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
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.
bcallender@laurelridgefunds.com
+1 (647) 972-5250
SAMUEL WEEMAN
MANAGING PARTNER
Mr. Weeman is a private investor and entrepreneur with broad finance industry experience spanning public and private equity asset management, private credit and real estate development. He was previously Founder (2016) and President of Velos Capital Corp., an aggregator of private mortgage lending businesses with aggregate AUM of $800 million. From 2013 to 2016, he was a principal and member of the investment committee at Kensington Capital Partners, Ltd., a Toronto-based alternative asset manager with AUM $2 billion across venture capital, growth equity and mid-market buyout investments.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Weeman served as an analyst on the equity long/short Biltmore Fund at Redwheel (formerly RWC Partners, Ltd.) in London, and as an associate on the Consumer Goods Equity Research team at JP Morgan, also in London. He began his career as an equity trader at Merrill Lynch and Citigroup in New York.
Mr. Weeman holds a BA from Middlebury College and an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.
+1 (305) 850-5648