Greg Rice, is a Principal and Founder of Solid Rock Group and is a real estate professional with 40 years of diversified experience in real estate development, leasing, brokerage sales, acquisitions, property management, and asset management. For the last 25 years, Mr. Rice has focused almost exclusively on hotel and resort real estate.

Since founding Solid Rock Advisors in 1991, Mr. Rice has the led the firm’s involvement in transactions totaling $8 billion in volume and involving 190 different properties. These properties have included some of the world’s finest hotels, such as the Four Seasons New York, Las Ventanas in Los Cabos, and the Santa Barbara Four Seasons Biltmore. Mr. Rice has also been involved in significant financial restructuring and loan placements, and has supervised several hundred million dollars of renovations for TY Warner Resorts and Hotels, whom he has represented in all their transactions since 1990. He also acts as an investment advisor to a number of other firms and individual investors.

Mr. Rice’s depth of experience in leasing, sales, acquisitions, financing, syndication management, and construction make him highly qualified within the real estate industry. He maintains contact with an extensive number of buyers and network brokers to ensure his clients the best possible exposure to the marketplace. Greg has a thorough knowledge of leases, contracts, and the required due diligence process in a closing.

Salim Damji is a Principal of Solid Rock Group and leads Solid Rock Advisors East in New York City. Mr. Damji has over 20 years of diverse hospitality-focused experience, including in operations, asset management, acquisitions and development. As a hotel owner/operator, Mr. Damji has a unique perspective on hotel development and asset management and regularly advises owners, developers and investors on acquisitions and dispositions of hotels. With experience as an Advisor with Andersen Consulting and JP Morgan, in Capital Markets at CBRE and in Acquisitions and Development at Starwood Hotels, Mr. Damji brings a comprehensive understanding of hotel investment strategy to the Group’s practice. His experience includes extensive underwriting, having worked on valuations of single assets to full portfolios (of upwards of 200 hotels) and expertise in rebranding, repositioning and strategic planning. His asset management experience includes a 5-star hotel in San Antonio, Texas, from pre-development through its eventual sale, which he assisted in negotiating and which resulted in a 50% profit to shareholders over one year. In May 2016, Mr. Damji represented Cindat, backed by investors including China Cinda Asset Management Co. and Taikang Life Insurance and its affiliate on $571M joint venture of seven premium limited service hotels in Manhattan.

Mr. Damji graduated from Cornell Hotel School with a Master’s in Hospitality Management. He also holds a Master’s of Science in Business from Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and an undergraduate degree in Commerce from the University of British Columbia.

James McCrimmon is a Principal of Solid Rock Group who offices in Colorado. He has been with Solid Rock Advisors since inception and brings 30+ years of varied real estate experience to the group. Mr. McCrimmon has completed assignments involving leasing and sales of virtually all property types including office and industrial properties, retail centers, net lease properties, hotels, single and multi-family residential, development land, zero cash flow assets and even self-storage. He also has extensive experience in financing and refinancing activities, with several billion dollars’ of completed assignments with lenders such as Wells Fargo, Morgan Stanley, Fortress and Bank of America. He has also dealt extensively over the past few years with Specials Servicers including Rialto, Argentic and LNR regarding partnership structuring and other issues relating to new and existing CMBS financing.

Mr. McCrimmon’s current focus is on asset management of NNN retail and office properties, brokerage and financing. He currently oversees the Asset Management of non-hotel assets for Solid Rock Group and works on various top-line reporting and special projects for clients. Mr. McCrimmon currently holds active real estate licenses in multiple states.

Stephen Schafer is the Chief Financial Officer of Solid Rock Asset Management and Solid Rock Ventures & Development. Mr. Schafer brings over 20 years of real estate and hospitality experience to the team. He has an extensive background in Corporate Finance, Capital Markets, Asset Management, Financial Reporting, Underwriting and Valuation, Financial Planning & Analysis, Treasury, Investor Relations, and Strategy.

Prior to Solid Rock, Mr. Schafer was with FelCor Lodging Trust (NYSE: FCH), one of the nation’s largest hospitality-focused real estate investment trusts, with an asset value of $3.0 billion at peak. He most recently served as Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning where he advised the CEO and Board of Directors on the strategic direction and related financial and investment strategies, established the on-going internal views of the real estate and lodging industries to guide the company’s capital allocation plans, analyzed acquisition targets, structured over $1.5 billion of debt and equity financings, provided extensive advice to the asset management, development, finance and accounting teams and led all investor relations functions.

Mr. Schafer earned a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Business Economics from the University of Arizona and holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Dallas. He has been involved with the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts, American Hotel & Lodging Association, Financial Executives International and the National Investor Relations Institute.

Larry Kantor is a Vice President of Solid Rock Group based in Hawaii. He brings over 20 years of real estate and diverse hospitality-focused experience to the team including; operations, market analysis, asset management and valuation. He has provided advisory services to owners and prospective buyers related to the acquisition and disposition of a variety of hospitality projects including hotels, resorts and mixed-use developments. His experience includes extensive underwriting and valuation of numerous portfolios, each with more than 100 properties; as well as strategic planning, rebranding and market repositioning for the owners of single and multi-asset portfolios. His asset management experience includes several luxury hotels in Beverly Hills and San Diego while he led Andersen’s hospitality consulting practice in Southern California. Following his time with Andersen, Mr. Kantor served as a Principal in the Travel & Transportation consulting practice of IBM Global Services. Mr. Kantor provided a broad range of Asset Management services for an exclusive collection of luxury villas and homes along the Kohala Coast on the Big Island of Hawaii. Mr. Kantor received his Bachelor of Science degree from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Ad- ministration. He is a licensed Real Estate Salesperson.

Braeden Fleming is an Analyst at Solid Rock Asset Management in the Dallas office. Braeden's responsibilities include operations and financial analysis, strategy and reporting, and investment underwriting. He also supports the business development initiatives. Before joining the Solid Rock team, Braeden completed his degree at the University of Arkansas where he majored in Finance with a concentration in Real Estate. Mr. Fleming’s prior experience includes Venture Commercial Real Estate.

Juan Fonseca is an Analyst at Solid Rock Asset Management in the Dallas office. He joined the Solid Rock team after graduating from Southern Methodist University’s Edwin L. Cox School of Business with a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) in Real Estate Finance. At SMU, he was a Second Century Scholar and a member of Alpha Kappa Psi, the largest co-ed professional fraternity in the United States. Juan’s responsibilities include operations and financial analysis, strategy and reporting, and investment underwriting. He also supports the company’s business development initiatives.