Nick Eftekhari - President

Nick Eftekhari founder of Pioneer General Engineering Contractors and brings

over three decades of construction experience to his role as President at Davos Holdings Corp.. Responsible for the vision and design of each project, Nick also oversees the management of construction operations and supervises the Project Management and Engineering staff. Nick first became interested in construction while earning his Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering at Tehran University, and, upon graduation, came to the United States and completed his Masters in Industrial Arts. He then obtained his General Engineering License and General Building Contractor License. Not long after, in 1987, Nick formed his company where he learned the business first-hand. 

In his 30+ years as a Luxury Property Developer, Nick has designed and built luxury townhomes, apartments, and single-family homes, and now has continued to branch out into new and promising business ventures. In addition, he also has an MS in engineering and prides himself in the hard efforts he has put forth to gain such knowledge in his trade. Nick formed Oakridge Homes and developed multiple subdivisions including a 63 Lot Subdivision in Vasquez Canyon and 4 Luxury Home Subdivisions in prestigious Stevenson Ranch, California called Oakridge Estates with 20, 38, 185, and 300 Lots respectively. Working on nearly all aspects of engineering, design, construction and project management has provided Nick with a unique breath of experience: “Our ability to see projects from a broad perspective helps us to understand and solve problems the client may not otherwise anticipate. Eliminating any surprises allows us to provide the best value for our customers.” Nick specializes as a mulitple project land developer and ground-up construction company.

For more than forty years, Mr. Chain has been a hands-on, boots on the ground manager and developer involved in all the disciplines required to take an initial real estate concept to an operating development with positive cash flow. He extensive real estate development, economic modeling, and management experience. Mr. Chain has been actively engaged in the feasibility analysis, financing, and development of several complex projects exceeding $1 billion in value. He has arranged debt and equity placements exceeding $750 million, including preparing the feasibility studies required to obtain the initial financing for the development, permanent financing and ownership of over 25 commercial real estate projects ranging from retail, office, congregate care, and master planned community developments.

Mr. Chain has acquired, developed and manage over one million square feet of commercial projects in addition to of owning over 5,000 acres of land including three master planned communities, the largest being 2,400 acres for a planned 12,000 residential units.

Mr. Chain founded two national real estate franchise offices based in Nevada. He grew the firm to over 130 residential agents and over 50 the commercial franchise agents. Mr. Chain oversaw the operations and generated gross sales of over $200 million annually. Additionally, Jeff was named the #1 commercial agent in the world out of 7,000 agents.

Mr. Chain led the land purchases and fully engineered a shovel ready master plan for a community of over 12,000 homes in western Phoenix to support the resurgence of the market.

Mr. Brown has over 35 years of practical home building experience in a high-volume production work environment, which includes an extensive background in land acquisitions, operations and development, strategic planning, developing and executing financial models, budgets, marketing, home design, vertical and horizontal construction and purchasing. Mr. Brown has been the CEO of Brown Homes since 2017 and previously the President of the Brown Family Communities for 24 years. The Brown family has been building homes in Arizona since 1977 and has built over 25,000 thousand homes between the Phoenix and Las Vegas markets.

Mr. Brown has extensive experience in finance and home mortgage operations. He founded MDJ Mortgage Company in 1993 and developed, orchestrated, and built a mortgage company to service the Brown family real estate development company. From 1993 to 2008 MDJ was one of the largest in-house mortgage operations in Arizona. During the 14 years MDJ was operating, the company funded close to $2 billion in loans without ever buying back a single mortgage.

Mr. Brown worked in the family business known as Brown Family Communities for over 27 years. He helped build the Brown family brand that is still very well-known and respected in the industry today. In late 1998 the Brown Family Communities revenue was just over $80 million dollars. By 2005, the company grew to over half a billion in revenue including revenue from the in-house MDJ Mortgage Company. The company growth was a direct result of Mr. Brown leadership and his team’s efforts and contribution.

In 2017, Mr. Brown and his team reunited to re-brand and launch Brown Homes. As CEO, he led Brown Homes to generate $2.9 million in revenue in year one, $8.9 million in year two, $17 million in year three, and over $30 million in 2020.

Mr. Brown and his family have been contributing to the community for the past 30 years. He has served on the board of March of Dimes, The K Foundation, The MVP Foundation, Homes for Hope, Project Playhouse. Michael has been an active member of the YPO/WPO organization for over 19 years.

Sentinel Group Holdings, Partner, Strategy & Markets

Aron Dutta has over 35 years of experience in various operating and leadership roles in business, technology, innovation, strategic consulting & advisory services, and entrepreneurial ventures, implementing next generation disruptive technologies and business models.Aron is the Founder of Ambika, Inc., a Business Venture Innovation Company (BVIC) focused on the next frontier of industries and economies. 

Aron was a member of the IP Task Force for Digital Assets & IP Sovereignty for The Government of Bermuda. Prior to that, Mr. Dutta was a Global VP and Senior Partner at IBM, where he was responsible for establishing the Global Blockchain Center of Competency. He also spent time as a Managing Director at Cisco where he was the global head of Cisco's thought leadership and strategy on Fintech, and related investments. 

Prior to his time at Cisco, Dutta was the Co- Founder and SVP of Scient Corp (SCNT: NASDAQ) where he was responsible for seven global vertical industries and the Co- Founder and GM of Viant, Inc. (VIAN: NASDAQ), which he helped take public. Additional experience includes positions at Booz Allen & Hamilton Inc., Salomon Brothers Inc, Department of Defense, TRW, and Distributed Information Systems Inc. Aron attended New York University – Polytechnic School of Engineering and MIT Sloan School of Management and the Wharton School Executive Leadership Program – Securities Industry Institute (SIFMA).

Mr. Henrie has an extensive background in financial modeling, economic analysis, structured financing with a focus on discovery of local state & federal tax and or development incentives to mitigate net costs and increase economic viability for the subject developments, implications to private equity investors and or funds.

Mr. Henrie was a founding member of SWB Enterprises LLC, a full-service real estate development company based in Phoenix Arizona in 1995 that acquired, entitled and developed more than $250 million in three asset classes in through three company divisions - residential, commercial/mixed-use and hospitality:

• Master Planned Community: property acquisition, planning, development, re-zoning classification, feasibility analysis for subject development of Single-Family Housing, commercial/mixed-use, industrial, hospitality to include water/sewer treatment design & implementation
• Multi-Family: acquisition, zoning, design, planning, management and construction of multi-family apartments, residential condominiums, manufactured housing rental communities
• Hospitality: acquisition, re-design, re-zone to include retail/mixed-use and full construction management to re-brand higher end 4-5 Star Hotel and or Condotel properties. Hired brand management companies to run the hotel operations.

Mr. Nichols is a seasoned executive with over 25 years of leadership experience. He is an accomplished technologist and project manager with varied and extensive management and operational experience at senior executive levels. Mr. Nichols has served as a consultant to various companies that outsource specific project undertakings. He has managed companies and provided innovative ideas and solutions to various industries, including, fund management, financing, blockchain & decentralized finance, healthcare & telehealth, film/television/animation/effects production, trusted computing, and information security where he was responsible for the development of major security initiatives.

Mr. Nichols has developed and managed industry relationships with major corporations, including HP (EDS), Lockheed Martin, Aerospace Corporation, Oracle/Sun Microsystems, Verizon, Cisco, Lucent, Dell EMC, Motorola, and many others. Over the past 20 years he has led and been a member of the board of several listed companies in the US and Australia.

Mr. Nichols is also a Partner at Silverbear Capital Inc., a global investment bank serving clients in Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America, and the Executive Vice President of Business Development at Quantum AI Investment LLC, an active manager of portfolios comprised of growth equities with a long-term outlook, and Co-Founder/Partner at Ekats Financial, a decentralized finance and blockchain financial services company.

Mr. Brasher has 20 years of experience in banking, construction, and real estate development. He is the Founder and CEO of Brasher Holdings L.L.C., A Birmingham, AL based Real-Estate Development firm. Brasher Holdings L.L.C. is responsible for the acquisition and development of more than 3,500 single family lots in the Birmingham, Tuscaloosa, and Huntsville, AL markets since 2019.

Mr. Brasher has provided acquisition and development services for both local and national builders in Alabama. His primary focus has been the acquisition of properties that have been previously thought to be unattainable. He is particularly skilled in entitlement negotiations with local municipalities to produce forward-thinking master planned communities.

Examples:

Walker Springs, Alabaster, AL – Mr. Brasher was instrumental in getting a building moratorium lifted. He then negotiated a two-million-dollar contribution from the city for infrastructure along with approvals for a 1000 lot master planned community.

Student Housing Portfolio, Tuscaloosa, AL – Mr. Brasher contracted for a student housing portfolio adjacent to the University of Alabama Campus. Upon redevelopment, the portfolio will provide an additional 2500 beds and two hundred and fifty million dollars of investment in the market.

Christine Ashmore is an experienced business development and sales executive. For over 16 years Christine worked in the commercial and residential real estate markets representing both buyers and sellers and brokering commercial financing for large projects.

More recently, Mrs. Ashmore was the Executive Vice President of Chicago Crypto Capital where she raised seed capital for early-stage projects. Christine was also the VP/Business Development and Sales Director for a fintech start up where she secured seed funding for the company.

Mrs. Ashmore is also the VP of Business Development at Quantum AI Investment LLC, an active manager of portfolios comprised of growth equities with a long-term outlook.

The Mendelsohn Law Firm (“MLF”) practice is concentrated in real estate lending with a national scope, with a particular emphasis on complex debt finance. He represents institutional lenders, alternative lenders, debt funds, and construction lenders in all aspects of real estate finance and restructurings.  Mr. Mendelsohn Law experience includes representing lenders in originating loans intended for balance sheet, syndication, and securitization secured by commercial real estate projects of all asset types, including office, retail, hotel, multifamily, and industrial. He has extensive experience in structuring multi-stack deals with multiple layers of subordinate financing, representing both senior lenders and mezzanine lenders. 

MLF maintains a continuous, ongoing relationship with many highly regarded attorneys (and other professionals) who have expertise in diverse areas, enabling MLF to provide services comparable to the bigger firms without the substantial overhead cost that so often accompanies them. Germinating out of a successful entertainment law practice, the MLF discovered that there was a tremendous need for interfacing on behalf of clients in their ancillary law-related matters. MLF’s innovative problem solving approach makes it an ideal solution for the supervision and management of complex transactional and litigation matters and for access to competent professionals. MLF’s adept skill at putting together targeted professionals to accomplish legal services objectives has become increasingly essential as the working of transactions and/or litigation becomes more complicated. MLF is an excellent solution for companies and/or high net worth individuals who need or want a general counsel or who prefer that their general counsel be focused on other matters.