Management Team

The founders of K.R.I. Capital Partners have a combined 40 years of experience in the real estate, private equity and lending arenas where they have been involved in transactions valued at more than $2 billion. In addition, they have a combined 30 years of hands-on property ownership and management experience. They utilize this experience to seek out superior investment projects, to analyze potential transactions from a practical perspective, and to develop a comprehensive, strategic plan for each project.

Kenneth A. Gee
Co-Managing Partner

Melody Thomas
Director of Property Management

Gary L. Lieberman, Esq
Co-Managing Partner

Angela Craven
Property Leasing

Kenneth A. Gee

Co-Managing Partner

Mr. Gee is the co-founder and co-managing partner of K.R.I. Capital Partners. He has more than 15 years of significant real estate, banking, private equity transaction and principal investing experience. Throughout his career, he has been involved in transactions valued in excess of $1 billion, much of which has included the acquisition, management and financing of various multi-family real estate projects as well as playing a significant role as a member of due diligence and transaction structure planning teams for several private equity firms specializing in the small and middle markets.

Prior to forming K.R.I. Capital Partners, Mr. Gee was a tax manager with Deloitte & Touche LLP where he focused his practice on state and local tax planning, merger and acquisition due diligence and transaction structure planning for private equity and middle market companies. Some of his major clients included The Riverside Company, Key Equity Capital Partners, Blue Point Capital, Linsalata Capital Partners, The Zaremba Group, Charter One Bank and Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc.

Prior to his career at Deloitte & Touche, Mr. Gee spent several years at National City Bank where he served as commercial loan officer, credit analyst, branch manager, and mortgage loan originator during his career with the bank.

Unrelated to his real estate experience, Mr. Gee also owned and operated several certified Cessna Pilot Centers in the Northeast Ohio area. These Cessna Pilot Centers operated an FAA approved professional pilot school and specialized in the sale of new and pre-owned aircraft.

Mr. Gee is a licensed Ohio Certified Public Accountant. He received his master's degree from Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management and his B.B.A. from the University of Toledo. He is a member of the Northeast Ohio Apartment Association, Bay Area Apartment Association, Shaker Square Area Development Corporation, Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
 

Gary L. Lieberman, Esq

Co-Managing Partner

Mr. Lieberman is the co-founder, general counsel and co-managing partner of K.R.I. Capital Partners. He has more than 25 years of significant real estate, management, financial and principal investing experience. Throughout his career, Mr. Lieberman has been involved in acquisition, sale, financing and leasing transactions totaling more than $1 billion. He has represented and counseled numerous mortgage companies, real estate owners, developers, real estate brokers and management companies. In addition, Mr. Lieberman has served as a partner, mentor and advisor to many of the leading real estate owners and managers in northeast Ohio. Mr. Lieberman has always participated as an active partner in all of his real estate endeavors.

Mr. Lieberman was the founder and chief executive of a warehouse lending corporation. This company provided warehouse lines of credit and lending services to residential developers and mortgage companies throughout the United States. Concurrently, Mr. Lieberman also owned a real estate title agency which administered real estate transactions and closings valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

Early in his career, Mr. Lieberman served as an operational and financial auditor for Sears, Roebuck & Company, headquartered in Chicago. He has also served as a financial analyst for Brooks Technology, Inc., a division of Premier Industrial Corporation, a NYSE company. As a young attorney, Mr. Lieberman also worked with a "big eight" CPA firm.

Mr. Lieberman has been admitted to practice law in the state of Ohio since 1981. In addition to being admitted to practice law in the state of Ohio, he is also admitted to practice law in Federal Court in the Northern District of Ohio, and in the United States Tax Court.

Mr. Lieberman is a graduate of The Ohio State University and holds a B.S. degree in business administration with a concentration in accounting. He holds a law degree from the Cleveland Marshall College of Law. He is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, the Cleveland Bar Association and is a member and serves on the Board of Advisors to the Northeast Ohio Apartment Association.
 

Melody Thomas

Director of Property Management

Ms. Thomas is the director of property management for K.R.I. Capital Partners. She is responsible for the oversight of all day-to-day property management activities and on-site personnel. She has over 6 years of hands-on experience overseeing and executing both asset repositioning and long term operating strategies with K.R.I. as well as with previous property management firms. During her property management career, Ms. Thomas has been responsible for managing and overseeing properties ranging from 20 units to more than 240 units in size.

Prior to beginning her real estate property management career, Ms. Thomas spent 10 years in the retail industry where she served as store manager for several well known retail store chains. Ms. Thomas attended Cleveland State University.
 

Angela Craven

Property Leasing

Ms. Craven is responsible for all leasing activities for K.R.I. Capital Partners. She has earned the Certified Leasing Professional designation and has more than 4 years experience in property leasing at both stabilized properties and at properties undergoing significant repositioning in Ohio and Georgia. Prior to joining K.R.I. she gained significant marketing and sales experience in the retail industry where she served as both assistant manager and store manager at several retail store chains.

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