Stephen is a Founding Principal of Urban Alfandre and brings over 16 years of real estate acquisition, development, finance, and operational experience to the company. Recently he led the acquisition and development efforts for the Toll Brothers City Living office in Washington DC where he sourced all types of urban residential deals in multiple submarkets. Prior to Toll Brothers, Stephen worked with the Bozzuto Group where he managed multiple infill residential developments. He also spent time working in various real estate consulting and development roles in Salt Lake City prior to moving back east.

Stephen received an MBA in real estate and entrepreneurship from Georgetown University and a bachelors degree in Urban Planning from Brigham Young University. He has served as a panelist on multiple DC-area real estate expert panels - including three times with Bisnow - and has also been featured in real estate articles in the Washington Post, Washington Business Journal, and Wall Street Journal.

Stephen grew up in the Washington DC area and now lives in the greater Salt Lake City area with his wife and five children.

Brandon is a Salt Lake City native with over 20 years of national entrepreneurial and institutional investment experience. After garnering institutional experience and relationships at top consulting and private equity investment firms in Boston, San Francisco, and Dallas, Brandon relocated back to Utah to focus on bringing new and exciting projects to the state he is proud to call home.

Prior to founding Blaser Ventures (as BCG Holdings) in 2018, Brandon was a partner at Dallas-based real estate private equity fund, Thackeray Partners. He oversaw and directed investment strategy and asset management decisions across Thackeray’s ~$4.3B of multi-family, industrial, retail, and office assets under management as a member of its investment committee and partner in the firm. As primary lead on Thackeray’s industrial investment and development platform, Brandon oversaw acquisitions, development, and asset management of Thackeray’s 16 million square foot portfolio, and directly sourced over $400 million in industrial assets.

Brandon is a graduate of Brigham Young University and received an M.B.A. with Honors from Harvard Business School. He actively serves in civic and community efforts; is a guest lecturer at BYU in their Finance and Real Estate program; serves on the Investment Committee for Whitman-Peterson’s industrial investment platform; and is active in the Urban Land Institute where he serves as Vice Chairman of the Urban Land Institute’s National Small Scale Development Council leadership team.

Brandon and his wife, Liz, and 6 kids are glad to be “back home.”