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RDS is solving problems and adding value in today’s marketplace, in most key markets across North America. RDS has no legacy assets. Because RDS fields a team of disciplined professionals with expansive experience in turnarounds, our clients and partners can be assured of a maximum recovery of investment in the shortest possible time.
RDS has successfully managed more than $4 billion of distressed projects, and our team delivers consistent entrepreneurial results with institutional quality reporting. We always align our interests with our clients’ interests.
Norman Radow - Founder and Chief Executive officer
Norman established RADCO in 1994 when he redeveloped a 53-story Atlanta hotel and condominium property in distress. Previously, Norman was a real estate litigation, workout and transactional lawyer. He has been involved in some of the most complex workouts and successor developer issues in the country. He was involved the first workout of a Sharia compliant transaction and has overseen many complicated UCC foreclosures and other difficult projects requiring immediate decision making and multi-faceted skill sets. Norman has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at Emory Law School and lectures at New York law School (where he also serves on its board and real estate committee) and the USC Gould School of Law. He is also Chairman of the Kennesaw State University Board of Trustees, a 23,000-student university in metropolitan Atlanta with $500 million in assets, mostly in real estate, all of which were acquired and developed under his stewardship. Norman was awarded a J.D. by New York Law School in 1981 and holds a B.A. from SUNY Plattsburgh. He is admitted to practice law in both New York and Georgia.
Peter Fitzgerald - Principal, Chief Operating Officer
Peter is Chief Operating Officer and a Principal of The RADCO Companies. He has overall responsibility for developing operating and workout strategy for clients and executing business plan objectives. He also oversees RADCO’s accounting, legal and acquisition executives. Peter has more than 20 years of real estate operating, transaction, and financial management experience with both large institutions and small entrepreneurial organizations. He spent more than 12 years with JMB Realty Corporation and its subsidiary, Xanterra Parks & Resorts, working in portfolio management, finance and accounting areas of the companies. Peter also held senior financial and asset management roles at Met Life, Miles Properties and Green Street Properties. His experience extends to multi-family, condominiums, mixed-use development, master plan communities and subdivisions and operating hotels. In addition, Fitzgerald has extensive experience planning and implementing accounting and retail system conversions, managing large groups, Controllership and CFO experience. Peter is a graduate of Northern Illinois University and is a CPA (inactive).
Kevin Price - Principal, Executive Vice President, Operations
Kevin has more than 12 years of hands-on experience in project and operations management, with a broad range of knowledge in managing complex and large-scale projects. He joined The RADCO Companies in January 2008 as a Senior Project Manager, and immediately went to work on a $300 million failed condominium conversion in Greenwich, CT that included more than $30 million of incomplete construction, liens and lawsuits and a public relations quagmire. Kevin's ability to assess situations, understand the full range of challenges and provide the leadership and vision necessary to chart a new course has proved critical in preserving asset values for RADCO clients. Upon stabilization, Kevin was tasked with heading up RADCO's Los Angeles based office supervising projects including a 1,279-unit failed condominium conversion, a brand-new, 35-story high rise in downtown San Diego and countless consulting assignments from Tacoma, WA to Las Vegas. In his role as Principal/Executive Vice President of Operations, Kevin's primary responsibilities will include the oversight of a national platform of workout specialists and provide strategic direction for future growth.
Prior to joining RADCO, Kevin was employed with Crescent Heights of America, the NAHB 2006 Development Firm of the Year, for 10 years. During his tenure, Kevin project managed 14 separate condominium communities from inception to sellout representing over 4,500 units and $1 billion in end sales. Most recently, he was the Regional Vice President for the Washington, D.C. tri-state region from 2002 through 2007. He started his real estate career as a Loan Processor for The Kennedy Mortgage Group.
Doug Orsagh CFA, CPA
CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Thomas Nolan
MANAGING DIRECTOR
DOUG ORSAGH - CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
Doug directs all aspects of RADCO’s underwriting and project accounting for client-based work as well as our internal accounting. He oversees 12 accountants and analysts directly in addition to project accountants on site. Prior to joining RADCO, Doug worked in the transaction services group at PricewaterhouseCoopers servicing private equity clients. He parachutes teams into M&A candidates, conducts forensic accounting, and formulates business plans for the proposed transactions. Doug earned a B.A. in Economics from Notre Dame and two M.B.A.’s from Georgia State University. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a Certified Public Accountant.
THOMAS NOLAN – MANAGING DIRECTOR
Tom has 25 years of experience in commercial real estate across all product types and capital structures.
Prior to RADCO, Tom was Senior Vice President of Kimco Realty Advisors where he was head of business development and capital raising for its South American and U.S.-based retail platforms. Previously, for 9 years, he was Senior Vice President and Chief Credit Officer for Lehman Brothers Global Commercial Real Estate Group. Tom also worked in GE’s large loan group. Tom earned a B.S. in Economics with a minor in Finance from Connecticut State University.
For an appointment or more information in the following regions, contact:
Atlanta:
NORMAN RADOW
FOUNDER / CEO
770-272-9330
NEW YORK:
THOMAS NOLAN
MANAGING DIRECTOR
917-969-2886
LOS ANGELES:
KEVIN PRICE
PRINCIPAL / EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OPERATIONS
818-456-1131