TEAM
Geoff Adaire
Geoff is a 30+ Year commercial real estate veteran in asset management, property management and leasing, tenant representation and development. He has managed large, institutionally-owned office properties, structured complex ownership and lease holdings, led high-level client relationship management efforts and co-founded two companies.
Tenure:
- Springbank Capital Advisors, Co-Founder; President – Springbank Commercial
- Savills-Studley, Midwest Market Head
- Lincoln Property Company, Director of Leasing – Chicago
- Fifield Companies, Asset Management Head
- LaSalle Partners Asset Management Group
Accomplishments:
- Directly managed over 5,000,000 square feet of primarily Class A office property
- 15,000,000 square feet of ownership and lease transactions with value in excess of $4B
- Asset management relationships with Prudential, Carlyle Group, Whitehall/Goldman Sachs, CalPERS
Education:
- J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Master of Management – Finance and Marketing
- Southern Methodist University, Bachelor of Arts – Economics and History
Personal:
He’s married, has two grown sons and lives in suburban Chicago
Alec Adaire
Alec Adaire is a Senior Associate at Triantan Ventures, with responsibility for financial modeling, market research, supporting all aspects of the acquisition, underwriting and project management process as well as supporting the Firm’s investor and client management efforts.
Prior to joining Triantan, Alec worked as an intern at Savills-Studley on the structured finance team, where he assisted in modeling CMBS and on-book office loans to target lease restructure opportunities, as well as analyzing sale/leaseback opportunities in major Midwestern markets. Prior to that, he was an intern at Blue Pay, a private equity-owned credit card processor, working in direct sales for the Sales & Marketing team.
Alec earned a BA with a major in Political Science and a minor in Business from the University of Texas-Austin.
Gary McCullough
Gary E. McCullough’s more than 30-year business career has included roles as a Corporate Board Member, Chief Executive Officer, President and Senior Executive in market-leading consumer and commercial companies. He is currently a Board member of TransDigm Group, Inc. (NYSE: TDG), a $3.7 billion company that develops, distributes and manufactures commercial and military aerospace components. He is also an investor in and advisor to several private entities.
Mr. McCullough was Chief Executive Officer and Board member of ARI Packaging, Inc., a private firm that provides co-manufacturing, packaging and logistics services for consumer package goods companies. ARI was sold to Menasha Packaging in September, 2017. He was President, Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors of Career Education Corporation (CEC), a $2.0 billion, publically traded company for 4.5 years. Before joining CEC, Mr. McCullough served as President of Abbott Laboratories’ $3.5 billion Ross Products Division, a leading manufacturer of infant and adult nutritional products. Prior to Abbott, McCullough served as Senior Vice President-Americas for the Chicago-based Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company and he spent 13 years at The Procter & Gamble Company in Brand Management and progressively more responsible general management roles. Mr. McCullough also served five years in the United States Army as an Infantry Officer, where he rose to the rank of Captain.
Mr. McCullough served on the Board of Directors of The Sherwin-Williams Company (NYSE:SHW), a $9 billion, global paint manufacturing and retail operating company for approximately ten years. He was elected to the Audit Committee in 2002 and was named Audit Committee Chairman in 2011.
In addition to his corporate experiences, Mr. McCullough has a long history of civic and philanthropic board involvement. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Rush University Medical Center and the Academy for Urban School Leadership, an organization committed to turning around Chicago Public Schools worst performing schools. He is a past member of The Economic Club of Chicago, The Commercial Club of Chicago and The Chicago Club. Previously, he served on the Boards of the Executives Club of Chicago, the Association of National Advertisers and Keep America Beautiful. In 2005 and again in 2009, he was named by Black Enterprise magazine as one of the “100 Most Powerful Executives in Corporate America.”
Mr. McCullough holds a Bachelor of Science degree Business from Wright State University and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Northwestern University’s J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management. He and his wife, Kim, reside in Oak Park, Illinois and are the parents of three.