Phil is responsible for sourcing new development opportunities, financial modeling, investor relations, debt financing, municipal entitlements, pre-construction management, property management and facilitating asset dispositions.

Phil has been active in the real estate industry for almost 30 years. Phil’s career spans commercial and residential real estate and includes a Bachelor’s degree from John Carroll University and an MBA in Finance from DePaul University. Starting in 1995, Phil managed large office construction projects for The John Buck Company then the deployment of 153 cell sites for Verizon Wireless.

Co-founding Synergy in 2009, Phil has been a Principal at the Company directing preconstruction and design development activities including tax increment financing (TIF), feasibility analysis, estimating, budgeting and project management. In 2010, Phil secured a license to build a tax-credit financed supportive living facility. This SLF license ultimately became the catalyst for the $74M Synergy/Evergreen Residential JV redevelopment of the old Ravenswood Hospital into a 193-unit elderly independent and supportive living facility. In 2015, Phil assisted with Synergy’s development and construction of 5 clinics for Oak Street Health. Then in 2019 Synergy sold its Oak Street Health real estate portfolio to a California based REIT for over $22M. In 2016, Phil founded Assemble Shared Office opening several locations in Chicago and Minneapolis until selling the business in 2019 to Industrious Office. In 2019, Phil led the development, property management and sale of a TIF financed 100-unit new construction luxury multifamily project in South Elgin, IL. Despite delivering this building at the start of the COVID pandemic, Synergy successfully achieved full occupancy in less than 12 months and sold the project for $24M. Then again in 2020, Phil lead the development of a 162-unit TIF financed new construction luxury multifamily project in Winfield IL that sold in a record 9 months after completion and generated a 44% IRR back to investors.

EDUCATION

M.B.A. – Accounting & Finance
DePaul University

B.S. – Biology & History
John Carroll University

CERTIFICATIONS
LEED Accredited Professional
Primavera
Master Builder
OSHA 10-Hour
OSHA 30-Hour

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)