|
PacTen Partners is staffed with in-house specialists in
certain disciplines and uses outstanding and nationally known firms as
consultants. The following describes the internal organization:
Dennis Fitzpatrick - Founding Partner
1689 Comstock Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90024
(310) 993-9117
(310) 943-2665 (fax)
dfitz@pactenpartners.com
Mr. Fitzpatrick is the managing
partner and has overall responsibility for the firm.
Mr. Fitzpatrick was formerly
President and Chief Executive Officer of Beverly Hills
Savings. He led the company from a $100 million (assets) mutual savings
and loan in 1972
to a $2 billion public company in 1983. During this period, he
introduced many innovative
management approaches to the business, including focusing as a mortgage
banker,
developing imaginative marketing programs to attract deposits and
forming strategic
alliances with Wall Street, European investors and other participants in
the financial world.
Since 1983, Mr. Fitzpatrick was been a partner in Taluswood, a townhouse
project in
Whistler, British Columbia where he was responsible for finance,
planning, legal and
administrative matters, a partner in The Warmington Company, a major
Southern California
real estate developer, from 1990 to 1992, and was formerly Chairman of
CBI Financial, a
consulting firm specializing in finance and real estate.
Mr. Fitzpatrick received his BS in
engineering from the University of California at Berkeley
where he was a member of a NCAA championship basketball team and
received many
honors. He also received MS (aerospace engineering) and MBA (finance)
degrees from the
University of Southern California. He is married with three children and
resides in Los
Angeles, California, where he is a member of the Los Angeles Country
Club.
Return to top of page
Pete Hillman - Founding Partner
4529 Angeles Crest Hwy., Suite
PH-B
La Canada, CA 91011
(866) 865-3235
(818) 790-0664 (fax)
drsmoke33@aol.com
Mr. Hillman is responsible for
marketing and business development activities.
Since 1986, he has been involved
in the Glendale Plaza project (a PacTen development) as an owner and
consultant. He was able to initially obtain approval for the 18-story
building (the only approval of its type outside the Glendale
Redevelopment Area) and then for an increase in entitlement to 24
stories and 500,000 square feet. During this period he has also been
engaged in development of other properties and managing his investments.
Mr. Hillman was a founder and partner in the Grainger Company, a real
estate brokerage firm specializing in representing major corporations
with respect to their office space requirements. The Grainger Company
represented several national accounting firms and financial institutions
during that period. Prior to that, he was a real estate broker with
Cushman and Wakefield and was one of the first leasing agents for the
Arco Towers project.
Mr. Hillman is a graduate of the University of Southern California where
he was a member of a NCAA championship baseball team and the Trojan
basketball team. He is married with four children and resides in
Glendale, California.
Return to top of page
Chapin Hunt, Jr. - Partner
11755 Wilshire Blvd, Fifteenth
Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90025
(310) 729-4742
(310) 312-3345 (fax)
Since 1976, Mr. Hunt has been
President of CPH Ventures and its affiliates, which resulted in the
acquisition, finance, and management of income producing properties
nationally. These activities approximated $500 million in the office,
industrial, retail and residential sectors. For a two-year period in
1996-1998 he was an Executive Vice President of Heitman Financial
Services, a national real estate pension advisor, responsible for equity
and debt placements.
In 1973 Mr. Hunt was employed with the David H. Murdock Development
Company responsible for real estate developments, equity formations and
joint ventures. In 1970 he joined Miottel and Company a national real
estate development company, spun off from the Walter Shorenstein
Companies in San Francisco, where he was responsible for project
developments.
Mr. Hunt received his BA in Economics from the University of California
at Berkeley. His five years as an Airborne Ranger Infantry Captain were
served in Europe and in combat in Vietnam. Mr. Hunt later received his
MBA in Taxation and Finance.
He has two grown children and resides in Beverly Hills, California.
Return to top of page
Matthew Herrill, Partner -
Construction
4529 Angeles Crest Hwy., Suite
PH-B
La Canada, CA 91011
(888) 832-5863
(818) 790-0664 (fax)
mherrill@pactenpartners.com
Mr. Herrill is responsible for the
building construction of Santa Clarita Business Park and the Valencia
Corporate Point.
Prior to joining PacTen Partners, Mr. Herrill was a Project Manager for
Universal Studios Hollywood in Universal City, California. He acted as
the Owner’s representative overseeing all aspects of project management
for tenant improvement work throughout the theme park. He directed the
projects from concept through close out. He interfaced with in-house
user groups, design, architectural, and engineering firms, general
contractors, entertainment specialists and government agencies, and
coordinated the estimating, bid/award, contract administration and
financial reporting for each of the separate elements into a singular,
cohesive project.
Prior to that, he was with Peck/Jones Construction Company in Los
Angeles where he rose to Assistant Project Manager. During his eight
year tenure, he supervised and managed all phases of large and medium
size commercial construction projects, conducted trade specific
estimating and overall project budget formation, coordinated the bidding
process and subcontract negotiation/awards, administered contracts and
subcontracts, supervised work of all trades in the field, resolved
claims and disputes and supervised project accounting. Projects included
the $60 million Pacific Bell Mobile Services project, the 2000-car
garage structure at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, the $40 million
Chartwell Estate and Center West, a 23 story office building in
Westwood.
Mr. Herrill received his BS in Business Administration from the Loyola
Marymount University in Los Angeles. He is married with three children
and resides in Altadena, California.
Return to top of page
Tom Girardi and Walter Lack - Partners
Mr. Girardi and Mr. Lack are
well-known trial lawyers and investors with whom the managing principals
of PacTen have a long-term relationship. They provide business advice
and are active in providing entrée to many key participants in the Los
Angeles business community. Mr. Girardi, who heads the firm of Girardi
and Keese, and Mr. Lack, who heads the firm of Engstrom, Lipscomb &
Lack, often join together in major cases. Mr. Girardi was selected
“Trial Lawyer of the Year” in 1995-1996 by the Los Angeles Trial
Lawyers, received the “Distinguished Alumnus Award” from the Loyola Law
School in 1997 and, among his many activities, is an Adjunct Professor
at the Loyola Law School. He lives with his wife in Pasadena. Mr. Lack
served as a member of the Alumni Board of Directors of Loyola-Marymount
University and serves as a member of the Board of Directors of HCCH
Insurance Holdings, Inc., Microvision, Inc. and SuperGen, Inc., all
public companies. He lives with his wife in Encino, California.
Return to top of page
Eric Hartnack, Vice President – Finance and
Business Development
11755 Wilshire Blvd, Fifteenth
Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90025
(310) 312-3344
(310) 312-3345 (fax)
Mr. Hartnack joined PacTen
Partners in August of 2003, working closely with Chapin Hunt on the
financing and development of PacTen Projects.
Prior to joining PacTen Partners, Mr. Hartnack completed a Masters in
Business Administration at UCLA’s Anderson School of Business focused on
finance. Mr. Hartnack had previously spent six years in the retail
industry at both Patagonia and the Gap, managing an $80 Million dollar a
year business line for the firm prior to leaving to start an
entrepreneurial venture. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Hartnack and four other
principals successfully launched a Softbank venture capital backed
on-line, catalog, and bricks and mortar vertical retailer.
Mr. Hartnack received his BA in American History from Vanderbilt
University in Nashville, Tennessee and currently resides in Venice,
California.
Return to top of page
Copyright
© 2004 PacTen Partners, LLC
|
  |
