Team Bios

Rick Inman - Prior to founding Iron Bridge, served as President of Tucker Federal Bank for eleven years. In that role, Mr. Inman grew the bank from $250 million to $1.2 billion in total assets and in 1997 he founded Eagle Bancshares Capital Group, invested over $30 million in preferred equity transactions earned a return of 29.95% on the $13 million of loans exited. At Tucker Federal Mr. Inman also acquired distressed loans from the RTC and managed many of the defaulting loans he inherited at the outset of his tenure as President. The bank was subsequently sold to RBC Centura.

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, he acquired and sold two food companies. He received an M.B.A. from Stanford and a B.S. from Georgia Tech.

John Hand - Prior to founding Iron Bridge, Mr. Hand executed acquisitions in the U.S. and abroad for Westbrook Partners, managers of real estate opportunity funds exceeding $6 billion headquartered in New York. While at Westbrook, Mr. Hand executed over $1 billion of real estate acquisitions on behalf of the funds II and III including structuring, negotiations, due diligence and financial underwriting. Property types included the acquisition of large multiple-property portfolios, destination resort developments, multifamily development projects and master-planned community developments primarily in the Southeast and south Florida.

Mr. Hand began his career at King & Spalding in Atlanta where as an attorney, he executed over 100 real estate transactions for institutional real estate clients. Mr. Hand received his J.D./M.B.A. from Vanderbilt and a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.