Leonardo247 Leadership

Mike Clow is the Executive Director of Real Estate Operations for Greystar, overseeing operations and client services for all of North America. Mike has been active in the multifamily industry since 1989. Prior to joining Greystar in 2008, Mike was a principal with Gray Clow Residential, where he developed, managed, and sold over 7,500 units. Before that, he was division vice president of BRE Properties, a broker with CBRE, and a regional manager with Evans Withycombe. Mike holds a bachelor of science in management and an MBA from Arizona State University. He served as chairman of the National Apartment Association and board member for the Arizona Multihousing Association. Mike holds a CPM® designation from the Institute of Real Estate Management and an active real estate broker’s license in Arizona.

Charles Chen is a partner at Level. Prior to Level he was an investor at Technology Crossover Ventures in Palo Alto, where he originated, evaluated, and executed growth equity investments in software and internet businesses. He was previously a member of Morgan Stanley’s Technology Investment Banking Group and a business development manager on the mobile team at Facebook. Charles holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Joe Bailey has 40 years of experience in real estate management operations. In the early 1980’s, after graduating from Mercer University with a Bachelor of Arts Joe worked in resort management on the South Carolina coast managing the rooms division for Wild Dunes Associates in Charleston SC. Joe founded Grace Hill, the leading provider of Multifamily education providing more than 1 million annual course takings by Multifamily professionals across the nation. In 2014, Joe sold Grace Hill and continued to serve on the Board of Directors for Grace Hill as Executive Chairman through 2017. He also invested in and advised several new startups focused on the Multifamily sector including most notably Leonardo 247, and Blue Cricket Media.

During his career, Joe has spoken at many Multifamily industry events nationwide, as well as apartment industry association events. In 1998 he was elected to be the 1999 Chairman of the Georgia Apartment Association. He has served on the Executive Committee for the Georgia Apartment Industry Education Foundation. In 2016, Joe was inducted into the Georgia Apartment Association Hall of Fame.  Joe currently resides in Augusta Georgia with his wife Sarah. They have two adult children, Maggie and Peyton.

John has helped many companies lift off throughout his career in venture capital investing, executive coaching, angel investing, investment banking and financial management.

John’s career choice reflects his passion to cultivate leaders, spur innovation and unlock sustainable business growth in his roles as a former GKM Ventures partner, a Vistage Advisory Chair, an Executive Coach, an Adjunct Faculty member, UCLA Anderson School of Management, an angel investor with Tech Coast Angels. After leading CEO Peer Advisory Groups in Los Angeles for eight years, John and his wife relocated to San Diego. Now Vistage has invited him to build a new CE Peer Advisory Group for senior executives leading growing San Diego companies.

Chris Isaac is a Vice President at Level Equity. Chris joined Level in 2011 as part of the firm’s first Associate class. He previously spent time with Updata Partners, a technology-focused investment firm. He holds a B.S. from New York University’s Stern School of Business.