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Brett is President of Contact Development Company,
LLC (“CDC”), a resort real estate development company
active in Mexico and the United States. With offices in San Francisco,
Mexico City and Puerto Vallarta, CDC specializes exclusively in the
resort, residential, master planned community and hospitality sectors
at an international level.
Since 1997 Brett has served as President of CDC and is responsible
for managing all aspects of identifying and successfully executing
new business and development opportunities which includes managing
some or all of the following phases: project identification, “team
building”, packaging, facilitating the required equity and
debt financing transactions, construction, marketing and sales,
on-going property management and disposition. CDC provides said
services for its own development projects where CDC functions as
the sponsor/principal, and occasionally as a co-developer with third
party land owners, developers and owners of operating resort assets
that seek CDC’s expertise in these areas, an example of which
is the very successful Punta Mita project located near Puerto Vallarta
where CDC worked closely with the Mexican land owner/developer to
create Mexico’s first private resort community. While Brett
is active in CDC’s domestic projects in the United States,
he is principally responsible for CDC’s resort development
projects located in Mexico.
CDC is the co-founder and principal sponsor, together with the
international firms of Baker & McKenzie and Deloitte, of the
annual conference “Mexico Resort Development: Opportunities
for Development and Foreign Investment”.
Prior to joining CDC and opening its Mexico City office in 1997,
Brett worked for three years in Guadalajara; two of those years
as the Manager of Investment and Development for Estratur, the international
sales and marketing arm of Grupo Situr, Mexico’s largest resort
real estate developer at the time. As the Manager of this division,
Brett was in charge of all international marketing activities of
the company’s institutional quality assets, focused specifically
on the United States and Canada, for Grupo Situr’s wholesale
real estate assets located in Mexico which included: hotels, golf
courses, marinas, land, commercial centers and entire resort projects.
Brett was in charge of managing and marketing a real estate portfolio
valued at more than USD $350 million and within 18 months, Brett
had successfully identified investors for more than USD $100 million
worth of assets.
Brett originally joined Grupo Situr in an executive level position
in 1993 and for more than one year worked in all areas of the company
including: international finance, accounting, legal, planning and
architecture, construction, sales and marketing, computer systems,
market investigation and human resources.
Prior to relocating to Mexico in 1993, Brett worked as a Real Estate
Consultant in the Hospitality Practice Area of E&Y/Kenneth Leventhal
Real Estate Group where he worked with such clients as: The Bank
of America, Chase Manhattan Bank, the Bel-Air Hotel, The Peninsula
Hotel Company, the Beverly Hills Hotel, Nikko Hotels and Maguire
Thomas Partners among others.
Brett graduated from the University of Southern California in Los
Angeles with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration
and Finance in 1990. He then went on to earn a Master’s degree
in Real Estate Development from the same university in 1992.
Brett is fluent in Spanish, is a frequent speaker on the subject
of resort real estate development and investment, is a licensed
real estate salesperson in California and has been a very active
member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) since 1992. Brett is currently
a member of ULI’s Recreational Development Council, is the
Co-Founder and former Co-Chairman of the ULI Mexico Council and
is a past member of the ULI International Council.
Brett lived in Mexico full time for more than ten years and currently
splits his time between CDC’s San Francisco and Mexico offices. |
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