LandMarkers Development Group
Leadership profile
Richard S. L. Abbott
Chief Financial Officer
| Strategic/Tactical Business Planning | Mergers & Acquisitions | Cash Management | Treasury/Derivatives | SEC Filings | Reporting | Shareholder Relations |
Senior financial executive
Richard Abbott serves as Chief Financial Officer of LandMarkers Development Group. He is a senior financial executive with over 25 years of domestic and global management experience across real estate, energy solutions, internet TV service providers (IaaS and SaaS), a global cable company and investment banking. He is a former CPA who was licensed in New Jersey.
Rich has managed highly leveraged companies and navigated distressed operating environments and start-ups. His key strengths include financial analysis, modeling and planning, business process development and strategy. He has extensive experience in Latin American, European and Asian markets, working with boards of directors, and brings in-depth knowledge of capital markets and a solid understanding of taxes.
A results-oriented and ethical financial executive, Rich shares the ethos of LandMarkers Group. He helps LandMarkers’ real estate developer clients secure financing so capital is available to fund project drawdowns. His collaborative leadership style connects core business operations and builds productive alliances across the enterprise.
Prior to joining LandMarkers, Rich served as CFO of Blue Waters Development Group LLC in Cape Coral, Florida, a full-service real estate development company focused on private equity, asset management and property development services.
As Co-Founder and CFO of Mallard Hill Thor, LLC, a special purpose entity formed to pursue acquisitions in the energy sector, Rich helped secure TPG as the equity sponsor for a $1 billion acquisition and EIF for a $4 billion acquisition.
Following the merger of NationsBank and Bank of America in October 1998, Rich managed Bank of America’s investment banking office in Santiago, Chile. He completed over $4 billion in transactions, including acquisition financings, syndicated loans and a Yankee bond.
Rich earned a Master of International Business Studies (MIBS) from the University of South Carolina in Columbia and a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He also studied abroad at La Universidad de Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain. His native language is English, and he is fluent in Spanish.