Our Team

200 Years of Experience

GLC has 20+ professionals on our team and seven principals with over 200 years of experience that have closed more than $7 billion of commercial real estate investment across all property types, geographies, capital structures, and economic cycles.

Ryan Rans

Managing Partner

About Ryan:

Ryan serves as Managing Partner and co-founder of Great Lakes Capital. Ryan leads the firm’s strategic direction and investment focus. In addition to leveraging his two decades of development experience, he has worked to position the firm to capitalize on opportunities in both debt and equity across market segments and cycles. Combining real estate and private equity, he has guided GLC through investments in excess of $1 billion in assets. Ryan graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a BBA in finance.

Brad Toothaker

Managing Partner

About Brad:

Serving as Managing Partner, Brad leads the firm with 20 years of real estate transaction and management experience. Throughout his tenure, he has gained an insightful and broad-based view of industry dynamics that allows him to provide his clients with valuable awareness of market trends and new opportunities in commercial real estate. Since co-founding GLC in 2005, he has contributed to the development of nearly 2 million square feet across almost all commercial property types. Brad graduated from UCLA with a BS in History and Business Administration.

Our Team

Tracey Vallejo

Chief Financial Officer

Liz Brier

Chief of Staff

Accounting

Megan Onken

Controller

Mary Schulz

Controller, GLC Affordable

Erika Trujillo

Senior Accountant

Luke Nondorf

Senior Accounting Specialist

Steffan Reed

Senior Accountant

Administrative

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Alex Wilkins

Executive Coordinator

Randi Fronek

Administrative Coordinator

Asset management

Kim Crouch

Director of Asset Management

Wendy Walton

Senior Asset Manager

Affordable

Gary Vizioli

COO, GLC Affordable

Nick Goede

Development Director, GLC Affordable

Karl Niederer

Development Director, GLC Affordable

Tim Cohn

Development Associate

Development

Jeff Smoke

Managing Director & Principal

David Arnold

Managing Director & Principal

Clay Scheetz

Managing Director & Principal

Kristen Sawdon

Managing Director & Principal

Dustin Louderback

Director of Hotel Design & Construction

Development Analysts

Isaac Hall

Development Associate

Chelsea Cox

Director of Development Finance

Lucas Strickler

Development Associate