Mr. Drever is at the helm of Drever Capital Management, has been a visionary leader in contrarian impact real estate investing for over 40 years. His passion for redeveloping distressed workforce multifamily properties in a socially and environmentally conscious manner has often provided the catalyst for transforming entire neighborhoods. He is also a principal of DGD Capital Management, a venture focused on multifamily, senior housing, and hospitality development and redevelopment.

Mr. Drever has always been appreciative of the friends who backed him in his first real estate venture to buy and redevelop a tired triplex on the Sausalito waterfront (quadrupling their money). Today, the children of these legacy family investors as well as new friends and families have the unusual opportunity to invest in tandem with his institutional investors along with and on the same favorable terms as the Drever Family in Parallel Fund II.

His former company, Drever Partners, with 18,000 units, was one of the earliest and largest buyers of multifamily housing during the RTC cycle. In October 1997, those assets were merged into Walden Residential Properties, a Dallas-based public REIT (NYSE), to create a $1.4 billion REIT. Following a non-compete period, Mr. Drever formed Concierge Asset Management.

Concierge merged with Crossbeam Capital to form Crossbeam Holdings, which focuses on acquiring and redeveloping challenged multifamily assets and/or their NPLs. It has +10,000 units and Mr. Drever is the largest owner.

He serves as Managing Partner and Chief Acquisition Strategist for Crossbeam Holdings, and its in-process $500 million institutional fund (AA+ credit) as well as for the related Parallel Fund II. The significant buying power of these institutions has been one of the catalysts for generating uncommonly strong cash distributions for the legacy family investors in the first Parallel Fund.

Mr. Drever operates out of a century-old boathouse in Tiburon, CA. He is a University of Illinois finance graduate and has semi-retired three times. He is involved in programs around the world for disadvantaged children, is a keen horticulturist and sportsman, and enjoys biking and year-round, sans wetsuit swimming in the San Francisco Bay.

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Contact: maxwell@drever.net | 415.789.1773

Frank Marro is a seasoned real estate executive with more than 25 years of experience in all aspects of commercial real estate including legal, originations, asset management, investment management and risk management. He served as a P&L leader for two divisions of GE Capital Real Estate and grew the JV Equity business from inception to over $20 million in annual net income. Frank has experience closing or overseeing more than 1,000 projects with over $20 billion in total cost including more than 100,000 apartment units, 20 million square feet of commercial space and several thousand hotel rooms.

Frank has a BA from Hofstra University, a JD from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Georgia State. A former officer of MetLife, Frank served for over 10 years on the Board of Directors of the National Multi Housing Council and is a member of the Georgia Bar.

Frank is married with two children and three step-children. He is a former soccer referee, piano player, competitive table tennis player and is active in martial arts as well as being an occasional poker player.

Contact: fmarro@drever.net | 678.488.8452

Lee Wong has 15 years of real estate experience focused on underwriting and asset management. He underwrote over 400 deals for GE Capital Real Estate resulting in $700 million of invested equity in $3.5 billion worth of real estate. He also spent time as part of GE’s Asset Management and Global Portfolio Analytics teams which had responsibilities responding to inquiries from major investors, rating agencies and government regulators. Separately, he has had asset management responsibilities for $300 million of residential projects including large land sales, development, and dealing with troubled situations.

Lee has a Masters in Real Estate from Harvard University, an MBA from the University of Southern California and received his BA from the University of Texas at Austin. 

Contact: lwong@drever.net | 281.668.8750

Before joining DCM, Mr. Drever oversaw portfolio funds and legacy assets for Crossbeam/Concierge, working in its Bethesda headquarters. His responsibilities included asset and portfolio management, investor relations, acquisitions, and dispositions. 

Mr. Drever unofficially began his career at age 5, touring potential acquisitions of distressed multifamily communities with his father, who offered him a dollar for every problem his “due diligence” efforts uncovered. This turned out to be quite a lucrative enterprise for the young Drever and ever since he has been intrigued with successfully redeveloping distressed assets. Mr. Drever officially joined the Concierge team in its Houston office, working on apartment community renovations for the Concierge Construction Management Division. After completing his MBA in international finance, he returned to Crossbeam/Concierge to work in its Dallas office in asset and fund-level management, reporting to the company’s president.

Mr. Drever has an MBA from The Monterey Institute of International Studies, a Graduate School of Middlebury College. He received his B.A. in English from Colorado College. He holds an FAA certified instrument pilot rating and is a California Licensed Falconer.

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Ms. Haskell is responsible for Drever Capital Management’s portfolio and asset oversight.

For over 25 years, Ms. Haskell has been managing portfolios, raising capital, directing comprehensive marketing campaigns, and providing communications oversight for both privately held and publicly traded enterprises. Prior to Drever Capital Management, she was integral to the launch of Praxis Capital, a private equity real estate firm. At Praxis, she was Director of Investor Relations for all marketing, communications, capital raising, SEC liaison, and investor oversight. She successfully launched and funded 6 new equity partnerships.

Previous to Praxis, Ms. Haskell was Director of Investor Relations and Corporate Finance for a publicly traded technology company. As a partner with Bridgeway Capital, she built the business by 60% with the most profitable and largest transactions for the firm. She was also a stockbroker with Security Properties Inc., where she specialized in real estate limited partnerships and capital raises, and was honored as the Top Overall Regional Producer in private and public programs.

Ms. Haskell has acquired 3 security licenses; the Series 7, 63, and 65 as Registered Investment Advisor. She was featured in the best-selling financial primer, Entries and Exits: Visits to Sixteen Trading Rooms by Dr. Alexander Elder (2006). She attended Washington University, St. Louis, MO.

Sherri’s father, a physician and sophisticated investor was a legacy Drever Family investor. Dr. Haskell was recognized by their mutual Big 6 accounting firm as an especially astute investor. Ms. Haskell is an avid equestrian and a Big Sister in the Big Brothers, Big Sisters organization.

Contact: sherri@drever.net | 415.332.2665 | 415.722.4849 m

Mr. Baker is Drever Capital Management’s Chief Financial Officer and responsible for all financial and operational aspects of DCM’s investments, properties, and funds. He held the same position at Concierge prior to its merger.

Mr. Baker has extensive experience and expertise in corporate and real estate acquisition, deal evaluation and negotiation, budgeting, financial control, financial management, and risk evaluation and management. He is an English Chartered Accountant, having qualified in 1986. While in the U.K., Mr. Baker served as CFO of a residential mortgage lender (which had $3 billion of on-book assets) and of one of the U.K.'s largest privately owned Internet Service Providers. He also worked in corporate finance with the U.K.'s largest residential real estate brokerage company, where he led the team that acquired (for one U.K. pound) a real estate brokerage branch network of 300 retail outlets.

On moving to the U.S. in 2003, Mr. Baker was a principal and CFO in two commercial property ventures before joining Concierge in 2005.

He has Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the University of Cambridge.

Contact: edward@drever.net | 415.789.1773

Ms. Gordon is responsible for Drever Capital Management’s investor relations, marketing and communications and oversees DCM’s impact initiatives and outreach. She held a similar position at Concierge prior to its merger with Crossbeam.

Ms. Gordon has extensive experience in client relations, business development, marketing and communications. Prior to Concierge she served as Director of Member Services for The Bar Association of San Francisco (8,000 members), managing member development and relations, marketing, communications, publications and strategic partnerships.

As a practicing attorney for 20 years, Ms. Gordon worked with highly respected law firms, including Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati and Bingham McCutchen in San Francisco and Shea & Gould in New York. Her practice focused on business, real estate and patent litigation and counseling.

Ms. Gordon graduated from Dartmouth College with a B.A. in government and received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law School. She is a member of the bar in California and New York.

Contact: lulu@drever.net | 415.789.1773 | 415.317.4477 m