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Charles is a native Texan and has been involved in real estate for more than 10 years. While studying at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin, Charles began his real estate career in real estate accounting, followed soon after by commercial multi-family sales and asset management. Charles founded one of the top property tax firms in Texas, Gill Denson & Company. Charles also founded RealShield Insurance, a premier provider of insurance to real estate companies in Texas. As a tenured entrepreneur, Charles has challenged old ways of thinking in real estate, in order to do what he loves most: helping others. Real estate contracts have been a broken, inefficient system for decades that caused stress for agents and clients, before Mako Contracts was created. Graham and Charles are passionate about raising the bar of the industry standards for real estate contracts and making all transactions more transparent and tech driven. In his free time, Charles enjoys golfing, hunting and spending time on Galveston's beaches with his wife, family members and his golden doodle.
Graham is also a Texan, and spent most of his career in finance in the oil and gas and real estate industries. Graham begin his career in mergers and acquisitions providing advisory services for energy corporations. He then transitioned to corporate finance holding a variety of roles before becoming the youngest director in the company's history. Most recently he operated as the divisional CFO for a billion dollar division before starting Mako Contracts with Charles. Graham is also a licensed real estate agent and certified public accountant (inactive) in the state of Texas. It was through his unique experience negotiating contracts in the corporate world and working with Charles in several real estate investment opportunities, both he and Charles realized that there was a need for an automated, more efficient and user friendly way to negotiate contracts. This is why Mako was developed and created, so other agents, brokers and clients could experience the state of the art platform Charles and Graham use today for their deals. Graham lives in Sugar Land, TX with his wife, Audrey, son, John Davis, and their two dogs, Bowie and Lainey. In his free time he enjoys hunting, fishing and spending time with his family at their cattle ranch.