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Robert is a graduate of McGill University in law (1975) and arts (1972), and from 1976 to 1981 practiced corporate and commercial law and was involved in private business. Robert has over 30 years of experience in real estate. He has successfully acquired, managed, sold and developed office, retail, industrial and residential properties, ranging in value from $2,000,000 to $40,000,000, on behalf of investors, clients, and partners. Robert’s focus has been mainly on mid-market properties throughout Canada and the United States. From 1981 to 2000, Robert was involved with many real estate properties on an ownership and management level and in 1993 founded a property management firm, Paradigm Properties Inc., that managed over 1,000,000 square feet of property on behalf of institutional and private clients, primarily in ottawa and Montreal. In 2001, Robert co-founded lexington Realties lP, formed to invest in real estate ventures on behalf of investors. lexington acquired many properties on its own and in partnership with others. These assets were subsequently sold, generating significant returns for its investors. It operated in an entrepreneurial, results-oriented fashion, always working in the best interests of its partners and investors, while searching for innovative solutions and providing problem-free services. From 2008 to 2009, Robert Berger was president and CEo of Investus Real Estate Inc. (formerly Capital Wapiti Inc.), a publicly listed real estate corporation trading on the TSX Venture Exchange. Its core strategy was to acquire and manage light industrial real estate properties, in Eastern Canada principally. In 2009, Robert founded Segberg Real Estate Inc., which has been engaged in seeking out investment opportunities in Canada and the United States, for its own account and for investors, and in conjunction with joint venture partners.
Richard has been in the real estate business for over 30 years. He attended McGill University and obtained his fellowship in the Real Estate Institute of Canada in 1980. He served until 1984 as the President of Suisdev Inc., a real estate management company with 500,000 square feet of ofice property. While there, he created a joint venture in order to develop a 600,000-square-foot AAA office tower in the Montreal Central Business District now known as 600 de Maisonneuve West. He subsequently joined Monit Management Ltd. a real estate organization with a portfolio of seven million square feet of office, industrial and commercial properties as its Executive Vice-President, overseeing the company's leasing and development departments. Richard was responsible for the development, leasing and management of Tour Scotia, a 350,000-square-foot AAA office tower in the downtown core, and the redevelopment of several other core office buildings. Richard also created and launched a stand-alone 80,000-square-foot executive conference centre, the first of its kind in Canada. In 2005 he subsequently joined the firm of Jones Lang LaSalle as a Senior Vice President and Director until leaving to commence Colterra's operations in 2009. Richard's focus was capital markets and tenant representation, having received mandates from numerous firms including two major legal partnerships and several institutional clients. A native of Montreal, Richard founded Colterra Realties Inc. in 1981 and has retained his license as a chartered broker since that date. A list of his current clients includes the McGill University Health Centre, Standard Life, St. Martin Hotels and the Fraser-Hickson Institute. Richard was a founding director of the Urban Development Institute, is a Fellow of the Real Estate Institute of Canada and a past director of several non-profit organizations. His experience crosses all areas of real estate expertise including acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, property and asset management, development of residential, commercial, office, industrial, conference and hotel projects, totalling over 22 million square feet of space. In addition to holding the FRI designation, Richard is a member of the Greater Montreal Real Estate Board and the Urban Development Institute. Building Owners and Managers Association.
An experienced real estate appraiser, Prior to commencing with Colterra Capital, Stanislava was the founder of her own appraisal firm. Her real estate knowledge has been honed through her years of analysis and appraisal of all types of commercial properties for both institutional and private equity clients. Stanislava’s educational achievements extend from a B.Sc in Pure and Applied Mathematics (Concordia University), to a degree in Mechanical Engineering (Moscow Institute of Energetics), and the AACI Appraisal Certified Designation (AACI) in Canadian Appraisal Institute plus having been employed at the Canadian Space Agency.
Mayli holds an MBA from the highly regarded EGADE Business School of ITESM in Mexico and a bachelor’s degree in Architecture. Mayli has vast experience working in the construction and development industry. She also holds a PMP certification from the Project Management Institute – PMI, and has trained others in their preparation for PMP certification. Her experience in Canada has also allowed her to work with LEED registered projects and she is currently finalizing her LEED certification.