, awarded by Charleston Regional Business Journal. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Management from Clemson University and a Master's of Real Estate Development from Georgetown University.
Brendan's primary role as the chief financial officer is capital formation, as well as capital structuring and sourcing with preferred partners. Under Brendan's leadership, SunCap is able to deliver superior risk adjusted returns to its partners while delivering cost competitive projects to its clients and excellent capital markets execution.
Prior to joining SunCap, Brendan was the founding Principal of Langholz Wilson Ellis Capital Solutions, based in Pittsburgh. Langholz Wilson Ellis Capital Solutions provided clients with solution oriented debt capital advisory services for all asset classes and in each part of the capital stack. Brendan has over 25 years of real estate and real estate capital markets experience, which included time with the land acquisitions team at NVR Inc.
The bulk of his career was spent with Pittsburgh National Corporations Capital Markets and Pittsburgh National Corporations Real Estate Finance. He has closed over $3 billion in structured capital for real estate projects and real estate related entities.
Brendan holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English from Boston College and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Cincinnati.
As founding partner of SunCap Property Group, Flint brings over 30 years of national commercial real estate development expertise to his leadership role at the company. Flint started in the business as a commercial real estate broker in his native town of Miami, Florida spending most of his initial eight years in the industry with Cushman & Wakefield. While there, Flint worked on behalf of institutional landlords leasing space in Class A urban and suburban office buildings as well as building a substantial book of business in the tenant representation side of the business.
In 1994, Flint moved his family to Charlotte, North Carolina to join The Harris Group (later merged with Lincoln Property Company) to pursue his passion in development. As Senior Vice President of Development and Director of Corporate Services at Lincoln Harris, Flint led several national corporate real estate services accounts and completed over 350 brokerage transactions representing over three million square feet of build-to-suits in 37 states.
In 2004, Flint joined Lauth Property Group in Charlotte as their Southeast regional partner and grew the full service development and construction company's Southeast Region into the number one-ranked development company in the Carolinas (2008 Charlotte Business Journal's annual rankings) with an annual development and construction volume of over $150 million per year. Flint served on Lauth's Capital Committee and its Executive Committee.
In 2009, Flint left Lauth to start SunCap Property Group and refocus his development energies on long term single tenant build-to-suit projects and to build an organization of seasoned professionals highly focused on serving client needs.
Flint holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Mike has 30 years of successful experience developing and delivering institutional grade commercial properties predominantly in the Western United States. As a lead development executive, he has opened new market offices in Denver, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Southern California. The cornerstone of Mike's success is his ability to establish trust with clients and brokers and in his track record of delivering projects on time and on budget. With a strong construction background and extensive horizontal and vertical development expertise across multiple product types, Mike provides the insight, leadership and communication skills necessary to navigate through complicated transactions. His extensive list of successful project completions range from one-off single tenant build-to-suit facilities to large institutional grade industrial parks and Class A multi-building office developments.
Mike received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Construction from Northeast Louisiana University.
Mark joined SunCap's Charlotte office in 2020 and leads the advancement of SunCap's national build-to-suit development platform.
Mark is a proven business and people leader with a track record of building and advising companies of all sizes, from start-ups to the Fortune 100. Throughout his career, Mark has been responsible for leading and scaling companies through aggressive growth periods. Prior to joining SunCap, Mark was with Axiom, launching their Charlotte office and leading a team of enterprise client partners and engagement managers to drive growth with new and existing clients in North America for the Consumer, Industrial, and Services practice.
He earned a degree in management from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a master's degree from the University of Georgia. Mark serves on the Bowl Selection Committee for the Charlotte Sports Foundation and is active with Charlotte Latin School as a board member on the Alumni Governing Board.
As a Executive Vice President based out of the Pittsburgh office, Matt's primary focus is the cultivation of new business opportunities and growing SunCap's national build-to-suit platform. Matt's background in tenant representation, disposition and strategic planning provides him unparalleled insight into tenant needs and goals. He has often been recognized as a top producer, completing transactions across the spectrum of commercial real estate classifications of retail, office, industrial, general commercial and manufacturing. He has represented a wide range of tenants including international software development firms, engineering firms, oil and gas field service groups, medical practitioners, law firms, energy companies, and financial service providers. He has recently been instrumental in bringing multiple industrial development projects to the Pittsburgh area. In addition to procuring build-to-suit work, he is responsible for site selection for SunCap's own speculative developments.
Matt is a native of Pittsburgh and a graduate of Duquesne University with a Bachelor's degree in marketing. He is a SIOR member and holds real estate licenses in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Currently he serves on the Jefferson Regional Medical Center Foundation Board.
