Realty Capital Solutions LLC

Our Team

Richard Ferrell, Principal
Colorado

Rick Ferrell

Richard Ferrell brings to RCS over 50 years of experience in real estate development and finance, with much of that experience in the management and resolution of problem loans and troubled investments and most recently as an investigator and litigation consultant.  He is a sought-after real estate subject matter expert and has considerable expertise in real estate bankruptcy matters including plan feasibility and the determination of appropriate interest rates. He has conducted dozens of forensic transaction analyses to support a broad range of investigations including fraud, misappropriation of funds and breach of fiduciary duty. From 1971 through 1982, he was a real estate developer in the Rocky Mountains.  In the early 1980’s, he was one of the first real estate executives involved in the resolution of the savings and loan crisis as Executive Vice President of American Savings and Loan, where he managed a $3 Billion problem asset portfolio.  From 1985 through 1990, he was a senior executive with Glenborough during its years of rapid growth, much of which was achieved by the acquisition of foreclosed leased income property. Joining Coopers & Lybrand Financial Advisory Services in 1991, he was: part of a team that closed Home Fed Bank where he was responsible for the characterization and sale of its development loan portfolio consisting of 155 projects; a frequent consultant to the RTC and a member of its Litigation Review Committee; a senior member of the special servicer team that resolved defaulted loans in two large commercial mortgage securitizations, together totaling more than $1.8 billion.  Overall, as a “hands-on” real estate work-out specialist with experience in most all real estate asset classes, he has advised the full spectrum of real estate stakeholders: lenders, investment banks, government regulators and individual investors, borrowers and developers.  Mr. Ferrell earned two engineering degrees, Sc. B. Engineering from Brown University in 1967 and M.S. in Engineering Economic Planning in 1969 from Stanford University, in addition an MBA in finance from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 1971.

John Hawkins, Principal
California

John Hawkins

 John Hawkins is a Principal and founding member of Realty Capital Solutions LLC.  Mr. Hawkins has served as Managing Director/Senior Director of Nightingale & Associates and BBK, Ltd, offering creditor advisory analysis and negotiation, distressed asset disposition, turnaround management, strategic and advisory services to creditors and clients in bankruptcy.  From 1972 to 1976 Mr. Hawkins managed a number of advertising accounts for consumer products companies Procter & Gamble, General Foods, Armour Dial and Clorox.  From 1976 to 1979 he was a management consultant in McKinsey & Company’s San Francisco office.  After managing real estate projects with Interwest Realty in Aspen, Colorado, from 1982 to 1985 he served as Executive Vice President of American Savings & Loan, first establishing the new FCA Mortgage Securities division and then managing a $31 Billion loan portfolio as Executive Vice President of Loan Administration. Throughout, he has continued his own management consulting practice, offering project management, strategic planning, restructuring, marketing and advisory services to real estate and other clients as diverse as a Florida residential and community developer, a Saudi residential and community developer, a Northern California forest conversion and vineyard development project and numerous wineries.  In his consulting capacity, he has supervised asset seizure and liquidation of an agricultural lending bank. He is currently CEO/CRO of Terroir Capital, LLC, a wine portfolio. Mr. Hawkins received his MBA from the Stanford University School of Business and holds a BA from Princeton University.
Stark Langs, Principal
Texas

Stark Langs

Stark Langs is a Principal and founding member of Realty Capital Solutions, LLC. Stark has over 35-years experience in providing financial analysis to real estate issues involving  due diligence, acquisitions, financings, loan participations, securitizations, joint venture agreements and workouts.  He has underwritten in excess of $5 billion dollars of commercial mortgage, participating debt, mezzanine loan and equity real estate investments.  He is a real estate generalist with hands on experience with single-family and multi-family housing, residential and commercial lending, land development, office, retail and industrial properties.  He has experience in providing litigation support and analysis and expert witness testimony on bankruptcy plan feasibility and appropriate interest rate, damages, lost profits, loan underwriting, valuation and related real estate and real estate finance issues.  In addition to his US experience, he has worked on various real estate transactions in Brazil, Korea and Japan.  Mr. Langs earned a ScB in Applied Mathematics/Economics from Brown University in 1985, and a MBA from the University of California Berkeley in 1993.  He co-authored an article published in Journal of Property Valuation and Taxation, Summer 2002.

Hernan Martinez, Principal
California

Hernan Martinez

Hernan Martinez is a Principal and founding member of Realty Capital Solutions LLC.  Hernan has a 40-year track record of managing private, governmental and publicly-traded real estate development and investment organizations.  He has been responsible for conceptualizing, developing and managing in excess of $3 Billion in a broad range of property types and urban-scale projects including: hotels, ski/golf resorts, shopping centers, Class A office buildings, affordable housing, water parks, theme parks and major mixed-use complexes including entertainment, retail centers and transportation components.  One of his most recent projects as development manager and partner, Oxigeno ~ 1,000,000± sq. ft. entertainment/retail center in Costa Rica, received the 2017 LADI Award for “Latin America Best Mixed-Use Project.”  Mr. Martinez has also negotiated, structured and managed highly complex domestic and international ventures and arranged company and project-specific capital structures as well as implemented the repositioning and monetization of asset portfolios including the renegotiation and restructuring of legal and financial structures.  His international experience encompasses top-management positions in the US, Brazil and Argentina as well as investment and advisory assignments in the former USSR, Africa and the Middle East.  Mr. Martinez’ past positions include:  Managing Partner – Manan Partners (Dubai);  President of Development – Great Wolf Resorts (NASDAQ: WOLF); EVP and COO ASRP – American Skiing Company (NYSE: AESK); Managing Director – Tishman Speyer Properties;  CEO – Del Plata Prop. (Argentina);  Development Director – CHISPA (California);  and Vice President – First Interstate Mortgage.  Mr. Martinez holds a Diploma in Architecture from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), a Post Graduate Diploma in Urban Development Planning, Development Planning Unit from the University College, London (UK), and a Masters of Business Administration from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.  He also holds a Senior Executive Program Certificate from IAE Business School (Argentina).  He is a former Consulting Associate Professor at Stanford University’s School of Engineering and has lectured on real estate and entrepreneurship at top US and international schools.