Our Team

Dan Calonge is a seasoned executive with over 25 years of experience with Fortune 50 companies throughout the Americas. He has held leadership positions in operations, marketing and human resources, both in the U.S. and Latin America, giving him a diverse breadth of experience in making organizations successful.

Dan’s background establishing and running successful organizations in a variety to contexts gives him a unique ability to underwrite, acquire and execute a business plan on a solid multifamily investment.

He is also the first in his family born in the U.S., having fled from the Castro regime in Cuba in the 1960’s.  His family arrived with very little and worked their way to success in this country.  Now, his mission is to help other immigrants and first-generation families understand the power of apartment investing to create generational wealth.

Dan is a graduate of Miami University (Ohio) with a degree in Manufacturing Engineering and has also earned an M.B.A. from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He is co-chair of the board for Su Casa Hispanic Center, a non-profit that provides social services for Hispanics in need, and is also fluent in Spanish & Portuguese.

Mark Kenney is a seasoned real estate investor, coach, and founder of Think Multifamily. Mark started his real estate investing career over 25 years ago and has purchased over 10,000 units across the U.S.

Mark provides exceptional value to investors and the community through his extensive experience in property valuation, acquisition, and operations.

Mark is a graduate at Michigan State University in Accounting and is a CPA. Early in his career, Mark has worked for organizations such as KPMG Consulting, EDS, SAP, HP, and founded his own firm, Simplifying-IT which provided IT services to fortune 500 companies.

Dugan P. Kelley co-founded Kelley Clarke, PC and currently serves clients throughout the United States with its principal offices in Prosper, Texas and Santa Barbara, California. Dugan chairs the firm’s securities and real estate practice group, assisting clients in all phases of multi-family, commercial, and residential acquisitions or sales. Throughout Dugan’s career, he has assisted clients in structuring real estate transactions in excess of $10 Billion. Currently, he provides syndication and securities services for clients throughout the United States, assisting clients in all phases of their acquisition and sale of commercial and residential real estate assets.

Dugan was previously a partner with Cappello & Noel, one of the nation’s foremost complex commercial litigation firms, in Santa Barbara, California. While at Cappello, he successfully prosecuted and defended major commercial litigation involving a variety of commercial matters including lender liability, contract, and transactional disputes, and fraud.

Dugan and his wife, Michelle have 3 boys. The entire Kelley family is actively involved in giving back to their local church and community.

Brandi Shotwell is a Principal at Reno Capital Management in Dallas, Texas concentrating on debt and equity. With over 20 years’ experience in finance and real estate, Brandi has had leadership involvement in over $1 billion in real estate projects ranging from commercial acquisitions to commercial development.

She has organized funding acquisitions and development opportunities for multifamily investors, high net worth individuals, municipal growth areas, and manufacturing clients.

Prior to joining RCM, Brandi was Vice President at Edge Capital Markets and Coronado Bay Capital where she was the top producing originator of the company. Previously, she was a founding partner of Global Mortgage USA. Brandi attended Purdue University Northwest where she studied business and marketing.