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The next generation of multifamily investing

Our founding team combines two decades of capital allocation leadership at a successful real estate investment company with two decades of technology entrepreneurship.

Interested in joining the Glencrest team? Reach out!

Meet the team

John Adair

John Adair

Managing Partner

Before founding Glencrest, John was the Principal in charge of capital transactions for one of the largest apartment landlords in the Western United States.

While at Prime Residential, John tripled the number of units owned; expanded into five new metropolitan areas; bought, sold and financed more than 35K units (> $8B transaction volume); and closed the largest single-asset financing in the history of Freddie Mac. 

 

Prior to joining Prime, John was a real estate attorney with Orrick in their San Francisco office.
 
John is a licensed real estate broker in the state of California, an active member of the California State Bar, and has passed all three levels of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) exam. He has a JD from the University of California, Berkeley and a BA with distinction from Northwestern University.  John lives in San Francisco with his three children.

Mike Bergelson

Mike Bergelson

Managing Partner

Mike has built and led three successful technology businesses focused on using data to personalize and improve end-user experiences. 

Most recently, he was the co-founder and CEO of Everwise, a technology company focused on creating high value, personalized learning experiences for employees of clients such as Salesforce, Genentech, Twitter, Best Buy and AmEx. He led all aspects of the business with an emphasis on sales, marketing, product vision and fundraising ($26M of venture capital with Series B led by Sequoia Capital).

His first venture, Audium, grew into a market leader with its customer interaction technology that, today, helps personalize billions of calls for large enterprises around the globe. After selling Audium to Cisco in 2006, Mike led product for Cisco’s customer contact business unit and, eventually, led strategy for the enterprise collaboration division. 

He also co-founded adMarketplace, an early advertising-technology provider and was a strategy consultant with First Manhattan Consulting specializing in helping to calculate, drive strategy and operate with customer-level profitability, work that led to the widely adopted discipline of customer-relationship management. 


He earned an engineering degree with honors from Cornell University and lives with his wife and young son in San Francisco.

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Sarina Cuarezma

Resident Experience Specialist

Sarina’s background in multifamily real estate spans nearly a decade. She began her career in apartment leasing at Essex Property Trust, a prominent residential property owner on the West Coast, where she held various roles ranging from leasing agent to community manager. She has experience at a variety of properties including lease-ups, high-rise and garden style.

 

Most recently she worked in single family residential as a realtor with Keller Williams. 

 

Sarina lives in Sacramento County with her husband and two sons. 

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Marci Cornell

Business Operations Administrator

Marci has more than a decade of experience in commercial real estate and financial services .

 

She’s held senior admin roles in property management and was on the asset management team at a real estate crowdfunding startup.

 

Marci holds an MS in real estate from New York University and a BS in business administration from California State University, Sacramento. Marci lives in San Francisco.

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Susie Deas

Asset Manager

Susie has over 25 years of experience in multifamily housing.  She started her career as an Assistant Manager with Trammell Crow Residential and was most recently a Regional Manager with Prime Residential. Susie's leadership experience includes conventional, affordable and university housing in various markets including California, Nevada and the Pacific Northwest.  

 

Susie has a BA from Indiana University, Bloomington. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and three children.

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Priya Iddalgi

Data Analyst

Priya began her career at Goldman Sachs Asset Management as a Business Intelligence Analyst for Client Revenue Operations, where she worked on increasing the efficiency of internal processes and providing business insights to stakeholders. She also worked for Qualcomm as a data analyst to collect, organize and analyze data to meet the firm’s objectives in the computing market.
 
She holds an Engineering degree from PES University, India and a Master of Science in Business Analytics from UC Davis.

Priya lives in San Francisco and enjoys painting and traveling in her free time. 

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Rachel Larson

Acquisitions

Rachel brings nearly three decades of multi-family experience to the Glencrest team.  Most recently, she was Vice President of Operations for Prime Residential. At Prime, she oversaw the Regional Management and Regional Maintenance Management teams across a number of markets including Oregon, Washington, Denver, Northern California and Reno. Additionally, she led company-wide compliance and safety training and was instrumental in a number of key strategic initiatives, including transitioning property management in-house, implementing revenue management across the portfolio and developing two new roles: the Director of Leasing and Marketing and Lead Management Specialist.
 
She began her career in apartment leasing with Commonwealth Pacific and has held multiple roles in property management and apartment site leadership and operations.  Rachel also has years of acquisition underwriting, sales training and extensive capital improvement and construction management experience.  
 
She studied business marketing at Portland State University, is a lifelong Portland resident and has two sons.

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Jeremy Sholler

Regional Facilities Manager

Jeremy has more than two decades of carpentry, construction and facilities maintenance experience. Prior to Glencrest, Jeremy operated a construction business and ran maintenance for a number of large multifamily properties, including one owned by Glencrest. Earlier in his career he was a structural welder and spent six years doing HAZMAT and structural demolition work - including lead paint and asbestos abatement. Jeremy started his career with five years at KB Home where he built over 100 three- and four-bedroom homes in Solano County, CA.

Jeremy lives in Fairfield, California with his two children.

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Stacey Street

Analyst

Stacey brings nearly a decade of multi-family operations experience to the Glencrest team. Most recently, she was an Area Portfolio Manager for Essex Property Trust, one of the largest residential property owners on the west coast.  


She began her career as a leasing consultant with Equity Residential.
 

Stacey has overseen most residential property types: high-rise, lease-ups, multi-million dollar renovations, marina operations, garden style, mid-rise, rent control, and affordable housing.
 

She holds a B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara and  lives in Danville, CA with her husband and two sons.

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Deb Wroblewski

Underwriting and Institutional Equity

Deborah brings over seven years of multifamily and commercial real estate experience to the Glencrest team. Most recently, she was Director of Investor Relations at Foulger-Pratt, a leading multifamily development firm in the Washington D.C. area, where she oversaw the firm's capital raising efforts. She began her career in Finance and Investor Relations at AvalonBay Communities.

She holds a B.A. with distinction in Economics from the University of Virginia and is currently pursuing her MFA in Interior Architecture from George Washington University.

Want to learn about joining our team?
Please feel free to contact us to learn about current openings.

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