Richard is a partner in the Corporate department and chair of the Real Estate practice group. He counsels a variety of clients, including developers, landlords, tenants, corporate owners, manufacturers and investors, with respect to some of the most significant commercial projects in the Midwest. Clients routinely seek his assistance from the inception of a project through the final disposition of the asset. His depth of experience in navigating the administrative, legal and legislative processes enables him to provide clients with practical insights while achieving their objectives in a cost efficient manner.

Sherief began his commercial real estate career as an associate with Sperry Van Ness in Cincinnati where he and his three-person team successfully marketed and divested over 5,000+ multi-family units throughout the Midwest. Sherief has developed a reputation throughout the Midwest as an aggressive, tenacious, analytical, client-focused sales professional, with a long track record of successful assignments and repeat clients who continue returning to Sherief for on-going asset management guidance. Sherief graduated from Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business with a B.S. in Marketing. Among his many personal and professional pursuits, Sherief is currently pursuing his CCIM designation. Sherief enjoys exercising, international and domestic travel, listening to Tony Robbins in the car, and spending his free time with his wife and son.

Philip Denning recently became Executive Vice President with The Port, overseeing The Port's neighborhood revitalization program, its finance practice, and its major strategic assets including its likely purchase of the Millennium Hotel property in February. Phil is former Director of the City of Cincinnati’s Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED). In his role, Phil lead a team dedicated to facilitating strategic development and services within Cincinnati to improve the lives of residents, increase business investment, and bring new vibrancy to city neighborhoods. Prior to being selected as director, Phil served as the Major Projects division manager and development officer at DCED. He was responsible for leading incentive negotiations for a variety of prominent real estate development projects, mostly in the urban core neighborhoods of Downtown and Over-the-Rhine. Phil graduated Magna Cum Laude from The University of Cincinnati’s School of Design, Art, Architecture & Planning. He also serves in a leadership role with the Urban Land Institute. Phil lives in Cincinnati’s Northside neighborhood with his wife and three children.

Dan Schimberg is the President of Uptown Rental Properties, a firm he started in 1985 to fill a niche in high quality off-campus student housing at the University of Cincinnati. This was well before student housing was a separate class of real estate. While most of their real estate holdings are proximate to the University of Cincinnati, URP has grown to own and manage over 3,000 multifamily units and approximately 55,000 square feet of office and retail space in the Greater Cincinnati area. Dan has completed over 250 single family and multifamily apartment renovations as well as constructed over 1,700 units of new urban apartments.

As Development Partner, Mr. Fusaro directs the new project development process. He is responsible for all preconstruction activities including site evaluation and acquisition, development scope and vision, zoning and entitlement efforts, performance modeling, and debt and equity structures. He works closely with a variety of third party providers to frame a vision for each development opportunity, while constantly evaluating the risk/reward proposition for each potential opportunity. Prior to joining Capital Investment Group, Mr. Fusaro was Director of Business Development for thirteen years for the housing subsidiary of the Miller Valentine Group, a Dayton, Ohio based developer of industrial, office and residential properties. In that capacity, Mr. Fusaro directed a group that developed 6,000 multifamily rental units, both market rate and tax credit. This assignment included managing the company’s expansion into North Carolina and the development of several apartment properties in the region. He also served as Director of Military Housing for the company. In this capacity he directed the development andrenovation of 1536 military housing units at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. Prior to joining the Miller-Valentine Group, Mr. Fusaro was an investment Specialist with CB Richard Ellis for twelve years. In this capacity, he sold apartment and other investment properties. Mr. Fusaro led the Cincinnati CB office in sales for several years and attained the CCIM designation while there. Heworked both with high net worth individuals and institutional clients.

Kyle has over eleven years of experience in commercial real estate finance, loan origination, credit analysis, underwriting and consulting. Kyle’s current focus is in new loan production and specialized commercial real estate consulting. Kyle understands that every project is unique and brings a very hands on and focused approach to providing customers with the best possible financing solution. Prior to Bellwether Enterprise, Kyle spent two years as a production analyst with Bank of America’s Southeast Production Team in Atlanta and two years as a production associate with JP Morgan’s CMBS platform, also in Atlanta.

Stasiu Geleszinski, or “Stash” as those in the industry know him, acts as the managing director of Capstone’s Cincinnati office. He has led the team through many types of transactions, including multi-family investment sales (conventional, affordable, and student housing), as well as development site sales throughout the Midwest. Stash holds the esteemed Certified Commercial Investment Member designation. He has been involved in the analysis, underwriting, asset management, syndication and disposition of thousands of apartment units worth more than $100M, and represented clients from across the world. Beginning his career in commercial real estate during a recent recession—these challenging, formative times played a significant role in developing the tremendous work ethic, character, and “never say never” attitude, which so clearly encapsulates Stash, and the entire Cincinnati team, to so many in the multi-family industry.