Value-Add Commercial Real Estate Investing
Value-Add Commercial Real Estate Investing
Who is Speaking
Nick Matti
Cofounder, Quantum Capital Real Estate
Nick Matti is cofounder of Quantum Capital Real Estate, a commercial real estate firm acquiring and repositioning value-add industrial and retail properties across Southern Minnesota. Alongside partner Trevor Anderson, Nick leads deal sourcing and capital raising, acquiring overlooked buildings and driving value through leasing, management, and capital improvements. In the past year, Quantum Capital has grown to $5M in commercial assets under management across three buildings. Nick also owns 13 residential units across Minnesota and Cleveland, Ohio. His path into real estate was not traditional: a year as a nurse in surgery at Mayo Clinic, then five years building F1TxMIND, an online health and fitness coaching company, before making the leap. He has also cofounded Brighten Up Cleaning and TerraVista Land Estates with his two siblings. Nick credits any success to his faith in Jesus Christ. He lives in Edina, Minnesota.
Daniel Kurkowski
CEO, Obsidian Group; CIO, Onyx Strategic Partners
Daniel is the CEO of Obsidian Group and CIO of Onyx Strategic Partners. Daniel started out as a real estate broker, and his company has transacted on millions of square feet over his career and acquired roughly 500,000 square feet. He currently runs a real estate investment fund focused on small-bay industrial acquisitions around the Twin Cities, with an eye toward rapid expansion. Onyx Strategic Partners is a construction and development firm owned in conjunction with his wife, Jessie Houlihan, and partner Brad Heitzinger at Obsidian Group. Daniel believes that building long-term partnerships with people who want to outwork the rest of the market and who are ethically aligned is what allows the team to outperform its competition.
Jessie Houlihan
Onyx Strategic Partners
Jessie Houlihan perceives the world through a lens of curiosity and vision. With over twenty years of experience in technology, consulting, and business and a decade in leadership in commercial real estate and construction, she seeks clients that enable her to use her diverse skill sets to deliver expansive results.
Joey Brehm
Partner, Tillstone Partners
Joey has been in real estate for over a decade, starting with a single duplex in Uptown and cofounding Tillstone, a ground-up development company, in 2020. Since its inception, Tillstone has acquired $70M in land and raised $40M in private equity for land transactions. The company currently has a pipeline of over 750 single-family, duplex, and townhome rental units, representing a future value of $400M AUM, and has sold over 1,000 paper and developed lots to national home builders. Joey has directly zoned and entitled over 850 units. His primary responsibilities focus on site selection, land acquisition, market analysis, due diligence, development coordination, and securing rezoning and entitlements before capital is committed. Prior to transitioning into real estate full-time, he served as Vice President at Berry Coffee Company, where he focused on sales and operations.
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