Principals

Your partners in success.

Silverado Interests was co-founded by father-and-son team Rick and Dan Slaven, who collectively possess more than 46 years of real estate investment experience.

Rick Slaven began his career in real estate in 1972 and spent 11 years with the Hines organization based in Houston. Rick has been with Morton H. Meyerson since 1987 and has successfully invested in multiple real estate product types producing a 38.8% IRR and a 2 multiple on 73 investments realized through the end of 2008. In 2004, Rick became one of the founding partners of E2M and a member of its investment committee. For E2M’s Value Added Fund I, Rick helped raise over $300 million. E2M’s second fund (presently being raised) is anticipated to range between $300 and $600 million. While still an active partner with E2M, Rick has co-founded Silverado Interests with his son, Dan Slaven, to focus on smaller, individual real estate transactions that are not competitive with E2M. Additionally, Rick spent six years on the Investment Advisory Committee to the Board of Regents for the Texas Tech University Endowment. He holds an undergraduate degree from Texas Tech University and an M.B.A from Harvard.

Before co-founding Silverado Interests with his father, Dan Slaven spent the first eight and a half years of his real estate career as vice president of what became known as MMB-Group (www.mmb-group.com). This was a joint venture between Morton H. Meyerson, Manhattan Construction, and Paul Berry. The company focused on vertical development of all commercial real estate product types, including retail, multi-family, medical office, and medical condos. Dan was responsible for sourcing and underwriting individual projects such as a large medical condo development of 150,000 sf/$50+ million in Caguas, Puerto Rico. Dan also worked on multiple developments in Las Vegas, including the acquisition of existing buildings as well as the zoning and development of property for use as an office condo as well as a retail site. In total, Dan has closed over $300 million in transactions where he sourced, underwrote, and helped structure transactions between the development and capital partners. He holds an undergraduate degree from Texas Christian University.