Mr. Baxter spearheads the investor relations and fund raising efforts for T2. Prior to T2, Mr. Baxter was a broker at a national investment real estate company. Prior to this, he served his alma mater, Wheaton College, as the Director of Principal Gifts. During his time there, Jeff assisted in securing leadership level planned and outright gifts as part of the $260 million Promise of Wheaton campaign. Prior to working at Wheaton College, Mr. Baxter worked in Private Client Services for UBS Financial Services, Inc. While at UBS, Mr. Baxter excelled in business development, portfolio management, and generating tax-efficient strategies for high net worth clients. Mr. Baxter graduated from Wheaton College (Wheaton, Illinois) with his Bachelor’s degree in Business/Economics. While at Wheaton, Mr. Baxter was a member of the baseball, lacrosse, and debate teams.

As founder and CEO of T2, Mr. Brown works closely with the principals of the firm in providing corporate direction, investment strategies, and overseeing implementation of both. As CIO of the firm, Mr. Brown also oversees the origination, underwriting, closing, and day-to-day management of all portfolio investments. Prior to T2, Mr. Brown was the President of a privately held, entrepreneurial commercial real estate finance company based in the Chicago suburbs (2001-2010). Before being promoted to President, Mr. Brown was an Executive Vice President at the firm responsible for overseeing the Credit and Syndications division. In that capacity, he originated, evaluated, underwrote, and syndicated a total of over $1 billion in commercial real estate financings across the United States while co-managing a $300 million portfolio. The portfolio consisted of a wide variety of financing structures on multiple different property types including office, retail, industrial, healthcare, multi-family, for-sale residential, and hospitality. Mr. Brown received his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Bachelor’s degree from Wheaton College (Wheaton, Illinois). While at Wheaton, Mr. Brown was captain of the football team and a First Team GTE Academic All-American quarterback.

Mr. Southard has over twenty years of experience in the areas of portfolio management, product development and quantitative modeling. As founder and principal of T2, Mr. Southard provides capital and strategic direction to the company. He is involved in fund formation, administration and key client relationships for the firm. Prior to T2, Mr. Southard co-founded PowerShares Capital Management, LLC, an exchange traded fund (ETF) company established in 2002. Mr. Southard oversaw all research initiatives, portfolio management and trading operations of the company. PowerShares was sold to Invesco in 2006, Mr. Southard left the company in 2009. Before PowerShares, Mr. Southard was a Senior Equity Analyst for Charles Schwab & Co. and was involved in the development of the quantitative modeling behind Schwabʼs research initiatives. Mr. Southard has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Crain’s, Investment News, Morningstar, TheStreet.com and others. He is a CFA charterholder, has a MBA from DePaul University and a Bachelorʼs degree in Business/Economics with an emphasis in Mathematics from Wheaton College (Wheaton, Illinois). He is a member of the CFA Society of Chicago and the CFA Institute.

Ms. Searcy has over 20 years of experience in the commercial real estate finance industry. As Chief Operating Officer of T2, Ms. Searcy oversees fund administration, compliance, and operations. Prior to joining T2, Ms. Searcy was a director at a privately-held commercial real estate company in the Chicago suburbs and oversaw all aspects of managing its $300 million portfolio. Prior to this, Ms. Searcy was Vice President of the Specialty Finance division of a $13 billion publicly traded finance company based in Scottsdale, Arizona. During her 15-year tenure with the company, Ms. Searcy’s various roles included overseeing loan administration, underwriting, due diligence, compliance, strategic planning and financial reporting. Ms. Searcy has a Master’s degree in Accounting with Distinction from DePaul University and a Bachelor’s degree in Finance and Economics from Western Illinois University. Ms. Searcy is also a CPA candidate.