Mike Adams is a Co-Founder and Principal of Excelsior Partners, LLC where he is involved in all aspects of the company's business including acquisitions, asset management, due diligence, construction and development. Prior to forming Excelsior Partners, Mike worked as a Principal of Marcus Adams Properties, where he has been a partner since 2001. At Marcus Adams Properties, he managed construction, development, due diligence and maintenance of company owned properties, sourced new acquisitions to grow the portfolio and had direct involvement with the asset and property management of the portfolio of owned properties. Mike also serves as Vice President and Board Member of Morgan Adams, Inc., a family office and asset management company founded in 1977. Prior to his work with Marcus Adams Properties, LLC and Morgan Adams, Inc., Mike worked in the Construction and Development Department of Arden Realty, Inc., at the time a publicly-traded Real Estate Investment Trust and Southern California’s largest owner of office buildings. He has a total of 15 years of continuous, hands-on experience in commercial real estate in both the office and industrial sectors and was a key team member of an office renovation project that won the Building Owners and Managers Association’s International Renovation of the Year Award (2000). Mike also won the Gold Nugget Award (2008) for the development of a complex, multi-purpose campus for a non-profit organization (Homeboy Industries) in Downtown Los Angeles. Mike earned a Bachelors degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Real Estate Finance from the University of Southern California and has a Masters degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Corporate Finance from Loyola Marymount University.