Team

Forward Real Estate Capital, LLC – Senior Management Team

 
  • Nearly 100 years of real estate development, sales, acquisition, valuation and disposition experience.
  • Involved in the daily management of the capital fund and deployment of capital.
  • Superior analytical real estate valuation performance.
  • Management team has successful performance record in REO/ foreclosure market.
  • Has developed and enhanced specialized proprietary operational processes.
  • Will be instrumental in providing transparency to equity capital investors.

Fredric A. DeVillers – Managing Director

Business Development and Acquisitions Twenty years of hands-on experience in Real Estate Development, Design, Construction, Property Management and Business Management as well as Civil and Environmental Engineering design and construction. Fred has been involved with full and limited service hotels, indoor water park resorts, retail and office, residential and mixed-use land development, section 42 senior adult independent apartments, senior adult assisted living and memory care facilities, and residential and commercial construction.  Fred was the genesis of a formalized development, design and construction practice group at The Great Lakes Companies where $350 million of property was developed or acquired as the company grew from 13 people to 1500 between 1995 and 2001.  Great Lakes closed on a successful initial public offering of their indoor water park resort division in December 2004 and is currently traded on the NASDAQ under the name Great Wolf Resorts, Inc. (WOLF). A founder of several startup real estate companies, Fred is a self-motivated leader and manager who is recognized as a creative and detailed problem solver with impeccable integrity.  Active in community, educational and philanthropic pursuits, Fred is a member of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Dane County Board of Directors, the Wisconsin Business Alumni Board of Directors and volunteers for Madison Rotary Books for the World as well as has served on several municipal committees. Forward Real Estate Capital, LLC – Senior Management Team

Chris D. Hake (CDPE, ABR, RRS) – Managing Director

Asset Management & Disposition For more than 14 years, Chris has been personally buying, selling, investing and managing residential, resort and multi-family investment properties.  Licensed as a Realtor in the State of Wisconsin, during his first year as an agent, Chris sold over $8,000,000 in investment real estate.  Chris jointly owned and operated two Keller Williams Realty Franchises in Madison, Wisconsin between 2003 and 2007 and is now currently licensed with Century 21 Affiliated Realty.  Chris was a contributor to the book “The Millionaire Real Estate Investor”, which has been on the New York Times best seller list.  In 2005 and 2006, Chris’s Keller Williams real estate team was in the top 100 out of more than 50,000 agents for Gross Commission Income (GCI) and has sold over $125 Million of real estate between 2001 and 2010.  In 2006, Chris started teaching the 18 week Real Estate Investing course at Madison Area Technical College. Since 2008, Chris has aggressively invested in the distressed real estate markets by buying, repositioning and selling distressed single family residential properties (Short Sales, Foreclosures, and REO’s). Chris has trained and consulted with friends, family and real estate agents on “Investment 101” principals, analysis and fundamentals since 1998.