The Laurel Ridge team of seasoned real estate and investment professionals represent over 60 years of cumulative real estate equity and debt investing as well as alternative asset management experience.
LEADERSHIP
KEVIN SHARPE
MANAGING PARTNER
Mr. Sharpe began investing in real estate in 2007, successfully building a significant portfolio of student rental and multi-family properties. Seeing a growing need for multi-family properties in the Ottawa market, Mr. Sharpe established his first development company in 2016 and began developing Secondary Dwelling Units, highly prized for their modern and efficient urban designs. As demand grew, Sharpe Industries Inc. was formed to develop housing product to meet the demands of both investors and owner-occupiers seeking new build multi-family properties in the Toronto and Ottawa markets. Sharpe Industries has completed 18 multi-family infill projects in Toronto and Ottawa with 5 current projects under construction in Toronto.
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Mr. Sharpe holds a BA in Kinesiology from the University of Western Ontario and Bachelor of Commerce (Honours Business Administration) from the University of Windsor. He also holds an MBA with specializations in finance and international business from Wayne State University in Detroit Michigan and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Leicester in Leicester, England.
BRENDON CALLENDER
MANAGING PARTNER
Mr. Callender is a Partner and Co-Founder of Crestmont Consulting Group, a strategic advisory firm dedicated to assisting real estate operators in establishing and structuring investment vehicles tailored to their unique investment strategies. Mr. Callender also currently consults for numerous Ontario mortgage investment management firms. Prior to CCG, Mr. Callender spent 13 years as an executive with Home Trust Company, managing the Construction, Small Commercial and Central Ontario groups and the largest volume underwriting and originations team, representing 23% of Home Trust annual origination volume. By 2014, Mr. Callender was managing a team of 40+ mortgage specialists and created an infill residential construction product that originated over $170 million of construction mortgages in Ontario.
Mr. Callender holds a BA from Western University in London, Ontario.
SAMUEL WEEMAN
MANAGING PARTNER
Mr. Weeman is a Partner and Co-Founder of Crestmont Consulting Group. Prior to CCG, Mr. Weeman was the Founder (2016) and President of Velos Capital, a holding company of private mortgage lending businesses with aggregate AUM $600 million. From 2013-2016, Mr. Weeman was a principal at Kensington Capital Partners, Ltd., a $2 billion Toronto-based private equity asset manager. Prior thereto, Mr. Weeman was an equity analyst on the $1 billion long/short equity Biltmore Fund at RWC Partners, Ltd., in London, UK. Prior to RWC, Mr. Weeman was an analyst for the Consumer Goods Equity Research team at JP Morgan in London, UK and an equity trader at Merrill Lynch and Citigroup in New York.
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Mr. Weeman holds a BA from Middlebury College in Middlebury, VT and an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Business at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
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