Terrence Maiden

A passion for business best describes Terrence Maiden. With over a decade of experience in the industry, Terrence has poured his energy, creativity and expertise into the development/project leasing of over two-million square feet of retail. As Executive Vice President of Corinth Properties, he is at the forefront of implementing the growth strategy for the company, as a real estate owner and developer. Terrence Maiden also serves as Managing Partner at The Nediam Company, a privately held capital venture/asset holdings firm based in Dallas.

Terrence Maiden began his real estate career with The Woodmont Company, spending several years project leasing and developing projects throughout Texas, New Mexico, Louisiana, and North Dakota. He subsequently worked within corporate real estate at two well recognized companies, Panda Restaurant Group (Panda Express) and Panera, LLC (Panera Bread/Paradise Bakery). During Terrence’s three-year tenure with Panda, he was the top producer, accounting for over 50 restaurant openings. Terrence Maiden was also the recipient for the 2004 Panda IMPACT Award, 2004 Most Store Openings Award, and 2005 Most Store Openings Award. At Panera Bread, Terrence served as the Director of Real Estate, responsible for managing Panera’s real estate development efforts and opening over 95 company/franchise cafes for the central United States, including 11 states.

Terrence Maiden received a degree from Texas Christian University, where he and his identical twin brother were standout football players for the Horned Frogs. He is actively involved in several professional and civic organizations in Dallas and Fort Worth, including Mayor Star Council, Coalition of African American Professionals and Organizations (Co-Chair), Real Estate Council (Board of Directors), Urban Land Institute, Texas Christian University National Board (Vice President – National Alumni Board), Texas Christian University Legacy Committee, International Council of Shopping Centers, Dallas Black Dance Theater (Board Member), and many more. In 2005, Terrence Maiden co-founded Two-Wins Foundation with twin brother Tim. Two-Wins Foundations is a non-profit organization that invests thousands of dollars within inner communities through educational and community revitalization programs.

Terrence Maiden was named to the distinguish list of D CEO Power Broker for four consecutive years (D Magazine - 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015). In addition, Terrence was awarded “Minority Business Leader of the Year” (Dallas Business Journal-2009), a finalist for “2011 One Man Dallas”, Dallas top executive under the age of forty (Dallas Business Journal- 2013), Tomorrow’s Leader – Texas (Real Estate Forum Magazine - 2014) . In 2014 he was the recipient of the Thomas L. Houston Award for his community service. Terrence is also a featured writer for D Magazine’s CEO Real Estate Daily.

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Frank Mihalopoulos

With over 35 years of experience in commercial real estate sales, leasing, investing and development, Frank Mihalopoulos is an industry veteran. He has been involved with properties throughout the country, aggregating in size to millions of square feet, but has focused primarily on the Southwest and has developed special expertise in the commercial retail sector. Guided by a preference for developing properties that generate benefits for the surrounding community and exhibit stewardship of the environment, his projects have earned national and local awards and recognition within the commercial real estate industry, by the Urban Land Institute and the NAIOP among others, and within the communities where they have been located, including Dallas, TX, McKinney, TX, Cedar Hill, TX and Nashville, TN. The projects have also been recognized and lauded in numerous publications, including the Dallas Business Journal, The City Paper (Nashville) and the Dallas Morning News. Separate from his role as a partner in ATR Corinth Partners, Mr. Mihalopoulos is also the owner of Corinth Properties, a company engaged in real estate sales, development and investment. ATR Corinth Partners is the joint venture partnership he formed with Tony Ruggeri in 2006 (renamed and expanded in 2012) as a vehicle for executing major redevelopment projects.

Drawing on the strength of his lease brokerage roots, as well as his extensive contacts and relationships in the business, Mr. Mihalopoulos has over the years compiled an impressive list of developments in which he has been a key participant. Though he has focused on retail projects, the types of developments undertaken have varied widely. In retail, the emphasis has been on mixed commercial centers, such as the 600,000 SF Cedar Hill Village (Cedar Hill, TX) and the 200,000 Gateway Center (College Station, TX), both ground-up developments. In offices, projects have included the 16,000 SF building at 4645 N. Central Expy in Dallas, TX, a redevelopment; and in mixed-use, he has completed the 12,000 SF Baylor Healthcare Center in Cedar Hill, TX, among other projects. In the industrial segment, he participated in development of the 900-acre Pinnacle Park Industrial Park in Dallas, TX; and in the grocery segment he has worked extensively with Albertson’s, Kroger and Walmart to co-develop stores. One of his most recent developments, One Hundred Oaks, was a highly successful renovation of an existing mall into a mixed-use property, with Vanderbilt University Medical Center occupying 450,000 SF for clinics and the remaining remodeled 430,000 SF continuing as retail space.

Active in civic and community affairs, Mr. Mihalopoulos is a current board member of the Real Estate Council of Dallas, the Federal Reserve of Dallas Advisory Council and Shelter Ministries of Dallas. He previously served on the boards of Goodwill Industries, St. Mark’s School of Texas, the City of Dallas Cedars Area TIFF, Urban Rehab Standards, and Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church. At the latter, he chaired the building committee overseeing the construction of the Church’s new facilities. Frank is a member of the North Texas Commercial Association of Realtors and the ICSC (International Council of Shopping Centers). He earned his bachelor’s in Business Administration from SMU in 1977. Married to his wife Maryann for the past 18 years, Frank is the father of three children. In the little free time that he has, he enjoys hiking, skiing, boating and attending various sporting events.

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Lawrence C. Heller

In a diverse financial services career spanning more than three decades, Larry Heller has served as a senior advisor to corporate and individual clients around the world, as CEO of a start-up bank and as CFO of a medium-sized university.

At J. P.Morgan on Wall Street, where he was recruited directly out of business school and worked ten years, he developed in-depth knowledge of the international capital markets. Key assignments included managing major client relationships with European multinationals and within the mutual fund industry, leading a corporate finance office in Korea and running the bank’s training program. At Citigroup, Mr. Heller spent several years advising the high net worth clients of Citibank’s Private Bank, with an emphasis on portfolio management, asset allocation strategy and coverage of the full spectrum of asset classes, including real estate. For most of the past twelve years, he has worked in the investment management world, including three years as a member of the senior team that opened and led the Dallas Office of Bessemer Trust, which was brought to profitability more quickly than any other new office in Bessemer’s history. During his tenure at Bessemer, he was voted one of 17 “best wealth managers” in Dallas by D Magazine. Over the years, Mr. Heller has guided and advised hundreds of individual, family and corporate clients toward sound financing and investment decisions. He joined ATR Corinth Partners in 2012 to focus on enhancing the partnership’s funding of its long-term growth.

For several years until 1997, when he relocated from New York to Dallas, Mr. Heller was an adjunct instructor at NYU, co-teaching a course in entrepreneurship and new venture management. Putting his teaching into practice, he served in the late 1990s as President and CEO of a start-up national retail bank based in Dallas. His involvement in the Dallas community over the years has included memberships and board roles in several organizations, among them the Dallas Council on World Affairs, the Rotary Club of Park Cities, the French-American Chamber of Commerce, the YMCA (as a soccer and basketball coach), the Plan Fund and Friends of the Dallas Public Library. In addition to community service in Dallas, Mr. Heller served four years as a Foreign Affairs Officer in the U.S. government early in his professional life and, more recently, spent two years leading the financial turnaround of a struggling 10,000-student university as its CFO.

Larry was educated at the University of Kansas, where he earned a BA in European and Middle Eastern History, and at Yale University, where he received his MBA in Finance and Organizational Behavior. He and his wife Paula have been married 29 years and have three grown children, two of whom graduated from Greenhill School in Dallas. He is an enthusiastic golfer and enjoys hiking and road cycling in the mountains.

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Anthony T. Ruggeri

Anthony T. (Tony) Ruggeri entered the commercial real estate market in 1997, after a successful business career in the high technology and consumer electronics industries. Between 1997 and 2012, he developed, owned and managed over 2.0 million square feet of commercial real estate (CRE) property, valued in excess of $200 million, throughout the country. Ruggeri’s past and present holdings include retail power and community grocery-anchored centers, mixed-use properties and medical office projects. Ruggeri’s projects have earned national and local awards and recognition from the CRE industry, business publications and community organizations, including the Urban Land Institute, the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties, and the City of Nashville, TN. One of his more noteworthy developments, completed and sold in 2012, was the highly successful renovation and conversion of One Hundred Oaks Plaza from a mall into a mixed-use property, with Vanderbilt University Medical Center occupying 450,000 SF for its clinics and the remaining remodeled 430,000 SF continuing as retail space.

Mr. Ruggeri joined the National Marketing Department of US Pioneer Electronics directly upon graduation from college. He went on to enjoy a successful career in the consumer electronics and computer industry over the next 20 years. In 1982, Mr. Ruggeri founded Vanguard Sales, Inc., a marketing and sales company representing major consumer electronics and computer companies, including Intel, Samsung and Sanyo. In 1986, he formed HiTex Sales, Inc. to service the specialized vertical integration market in the OEM computer industry, working with Dell Computer, Compaq Computer and Tandy Corporation. Mr. Ruggeri sold both companies in 1995. He continued to act as a consultant and principal for computer industry, ski industry and video production clients for the next three years. In 1999, Mr. Ruggeri transitioned ATR & Associates, Inc., which had been formed in 1981 as a holding company, into a real estate management and investment company, formalizing and consolidating his professional focus on retail CRE. Since 2006, the vehicle he and his partner Frank Mihalopoulos have used for major development projects has been M&R Investors, whose name was changed in late 2012 to ATR Corinth Partners to reflect expansion of the partnership.

Prior to concentrating on retail CRE development, Mr. Ruggeri served on the Retail Advisory Councils of several software and electronics companies, including Intel and Sanyo, helping to develop programs for them to expand their retail markets. He was Chairman for the Scott Murray Tennis Tournament, benefitting the American Cancer Society, and Co-Chairman for the St. Marks School of Texas Annual Gala. Tony is a member of the Board and First VP of the Dallas Council of St. Vincent de Paul, and a member of the Board of St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store. He earned a BA in History from Princeton in 1976. Married to his wife Carol for the past 34 years and the father of two grown children, he is an avid soccer player, golfer and doubles tennis player.

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