Offshoot: The Fident Capital Podcast

On this episode, Kevin chats with Kristian Peterson about his two decades of experience as managing partner at Catalyst, where he's refined impact investing to create both profit and positive change in investment communities. The conversation explores the polarizing response their impact investing strategy receives from the marketplace and how Catalyst quantifies social impact through an ingenious...

On this episode, Kevin chats with Jeff Brown about his entrepreneurial journey that began in 2011 when he joined forces with his friend John Southard to pursue a single deal, eventually leading to the birth of T2 Capital Management. Jeff and his team of 14 have since invested over $1.5B across various markets, property types, and investment strategies. The conversation explores the importance of g...

On this episode, Kevin chats with Howard Katkov, CEO and co-owner of Red Mountain Resort in Rossland, British Columbia, about his 45 consecutive years pulling a steady paycheck from seven different companies he's started and successfully operated. Howard shares his love for the game of business and building successful ventures from vision to execution with strong teams, exploring how you don't alw...

On this episode, Kevin chats with Jennifer Hernandez, a land use attorney from Holland and Knight, about how California's Environmental Quality Act has been corrupted from its original environmental protection purpose into a tool for special interest groups to advance ulterior motives. Jennifer expertly draws connections between CEQA's flaws and the rights of California citizens to have attainable...

On this episode, Kevin chats with Dr. Christopher Thornberg, Founder of Beacon Economics, an uncommon economist equally at home with philosophy as the nuts-and-bolts of economics and forecasting. Chris was one of the few who called the collapse of the housing market alongside figures like Hank Paulson, and one of the few economists who can call it like it is with beliefs rooted in facts rather tha...

On this episode, Kevin chats with Jon Lotter, founder and Managing Director of Appian Capital, a boutique investment manager that has invested in over 140 transactions deploying over $400MM of equity in $2.2B of real estate value. Jon's innate curiosity, tenacity, and intentional efforts have delivered Appian from startup to 20-year veteran player executing some of the stronger investment deals in...

On this episode, Kevin chats with Carrie Nikols, co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Nikols Company, a private lender that has originated over 500 loans without a single foreclosure or loan loss. Carrie brings vast experience in commercial real estate lending with strong underwriting expertise and a talent for creating win-win situations that benefit borrowers, sponsors, and investors. T...

On this episode, Kevin chats with Bruce Stachenfeld, a NYC-based lawyer running a boutique firm of 40 lawyers specializing in pure-play real estate. From a difficult start in 1997, Bruce has found his power niche consummating joint venture equity deals and become an effective leader bringing decades of experience and wisdom to the conversation. Bruce discusses driving business with a purpose and v...

On this episode, Kevin chats with Max Sharkansky, founding partner of Trion Properties, a value-add investor that finds mismanaged properties in top growth markets to turn around, historically focusing on the West Coast with recent expansion to the southeast. Max oversees all aspects of Trion's business from acquisition, disposition, and property management to capital raises from lenders and equit...

On this episode, Kevin chats with Peter Kleinberg, Vice President of ESI Ventures, a diversified and opportunistic commercial real estate investment firm focusing on acquisition, development, and repositioning of value-add and adaptive reuse projects through various positions in the capital stack. ESI operates in the CO-GP investing space, placing money alongside project sponsors as they concurren...

On this episode, Kevin chats with Andrew Jobst from HG Capital, a firm that since 1995 has specialized in providing joint venture equity for value-add and opportunistic real estate investments throughout the Western US, uniquely investing $8MM and less per transaction. This deliberate strategy to place equity into a market portion with less buying pressure, essentially "buying where others are not...

On this episode, Kevin chats with Lorne Polger, co-founder and Senior Managing Director of Pathfinder Partners, about his journey from practicing real estate and environmental law at Procopio for over 20 years to leaping into the operator role with partner Mitch Siegler just before The Great Recession. Pathfinder is a vertically integrated real estate company whose funds deploy investor capital di...

On this episode, Kevin chats with Ian Formigle, Chief Investment Officer of CrowdStreet, about building one of the nation's preeminent crowdfunding platforms from a 2013 startup to over 30 people, nearly 500 deals, and $1.3B invested in multifamily, build-to-rent single family, industrial, hotel, office, and retail. With over 50,000 investors on the platform, the average deal at $40MM, and average...

On this episode, Kevin chats with Josh Sasouness, Co-CEO of Dwight Capital, a NYC-based mortgage banking platform that became the number one multifamily FHA/HUD lender in the nation after just six and a half years when Josh and his brother Adam started the business in 2014. Beyond their HUD business, Dwight also originates FNMA, Freddie, and CMBS mortgages, while the leadership holds positions in...

On this episode, Kevin chats with Brian Shirken, Cofounding Partner at Mountain Pacific Opportunity Partners and founder of its precursor Mountain Capital Partners, who also co-founded Columbus Pacific in 1995. Brian has been principally involved in millions of square feet of retail, over 10,000 student housing beds, development of over 3,000 multifamily units, 5 assisted living projects, and prov...