Crimson Holdings LLC

About Us

Crimson Holdings is a California-based investment firm, specializing in real estate investment and development. Since its inception in 2002, the Crimson Funds have performed exceptionally well through a partnership with Crimson Construction, creating the Crimson Opportunity Funds.

The firm was founded in 2002 with the intent of being an investment vehicle for the capital of its entrepreneurial founder. The firm's success since then has stemmed from 30 years of experience that the firm's partners have in real estate analysis, development and construction.

Crimson is now a full-service investment and development company focused on providing private investors and wealthy individuals with a straightforward way to invest in high-return real estate projects.

Our goal is to preserve and grow the capital of our private investors. We do this by seeking out the most attractive real estate projects that carry a reasonable amount of risk. Then, we work diligently and carefully to make our investors money. Period.

What Makes Us Different

Crimson manages every aspect of its transactions - from acquisition, through development and liquidation - in order to ensure the highest performance of the asset and highest return to investors. Crimson performs its own value-added services, which often include major construction, usage changes, re-tenanting or ground-up construction.

Projects are financed by a combination of personal equity from the Fund Managers, investor capital from the Crimson Funds and outside institutional equity and debt. We use appropriate debt levels on each investment property in order to take advantage of favorable interest rates and increase investor returns.

Crimson's key differentiators include our expertise in sophisticated financial analysis as well as the ability to source exceptional opportunities, irrespective of market conditions. We are a team of investment professionals, construction professionals and leasing/management specialists. We do not rely on outside brokers or consultants to make decisions for us. We do it ourselves.

Additionally, Investment Managers are compensated only though success fees as a carried interest, no hidden fees or commissions. The Crimson Funds are different -- our integrity and incentive structure means our investment managers work harder than anyone else for our investors.

Management

The Crimson BridgePoint team has been working together since 2002. The team brings together sophisticated financial expertise with a no-excuses local operating team that knows the neighboring landscape well. No member of the team has ever had a negative return on an investment.

Pamela Day is a Managing Member for Crimson Fund Advisors, LLC and a founder of Crimson Holdings, a real estate development and investment firm. She has managed the firm's investments and investment strategy since its inception in 2002. Crimson has successfully raised three over-subscribed, closed-end funds whose average returns net of all fees since inception are 30%. Crimson has never had a negative return on a project.

Ms. Day built a background in real estate and finance as an investment banker with several top-tier Wall Street firms where she performed valuation and underwriting work for REITs and homebuilders during the REIT boom of the early 1990's. As a Senior Associate at BancBoston Robertson Stephens, she specialized in valuation work for private REIT portfolio acquisitions, and at UBS PaineWebber, she valued and took public some of the largest REITs in existence today. During this period, Ms. Day capitalized billions of dollars of public and private real estate transactions and underwrote over 30 new equity issues for REITs.

Ms. Day led a team within the Corporate Representation group at Jones Lang LaSalle where she analyzed and negotiated lease agreements and consulted to large organizations on their real estate requirements. Her experience at JLL included assignments dealing with business location advisory, location consolidations, evaluation of long term financing options, and real estate acquisitions and dispositions.

Previously, Ms. Day founded and served as CEO and Chairman of Blazent Corp, an enterprise software company backed by such top-tier investors as Benchmark Capital and Bain Capital. Blazent now has offices in the Bay Area, Denver, Dallas, Minneapolis, Boston and New York. During her tenure as CEO, Ms. Day was awarded the Trailblazer Award by the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs as one of the only female founders able to raise significant funds during 2001-2002. Since 1999, Ms. Day has raised over $140 MM in private equity funds.

Ms. Day holds a BA in Economics from The University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is SEC series 7 and 63 licensed and is a licensed California Real Estate Broker. She has been a featured business commentator on NBC's Today Show, CNBC's Power Lunch, ABC's The View, and Fox News.

John W. Conomos, is a Managing Member for Crimson Fund Advisors, LLC and founder of Crimson Holdings, a real estate development and investment firm. Mr. Conomos has a strong background in construction management, complex deal structuring, sourcing and procurement. Mr. Conomos has managed the firm's strategy deployment since its inception in 2002 as well as numerous independent investments since 1999.

Through his seven years of construction work Mr. Conomos has successfully assembled a strong team of renovation and construction specialists in every specialization. The construction team that Mr. Conomos brings to the project is extremely talented, well-regarded and entrepreneurial.

Mr. Conomos has extensive experience as a project manager for large residential single and multi-family projects, coordinating with project professionals on all issues, managing the construction schedule and budget, and overseeing the overall execution and quality of a large project. He also has experience supervising all on-site construction, including scheduling subcontractors, troubleshooting and documenting changes in scope and discrepancies between architectural drawings and the field, inspecting all work during construction to ensure compliance with plans and specifications, implementing and monitoring job site safety practices, analyzing and implementing job site protection, and directly supervising in house employees and subcontractors.

Mr. Conomos has been a licensed contractor for the last seven years and has completed over twenty major residential construction projects, including three multi family developments, in the Bay Area.

Mr. Conomos began his career at Andersen Consulting as a Business Process Consultant, working on projects for Fortune 500 companies within the materials management practice. His work included strategic sourcing and best practices applications in order to gain efficiencies in materials management.

Mr. Conomos holds a B.S. in Economics and a B.A. in German from Santa Clara University. He holds a B-Class Contractor License (#850101) with the State of California, which allows him to supervise the construction of any type of structure.