Us and Our Teammates
The Team
Ty Lee
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Ty Lee has served as the Managing Member of Common Ground Capital, LLC since its inception in March of 2021. From 2004 to 2014, Mr. Lee practiced architecture with some of the most prestigious global architecture firms in the Country. Starting in 2014, Mr. Lee began the transition to the development side of the industry. While at CBRE, the world’s largest real estate company, he managed over $100mm of asset value and worked closely with the principals and executives.
Mr. Lee’s development experience includes commercial and residential asset classes totaling over $500mm. To date, Mr. Lee’s average returns exceed 20% IRR and 1.75x equity multiples. In order to achieve these returns for investors, he is hyper focused on creating real estate products in the marketplace that is differentiated through design, exceptional service and institutional precision of execution.
Christian Mack
CHAIRMAN
As an enterprise technology veteran, investment banker, and market leader, Christian Mack has successfully turned around, under-valued enterprise technology organizations into high-value software and services organizations. Under his leadership, Lotus Innovations – a lower middle market buyout private equity firm specializing in enterprise software organizations – has delivered double-digit returns on its inaugural $10M Fund I. With backing from family offices and high net-worth individuals, he is currently investing Lotus’ Fund II™, a $32M 5-year commitment fund targeting enterprise software acquisition turnarounds. Prior to launching Lotus, Christian Mack founded networking service assurance focused gen-E® in 1999 piloting it from a professional services organization into one of the largest IBM Tivoli resellers and integrators. He subsequently led the transformation of Resolve Systems into a software company in 2005 and exited the firm in 2012 after an acquisition by Solis Capital.
Lauren Lee
DESIGNER
Lauren Lee brings both strong design and analytical skills to Common Ground. After graduating from Rice University and UT Austin’s School of Architecture, Lauren worked in residential design with Jan Showers, managing retail product development and production as well as fulfilling clients’ wishes to create deeply personal spaces. Lauren then moved to solving more technical problems in healthcare interior design with Perkins+Will, finding satisfaction in making spaces like labor and delivery, NICUs, or mental health spaces more functional for hospital staff and more comfortable for patients and families
With over 15 years of residential and commercial design experience Lauren will be working with Ty to elevate the properties in Common Ground’s portfolio, bringing out individual property’s strengths and creating valuable homes for the community members.
Lauren will also leverage her recent book-keeping experience and previous project and construction management experience to support Common Ground administration.
And as a 40 year resident of Dallas, now with kids, she hopes to lend her expertise to finding and sharing special places and events in the metroplex.
Stephanie O’Donnell
COMMUNITY MANAGER
Stephanie O’Donnell was born and raised in Philadelphia, PA., and yes! she is an Eagles fan. Stephanie brings expertise in the Dallas rental market, leasing process, and tenant relations honed over 8 years of property management experience with some of Dallas’ leading management companies. Stephanie provides both valuable best practices as a member of the management team and from the perspective of a long term single family home renter. She understands the importance of the tenants who have chosen Common Ground as their home.
She is looking forward to growing with the company and learning more about her passions including Interior design, architecture, and marketing.
Rowdy Blackmon
MAINTENANCE MANAGER
Strategic Partners
Cobalt
FUND ADMINISTRATION
We have partnered with the Cobalt Fund Services Team to provide our outsourced accounting and administration needs. Their team is an extension of our team to support the investors with various deliverables and accounting needed throughout the year.
Cobalt Fund Services exists to ethically serve the alternative investments industry as a first-in-class administrative partner through expert industry insight, utilizing advanced technology and team strengths
Harp & Sling
MARKETING
Harp & Sling cuts through the noise of mediocrity to tell stories that matter. They are an agile, creative team of professionals dedicated to telling stories in a clear and compelling way across all platforms, eliminating confusion in messaging, and helping companies thrive. They believe in ethical marketing that impacts the world for good and strives to serve their clients and community in all that they do. Their team is passionate about partnering with businesses and leaders with a clear vision to grow their company, build their culture, and tell a compelling story. Check out their website: www.harpandsling.com
WKPZ
LEGAL
Weycer, Kaplan, Pulaski & Zuber, PC, is an AV-rated full service business law firm founded in 1976 and currently composed of 26 attorneys practicing in over 10 distinct practice areas, including real estate, business litigation, lending, construction, employment, estate planning and administration, tax, non-profit, mergers and acquisitions, corporate transactions, and intellectual property. In addition, WKPZ’s collaborative work style allows each attorney to gain and sustain knowledge across practice areas. Representative clients are landlords, tenants, developers, general contractors, real estate brokers, property and asset management companies, title companies, high net worth individuals and families, retailers, restaurants, storage facilities, charitable companies, houses of worship, and manufacturers. For more information visit our website at www.wkpz.com.
Advisory Committee
Scott Arnoldy
MANAGING DIRECTOR
Scott Arnoldy founded Triten Real Estate Partners in 2012 to pursue flexible investment strategies that involve a high level of repositioning, or play into broad secular real estate themes. As Founding Partner, Scott drives the strategic goals of the company with a focus on investment thesis identification as well as execution oversight. Since its founding, TREP has acquired, developed or has under construction over $900 million of properties across a variety of product types.
Prior to Triten, Scott worked for Goldman Sachs (REPIA) in Dallas before joining Stockbridge where he later led the firms Investments for Texas and Colorado.
Scott graduated from Texas Christian University with a Bachelors in Finance & Entrepreneurship and a minor in Accounting. He is an avid outdoorsman, serves on the board of Lone Star BBBS and is a member of YPO Houston. He is married to Katie, has two daughters and loves spending time with his family.
Randy Fleisher
HAMILTON REALTY FINANCE
Until September 2016, when he founded Hamilton Realty Finance, Randy was Managing Director of the Jones Lang LaSalle (“JLL”) Dallas Debt & Equity platform. Prior to joining JLL Randy was the founder of Quadrant Realty Finance (“QRF”), a boutique Real Estate Investment Banking firm located in Dallas, Texas, which JLL acquired in June, 2013. Since its formation in 2010, QRF placed over $1.5 billion in debt and equity financings. Prior to joining QRF, he was a Managing Director at CBRE.
Prior to his employment with CBRE, Randy was an attorney with the law firm of Monk Goodwin in Winnipeg, Canada, practicing real estate and commercial law. Randy holds a Bachelor of Law from the University of Manitoba, a Master of Science in Real Estate & Finance from the University of North Texas, and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance, Investment, and Banking from the University of Wisconsin.
Dave Purser
PURSER ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
In 2013, Dave founded a boutique architectural services firm located in Nashville, Tennessee, that provides its clients with a process to realize their design vision and project goals. Dave has guided and assisted business owners, contractors, home builders, not-for-profit organizations, churches, and families with a wide range of project types including single-family residential additions, multifamily developments, amenity centers, office buildings, and churches.
Dave is a graduate of the University of Tennessee, and he is a registered professional architect in Tennessee and Georgia. Dave holds a certificate from the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.
Dave enjoys spending time with his wife and son. He enjoys outdoor activities including backpacking, hunting, and chasing a small white ball through meticulously manicured lawns.
Richard Paek
ALLIED LUBE
As the Founder and CEO of Allied Lube, Richard Paek is responsible for the strategic direction, vision, and growth of the third largest Jiffy Lube franchisee.
From opening his first location in 1992 to now running over 125 stores in 4 states, Richard has built a multi-unit system using sales, customer service, and employee performance stats to rank, reward, and motivate his team. He believes that empowering team members is the most effective way to build and grow his business. With a solid track record of implementing operational excellence, his method has led to enhanced customer experience, a stronger company culture and improved employee retention.
Richard started a printing company out of college that he sold three years later to fund his first Jiffy Lube franchise. He selected the brand after a year of researching brands and industries he believed had greater potential for multiple units.
In 2017, Richard was named Franchisee of the Year by Jiffy Lube International, and is considered a leader amongst other franchisees.
Originally from South Korea, Richard relocated to California at ten years old, and later studied Business Administration at USC. He is committed to community outreach on behalf of ALS research with Augie’s Quest, who presented him with a Founders Award in recognition of his work.
In his leisure time, Richard enjoys spending time with his family, including his four children ages 20-29. He is an avid traveler and is passionate about health and fitness.
