Leadership

Mr. Abrams has decades of hands-on executive experience, including 7 years as Managing Director of Commenda Capital, 3 years as Co-CEO of Commenda Real Estate, 13 years as Chairman/CEO of Servidyne, Inc. (Nasdaq-SERV), a diversified publicly-traded company, and 14 years as President/CEO of Abrams Properties, Inc., a commercial real estate firm. 

As Chairman and CEO of Servidyne, Mr. Abrams was the architect and driving force behind the successful strategic repositioning and eventual sale of the closely-held, 85-year-old company. Under his leadership, the real estate, construction and manufacturing firm, previously known as Abrams Industries, was deleveraged and “re-invented” through a series of divestitures, asset sales and M&A transactions to form a new business that became a global B2B provider of energy efficiency products, services and online proprietary software for commercial and institutional buildings. The company was acquired by a Silicon Valley-based strategic buyer at a favorable valuation for shareholders in an all-cash transaction.

As President/CEO of Abrams Properties, he led the development/redevelopment of a number of multi-anchored retail “power” centers, and the asset management of the company’s multi-million square foot portfolio of retail, office and industrial properties.

Mr. Abrams’’ areas of expertise include real estate development and asset management, strategic analysis, strategic planning, executive management, financial analysis, budgeting and financial planning, mergers and acquisitions, executive coaching, family businesses, corporate governance, board representation, asset liquidations, and real estate and corporate restructurings. 

Mr. Abrams received an AB in History from Columbia University and a MBA with honors from Emory University.

Mr. Anderson has over 40 years of experience and front-line executive involvement, as a principal, an independent partner/contractor and as an employee, with highly regarded publicly and privately held market-leading commercial real estate development, asset management and brokerage companies with decades of experience in development, deal-making & leasing, valuation & markets, and financing, construction, acquisition and disposition and asset and operations management.

 

Anderson’s development, leasing, brokerage, marketing and asset management consultancy work has led him to various project work in and on multiples of millions of square feet of commercial real estate developments and transactions in multiple product-type silos of CRE in 300+ US markets nationally.  

His successes in commercial real estate-related ventures have also led him into successful endeavors in patenting inventions, product-development and, ultimately, manufacturing where, as a manufacturer/owner/principal, Anderson has developed and manufactured life-safety technologies, logistics-based products & systems and other forward-thinking projects for broad commercial and consumer marketplaces. He is passionate about ideation, innovation and the re-invention of real estate developments and products, commercial real estate service companies, and product-oriented enterprises and their wares.

Mr. Anderson, who is also the Founder, CVO & CEO of White Hat Development Co., is a graduate of The University of Texas at Austin- McCombs School of Business and is headquartered on his family ranch near Austin, Texas.​​