CARLTON ARMS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer for the Mahaffey Apartment Company
Austin serves as Chief Financial Officer for the Mahaffey Apartment Company (Mahaffey). Within Mahaffey, Austin is responsible for financial reporting, management of the company's debt portfolio, overseeing the underwriting and coordination of the capital stack for new development opportunities, performing asset management duties across the portfolio, and other strategic initiatives to support strong financial performance and responsible growth.
Prior to joining Mahaffey in 2018, Austin was the Vice President of Finance at Grubb Properties - a Charlotte, NC-based private equity real estate investment firm. Additionally, Austin has worked in commercial real estate valuation and advisory at the Hopkins-McElhannon Group, a boutique real estate appraisal and consultancy firm in Charlotte, NC, and in investment services at Schwartz & Co, an investment advisory firm in Bloomfield Hills, MI. Austin received his B.A. in Financial Economics from the University of Detroit Mercy. During his academic career, Austin was a member of the University of Detroit Mercy Economics Club, the Mises Institute, and the Golden Key International Honor Society.
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Current Active
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- Active Member of the Board of Directors
Job Titles:
- Vice President, Current Active
Now based in the St. Petersburg office, Tom is involved in supervising management and operations.
A native of St. Petersburg, Florida and educated in local schools, Richard earned his BA degree from the University of The South in 1963 and his Juris Doctor degree from the College of Law at the University of Florida in 1966. He has practiced law in St. Petersburg since 1966 and currently am a sole practitioner. In 2013, Richard earned a Master of Divinity degree from Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA and was ordained an Episcopal Priest in 2017. In addition to practicing law, he is an assistant priest at St. Vincent's Episcopal Church. Richard has represented The Mahaffey Apartment Company, its various entities and the Mahaffey family for the past 40 years.
Job Titles:
- Chief Operating Officer for Mahaffey Apartment Company
As Chief Operating Officer for Mahaffey Apartment Company, Stephanie provides strategic and operational leadership to the organization. She brings over a decade of multifamily and mixed use expertise with her and has extensive experience in property management, operational efficiency, property repositioning, staff development, historic redevelopment, and new construction in both urban and suburban markets.
Stephanie joined Mahaffey Apartment Company from City Club Apartments where she last held the role of Assistant Vice President of Operations with portfolio responsibilities of twenty-two assets across seven states and played a key role in the company's growth and development. Prior to that, she held Regional Director roles for Eureka Multifamily Group and Pennrose Management Company where she was directly responsible for policy and procedure implementation, employee engagement, and financial performance of multimillion-dollar portfolios. Stephanie received her BS in Marketing and her BS in Business Administration and Management with a concentration in Accounting from La Roche University in Pittsburgh, PA.
After graduating from the University of Tennessee in 1974, Suzanne spent two years as an Area Manager for a REIT based in La Jolla, CA. Her postings included Knoxville, TN, Raleigh, NC and Louisville, KY.
In 1976, she was hired as the Executive Director of West Lake Arms, a 1381 unit apartment community owned by the Mahaffey Company in Indianapolis. She later also took on the property supervision of Lake Castleton Arms, a 1261 unit Mahaffey community in Indianapolis.
In 1986, Suzanne moved to FL to work with Thomas Mahaffey, Jim Mahaffey and Mark Mahaffey in the daily operations of their Florida properties as the Executive VP of The Mahaffey Apartment Company.
After 43 years with the Mahaffeys as an employee and partner, Suzanne retired from her daily duties in January 2020. She now serves on the Board of Directors.
Following over 15 years as an executive with a Fortune 500 financial services company, Ward Curtis has spent the second half of his career as a founder, director and investor in numerous companies in the investment management, trust and banking industries. He is also a Managing Member of multiple private equity partnerships. He currently serves as Chairman of Sabal Trust Company and as a director of TMI Trust Company. Ward received his BSBA and MBA from the University of Central Florida and is a graduate of the Tuck Executive Program at Dartmouth College.
Job Titles:
- President, Current Active