David Wieland

David has played key roles in approximately $3 billion of capital market and real estate transactions, including $1.25B as a principal. Prior to Realized Holdings, he co-founded Mission Residential, a fully integrated, research-driven, multi-family owner-operator. Between 2005 and 2009, when he sold a controlling interest in Mission Residential, the firm acquired 12,521 apartment units across the Sunbelt, representing a total investment in excess of $925 million, facilitated by syndicating approximately $325MM in equity from more than 750 high net worth investors. David has also co-founded a series of successful companies, including Forward Capital, a structured finance and credit derivative products company involved in the embryonic stages of synthetic securitization, and Convenience Retail Group, the parent company of real estate investment trust and a wholesale gasoline distributor, both of which were sold to a publicly held company. Early in his career, David held positions with Security Capital Group, Prologis, Archstone Communities, Equitable Real Estate (now Morgan Stanley Real Estate) and Arthur Andersen. David currently has roles in seven early-stage companies across a wide variety of industries. David is also the immediate past chair of the Board of Governors of LifeWorks, is actively involved in his church and various other community activities in Austin, where he lives with his college sweetheart and wife of 21 years, Laura, and their three children. David attended Texas A&M University where he received his MS in Land Economics and Real Estate, and a BBA in Finance and Real Estate.