Member Bio's
Gary Travis Williams partner
Gary T. Williams is the nephew of the Iconic Chicago businessman multi-million dollar real estate developer and community leader Dempsey J. Travis. Gary started his career at the age of 12 working for his uncle Dempsey on the South-side of Chicago performing various tasks at Travis Securities and Sivart Mortgage Company.
Now with more than 35 years of real estate investment experience, Gary Williams is one of the pioneers who helped defined and develop the niche lending market with the cross blend of two or more financial products. Williams and Shelton built this product and led the RCS investment banking management team for the past ten years in the commercial real estate lending markets.
Williams takes pride in his ability to forge relationships that has produce significant financial outcome for his clients. He is an extremely gifted financial professional, deal maker and visionary.
Gary earned his B.A. from UNC Chapel Hill North Carolina and a Masters in finance from the University of North Carolina at Greenboro, The Bryan School of Business & Economics. Williams has special studies in global market finance and was a member of JP Morgan special traning group for derivatives back in the mid 90's known as "The Global Derivatives Group." Gary also has special studies in "Financial Crises" from Yale University and has attended over ten lectures on "Financial Stability" at Yale University School of Management 2011 ECON 252: Risk & Crises Professor Shiller.
Garcia Michaels Spaulding general partner
Garcia Michaels is general partner, director and head of operations at Rothchild Capital Holdings. Garcia received a BA in Economics from Howard University where he graduated at the top of his class. Garcia also earned a Ph.D. in Finance from UNC Kenan Flagler Business School. Garcia brings over 45 years of experience with over $100 million dollars in transactions closed.
Prior to forming Rothchild, Garcia was real estate portfolio manager CCB Bank in Durham North Carolina. Prior to CCB Garcia was VP of commercial lending operations at NCNB Bank which is now Bank of America. Garcia started has cereer working for the Internal Revenue Service in Washington DC.
Alan Shelton Managing Partner
Alan Shelton is a senior level business executive with over 35+ years of experience in finance, commercial lending and banking. His career began with Manufactures Hanover Trust in 1981 where he served as Senior Trust Officer in the banks treasury management group before moving on to Wall Street. Alan has created valuable financial products for independent filmmakers, commercial real estate professionals, developers and mid level entrepreneurs seeking capital market financing.
Alan's passion for finance began at age 12 when his father began buying him stock as Christmas and birthday gifts. His interest in finance & econmics grew at Columbia University a private Ivy Leauge research university in New York where he majored in economics & finance. Alan later earned his Ph.D in economics at Princetion University. Alan his been studing world economic for a life time and has attended over fifty lectures from US most recognized economic scholars such Ben Bernanke, Milton Friedman, Warren Buffett and Robert Reich.