Brent is a founding Partner of the Vista Group of entities and serves as President of Vista RED. Prior to co-founding Vista during 2006, Brent served in a variety of executive/management capacities over the course of a 19-year career with Weingarten Realty Investors (NYSE: WRI), a Houston-based real estate investment trust with an equity market capitalization exceeding $2.5 billion. Most recently, from 2004 to 2006, Brent served as Senior Vice President of New Business Development for Weingarten, where he held responsibility for leading new project development and merchant-build opportunities, as well as creating and managing joint venture development programs and other long term joint venture partnerships.

From 2000 to 2004, Brent was a Regional Director of Leasing for the Western U.S. region, where he held primary management responsibility for leasing and asset management covering a portfolio of 66 shopping centers representing 8.7 million square feet in the aggregate.  In this role, he also began to actively generate new real estate development projects along with other growth opportunities for Weingarten.

From 1998 to 2000, Brent served as Director of Operations, where he managed all aspects of Weingarten’s property management department covering a portfolio of 300 plus properties, which represented an aggregate of 36 million square feet at that time. Prior to 1998, Brent worked in a variety of Weingarten leasing management positions over a 10-year period, including 5 years in which he was named a top leasing producer.

Brent holds a B.S. degree from Texas A&M University. He is married and has two children.

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