Experience

The Pinyon Group

• United States
• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Principal

  • Jan 2016 - Present

  The Pinyon Group is a full-service real estate investment and advisory firm headquartered in Los Angeles, California.We operate two primary lines of business: 1) our Investment Management business, and 2) our Advisory & Consulting business.We created our Investment Management business to generate long-term sustainable wealth for our partners. We believe that our disciplined value-investing approach to real estate investing, our creative and nimble asset management capabilities, and our careful alignment of the firm’s incentives with our partners’ interests contributes to our market out-performance. Our Investments business primarily operates through property- and/or strategy-specific investment vehicles.We created our Advisory & Consulting business to help our clients make better decisions. We offer a broad array of institutional-caliber services and solutions that add sophisticated, creative, and reliable capacity to the real estate acquisition, investment, lending, servicing, management, development, and disposition activities of public and private real estate companies, investment funds, government and non-profit entities, family-offices, and individuals.



JH Stark Companies

• Founder

  • Oct 2009 - Present

  JH Stark Companies is a diversified real estate development, investment and advisory firm that focusing primarily on socially responsible, urban infill residential and commercial real estate opportunities in the Western United States. The firm works with investors and developers primarily on residential housing opportunities including debt and equity placements, project finance workouts on behalf of lenders, investors and sponsors. JH Stark has directed several initiatives including but not limited to a significant platform to invest in single-family residential rehab projects from entry level to luxury homes, equity investment capital for residential entitlement opportunities, served as master developer for 500 unit master-plan in Northern California, financial advisor to national investment firm to launch a new investment program in the Western United States and several transit oriented development (TOD) projects as both an advisor and investor.



Phoenix Realty Group

• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Director

  • Mar 2003 - Oct 2009

  Phoenix Realty Group manages approximately $800 million in institutional capital to create “double bottom line” economic and social returns for market-rate and workforce housing as well as commercial development throughout the United States. During his tenure at Phoenix Reality Group, Mr. Stark oversaw the development of over $2 billion of joint-venture developments throughout the United States serving as both equity investor and developer for a variety of urban residential and commercial projects and created the first socially responsible workforce housing fund backed by institutional investors such as CalPERS, Northwestern Mutual, John Hancock, City of Los Angeles Pension Fund, NY Commons Pension Fund, UC Regents and other notable investors. Mr. Stark served as a “Key Man” for all investment funds and was directly responsible with the other firm’s principals for the fund formation, fund raising and fund execution.



The Lee Group

• Director of Development

  • Jun 1993 - Mar 2003

  Mr. Stark was director of development for The Lee Group, Inc., a leading urban residential development company where he was involved in the development of over $300 million of urban housing in Southern California. At The Lee Group, Mr. Stark was involved in all aspects of the homebuilding business including land acquisition, master planning, product development, finance, entitlements and construction management. During his tenure at The Lee Group, Mr. Stark served as the Project Developer for Village Green, 186 single-family homes planned and developed adjacent to a major transit hub and childcare center. The Village Green project was built in partnership with the Clinton Administration’s Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH) and at the time it was built, the project was the largest solar electric subdivision and the most energy-efficient new home community in the United States. President Clinton attended the groundbreaking of the project in May, 1998.