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Kevin Newell and the school that became a second chance
He went to class at Phillis Wheatley. Years later, he returned as its developer. For Royal Capital founder Kevin Newell, the route from a childhood address to a real estate deal runs through the people who made room for him.
Nick Beucher and the distance between two kinds of football
A college kicker from Central Florida now helps lead Tavistock Group and represents the Lewis family’s interests around Tottenham Hotspur. Between those two sidelines lie Lake Nona, a Fort Lauderdale marina and a career spent turning property into places people use.
Kenneth Monfort and the block that answered back
A fifth-generation Colorado business owner takes the CEO seat with a downtown bet still in progress. On Denver’s Market Street, Kenneth Monfort is learning how much a city brings to the negotiating table.
Schelton Assoumou and the price of staying put
A former J.P. Morgan banker brings the machinery of real estate finance to a neighborhood question: can a home become more valuable while its owner keeps a place in the community?
Evan Slavik and the art of taking the long way
A racing weekend with his father offers one glimpse of Evan Slavik. A 4,300-acre development in Nevada offers another: the Mark IV Capital chairman and CEO is working on a clock that runs well beyond the next deal.
Nhan Le and the education of a landlord
A scholarship brought Nhan Le to UC Berkeley; a duplex kept him there. Now the founder of Valiance Capital is building student housing - and trying to give others the access that changed his own life.
Rowland Bates and the work before the view
From the difficult ground beneath Liberty National to the next homes at Pinewild, Rowland Bates has spent four decades working through the decisions behind resort communities. The finished view comes later.
Gary Granger and the long way around the block
He learned construction in the family business, then spent three decades building a company of his own. In Lansing, Gary Granger’s next chapter runs through old buildings, public disagreements, and the patient work of getting a city block moving again.
Trevor Sperry and the economics of a rainy day
After J.P. Morgan, Capitol Hill and Boston Consulting Group, Trevor Sperry co-founded Olympus Pines. His retail investment business puts a practical question beside the financial ones: what makes a job worth keeping?
Chad Staheli and the work before the breakthrough
The Philo Ventures co-founder has built a career around the earliest, messiest stages of a business. His wager is that capital works better when it arrives with people who know what to do next.
Brian Murray and the business of staying put
From Peace Corps service in Bulgaria to factory workshops in Kensington, Brian Murray has built a real estate career around a difficult question: who gets to stay when a neighborhood starts to prosper?
Colin Behring’s two-block theory of a city
A Shanghai internship helped shape Colin Behring’s approach to Oakland: put homes, work and transport close together. His growing Uptown campus now faces a public test over the place of AI computing in the neighborhood.
Drew Boyles and the long way to a wave
A broken surfboard became a product. A junk truck became a route to ownership. Now the former El Segundo mayor is working on a surf resort in Arizona, where the first challenge is everything that happens before the wave.
TJ Rinomato and the education of a late-starting rookie
He had spent decades in the family construction business before entering NASCAR’s Canadian series. For TJ Rinomato, becoming a rookie opened another chapter in a career that runs from Ontario property to a Sundance premiere.
Bart Dickson Builds the Places Between Home and Work
A paperboy became a construction manager, went to law school at night, ran an electrical contractor and founded Cobalt. His latest bet is that a former warehouse can help give suburban Tualatin a little more soul.
Craig Weston Keeps Building - and Now the Blueprint Is a Town
He started a dot-com in college, turned association paperwork into a software business, ran relief operations in the Philippines and built a national clinic network. Craig Weston's latest project asks a harder question: what happens when an entrepreneur's blueprint becomes public geography?
Emily Marineau Wants Construction to Show Its Math
The Juno co-founder moved from Wall Street and Apple into the stubborn economics of housing. Her method is simple to describe and difficult to fake: define the cost, locate the risk, and make every elegant idea survive the spreadsheet.
Ardalan Khosrowpour Is Turning the Jobsite Camera Roll Into a Construction Ledger
He grew up around construction, trained an engineer's eye on its oldest information problem, and built OnsiteIQ around a stubborn idea: if every project is captured consistently, pictures can become evidence.
Alirio Torrealba Swapped Car Lots for City Blocks
After 25 years in auto retail, the Caracas-born entrepreneur found a second act in Coral Gables - one measured in courtyards, train stops and the patience to make new buildings feel inherited.
Joe Salemme Built a Travel Business Around the Miles Nobody Wanted
Before LUXY Ride, Joe Salemme learned to notice trucks returning empty. He turned that stubborn operating waste into a second career spanning chauffeur software, corporate travel, and Connecticut development.
Cary Rosenblum Kept Following the Deal - Until It Became a Housing System
The Elmington co-founder started with finance, then kept moving closer to the buildings, residents and operating problems. Six business lines later, his career offers a useful lesson in what vertical integration can do - and what it demands.
Leon Backes Builds Real Estate Like He Paints: One Layer at a Time
A $3 drawing prize, an orange Volkswagen Rabbit and a nearly 10-foot easel all belong to the same career. The founder of Provident has spent four decades turning patient land bets into places - and treating every plan like a composition still in progress.
William Sankey
William Sankey is the co-founder, CEO and Head of Product of Northspyre, a cloud intelligence platform that has helped manage more than $175 billion in real estate development projects. A Yale- and Harvard-trained developer who once helped run the billion-dollar Madison Square Garden renovation, he taught himself to code on nights and weekends to kill the spreadsheet drudgery he saw everywhere in the industry. That side project became Northspyre, which he founded in 2017 and has since grown on more than $32 million in venture funding.
Rick Holliday
Rick Holliday is a San Francisco Bay Area real estate developer and social entrepreneur with nearly 50 years of experience building affordable and market-rate housing. He co-founded Factory OS in 2017 to revolutionize multifamily housing production through factory-based modular construction, securing $77.7M in funding from Google, Autodesk, Facebook, and Citi. His career spans co-founding Eden Housing (1978), BRIDGE Housing (early 1980s), and Holliday Development (1988), where he pioneered live-work loft conversions in SoMa. Factory OS, located in a former WWII submarine shipyard on Mare Island in Vallejo, demonstrated 40% faster delivery and 20-30% cost savings over traditional construction.