Rick Simmons / Managing Director, Nevada
Rick as Managing Director of Paladins’ Las Vegas operations draws on his extensive experience in developing real estate in southern Nevada since 1996. Through these years of experience, he has built strong working relationships with local government staff, elected officials and numerous long-term business relationships. Rick’s proven track record in executive leadership combined with his local market knowledge allows Paladin to provide its Las Vegas clients with a truly exceptional level of insight, innovation and service.
Rick was recently the President of Sage Community Group’s Nevada Division. Sage is a full service community development company with several large institutional financial partners. Prior to Sage, Rick was one of the founding development partners in the Deerfoot Meadows Power Center in Calgary, Alberta. Acquisition and Development financing was secured from private equity and the Mall portion of the project was sold in 2008 to Ivanhoe Cambridge. He also founded and was the President of ESE Land Corp which specialized in the acquisition and development of high yield real estate projects. ESE had acquired six projects and had established a track record for exceeding investor return expectations when it was sold to Warburg Pincus in 1999.
Rick started his career in financial audit division of Big Five public accounting firm Arthur Andersen & Co. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Southern California.