Leadership

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At the Picerne Group, our team is our most valuable asset. With expertise in real estate investment, development and asset management, we are committed to serving our partners with a vision.

Ken Picerne

CEO & Founder

Ken Picerne is the CEO of the Picerne Group, which he founded in 1988 after working alongside his family at Picerne Real Estate Group. There, as the company’s COO, he was directly responsible for the construction and development of 12,000 luxury apartments throughout Florida, Arizona, Nevada, Washington, and New England.

Since founding the Picerne Group, Ken has established the company’s strategic direction and led the transition from one investment model to the next in response to changing market dynamics. Throughout his career, Ken has been recognized by the real estate community and city governments for outstanding contributions to development and design, and has been honored for partnering with local governments to provide housing through the successful rehabilitation of distressed properties. Today, the Picerne Group boasts notable expertise in apartment acquisition and development, distressed debt investment and complex land entitlement, featuring a portfolio of more than 5,000 multifamily units in California, Nevada, Colorado and Texas valued at approximately $2.0 billion.

In 2004, Ken formed the Picerne Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to investing in the greater good of the local community. Over the years, the foundation has donated well over $10 million to various programs and has a current value in excess of $40 million. Beyond his charitable contributions through the Picerne Foundation, Ken has served on numerous business and charitable boards.

Ken Picerne received his undergraduate degree from Yale University and currently resides in Newport Beach, California with his wife and three children.

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Gregory G. Nakahira

Co-Managing Director

Gregory Nakahira oversees the access and deal-sourcing team at the Picerne Group. During his 27-year tenure, Gregory has played a significant role in the growth and development of the company’s Japanese loan portfolio and U.S. real estate assets.

Greg Nakahira joined The Picerne Group in 1998. He has been a member of the leadership team involved in developing and operating the Japanese Non-Performing Loan business, and the U.S. distressed debt/real estate opportunity following the Great Recession from 2008-2011. As The Picerne Group pivoted to develop and operate luxury multifamily communities in 2011 he began to focus on acquiring land/properties and obtaining entitlements to develop apartments in Southern California coastal cities which remains his primary responsibility today. Prior to joining The Picerne Group he was a senior executive with Heller Financial and Goldman Sachs. During this time period he provided real estate capital to support The Picerne Group’s business activities in the 1990’s decade. Greg Nakahira is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego.

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Len Moreau

President of Picerne Construction

Len Moreau is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the construction process throughout the company’s portfolio including pre-construction management, project construction and delivery.

Prior to joining the Picerne Group in November 2016, Len was Vice President of Design and Construction at Johnson Development Associates. Prior to that, he served as Senior Vice President of Construction with Irvine Construction. During his 13-year tenure at the Irvine Company, Len oversaw the construction of approximately 20,000 apartments in Southern and Northern California,

Len Moreau graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Saint Michael’s College in Vermont.

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Kimberly Prendergast

Chief Accounting Officer

Kimberly Prendergast leads all aspects of the Picerne Group’s accounting functions, including corporate, operations, development, construction project accounting, cash management, internal and external reporting, and tax compliance.

Kimberly has had several accounting leadership positions throughout her career, including Senior Vice President of Accounting at Tricon American Homes, where she oversaw accounting for over $2.9 billion of single-family homes, and the Irvine Company, where she served a 16-year tenure and earned the role of Vice President of Apartments Accounting.

Kimberly Prendergast received her Bachelor of Accounting from the Carroll School of Management at Boston College and is a Certified Public Accounting in the state of California.

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Careers

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