Meet Our Team
Forsite’s most ambitious project to date is “ReVenture Park”, a 667 acre re-development of a shuttered chemical plant, currently listed as a Federal Superfund site into a “Renewable Energy Industrial Park”. The property, located along the shores of the Catawba River in Charlotte, NC has over 1.4 miles of river frontage and is the largest piece of underutilized heavy industrial property in the region. Once complete, this project is projected to create over 1,100 “green collar” jobs and over $900 million in new investment.
Prior to starting Forsite, Tom was a ten year veteran and Senior Vice President of Development for Indianapolis based Lauth Property Group. In July of 2001, Tom moved to Charlotte to open Lauth’s second regional office where he managed all build-to-suit, land development and construction activities that he and his team created in the Southeast.
Tom has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Marketing and Finance from Ball State University. He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Holy Angels (www.holyangelsnc.org).
Prior to joining Forsite, Houston served as Vice President of Office and Industrial development for Lauth Property Group. He had overall responsibility for Lauth’s Office and Industrial development in the Carolinas and Virginia. While at Lauth he participated in eight development deals representing a gross value of $254 million. Prior to joining Lauth Houston served as Project Manager for American Asset Corporation. While at AAC he managed the development of 9 speculative retail, office, and industrial buildings totaling $95 million in worth. His real estate career began with CB Richard Ellis as an industrial broker where he participated in over 200 transactions.
Houston has a Bachelors degree in Corporate Communication and Business Administration from the College of Charleston and a Master degree in Real Estate Development and Finance from Harvard University.
Ryan has spent significant time on major construction sites, supervising installation of the design of new construction including coal, combined cycle and nuclear power plants.
Additionally, Ryan has worked in various engineering management roles within the power industry focusing on all fuel types for major base load plants, including the newer Allam Cycle technology. Ryan has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech and has completed various Energy Leadership training including E4 Carolina’s Emerging Leader program.
Prior to First Solar, Kevin developed and financed wind projects at BP Wind Energy. Prior to BP Wind Energy, Kevin also developed wind projects for SilverPoint Energy, a company he founded, and was a Director of Project Finance for Panda Energy, a developer of combined cycle natural gas projects.
Kevin holds his BBA in finance, MBA and JD from the University of Oklahoma.
Prior to Forsite, Mark was Vice President of Business Development for an international battery company where he was responsible for all sales and marketing, technical assessments, system modelling, and preliminary project designs for the company’s utility scale battery storage business. Prior to that, Mark served as Vice President of Development for a geothermal energy development firm where he was instrumental in the company’s growth over his 17 years there, negotiating and executing PPAs totalling $2 billion in revenues. Mark earned a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Washington University.
Gulf Stream was sold to Apollo Global Management in October of 2011. Abrahm previously served as the Head of Syndicated Loan Finance and led the Loan Sales & Trading business at Wachovia Securities, which he joined in 1993. After receiving a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Georgetown University and an International Business degree from Nijenrode University in the Netherlands, Abrahm joined Chemical Bank (formerly, Manufacturers Hanover) in 1989 where he joined a team within the Leveraged Finance lending division.
Offering over 15 years of experience in business management, accounting, sales and marketing along with her previous job for an international corporation, has gained Shannon experience in many business sectors. This coupled with her versatility has contributed much to Forsite ’s ongoing success.
Shannon studied Business Management at York Technical College. She has special training in Six Sigma quality and has earned a Green Belt Certification. Shannon is also a licensed Real Estate Broker and is a Notary Public for North and South Carolina.
Additionally, this mechanical ingenuity led Greg to study Engineering and pursue a career in the consulting business with companies such as URS and Geosyntec. Greg is the Technical Director for all of Forsite’s endeavors including power, wastewater, construction, decommissioning, demolition and environmental liability projects.
MJ joined Forsite in 2015 and is currently Site Manager at ReVenture Park, focusing on operations of the Clean Energy combined heat and power facility at that location. MJ also manages operations at Edge Water Treating, a centralized waste treatment facility in Salisbury, NC. Additionally, MJ serves as project manager, logistics coordinator, risk manager, safety officer and quality proponent at various Forsite locations.
He also provides facilities management at our Edge Water Treating waste water treatment facility in Salisbury, NC.
Gerry is currently pursuing waste water operator credentials, and is developing drone photography services for Forsite.
A native of Big Bear Lake, California, Gerry is an army veteran with 11 years construction experience in earthquake country. He now lives in Huntersville NC.