ABOUT US

OUR TEAM

Meet the experts behind our company

Our transactions are often complicated and require complex problem solving. Our Management Team has a wide range of experiences and abilities to solve unstructured problems.

"Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success." 

– Henry Ford   

Jared Lucero

President and Chief Executive Officer of Reef

Jared L. Lucero is the President of Reef and serves on its board of directors. Jared was named CEO in 2018 and continues to guide Reef and its subsidiaries in their diverse business services related to debt and equity financing. Under his leadership, Reef and its subsidiaries have closed close to $1 Billion in real estate transactions. Prior to serving as President of Reef, Jared founded and was the President of PCG for many years. Mr. Lucero led PCG successfully from its start-up in 2005 through the turbulent real estate markets of 2008 & 2009. Under his leadership, PCG became a premier provider of private loan servicing and other administrative services to lenders and projects located throughout the United States. Jared is also a co-founder of Stillwater Equity Partners, a real estate private equity firm that develops, owns and invests in commercial properties including office, retail, multifamily, industrial, and land throughout the United States. Stillwater also provides project management services to outside 3rd parties. Mr. Lucero’s extensive business experience, comprehensive knowledge of real estate, and solid background in managing relationships combine to bring multi-faceted leadership to Reef and its family of companies. 

Michael Burke

Chief Operating Officer of Reef

Michael R. Burke is the Chief Operating Officer of Reef and serves on its board of directors. Michael was named COO in 2018 and has since helped guide Reef and its subsidiaries in their diverse business services related to debt and equity financing. Mr. Burke provides financial management, regulatory compliance and comprehensive financial oversight and direction to the Company to support its day‐to‐day functions. Before assuming the COO role with Reef, Mr. Burke served in an executive capacity as President of Select Fund Management, a private fund manager and predecessor company to SFA, focused on creating pooling vehicles to participate in the transactions sourced and managed by PCG and Stillwater. In this role he was been instrumental in structuring and managing private offerings for a multitude of vehicles investing in both real estate private equity and private credit transactions. Before founding Select Fund Management, Mr. Burke spent several years with PCG, first as Corporate Controller and then later as the head of Risk Management. In his time with PCG, Mr. Burke was responsible for several strategic initiatives including serving as CFO for a distressed oil refinery from 2009 to 2012. His direction was instrumental in turning the refining facility and business from distress to profitability resulting in successful liquidation at a substantial profit. Before joining PCG, Mr. Burke gained extensive accounting and financial management experience while working for public international accounting firms and privately held companies. In various roles throughout his career, he has provided comprehensive operations, tax, structuring and business advisory services for companies of various stages and sizes. Mr. Burke graduated with a B.S. in Accounting and a M.Acc. in Accounting in 2006 from Brigham Young University. 

Christopher Crittenden

Chief Financial Officer of Reef

In his executive capacity as Chief Financial Officer of Reef, Mr. Crittenden’s provides comprehensive support to Reef’s strategic objectives. Mr. Crittenden is an experienced advisor and entrepreneur. While at McKinsey & Company, a multinational management consulting firm, he advised CEOs and other senior executives of Fortune 500 companies on broad ranging strategic initiatives. In 2010, Mr. Crittenden left McKinsey to pursue a doctorate from Duke University, studying business strategy. In 2011, he took a permanent leave of absence from Duke to found a technology company pioneering advances in artificial intelligence. In 2014, this company was purchased by Walmart. Mr. Crittenden spent the next several years leading the digital products division for one of Walmart’s top national strategic initiatives: grocery home delivery. Mr. Crittenden’s broad mix of skill and experience brings well-rounded insight to the Management Team. His role is to provide comprehensive support to Reef’s strategic objectives. Mr. Crittenden obtained a B.S. in Accounting in 2006 and a M.Acc. in Accounting in 2007 from Brigham Young University.

William Wennerth

Managing Director of Reef

Mr. Wennerth brings a wealth of institutional knowledge and comprehensive transaction experience to his leadership of Reef. Before joining Reef, he served as a Principal at Jupiter Peak Capital, a special situations investment firm, where he was responsible for all aspects of the investment process from deal sourcing to underwriting to execution. In addition, he managed various portfolios related to investments made at his prior firm through the harvest and asset realization periods. Prior to Jupiter Peak Capital, William was a Vice President at Crestline Investors where he was responsible for sourcing, due diligencing, negotiating, and executing transactions in distressed and special situations assets. William was part of a small team that invested over $1 billion across various industries and geographies in the strategy. Before Crestline Investors, he was an investment banker in Citigroup’s middle-market M&A group where he focused on mergers, divestitures, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, initial public offerings, and recapitalizations. William began his career in the global industries investment banking group at Bank of America where he was an analyst. William graduated with an A.B. in Economics with honors from the University of Chicago.

Kyle Hutchins

Managing Director of SFA

As Managing Director of Select Fund Advisors, Mr. Hutchins is responsible for all tasks related to fund operations and coordination with institutional direct lenders. As a member of the Investment Committee, Kyle participates in the evaluation and authorization of all new investment opportunities selected for vehicles managed by SFA. Prior to SFA, he was the Vice President of Business Development at SG Capital Management, an equity long/short hedge fund located in Chicago, IL. Responsible for all communications with current and potential investors, Kyle materially helped the firm grow AUM from $400M to $650M during his tenure. In addition, he monitored and analyzed gross and net exposures to various quantitative risk factors across strategies, helping to hedge unwanted portfolio risk. Mr. Hutchins began his career at FactSet Research Systems as a consultant, supporting over 150 buy-side investment professionals in downtown Chicago. Kyle earned B.S. degrees in Finance and Accounting from the Miami University Farmer School of Business with Magna Cum Laude honors. He also holds the CFA designation.

Mathew C. Gilbert

Managing Director of SFA

Mr. Gilbert manages institutional relations for SFA and also directs its marketing efforts. Mr. Gilbert has managed the capital efforts of SFA since 2014. Matthew started his career in advertising in the 1990s, eventually leading the expansion of two global ad agencies’ interactive media divisions – DMB&B (now Publicis) in North America and Young & Rubicam in Asia/Pacific. At the height of the dot‐com boom, Mr. Gilbert was asked to lead the acquisition strategy for Qixel Capital Group in Asia/Pacific, a role that led to similar positions in structured finance, mergers and acquisitions, wealth management, and private banking at Castle Hill Holdings, UBS and Bank of America. He previously managed his own advisory firm focusing in individual clients in Wellington, Florida. Mr. Gilbert obtained a B.A. in International Relations from Boston University in 1993.

Chad DeCoursey

Managing Director of PCG

Mr. DeCoursey brings broad experience in the legal and financial fields to his leadership of PCG. He first gained experience in the securities and finance worlds through internships with Deloitte, the Securities & Exchange Commission and PricewaterhouseCoopers. After graduating from legal and business programs, he served multinational business clients in the Washington D.C. area as an international tax consultant with Deloitte, where his responsibilities included technical research and structuring of international tax transactions. He subsequently served numerous audit and assurance clients in the Boise, Idaho area, ranging from privately held companies to large public companies with complex filing and financial reporting requirements. Mr. DeCoursey has spent recent years helping SFA and its affiliates comply with U.S. state and federal securities requirements related to raising capital and improving overall risk management processes within SFA and its affiliates. Mr. DeCoursey obtained a B.S. in Accounting, a M.Acc. in Accounting, and a J.D. from Brigham Young University in 2012. He is a licensed CPA and attorney and holds a House Counsel license to practice law issued by the Utah State Bar.

Paul Bringhurst

Managing Director of Stillwater

As Managing Director for Stillwater, Mr. Bringhurst oversees the entitlement, design, construction, and stabilization of private equity real estate projects located throughout the United States. He began his career as a development consultant having the opportunity to work for both local and international engineering firms. During his 10-year career in civil design and land planning, he became the Land Development Department Head at Stantec Consulting’s Salt Lake City office in 2007. He later joined Salt Lake County Government and managed their redevelopment agency’s operations and redevelopment projects for several years before joining Stillwater Equity Partners in 2014. Mr. Bringhurst holds multiple degrees, including an A.A.S. in Engineering Design, a B.S. in Urban Planning, and a Masters in Real Estate Development (MRED) from the University of Utah. He also holds an active Utah Real Estate License and is a Certified Urban Planner by the American Institute of Certified Planners.

Jed Robinsons

Senior Executive of Reef

As a senior executive of Reef and member of its Board of Directors, Mr. Robinson is responsible for business development and transaction sourcing for the Company. Jed was a co-founder of PCG and has been involved in its operations since 2005. In 2008 Mr. Robinson took on the challenge of reforming and reorganizing PCG’s collateral disposition department when many transactions serviced by PCG at that time experienced severe distress due to the Great Recession’s widespread effects on real estate value and liquidity. In 2010, Mr. Robinson returned his focus within PCG to the front end, working with borrowers to source, negotiate and structure new loans. Mr. Robinson was also a co-founder of Stillwater and continues to source and negotiate private equity real estate opportunities for the company. Prior to co-founding PCG, Mr. Robinson was a key sales manager for a team of loan originators of a multi-state mortgage brokerage. Mr. Robinson is also a licensed real estate agent. To date, Mr. Robinson has been involved in the underwriting, structuring or servicing close to half a billion dollars in private real estate transactions. Mr. Robinson holds a B.S. degree in Psychology from Brigham Young University.

Richard Griffin

Senior Executive of Reef

Mr. Griffin is a principal of Reef and also serves as a senior executive. Mr. Griffin sources transactions for PCG and Stillwater through his expansive relationship network that stretches across the United States. Rick is a key contributor to the Company working closely with borrowers and sponsors to find, negotiate, and structure potential transactions. Transactions flowing through Stillwater and PCG often require a high level of creativity to develop and structure. Mr. Griffin has proven an innate ability to effectively structure private loans and private equity real estate investment opportunities. Mr. Griffin has decades of experience sourcing, structuring, servicing, and managing transactions representing hundreds of millions of dollars in deployed capital. Prior to joining PCG Mr. Griffin founded and operated a highly successful mortgage company. Richard holds a B.A. degree in Chinese from Brigham Young University.

J. Brett Boren

Senior Executive of Reef

Brett Boren is a senior executive of Reef and serves on its Board of Directors. Prior to serving as a senior executive of Reef, Brett served as the President of PCG and was its head of risk analysis. Mr. Boren also co-founded Stillwater. Mr. Boren joined the PCG team in 2007 as its head underwriter and risk management officer. He was responsible for evaluating collateral value on each transaction and ensuring compliance with all risk guidelines set by PCG’s loan committee. He worked closely with third party real estate professionals including appraisers, title companies, real estate agents, and law firms to structure each loan including collateral security documents. Mr. Boren has a wealth of commercial real estate knowledge and a process mindset gained from building and refining PCG’s underwriting system. He also served as a key member of PCG’s loan approval committee, focused on risk evaluation and mitigation. Prior to joining PCG he was a commercial account executive at GreenPoint Financial, where he worked with clients to structure commercial loans for submission into its underwriting process. He also worked for JP Morgan Chase as a data analyst and Fidelity Investments. Brett received his B.A. in Economics from Brigham Young University in 2005.

Damon Georgelas

General Counsel of Reef

Mr. Georgelas joined Reef Capital Partners as General Counsel in August 2019. Mr. Georgelas is responsible for the delivery of legal services to Reef Capital Partners, and its respective affiliates and subsidiaries. Prior to joining Reef Capital Partners, Mr. Georgelas served as counsel for both private real estate developers and municipal development organizations. He has served as counsel for the Georgelas Group's 6.5 million square foot transit- oriented development in D.C., and as Chief Counsel for the Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City (RDA). As Chief Counsel for the RDA, Mr. Georgelas provided the legal guidance required to complete a multitude of active development projects worth more than $200 million. Such projects ranged from residential and commercial mixed-use projects to streetcars, libraries, and the 2,500-seat Eccles Theater on Main Street in Salt Lake City. In addition to his real estate experience, Mr. Georgelas has an LL.M in Securities and Financial Regulation from Georgetown and was an attorney with Parsons Behle & Latimer for seven years where he specialized in complex commercial litigation and sophisticated transactions. Mr. Georgelas has an active Utah Bar license in Utah and an inactive license in Virginia.
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