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Board of Directors
Shane Peery
Chairman & Board Member
Mr. Peery has been a partner at Cherokee & Walker since 1999.
Over the course of his career with Cherokee & Walker, Mr. Peery has been involved in more than $3 billion of real estate, private lending, and venture capital transactions in various asset classes. Mr. Peery has been instrumental in the formation of many companies, including NorthRock Companies, V20 Energy, Olympus Lending, Rockworth Companies, Rimrock Construction, Cornerstone Concrete, Red Bridge Capital, Inthinc, TopNoggin, Fortius Financial, Cottonwood Residential, Vital Signs Staffing and Wentworth Senior Living Services. He has also managed investments in Campus Book Rentals, Visible Equity, Financial Guard, Symbii Home Health, among others.
Previously, Mr. Peery worked for Ernst & Young in Salt Lake City. Mr. Peery received both a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Accounting from Brigham Young University.
Blair Jenkins
Board Member
Mr. Jenkins has been a partner at Cherokee & Walker since 1999.
Over the course of his career with Cherokee & Walker, Mr. Jenkins has been involved in more thant $3 billion of real estate, private lending and venture capital transactions in various asset classes. Mr. Jenkins has been instrumental in the formation of many companies, including NorthRock Companies, V20 Energy, Olympus Lending, Rockworth Companies, Rimrock Construction, Cornerstone Concrete, Red Bridge Capital, Inthinc, TopNoggin, Fortius Financial, Cottonwood Residential, Vital Signs Staffing and Wentworth Senior Living Services. He has also managed investments in Campus Book Rentals, Visible Equity, Financial Guard, Symbii Home Health, among others.
Previously, Mr. Jenkins worked for a local real estate development company in Salt Lake City. Mr. Jenkins received his Bachelors Degree from the University of Utah and a Masters of Real Estate Development from Columbia University.
Brent Wilson
Board Member
Mr. Wilson has been a partner at Cherokee & Walker since 2014.
Mr. Wilson has been involved in finance for over 38 years. He was the Vice President of IML Freight Credit Union for five years and the President of Hercules Credit Union for an additional five years. He was the President and co-founder of a small consumer loan business that sold to Dollar Financial in 1999. From 1999-2014 he co-founded Progressive Finance, LLC, a Lease-to-own Company of which he was the President from 1999-2014. He sold 70% of Progressive Finance, LLC in 2012 and the remainder of his ownership was sold to a public company in 2014. During this same time he co-founded Progressive Lending a consumer loan business that sold in 2012. He is currently the Co-Founder and CFO of International Document Services, Inc. which provides loan document software and services to mortgage companies, banks and other financial institutions.
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