817-291-5738
2501 Parkview Drive, Suite 418
Fort Worth, TX 76102
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Linda G. Votaw Linda was born in San Antonio, Texas and raised in Houston, Texas. She attended the University of Texas as a sociology major when she discovered her strongest skills were in people interaction. Her two proudest accomplishments are her children.Her oldest son is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Washington and her daughter is a recent graduate of the University of California at Davis. Linda spent a number of years learning to deal with chicken pox and executives at the same time and managed to successfully deal with both. Her greatest love is marketing and it is not unusual for Linda to show up in costume to make a point. She has also been known to fry chicken for her team in times of crisis. She also has affection for older people, which helped in the founding of a successful assisted living business. From the academic community to the engineering profession and ultimately to real estate, Linda embraced a career path of accomplishments in a variety of fields. Along with the demanding role of motherhood, she undertook a wide variety of positions that led to many opportunities for business advancement. Linda has developed unique interpersonal skills as a result of her diverse background: • She developed a strong ability to unite people in eclectic environments and create harmony in the workplace. • Her genuine concern for both clients and employees allows her to achieve goals for the group rather than for personal gain. • Her remarkable ability to interpret and assess situations and people quickly allows her to react swiftly and sensibly. Highlights of Linda’s professional accomplishments come from a wide variety of fields: • While working in the academic field, she effectively assisted forty professors in a government environment, enabling them to successfully perform their research while adhering to strict government policies. • She controlled operations of an engineering firm through six division managers over a period of four years through the downturn of the oil business. Linda assumed the multiple roles of office manager for their 35,000 square foot facility, became the accounting liaison to the home office, and assumed the role of personnel director as well. She assumed this decision-making authority in a highly disorganized environment and successfully allowed the firm to continue its operations. • Beginning her career in real estate at a time when the entire industry was struggling, her perseverance and tenacity allowed her to defy the market and fill her buildings to over 90%. She became quite adept at dealing with the unique challenges of working directly for an entrepreneur (owner/operator). Upon the addition of an extremely organized vice president, she was able to channel her sometimes chaotic energies in order to further strengthen her sales and negotiating skills and expand her capabilities. As the quantity of her properties increased, she continued to exceed 90% occupancies with strong creditworthy tenants in place. • Linda’s people skills allowed her to participate in the successful award of a 120,000 square foot build-to-suit office building. Her ability to read people and situations kept all parties working harmoniously through what is commonly an adversarial negotiation. • Through the Clear Lake Economic Development Foundation, she was asked, and happily agreed, to participate in a grass roots lobbying effort to support the Space Station in Washington, D.C. Again, her ability to coordinate differing personalities and work with people were invaluable while negotiating with Senators and Congressmen. Once back in Houston, she conducted a handwritten campaign to further support the Space Station and was delighted to hear that the vote passed. • Linda has been an active member of the Greenspoint Chamber of Commerce and has served in various capacities, such as a member of the Economic Development Committee and Chairperson of the Ambassador Committee. • Many hours of research into assisted living helped determine market opportunities for an assisted living expansion program. • In 2005, she expanded her real estate career into residential sales in arural community outside Fort Worth. She has successfully participated in the sale of thirty-one homes and lots, helping to create a new community. • Linda currently handles the marketing for ten projects for Finley Real Estate. She has ownership interests in five of those developments and has helped in the repositioning of those in the real estate market. She currently serves on the marketing committee for Downtown Fort Worth, Inc. hoping to expand the downtown image of this great city. In conclusion, Linda’s career has provided a broad-based exposure to the social science of business and her well-developed interpersonal skills have allowed her to be extremely successful in all her endeavors. She is currently the President of the Network for Executive Women, a group founded 25 years ago to give women the opportunity to improve both personally and professionally. |
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Steve L. Nichols Mr. Nichols was born in Wichita, Kansas and raised in Bethany, Oklahoma, a suburb of Oklahoma City. He learned to work at a young age raising wheat and cattle on the family farm. In junior high school he was active in the school’s safety program as a member of the Kiwanis Junior Police where he obtained the rank of Captain. During high school he was active in Boy Scouts where he was certified as an Eagle Scout and served as Junior Assistant Scoutmaster for his troop. Additionally, he won the William T. Hornaday Award for excellence in natural resource conservation activities at a time when only five such awards had ever been awarded to members of his council. He was elected to the First Senate at the American Legion Boys State Convention and was typically on the Governor’s Honor Roll for his scholastic achievement. He obtained a Bachelor of Science Degree at Oklahoma State University where his peers elected him Chapter Forester of Xi Sigma Pi. Continuing his studies at Wake Forest University in the Babcock Graduate School of Management, he earned a Master of Business Administration with Distinction. He graduated at the top of his class and was designated a Babcock Scholar in recognition of his classroom leadership and academic performance. He left home the day after graduating from high school and went to work for the U.S. Forest Service in Creede, Colorado. He has been a farmhand, appliance repairman, forester, lumberjack, security guard, auto mechanic, oil field truck driver, apartment maintenance man, building manager, leasing agent, corporate officer for a development company, and owner of his own firm. Mr. Nichols is a licensed real estate broker in Texas and Colorado (in-active). His recreational activities include elk hunting, shooting sporting clays and reading Peter Capstick short stories. He is married and has two children. Through his 24+ years in the real estate industry, he has leased and/or managed all types of real estate including apartments, single family homes, shopping centers, and commercial office buildings in both an ownership and a fee management environment. Additionally, he has been responsible for development efforts that have produced over $80 mil worth of new development projects. |
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