A diversified platform spanning real estate, lending, and operating businesses.

Leadership · Principal

Kellie Reiland

Kellie comes from a finance background, having worked in investment banking in both Houston and Denver. Since moving into real estate in 2012, she has been actively involved in underwriting, negotiating, closing, and managing Star Mesa transactions across both the lending and operating platforms. Kellie leads the firm’s Maine portfolio, overseeing asset management, operations, and strategic planning for those properties. Kellie graduated from Brown University.

Leadership · Principal

John Crowley

John brings his diverse and extensive investment experience to Star Mesa Capital, where he oversees sourcing, underwriting, negotiating, and closing of investments across the capital stack.

Prior to joining Star Mesa, John was a Director of Underwriting at Summit Investment Management, a joint venture with Fortress Investment Group, where he was responsible for deal sourcing and underwriting of distressed debt and opportunistic credit situations. Prior to Summit, John was a member of the investment team within BlackRock Alternative Advisors, the firm's Hedge Fund Solutions business. While at BlackRock, John covered credit-related strategies including stressed and distressed credit, as well as equity and credit strategies within Emerging Markets. Before joining BlackRock, John served as a U.S. Navy SEAL.

John holds a BS degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, with concentrations in Finance and Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Leadership · Principal

Bob Cardwell

Bob has worked in the commercial real estate industry for over thirty-five years. His experience ranges from acquisition, disposition, construction lending, finance, mortgage banking, masterplanning, leasing, property management, asset management to urban and suburban development. Bob has performed these services in over eighty different markets from Honolulu to Boston.

Specifically, he has been responsible for over 14,000,000 square feet of commercial real estate valued in excess of $2 billion. His responsibilities included overseeing all of the physical and financial decisions of the assets, and the various consultants and contractors hired to perform services. The asset mix ranged from suburban investments to multi-city block mixed use developments. The holdings included office, office warehouse, industrial, retail, apartments, condominiums and hotels.

Bob's community involvement includes: Past President for Mountain Area Land Trust, Past State Chairperson for The Trust for Public Land Advisory Board and President of Evergreen Land Community Coalition and President of an 85 unit condominium complex. Prior to moving to Colorado he chaired a county park and open space commission in Minnesota.

Leadership · Controller

Margo Nyiro

As Controller for Star Mesa, Margo is responsible for all accounting and financial operations including financial reporting, billing, collections, payables, debt service, budget preparation, cash management, payroll, and tax reporting.

Margo has over 25 years of private accounting experience beginning with internal audit at Kemper Financial Services in Chicago, Illinois, then continuing in Tennessee at Moore Data Management Services and at True Temper Sports, where she worked in all areas of both financial and cost accounting in a manufacturing environment. Most recently in Colorado, she provided accounting services to several small businesses prior to joining Star Mesa in 2014.