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Frank Seidman
President, Founder
frank@cap-sol.com
 

Mr. Seidman is the founding principal and continues to serve as President of Capital Solutions, Inc., a real estate development and private equity firm. Since 2001, Capital Solutions, Inc. has facilitated over $500 million of real estate transactions as a principal.

From April 1997 to November 2000, he was a cofounder and managing director of Balanced Capital LLC, a real estate and venture capital firm. During this time, Balanced Capital closed on six venture capital investments and seven real estate investments. From 1992 to March 1997, Mr. Seidman was a principal of Preferred Real Estate Investments, Inc. where he was a cofounder focused on property acquisition, financing and management.

For eight years prior, he was associated with MSK Associates and Silver Harting and Co., real estate development firms that specialized in the renovation of older buildings into apartments, retail and office uses. Mr. Seidman worked for seven years as a CPA at Laventhol & Horwath, an international certified public accounting firm and last held the position of manager in the tax department.

He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Drexel University, where he majored in accounting and is currently a member of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA). In addition, Mr. Seidman sits on various boards of companies in which he is a principal shareholder.

 
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Fran Donato
Partner, Real Estate
fran@cap-sol.com
 

Mr. Donato has been in the commercial real estate industry for more than ten years, with experience in acquisitions, dispositions, finance, equity funding, and asset management.

He is currently a Principal of Capital Solutions, Inc., a real estate development and venture capital firm. Since 2001, Capital Solutions, Inc. has facilitated over $500 million of real estate transactions as a principal. During this time, Capital Solutions, Inc. closed on twelve real estate ventures. Affiliates of Capital Solutions are the largest mezzanine and equity investors in Nova Records Management LLC, a records management and storage company with a capitalization in excess of $45 million.

From 1997 to 2000, he was the controller and a partner on the acquisitions and investments of Balanced Capital LLC, a venture capital firm that facilitates investments in real estate, operating companies and other cash flowing opportunities. During the period from April 1997 to November 2000, Balanced Capital closed on six venture investments and seven real estate investments.

From 1995 to 1997, he was the controller of Preferred Real Estate Investments. While there, he was involved with the acquisition, disposition, construction and permanent financing, and asset management of more than $200 million of commercial real estate with a concentration in office, industrial, and retail properties.

For two years prior, Mr. Donato was an accounting manager for LCOR Incorporated, a national real estate development firm, which specialized in the development of office and apartment buildings.

 
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Lane Wiggers
Partner, Private Equity
lwiggers@cap-sol.com
 

Mr. Wiggers is a Partner at Capital Solutions, Inc. and is primarily responsible for the firm’s private equity focus. Prior to joining Capital Solutions, Mr. Wiggers was with CD Ventures, a Philadelphia based private investment firm where he managed corporate development and capital formation functions. In addition to accountability for new business development, he was also responsible for several portfolio company acquisition programs where he completed multiple acquisitions.

Mr. Wiggers was previously an Investment Banker at First Union/Wachovia Securities where he successfully completed secondary equity offerings and multiple M&A transactions.  He also has manufacturing expertise and operational experience at Rockwell International, Cooper Industries and Cummins Engine.

He holds an Undergraduate degree from Clemson University in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland.  While at Maryland he was a Lamone Scholar, Treasurer of the MBA class and served as portfolio manager for the business schools endowment fund.

 
Nimish Sanghrajka
Partner
nimish@cap-sol.com
 

Mr. Sanghrajka is a Partner and Principal of Capital Solutions, Inc.  His real estate and private equity career began in 1985.  Mr. Sanghrajka's focus over the last decade has been on deal structuring, debt & equity financing of transactions including extensive involvement in acquisitions, repositioning and dispositions of assets.

From 1996 to 2008, Mr. Sanghrajka was Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of Preferred Unlimited, Inc. ,  a real  estate development and mining company where he structured and financed over 60 projects nationally totaling over $1.5 billion in value.  These projects included the development and investment of over 12 million square feet of office and industrial properties as well as development and investment of 15 mining assets.  Investment in mining included the purchase of US Silica, the 2nd largest Silica Sand mining company in the US.

As a partner and one of the owners of Preferred Unlimited, Mr. Sanghrajka drove the strategic direction of the company which has had a very successful track record.

From 1989 to 1995, he was Executive Vice President of Trefoil Properties, Inc., a real estate development company mainly focused in the retail and office sectors in the Mid Atlantic Region.

Prior to that Mr. Sanghrajka worked as Senior Financial Analyst from 1985 to 1989 at Berwind Property Group, a nationally recognized real estate Investment and Development company.

Mr. Sanghrajka holds a BBA from the University of Bombay, India and an MBA in Finance from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

 
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Michael Mikulski
Director of Land Development
mmikulski@cap-sol.com
 

Mr. Mikulski serves as Director of Land Development at Capital Solutions, Inc. Mr. Mikulski has been involved in residential and commercial real estate development for the last five years. Prior to joining Capital Solutions, Inc. in February 2006, he spent over four years performing acquisition work for the David Cutler Group and Preferred Real Estate Investments, Inc.

From 1992 until 2002, he was a Business Development Manager for Chartwell Realty Advisors, Inc. and KPMG’s Tax Incentives Group. Mr. Mikulski holds a Bachelor of Science degree and an MBA from LaSalle University.

 
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