Executive Team
John Pringle
Chief Executive Officer
Responsible for firm leadership, multifamily sourcing, finance, and development. Co-lead of the investment committee.
38 years of experience in multifamily investment, development, & operations with executive roles at Prometheus Development (working with the legendary Sanford Diller) Avalon Bay, and Ventana Property Service
Recently served for 10 years as President of California-based $2 Billion family office with an exclusive focus on multifamily add value, development, and management.
Deep vertical experience gained by managing, developing, and over 55,000 apartment units in California.
Advisor on numerous mixed-use projects including Federal Realty Trust’s Santana Row, arguable the most successful mixed-use project concept in the U.S that has set the new standard for live /work/shop developments in tier 1 infill locations.
Former President of the California Apartment Association.
B.S. in Economics from Colorado State University.
Dennis Randall
President
Responsible for office sourcing, modeling, and brokerage relationships. Co-lead of the investment committee.
30 years of experience in office and industrial acquisitions and development.
Experience acquiring, entitling, and developing over 2.5 million sq. ft. of office, R&D, and industrial projects; and leased and/or sold over 3.5 million square feet of property with a total market value of over $1.4B.
Acquisition roles at Prometheus Development, (Sanford Diller) Opus Development, Insight Development.
Experience entitling five large projects in downtown San Jose including the development and lease-up of 225 W Santa Clara, San Jose’s most successful Class A office building.
Licensed California Real Estate Broker.
Board of Directors of the San Jose Downtown Association.
B.A. in Political Science from the University of Southern California.
Stephen Pahl
Partner
Responsible for legal advisory, and deal sourcing compliance. Investment committee member.
Experience negotiating $100’s of millions of commercial property financing, development and sales, and leasing transactions.
Founder and Chairman of Pahl & McCay, a Silicon Valley-based law firm with deep expertise in commercial property transactions and litigation, and financial agency, lending, and regulatory compliance.
Former chair of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Executive Committee.
Board member of several companies including Santa Cruz Bank County Bank.
Since 2001, has served as General Counsel to California Apartment Association.
B.A. Business Economics and Political Science (with honors) University of California Santa Barbara.Responsible for legal advisory, and deal sourcing compliance. Investment committee.
J.D., University of Santa Clara.
Major benefactor with his wife to UCSB.
Karim Allana
Partner
Responsible for architectural engineering, construction management, pre-design management, and project management that all combine to mitigate risk and reduce costs for Acquity’s projects.
Over 33 years of project, construction management, structural and mechanical engineering analysis, waterproofing, and sustainable construction. Experience working to develop and remediate construction defects on 1000’s of high rise, corporate apartment, higher education, and government offices.
Founder and CEO of ABBAE a Silicon Valley-based, a nationally recognized architectural engineering firm that provides architectural engineering and project management services to corporate users and commercial developers that include Google, Oracle, the Disney Company, the Irvine Company, and the Howard Hughes Company with construction, project and architectural engineering services.
ABBAE manages $6-8B of commercial projects at any one time.
B.S. Civil Engineering, Santa Clara University.
PE, RRC, RWC, IFMA, AAMA, and licensed contractor in CA, NV, and HI.
Expert witness on over 450 + construction defect projects.