June 8, 2007
SERVANT INVESTMENTS EXPANDS RESTAURANT PRESENCE WITH NEW
HIRE
(ORLANDO, FL) June 8, 2007 – Servant Investments, LLC
is expanding its restaurant presence with the hiring of Sean
Hickham as the firm’s Vice President of Net Lease Investments.
In this role,
Sean is responsible for originating transactions in various
asset classes including restaurant, single tenant retail, and
others. Based out of the company’s headquarters in Orlando,
Florida, Sean has responsibility for originations and relationship
management for the eastern half of the country. He provides
strategic capital solutions for customers looking to utilize
net lease funding for acquisitions, recapitalizations, estate
planning, site remodeling and new site development.
Sean brings over 15 years of finance and management experience,
most recently with General Electric Capital Solutions, where
he served as Vice President responsible for Mid Cap Markets
in the south east office. Prior to GE, he was the Vice President
of Sales and Marketing for Trustreet Properties Inc., (NYSE
– TSY) where he was responsible for bringing the resources
of Trustreet to clients throughout the country. Sean has also
served in sales and management roles at organizations such
as Arthur Andersen, and Maritz, Inc. Sean earned a degree
in business administration from The University of Missouri,
with an emphasis in finance and economics.
Servant Investments is a private equity real estate investment
firm, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, offering a powerful
combination of strategic capital solutions to developers and
owner operators on a national basis. Founders Rick Steinberger
and Robb Chapin bring a combined 35+ years of real estate
investment experience and deliver new and creative capital
efficiencies to a wide variety of asset classes and development
types, ranging in total project size from $1 million to over
$150 million.
Recently, Servant completed a $17 million, sale leaseback
transaction to acquire Damon's Grill casual dining restaurants
from Damon's Restaurants of America, Inc. The stores are located
in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Maryland. This acquisition comprises
one of the final pieces of the nation-wide revamping of the
Damon's brand and the recapitalization of their corporate
balance sheet. Another recent closing for the firm was a $20M
sale leaseback transaction to Emerald Foods as a part of a
recapitalization of their corporate balance sheet. Emerald
Foods is a large Wendy’s franchisee with restaurants
primarily in the Dallas and Houston markets.
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