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The Managing Principals have significant experience in the net lease and sale leaseback markets and have assembled a dedicated team focused exclusively on such transactions. The senior management team has extensive experience in private equity investing, acquisitions, dispositions, financial structuring, and the debt markets. The Managing Principals have sponsored investment funds and made real property investments in excess of $1 billion. ECM has made investments in excess of $540 million within the net lease markets.
In addition to benefiting from the Managing Principals' relationships, the Company will benefit from the Managing Principals' extensive experience and reputation in all aspects of principal investing. The Managing Principals' investments have been diversified across industries including real estate and venture capital.
Biographies of Managing Principals
Shelby E. L. Pruett, is a Co-Founder and Managing Principal of Equity Capital Management, LLC. Equity Capital Management is a private real estate investment company specializing in commercial net lease real estate markets where supply and demand factors have created strong prospects for superior risk-adjusted returns. Equity Capital Management and its principals have sponsored investment funds and made real property investments in excess of $1 billion. Mr. Pruett is also a Co-founder and Managing Principal of Gryffindor Capital Partners, LLC, a private equity company providing venture capital to growth and development-stage information technology, life sciences, and business service firms based in the United States. Prior to co-founding Gryffindor Capital Partners, Mr. Pruett ran corporate mergers and acquisitions for Transwestern Commercial Services, LLC and co-founded Transwestern Strategic Partners, LLC, a private equity fund investing in middle market operating and service companies. Prior to joining Transwestern Commercial Services, Mr. Pruett was Vice President of ARES Realty Capital, a subsidiary of the Mutual Life Insurance Fund of New York, where he was responsible for investment management and corporate mergers and acquisitions. Previous experience includes investment management for the Zell/Merrill Lynch Real Estate Opportunity and other related funds through Equity Assets Management, Inc. Mr. Pruett has maintained Board of Director involvement with Semafore Pharmaceuticals, US Spine, SmartSignal, Corp., RealEnergy, Inc., QuickStudy Radiology, Inc., Orbit Commerce, Inc., and FreeDrive Inc., and is a licensed real estate broker in Illinois. Mr. Pruett holds a BS in Architecture from the University of Virginia and a master's degree from Harvard University.
James G. Koman, is a Co-Founder and Managing Principal of Equity Capital Management, LLC. Mr. Koman is also President of Koman Properties, Inc., a Midwest-based retail developer, and a preferred Walgreens' Developer in Southern Illinois and Missouri. Through Koman Properties, Inc. and related entities, Mr. Koman has developed more than 4.5 million square feet of office, retail, and casino assets throughout the United States, including more than 35 Walgreen properties. Koman Properties' current development pipeline consists of 16 projects, located in Missouri, Illinois, and Georgia, with a development value of over $350 million. Mr. Koman is a co-owner and president of the Casino Queen gaming operation in East St. Louis, Ill., directly across from St. Louis' Gateway Arch, and co-founder and board member of US Spine. He also maintains or has had recent Board of Director involvement with seven local and national charities, including Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital, the Alzheimer’s Association, John Burroughs School, Junior Achievement and Gateway Trailnet. Mr. Koman is a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and has been a member of numerous panels for ULI, the St. Louis Regional Chamber and Growth Association, and the International Council of Shopping Centers. Mr. Koman and his various real estate developments have also been the subject of numerous newspaper and magazine articles, most notably in the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and a variety of real estate trade journals. Mr. Koman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the University of North Carolina, where he was a member of the UNC football team.
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