A photograph of a finished building tells you almost everything about its appearance and very little about how it became possible. The financing is out of frame. So are the agreements, the negotiations, and the obligations that will outlast the opening ceremony. Chris Pacheco’s career belongs partly to that less photogenic territory. He is CEO and Chief Legal Officer of Titan Development, with a legal background in putting complicated real-estate transactions together. In a business that eventually produces something you can walk into, his work has often concerned the things you have to read first.
Consider Los Poblanos. Pacheco represented the Rembe family in securing a $10 million Bernalillo County Industrial Revenue Bond for the inn’s expansion. It is an unusually useful detail in an executive biography: a named place, a named client, a specific financing instrument. The picture becomes easier to understand when someone explains what happened outside its edges.
Three years between two New Mexico degrees
Pacheco’s education followed a compact New Mexico route. He earned a bachelor’s degree from New Mexico Highlands University in 1993, graduating magna cum laude. In 1996, he received his law degree, with honors, from the University of New Mexico School of Law. The three years between those dates mark the change from undergraduate student to attorney. His professional biography records admission in New Mexico that same year, followed in 1997 by admission to the Tenth Circuit and the federal district court in New Mexico.
Local professional responsibilities arrived early. He served as secretary of the Sandoval County Bar Association from 1996 to 1998, then as president from 1998 to 2002. Those dates put association leadership close to the beginning of his legal career. They also establish a local thread that continues through his later Rotary work and his base in Rio Rancho. The geography is consistent: New Mexico classrooms, New Mexico legal practice, and organizations where the county or city appears directly in the name.
The $10 million beneath the pretty picture
The Los Poblanos assignment gives the legal work a tangible setting. Pacheco’s role was representation of the Rembe family in securing the county bond for the inn expansion. The amount belongs to the financing, and the financing belongs to a particular project. It is a clean example of how an attorney can participate in the making of a place without drawing its plans or operating its construction equipment.
The Franz supplies another example. Pacheco helped obtain a Metropolitan Redevelopment Bond and reviewed the project’s complex Fannie Mae loan documents. Put the two assignments alongside each other and the recurring subject is clear: the financial and legal arrangements surrounding development. A bond may lack the charm of a good courtyard. It does, however, have the considerable advantage of helping the courtyard happen.
These examples also keep the career in proportion. They describe work he performed for identifiable projects. They leave room for the clients, lenders, public bodies, and other professionals whose participation makes property development a collective undertaking.
Bernalillo County Industrial Revenue Bond for the Los Poblanos Inn expansion. Pacheco represented the Rembe family in securing it.
A promotion with the legal brief still attached
In May 2020, Pacheco’s promotion to CEO of Titan Development was announced. Ben Spencer, the former CEO, remained with the company in leadership roles. It was a change at the executive desk within a continuing organization. Today, Titan lists Pacheco as CEO and Chief Legal Officer, a title that preserves the legal responsibility alongside the business one.
That combination is the distinguishing feature of his professional profile. A chief executive carries responsibility for the company; a chief legal officer brings another set of obligations into view. In Pacheco’s case, the same career contains both. The overlap is particularly legible in property development, where the desired physical result has to fit inside a workable arrangement of ownership, finance, and contracts.
Titan’s team includes partners, development professionals, finance staff, asset management, construction management, and legal colleagues. Pacheco’s two titles sit within that wider group. The company’s current roster also names Aimeé González Estrada as General Counsel and John A. Armijo as Deputy General Counsel. The legal function has people as well as a place in the CEO’s title.
Capital has its own architecture
Two years after Pacheco’s promotion, Titan announced the close of its third real-estate fund. In May 2022, Fund III reached $122 million in limited-partner and general-partner commitments. Its stated focus was industrial and multifamily development in growing secondary and tertiary markets. Those are company figures, describing the scale and direction of the business he led.
The close brought the fund series’ announced total to $329 million since its 2017 inception. More than 80 percent of Titan’s past investors participated in Fund III alongside new investors. Family offices and high-net-worth individuals made up the principal investor groups. Each figure adds something different: the size of the new fund, the accumulated commitments, and the return of existing participants.
There is a useful distinction between an executive’s biography and a company’s balance of achievements. The fund close belongs to Titan. Its relevance to Pacheco is the organization and period of leadership it describes. It gives his CEO role a financial setting while the Los Poblanos and Franz assignments give his legal career specific tasks.
$329M total commitments since 2017. Earlier-fund figure calculated as $329M minus $122M. Company totals.
Twenty-five properties, another kind of return
Pacheco’s property experience also appears in his service on the Sandia Foundation board and its real-estate committee. The foundation holds a significant portion of its assets in Albuquerque real estate. Its property page lists 25 properties, with 22 leased to businesses providing goods, services, and employment in the city. That makes the committee’s subject quite concrete: places occupied by businesses, with a continuing role in local commercial life.
The foundation setting brings a different institutional purpose to a familiar professional field. Real estate here sits inside a philanthropic organization’s assets. Committee service connects Pacheco’s property background to stewardship of those holdings. An address can be a business premises and part of a foundation’s resources at the same time; the two descriptions occupy the same piece of ground.
His civic record extends beyond that board. He is a past president of the Rotary Club of Rio Rancho and serves on the Rio Rancho Rotary Foundation board. He previously chaired the New Mexico Human Rights Commission. These positions widen the portrait from transactions and executive duties to participation in organizations with their own public and community responsibilities.
The Sandia Foundation biography records recognition in Best Lawyers in America for real estate each year since 2008. Alongside the association offices and civic appointments, that detail anchors the legal strand of his career over time. The executive title arrived later; the attorney’s work already had a history.
A meeting with a better backdrop
A November 2021 photograph offers a less formal view of the professional world around Pacheco. The setting is Los Poblanos again, this time for a Vistage Chief Executive Board 417 gathering hosted by Matthew Rembe. The public post names Pacheco among the executives brought together for the meeting. A white veranda, autumn foliage, and a group posing outside give the occasion a rather better backdrop than a conference-room wall.
The meeting’s stated purpose was peer learning, support, and challenge among business leaders. It places Pacheco in a local executive network outside Titan’s own organization. Los Poblanos therefore enters his story twice, through different doors: once as a client financing assignment, once as the setting for an executive gathering. The same setting connects a financing assignment with the business community around it.
A warehouse, measured in doors
The business Pacheco leads also reaches beyond New Mexico. In November 2024, Titan and Realterm announced a joint venture for a 440,300-square-foot industrial facility in Laredo, Texas. The planned cross-dock building sat on 26.08 acres. The announcement specified 150 doors, 264 trailer stalls, a 185-foot truck court, and 36-foot clear heights. Warehouse architecture has a refreshingly practical vocabulary. A door is a door, and a truck needs somewhere to turn.
The project was announced as speculative development, available for lease, with a layout divisible between two tenants. Those details describe the intended building and leasing approach. They also show another part of Titan’s work during Pacheco’s leadership: a partnership focused on transportation and logistics real estate near the U.S.-Mexico border.
Pacheco reposted the Realterm announcement on LinkedIn. The company’s project and his public professional activity meet at that point. The connection is visible, while the project remains a team and joint-venture undertaking. His profile gains a Texas chapter without assigning every warehouse door to the chief executive personally.
The alumnus comes back with a housing plan
Another announced project brings the story back to Highlands. New Mexico Highlands University entered a master development agreement with Titan Property Management, LLC for residential development on underused portions of university-owned land associated with its golf course. The university identifies Pacheco as the company’s CEO and a Highlands alumnus. The proposal is for phased housing development serving the university and the Las Vegas, New Mexico, community.
Pacheco spoke about the personal significance of participating as an alumnus. The announcement connects the graduate of 1993 with a new undertaking involving the same institution. The agreement sets out a direction for development; the homes remain the intended result.
“being part of a project that helps move Las Vegas forward”
Chris Pacheco, on the Highlands housing initiative
His career has travelled from degrees to legal practice, from individual transactions to executive responsibility, with local institutions recurring along the way. The Highlands agreement gives that route a recognizable return. A university appears first as the place where he earned a degree, then as a partner in a housing initiative. For Pacheco, the next chapter is attached to ground he already knows.