Managing Partner
Dean founded the firm in 1984 after a three and a half year term with Hank Dickerson and Company, a southwest, regional real estate brokerage firm. Starting with a staff of two, he slowly built a regional commercial property management, development, and investment firm. In 1993, he acquired the real estate operations of Fuller Real Estate in Houston, and in 1994 he acquired the commercial management operations of JPI, the developer of Las Colinas located in Irving, Texas. Dean eventually built a team that could serve clients nationwide and in multiple sub-sectors, and also developed relationships with a broad base of private and institutional investors. The operating company developed expertise in office, industrial, retail, residential, land, and hospitality uses. Dean is a founding member of the University of Texas Graduate Center for Real Estate Finance and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Business from the University of Texas.