IRON BRIDGE CAPITAL TEAM
Iron Bridge has operations in multiple locations operating 24-hours a day, seven-days a week employing more than 60 full-time and part-time employees across its various subsidiaries and operating companies in the U.S. and abroad. Iron Bridge and its affiliate companies feature the expertise of multiple engineers, M.B.A.s, and seasoned management personnel. Iron Bridge emphasizes continuing education for its employees to enhance the skill sets of its staff as well as to help the leadership team keep abreast of an ever-changing business landscape. In addition to its employees, Iron Bridge typically partners with key individuals or companies in the advancement of ongoing projects or new ventures. The bios of the two original Iron Bridge Capital founders are included below:
RICK INMAN - FOUNDER
Prior to founding Iron Bridge, Mr. Inman served as President of Tucker Federal Bank for 11 years. In that role, Mr. Inman grew the bank from $250 million to $1.2 billion in total assets, managed more than 300 employees, and in 1997, founded Eagle Bancshares Capital Group as a subsidiary investment group of the bank. Eagle Bancshares invested over $30 million in preferred equity transactions and earned a cumulative annual return of 29.95 percent, primarily in commercial real estate transactions in the Southeast, that provided a proof of concept for Iron Bridge’s initial business plan. At Tucker Federal, Mr. Inman also acquired distressed loans from the Resolution Trust Corporation and successfully managed many of the defaulting loans he inherited at the onset of his tenure as President. Through his leadership, Tucker Federal was well-positioned for a lucrative buy-out by RBC Centura. Upon aligning the sale of the bank in 2001, Inman left Tucker Federal to join forces with Mr. Hand to start Iron Bridge Capital Partners.
Mr. Inman began his career with Citibank in New York in the workout department and has over 25 years of lending, workout and investment experience. Before joining Tucker Federal, Mr. Inman acquired and sold two food companies. He received an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.S. in Economics from Georgia Tech.
JOHN R. HAND - FOUNDER
Prior to founding Iron Bridge, Mr. Hand worked in acquisitions
for Westbrook Partners in New York, a $6 billion real estate
opportunity fund. While at Westbrook, Mr. Hand underwrote,
structured, and executed acquisitions of more than $1 billion
for Funds II and III across all commercial property types,
with concentrations in resort development, including high-end
fractional resort development as well as multi-family development,
multi-state and international office portfolios, and master-planned
residential communities. Most of these transactions were
focused in the Eastern U.S. and Europe, while the West Coast
Office of Westbrook focused on the Western U.S. and Asia
acquisitions.
Mr. Hand began his career at King & Spalding in Atlanta.
As a commercial real estate attorney, he executed more than
100 real estate transactions ranging in size from $2 million
to over $1 billion for nationally-focused institutional real
estate clients. Mr. Hand received his J.D./M.B.A. from Vanderbilt
in 1995, where he served on the Vanderbilt Law Review. He
also received his B.S. in Business Administration from the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating with
distinction.
