Executives

Paul Dubord serves as the Managing Director of Property Management & Operations for Goldrich Kest. He directs the departments of Property Management, Human Resources, Facilities, Marketing, Information Technology, Data Management, Learning and Development. Prior to his current role, Paul was also the company’s Executive Vice President of Operations and, Vice President of Information Technology. Paul’s extensive knowledge, vast experience and forward-thinking approach to Real Estate systems and processes, including collaboration and team engagement, professional development, and property management have set the stage for his invaluable role at Goldrich Kest.

Prior to joining Goldrich Kest, Paul had amassed 25 years of experience in building technology teams and delivering projects for public and private real estate companies. He was Vice President of Information Technology at Invitation Homes, a Blackstone company, and served as Vice President of Information Services with Verde Realty. He has held Senior Information Technology positions at GE Capital and Security Capital. In each of those roles, he provided strategic oversight of the I.T. function, and led several key business initiatives, systems implementations, and process improvements. Paul specializes in cross-functional project delivery, and has successfully orchestrated multiple restructuring transformations.

Born and raised in Alberta, Canada, Paul was in the Commerce program at the University of British Columbia. Paul enjoys living in Southern California, and has three adult children and two granddaughters who reside in Arizona and Texas.

Richard Hawthorne is Managing Director of Investments at Goldrich Kest. His more than two-decade career includes having served as Senior Vice President at a Fortune 100 publicly traded REIT and well-capitalized privately held real estate Asset Management, Development, and Investment companies prior to joining Goldrich Kest.

With more than $2 Billion of CRE transactions executed, Richard was responsible for the Development, Construction, Asset Management, and Transactions teams associated with, single-family, multi-family, mixed-use, commercial, and institutional portfolios across the United States including major markets Seattle, Los Angeles, Orange County, San Diego, Denver, Chicago, Austin, Dallas, Atlanta, Charlotte, and Boston.

Richard holds a B.S. from Northeastern Illinois University and an M.B.A. from Walter E. Heller College of Business at Roosevelt University. He is actively involved with Urban Land Institute, Los Angeles Business Council, and National Multifamily Housing Council. He resides in Lake Forest with his wife, Dawn, and two pups, Kenzi and Zia.

As CFO for Goldrich Kest, Kent Crandall will handle all matters relating to the company’s cash flow, financial planning, forecasting, long- and short-term strategizing, taxation issues and overall business operations.

 Mr. Crandall’s career includes having been named "CFO Of The Year" by the Orange County Business Journal. Prior to accepting his new role, Mr. Crandall accumulated some three decades of experience in the field including serving as CFO of Lafayette Real Estate, a private equity firm managing $2 billion in assets.  Prior to that, he was Executive Vice President of Tricon American Homes, the non-traded REIT subsidiary of a Canadian and US publicly listed company and before that was CFO of MBK Real Estate, a North American subsidiary of Mitsui Co. Ltd., a publicly traded Japanese conglomerate.  

 Mr. Crandall holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with an emphasis in Accounting from Colorado State University and has attended executive training programs at both Stanford and Harvard Universities.  A CPA (inactive), Mr. Crandall is a past member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts and Urban Land Institute.