Angels For Builders is a private real estate investment group headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts. Our team leverages its extensive networks in the real estate development industry to source and evaluate attractive development opportunities. We then match high-yield investment opportunities with angel investors. Our investment management team includes real estate professionals who have extensive experience in the investment, development, and brokerage of residential and mixed use commercial real estate. Our team has managed over $5 Billion in real estate investments and transactions over a 30-year period. We have a breadth and depth of experience in development, deal sourcing, finance and brokerage that allows us to create unique value on behalf of our investors. Our team members have known each other for several decades, and bring together their collective skills and experience acquired while pursuing graduate degrees, building local real estate businesses, and working together as volunteer resources to non profit agencies in and around Boston.
Tim Fraser, Vice President Strategy
Tim Fraser is Vice President Strategy and co-founder of Angels for Builders. His responsibilities include deal structuring, asset management, and fund strategy. Tim is an experienced real estate professional with over 30-years track record of achievement in investment, development, and finance. Tim was the managing director of Spaulding & Slye Investments where he was responsible for investment activity primarily in the New England market on behalf of employee and related individual investors of Jones Lang LaSalle, a global real estate services firm. In addition, he drove the creation and marketing of a $10 million investment fund for individual employee investors. He previously managed the portfolios for two closed-end real estate funds totaling over $800 million in equity institutional investors. Tim is a graduate of the Harvard Business School and Trinity College. He is active in family life, athletics, and community activities. |
Kevin Sheehan, Managing Director
Kevin Sheehan is Managing Director and co-founder of Angels for Builders. His responsibilities include investor relations, marketing and communications, and fund strategy. He is an award-winning entrepreneur and has successfully built businesses in the real estate, retail, and nonprofit segments. Kevin has a record of achievement as a real estate professional with over 15-years professional experience in residential brokerage. He was named to NRT’s International Presidents Circle for four years and placed in the top 2% of professionals in the New England area with over $80 Million in transactions. He is known for creating Hear Music—an innovative music retail company, acquired by Starbucks, that helped redefine the national retail segment for more than two decades. He received his MBA from the Harvard Business School where he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year”and received his BA from Yale University. |
Bill Scott, Senior Advisor Network Development
Bill Scott is our Senior Advisor Network Development and co-founder. He is responsible for managing our network of developers and builders. Bill has had a real estate career that spans over 20 years managing two high-volume brokerages in Cambridge, Massachusetts with over $3 Billion in aggregate transactions. Bill maintains a firm understanding of the national and local real estate market by tracking trends and researching the state of the industry. His Coldwell Banker/NRT office was named a Premier Office five years in a row. He is the owner of ePlace, Inc. a boutique real estate company in Cambridge. His community involvement and support of non-profits and community building organizations such as Cambridge Housing Assistance Fund has created good will and a wide network of like-minded professionals around the Cambridge area. He is currently the Vice President of the Cambridge Community of Realtors, and enjoys his time coaching kids’ sports teams and volunteering as a parent on the weekends. He is a graduate of Balwin-Wallace College with a degree in business/psychology. |
Denise Price, Senior Advisor Developer Relations
Denise Price is our Senior Advisor Developer Relations and co-founder. She is responsible for managing the company’s developer network and relational database for quality outreach and growth. Denise is a Managing Partner at ePlace, a boutique real estate company in Cambridge, Massachusetts where she manages the operations of the brokerage and strategic business growth with her partner, Bill Scott. With over 20 years experience as a Managing Broker in Colorado and more recently in Massachusetts, she is also a licensed general contractor in both states. She is well versed in new construction, land development, finance, investing and the sales and construction of residential, mixed-use and commercial property. She has successfully owned and managed real estate brokerages, a mortgage brokerage, started and sold an industry-changing real estate franchise, grew the largest on-site sales staff for a Top Ten publicly traded homebuilder and has represented international property developers. Denise has an MBA in International Business and was named "Top 30 Under 30" by the National Association of Realtors. |
Brad Howe, Chief Financial Officer
Bradlee T. Howe is our Chief Financial Officer responsible for fund management and tracking, for our accounting function, and for tax reporting and compliance issues. During his ongoing 33-year career serving as part-time CFO for more than 200 growing client companies, Brad has been involved in the provision of more than $300,000,000 in equity and debt financing, as well as financial oversight as a part of his clients’ management teams. His participation as an active senior manager within these varied firms has provided him with a breadth of experience that is uncommon among managers of smaller companies. A graduate of Harvard College and the Harvard Business School, Brad spent his early career in the Harvard University administration before focusing on small business while—with his wife—raising five now-adult children. |
Savana Rose, Board of Advisors
Savana Rose is on our board of advisors as senior advisor investor relations. She advises us on investor relationships and our online client interface infrastructure, providing advise on state-of-the-art marketing and investor reporting processes. For over 15 years, Savana has built and managed online marketing and customer acquisition campaigns for industry leaders such as eBay, Quicken Loans, Wynn Hotel, and Hanover Brands. She managed fundraising and investor relations for Ocean Grove Development Group—an Oregon-based real estate development firm dedicated to delivering premiere residential projects. In 2010, she successfully sold her internet marketing firm Partnercentric to segment leader Schaaf Consulting. She successfully built businesses in digital marketing, real estate, and travel segments. |
Peter Sollogub, Principal Real Estate Assessment
Peter Sollogub is our Principal for Real Estate Assessment at Angels For Builders, helping to underwrite our investment opportunities. Peter is an Associate Principal at Cambridge 7 Architects where he brings his dynamic creativity and diversified experience to Cambridge 7 Architect’s aquarium, museum, exhibit, hospitality, and commercial projects. A gifted designer, exhibit designer, and mentor to young staff members at Cambridge 7, he brings creativity and unabashed enthusiasm to his projects. Mr. Sollogub received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and a Masters in Architecture from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. For over thirty years, he has also maintained teaching appointments at Harvard, MIT, the Boston Architectural Center, RISD, Virginia Tech and the Universities of Buffalo and North Carolina. Peter brings his diverse and extensive design and construction experience to Angels For Builders, where he adds significant value in assessing proposed development and renovation proposals, and then monitoring construction progress for AFB-financed projects. |
Gary Johnson, Principal Real Estate Assessment
Gary Johnson is our Principal for Real Estate Assessment at Angels For Builders, helping to underwrite our investment opportunities. He is a Principal at Cambridge 7 Architects where he applies his versatility as an architect and urban designer to a wide range of projects. With a Masters from Harvard's Graduate School of Design, and undergraduate degrees from the Rhode Island School of Design and Wentworth Institute of Technology, Mr. Johnson's interest in urban design is utilized on projects in the United States and abroad. Working with diverse C7A clients including developers, hospitality corporations, colleges, private schools, city planners and airport authorities, he has a particular strength in helping his clients communicate their goals to the agencies, residents, donors and others concerned with the evolution of their projects. Gary brings his diverse and extensive design and construction experience to Angels For Builders, where he adds significant value in assessing proposed development and renovation proposals, and then monitoring construction progress for AFB-financed projects. |