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As a real estate entrepreneur and veteran of the US Navy, Thomas enjoys solving problems and engaging with teams. He began his real estate career as an apartment broker and quickly moved into founding a private capital group to work with underperforming real estate. He continued growing the company and founded others, allowing him to transact in a broad range of property types.

A real estate entrepreneur and U.S. Navy veteran, Thomas enjoys engaging in visionary work with diverse teams to solve challenging problems. While serving in the Navy, Thomas earned his Surface Warfare and Fleet Marine Force Warfare designations and completed extensive combat medical training as an FMF Corpsman. He learned how to heal the human body, and now through leadership, he seeks to heal our communities and the planet.

Thomas began his real estate career as a broker with Sperry Van Ness, winning their National Rookie of the Year Award in 2010. He then moved to Hendricks & Partners (now Berkadia), the premier multifamily brokerage firm in the US. In 2012, Thomas founded Fenix Private Capital Group LLC to focus on improving underperforming real estate assets throughout Arizona. At Fenix, Thomas participated in purchasing and repositioning value-add multifamily, office, retail, and industrial properties across Arizona. This was accomplished by purchasing properties via short-sale, auction, REO, or conventional sales using personal capital, private lenders, banks, and raising equity.

In addition to purchasing real property, Thomas began buying distressed debt in 2011, buying nonperforming loans (NPLs) from national, regional, and community banks along with private parties. Recognizing a need for leadership in sustainable development, Thomas positioned Fenix PCG to be a pioneer development company of highly sustainable mixed-use real estate in urban cores. Partnering with Habitat Metro, Thomas has since developed the 70-unit mixed-use property Eco PHX in downtown Phoenix and Eco Mesa, the 102-unit mixed-use property in downtown Mesa. Fenix and Habitat Metro continue to develop their Eco branded and highly sustainable multifamily projects in the Phoenix area.

In 2019, Thomas noted that real estate prices were eclipsing pricing records set before the Great Recession. Sensing an opportunity to help borrowers, lenders, and investors if (and when) the market corrected, he co-founded DO Income Fund, a distressed debt fund that purchases underperforming and nonperforming loans originated by private lenders across the country. Since then, Thomas and his team have transacted on hundreds of loans from Washington to Florida across a broad spectrum of property types.

Thomas has numerous passions outside of work, primarily spending time with his wife and two children. When not working or with his family, you can find Thomas going for a run, reading a book, planting trees or veggies in the garden, hiking, SCUBA diving, or practicing yoga. Thomas is also a licensed pilot and enjoys taking people for a flight across the Grand Canyon or up the New England coast, where Thomas and his family spend parts of the summer.

Thomas and his wife founded Madre Tierra Foundation to help fund educational programs and reforestation projects. To date, MTF has helped seed two schools (one in Sedona, AZ, and another in Costa Rica) along with reforesting approximately 200 acres of land previously used for cattle farming.