the ifc team

Greg Margetich

Founder & CEO

Real estate investor & developer who acquires value-added asset classes: office, shopping centers,multi-family and flex office properties. Prefer older assets located across the country that have a value-added component. The primary objective is to purchase opportunistic properties where we can enhance value. Assets that are most appealing are in need of renovation, rehabilitation, updating and effective tenant-driven management.

Stokes Palmer

director of acquisitions Southwest

Stokes Palmer, Director of Acquisitions, joined Investors First Capital in 2023 as head of Acquisitions for their Texas and Sunbelt markets. Stokes has over 25 years of real estate investment and development experience, with nearly 20 of those years spent at the family firm of Alex S. Palmer and Company in Nashville, TN. During his time there he represented ownership in the asset management of over 1M square feet of commercial office space in both the GSA and multi-tenant buildings. Prior to Alex S. Palmer and Company, Stokes worked for GE Capital Real Estate focused in debt and equity positions across the multi-family, office, and industrial sectors. Stokes received his undergraduate degree in Mathematics & an MBA from Vanderbilt University.

Garrick Brown

chief economist/strategist

One of the United State's leading retail real estate analysts. Specialties: Public Speaking - I regularly speak to groups of all sizes regarding commercial real estate issues. Have served as a speaker at events hosted by the Urban Land Institute, NAIOP, Appraisal Institute, CREW, ICSC, PRSM and Verizon Wireless among others.

David Givner PhD

director of acquisitions

David Givner has over thirty-five years of real estate experience with specialization in the areas of real estate acquisitions and real estate asset management. Mr. Givner is the President of HPI Capital, a real estate investment firm that has acquired over $2 billion of assets. His most recent institutional position was as head of the Real Estate Asset Management Group for The Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A.U

Steve DeMeo

director of acquisitions

As one of the lead members of Cushman & Wakefield’s Upstate New York retail and industrial teams for 10 years, Steve represents both landlords and tenants in their real estate dealings across New York State. He has handled exclusive tenant representation transactions on behalf of well-known national retailers such as Skechers, Duluth Trading Company, Hyatt Hotels, Morton’s Steakhouse, McAlister’s Deli, Home Depot, Citizens Bank, Yankee Candle, and CSL Plasma.

Amar Cheema

director of dispositions

Amar has worked in the Commercial real estate industry since 2009 which allowed him to experience the power of marketing and networking through the corporate setting. Amar’s passion motivated him to pursue Ground Up development, rather than serving solely as a broker. Born and raised in the Central Valley’s agricultural properties, he set out to combine Commercial and AgriBusiness real estate.

Eli Margetich

director of marketing

Eli has been in the marketing ethos for over a decade dealing with all manners of marketing disciplines across multiple industries. He brings unique insight to every project specializing targeted campaigns and broad spectrum marketing. Starting his career with SEO which quickly rolled into web design and development, he then applied the UI/UX principles to print and digital media campaigns,