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EMERGING is a strategic partner
from EMERGING Spring 2023
by EMERGING
We work with today’s leading restaurant and entertainment concepts.
We are a team of data scientists, data engineers, analysts, real estate experts, creatives, and business professionals committed to pioneering the future of restaurants and entertainment. We are solutions-focused helping our clients to identify critical goals, develop plans, and execute on the most efficient path to excellence.
Mathew Focht CEO
Mathew has a passion for helping best in class restaurant and entertainment operators grow as recognized national leader in their category. Mathew has served hundreds of restaurant–entertainment owners and developers of lifestyle and mix-use centers. Mathew is the founder of EMERGING.
David Bagley Investment Director
David Bagley is Investment Director for EMERGING. He has over thirty years of experience in corporate finance, operations management, profit improvement consulting, and financial advisory services specializing in franchise and the restaurant and hospitality industries.
Martin Barboza Vice President
Martin Barboza has been providing marketing and repositioning strategies for real estate investment and development for 15 years. He has built a track record of maximizing investment returns during the hold period by ensuring an appropriate capitalization structure, while focusing on optimal property performance.
Tim Greenhagen Strategic Advisor
Tim began his career as a physicist, then ultimately building mathematical real estate models for Mcdonald's. He has 28 years of building the most advanced predictable models in real estate, site selection, sales projection, and cannibalization. His experiences include Mcdonald's, Chipotle, Boston Market, Redbox, and most recently Puttshack, Flight Club, Immersive Gamebox, Biscuit Belly, and many more emerging concepts.
Robert Johnson Vice President
As Vice President in the Chicago office, Robert focuses on national tenant representation, new development consulting and strategic capital partnerships.
Alan Katz Partner
Spending the majority of his career in hospitality, Alan brings extensive experience and knowledge in fundamental business facets including real estate, data analytics/ site selection, supply chain, operations, marketing, and technology.
Amy Krulas Finance Manager
Amy has extensive real estate industry experience working closely with small businesses to build and maintain the most effective accounting systems and strategies. In 2017, she was awarded LinkedIn's Profinder Best of Accounting Consultants.
Jack Neill Associate
Jack Neill is an Associate at Emerging Concepts, with responsibility for national tenant representation and leasing, market research, and supporting all members of the leasing team. Jack is a recent graduate of Indiana University. He earned his BSB with a double major in Finance and Real Estate through the Kelley School of Business.
Fernando Paz Sr. Developer
Fernando is a Sr. Developer at F&B Insights, responsible for maintaining, improving F&B Insights's IT infrastructure and bringing new features into life. He was in charge of moving F&B Insights from an outdated monolith to microservices, pushing F&B Insights's infrastructure and scaling capabilities to a new level.
Hudson Piehl COO
Hudson joined Tipzyy as it's first employee! As COO, he manages the product development and operations teams. He uses his extensive background in team building and project management to deliver high quality products and customer service to clients.
Crystal Rivera Associate
Crystal Rivera is an Associate at Emerging Concepts, responsible for national tenant representation and leasing, market research, and supporting members of the leasing team. Prior to joining Emerging, Crystal worked as a Brokerage Coordinator at Cushman and Wakefield.
Jim Rand Senior Vice President
He is the Senior Vice President of Acutely. He is started his career at McDonald’s in 1973 with the primary responsibility to develop statistical and mathematical models to predict new store sales volumes.
Clarissa Save Creative Director
Clarissa is a seasoned copywriter with 10 years of experience writing engaging advertising copy for e-commerce businesses, SAAS, and the hospitality industry. Clarissa specializes in writing creative product copy and loves to make words dance.
Megan Schmidt Director
Megan Schmidt is a Director at Emerging Concepts, and focuses on national tenant representation strategy and leasing. Since joining Emerging Concepts, Megan has played an integral role in national growth strategy for early entertainment and restaurant concepts from both the US and UK.
Amanda Shafer Associate
Amanda is a recent member of the Emerging Concepts team responsible for National Tenant Rep & Market research. Her career history is in office leasing and working with hospitality groups in Chicago on the marketing and design front.
Noah Tracht Vice President of Strategic Partnerships
Noah’s passion for food & beverage goes back to his childhood, whether enjoying great home cooked meals or experiencing delicious food while traveling with his family, the love began early.
Steve Taylor Senior VP of Business Development / Partner
Throughout his near 20 year Real Estate and Hospitality career Steve has represented best in class multi concept chef driven, corporate, franchised and emerging food and beverage concepts on a regional and national level.
Veronica Zemon Vice President of Business Development
Veronica has extensive experience building brands nationwide and creating comprehensive sales-driving solutions in the beverage industry. After completing her MBA, Veronica spent eight years working in the advertising agency world creating award-winning campaigns.
