OUT OF THE BOX VENTURES - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Architect
- Partner at Lionheart Capital
- PARTNER, ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
Allison Greenfield is a Partner at Lionheart Capital and has worked in the real estate industry for over 20 years.
Beginning her career as a luxury residential sales broker with the Manhattan-based Corcoran Group, Ms. Greenfield co-founded Oz Holdings, LLC with Ophir Sternberg in 1995. At Oz, she worked to realize the full potential of undervalued assets through renovation, construction and unique marketing campaigns.
Job Titles:
- DIRECTOR of RETAIL OPERATIONS
Ashley Thornburg is the Director of Retail Operations for Out of the Box Ventures. Thornburg has over 14 years of retail experience serving clients including Equity One, Regency Centers, and First Washington, among others, on the third-party leasing of their shopping centers. She currently serves on the ICSC South Florida Idea Exchange Committee and is a former Miami-Dade ICSC NextGen Chair and Broward ICSC committee member.
Thornburg has been awarded for her excellence in retail leasing and received the 2010, 2011, and 2016 CoStar Power Broker Awards. Thornburg spearheaded the leasing of Publix Super Markets' portfolio of 17 South Florida owned centers -among other third-party assignments in Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and Martin counties as the South Florida office for Orlando-based Crossman & Company.
Thornburg is an honors graduate of the University of Florida and received her MBA with honors from the Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.
Colin Carby is the Director of Development for Out of the Box Ventures.
Carby has 20 years of real estate experience developing large scale mixed-use, hospitality, residential, retail and commercial projects in North America, Middle East, Asia, and the Caribbean markets.
Since 2002, Carby has represented entities, such as LVMH, Dubai World, Capital Partners, Midtown Miami, City of Miami, and Bank of America, leading global acquisitions, pre-development due diligence, master planning, and full cycle development management initiatives, which yielded several million square feet of lifestyle communities.
In 2020, Colin joined Lionheart Capital to redevelop several large scaled assets, such as Lakeside Mall in Michigan, which is a 94-acre master planned initiative.
Mr. Carby received his B.A in real estate development at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA.
Job Titles:
- CHIEF LEGAL OFFICER
- Chief Legal Officer for Lionheart Capital
Jessica is Chief Legal Officer for Lionheart Capital, LLC and its affiliated companies. Involved in 100s of closings related to real estate acquisitions and divestitures. She is a highly-skilled attorney with nearly 30 years of high-level local, national and international experience and expertise.
Jessica spent more than half of her legal career at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, one the nation's most prestigious law firms, before serving as Vice President for a subsidiary of Wells Fargo and then returning to the full-time practice of law at Meland, Russin & Budwick. She has a breadth and depth of experience and knowledge in a myriad of legal disciplines and is responsible for handling or overseeing all legal matters within the Lionheart group of companies.
Originally from Pennsylvania, Jessica holds a Bachelor's Degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, a Bachelor's Degree in Accounting from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- FOUNDER
- Founder and CEO of Lionheart Capital
Ophir Sternberg is the Founder and CEO of Lionheart Capital. He has over 28-years of experience investing in all segments of the real estate industry, including land acquisitions, luxury residential, hospitality, commercial and retail.
Consistently interested in opportunistic investing, the early part of Sternberg's career was spent in New York City where he focused on assembling, acquiring and developing properties in emerging neighborhoods. By identifying assets with unrealized potential and combining innovative partnerships with intricate financing structures to realize above average returns, the hallmark of Sternberg's investing style was cultivated.
In 2010, Sternberg shifted his principal focus to South Florida. Again, taking the contrarian view, he led Lionheart Capital in the acquisition of several trophy luxury residential development sites at deeply discounted valuations. Dedicated to working with only best-in-class partners, Lionheart Capital has since completed numerous transactions including the development of two Ritz-Carlton projects.
In 2017, Sternberg founded Out of the Box Ventures, a Lionheart Capital subsidiary, to acquire and reposition distressed retail properties nationally. With over 28 properties in 17 states, the company currently owns in excess of 5,500,000 SF of big boxes, shopping centers and enclosed regional mall properties with plans to improve and expand upon these acquisitions.
Experienced public company C-suite executive and investment banking professional with more than 25 years working in and for a variety of public and private companies.
Paul has also acted as board member at several emerging growth companies, primarily in the energy, technology and infrastructure sectors. Recent experience included acting as Chief Financial Officer at dual-listed (Canada/Sweden) solar energy development company. Here Paul was responsible for managing all finance functions, including financial reporting, treasury & cash management, corporate finance, regulatory/SEC compliance matters and investor relations. While at Etrion (as CFO) Paul implemented risk mgt controls, robust reporting templates with Audit Committee, and improved institutional investor relations through improved scoring by ISS and Glass Lewis.
Prior to this, acted as chief commercial officer for a dual-listed (Canada/US) independent power company with over 2500 MW of power generating assets under management. Here Paul oversaw expansion of the company from 15 employees to 300+ and internalization of key corporate functions (Asset Mgt, HR, IR, Legal). Paul chaired the Investment Committee and had primary responsibility for $1.5B merger that more than doubled the company market cap, involved integrating union/non-union employees, multiple accounting platforms.
Paul has a BA from Amherst College and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.