Team

Mark McClure  Chairman

Mark McClure is the Chairman and a founder of Vista Pacific Holdings.  Mark was a founder and the CEO of Cobra Golf, a national, leading golf club manufacturing company.  Over the course of his 20 year tenure at Cobra, Mark grew the Company from a start-up idea and a few people to several thousand employees and over $300 million in revenue.  Mark led Cobra to a public stock offering in 1993, and thereafter a sale to Titliest in 1999.  Subsequently, Mark became active in high-end residential real estate investment and development.  Over the last 10+ years, he has developed and sold several properties in Rancho Santa Fe, CA.  Mark helped seed Vista Pacific with the intent to capitalize on the distressed real estate opportunity and scale a young platform.

David Feron  President & Chief Executive Officer

David Feron is the President and CEO of Vista Pacific Holdings.  Previously, David was a founding partner of RedHill Realty Investors, a private real estate firm specializing in the Institutional Multifamily sector.  At RedHill, David created a scalable platform that enabled the company to acquire and manage a $400M+ portfolio over 18 months.  He also served as RedHill’s General Counsel and drove Institutional Joint Venture partnerships.  Previously, David was an attorney with both Cooley Godward and Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he focused on M&A, venture capital financings, emerging growth companies, fund formations and securities law.  David received his JD from Fordham Law School and his BA from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

Keffer Norris  Chief Operating Officer

Keffer Norris is the founding partner and the COO of Vista Pacific Holdings.  Keffer has over 15 years of real estate, finance, and banking experience.  Prior to Vista Pacific, Keffer served as Principal and President of La Jolla Loans, one of San Diego’s largest hard money lenders.  As CEO, Keffer grew and managed a loan portfolio of approximately $800MM.  Keffer started his career at La Jolla Loans in servicing and eventually managed the Underwriting Group.  Keffer began his finance and banking career at First Regional Bank and as a Financial Advisor for Edward Jones.  Keffer also served six years of service as a Sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.  He received his BA as well as an MBA from Southern Illinois at Carbondale.

Scott Kurtz  Managing Director, Acquisitions

Scott Kurtz is the Managing Director of Acquisitions for Vista Pacific. Prior to Vista Pacific, Scott served as a Director at Financial Security Assurance, a global bond insurance and securitization company, for 15 years.  At FSA, Scott led the mortgage and asset-backed securitization efforts for FSA out of their New York, Tokyo and, most recently, London offices.  Scott developed underwriting standards for both new products and markets and was one of the founding members from FSA to form Preferred Mortgages Ltd, one of the earliest non-conforming lenders in the U.K.  Prior to FSA, Scott worked at State Street Bank and then Bank of New York where he reverse engineered cash flows on a variety of mortgage securities.  He received a BA in Marketing from Boston University.

Dimple Shah  Managing Director, Capital Markets

Dimple Shah is the Managing Director of Vista Pacific’s Capital Markets Group.  Previously, Dimple ran the Capital Markets Group for RedHill Realty Investors, a private real estate investment firm focused in the Multifamily sector.  Dimple drove the overall capital markets strategy for the firm, led fundraising efforts, and managed relationships with premier Institutional Joint Venture partners.  Dimple has several years of business development, strategy, and operations experience through leadership roles at top-tier companies, such as Hewlett Packard, eBay, and Oliver Wyman. Dimple received MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics from Stanford University.

Rob Brauchli  Director, Asset Management

Rob Brauchli is a Director of Vista Pacific’s Asset Management Group.  Since joining Vista Pacific in 2008, Rob has overseen the management and disposition of several hundred assets.  He has also helped lead the development of Vista Pacific’s proprietary asset management systems and databases. Previously, Rob was a Director of Multifamily Assets with Marcus & Millichap, a California based Commercial Real Estate Brokerage Company. Since 2003, Rob has directed sales, underwriting and marketing of over $500M in residential and commercial real estate. Rob earned Bachelor Degrees in both Business and English from University of San Diego, and is currently a licensed real estate agent and mortgage loan originator in the state of California.