About Us

Leadership Team

Two By Two leverages the team’s collective experience to thoroughly and creatively pursue opportunities. By understanding key market intelligence, investor motivations, and crucial deal factors (acquisition costs, construction costs, debt service, operating income and expenses, management challenges, seller motivations, etc.) Two By Two and their team can effectively mitigate unforeseen pitfalls and unexpected market downturns, while ensuring adequate flexibility relative to an exit and operation.

Marcus Arredondo

Marcus Arredondo has over 15 years of real estate experience having served in a number of capacities ranging from multi-family acquisitions and syndications to tenant representation. Marcus has completed in excess of 200 transactions, totaling over 6.0 million square feet and valued at over $550 million representing clients in their real estate strategies, transaction management and construction. Having spent his career vigilantly advocating on behalf of clients, he brings fierce vigilance to Two by Two, its valued partners and investors. He has constructed many successful transactions on behalf of Wells Fargo, Harman, Tesla, and SiriusXM, among others by providing market guidance, integrating specific occupancy and financial directives with logistical and structural opportunities in order to optimize desired results.

Marcus has served as Corporate Managing Director at Savills, Inc., specializing in representing companies’ interests in international and domestics strategies and transactions, and as an investment advisor at a real estate multi-family syndication investment firm where he was responsible for advising clients while leading due diligence, procurement, and underwriting opportunities to yield increased income producing strategies.

Since 2016, Marcus has acquried ownership stake in several multifamily assets in Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana and Alabama, totaling over 1,500 units. Coupled with is professional experience, Marcus brings analytical value & executional expertise to investors and partners. Marcus’ top priorities are to aggressively protect and grow the group’s wealth, invest in communities and people we believe in, and share knowledge and guidance where applicable to those seeking greater financial freedom.

Marissa Pesce

Marissa Pesce has over 10 years of experience in commercial and residential real estate, with a focus on project and construction management. Marissa works with high net worth investors on behalf of Dynamic Real Estate Partners (“DREP”), managing ground up developments including shopping centers, luxury homes, mixed use and multifamily apartment buildings located throughout California, Texas and Nevada. Prior to her work at DREP, she worked as a Project Manager at Savills, Inc., successfully advocating on behalf of companies such as Karl Storz, ICM, Uber, and Metrolink to name a few, in the completion of extensive tenant improvement projects totaling in excess of 500,000 SF. Prior to joining Savills, Inc., Marissa helped facilitate the acquisition and redevelopment of underutilized properties on behalf of a privately held, fully integrated real estate development company.

Marissa graduated from the USC School of Architecture and has been cultivating a career in real estate since. Through her experience managing large and small scale projects in a variety of assets with a myriad of teams, Marissa has honed a keen eye for cost effective construction design and real estate functionality.

Strategic Advisors

Mark Kenney

Mark Kenney is a seasoned real estate investor, entrepreneur and founder of Think Multifamily. Mark started his real estate career over 20 years ago and has extensive experience in property valuation, acquisition, and operations. He has a passion for helping others succeed in the multifamily arena.

Mark is invested in over 5,000 units and has a top-notch reputation among the multifamily investment community for providing exceptional value to investors and the community while being easy to work with.

Mark is a 1993 graduate at Michigan State University, Accounting and is a CPA. Mark has also provided IT technical and business consulting for 20 years and is leveraging his vast IT experience to bring new creative technologies that will help others in the multifamily space. He has worked for large organizations such as KPMG Consulting, EDS, SAP, and HP; he founded Simplifying-IT in 2008 which provides IT services to fortune 500 companies.

Derek Graham

Derek Graham, a thirty-three (33) year veteran of the commercial real estate industry, is the President and founder of Odyssey Property Group, Inc., a private real estate investment group, which seeks to acquire income producing properties nationwide. Odyssey strives to provide its investors with stable cash flow plus long-term capital appreciation through selective value add investment opportunities.

Mr. Graham is currently a Co-Managing Member of a portfolio of 40 properties spread across thirteen (13) states with an estimated total portfolio value of $715,000,000.

Prior to founding Odyssey, Derek Graham was (and remains) an Executive Managing Director at Savills-Studley, a national commercial real estate brokerage firm. Prior to Savills-Studley, Mr. Graham was at Insignia, ESG from 1999 to 2001; and prior to Insignia ESG, Mr. Graham was employed at CBRE from 1986 to 1999.

Mr. Graham is a 1985 graduate of Princeton University.

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