A perfect blend for a winning team

Ricardo is a Principal at Prasiti Investments and, along with Rupa, is responsible for all aspects of property acquisition, financial underwriting and analysis, debt and equity sourcing, rehab and on-going operations. After a successful and diverse corporate finance career, Ricardo decided to join Prasiti Investments in May of 2015 to pursue his passion of building a multifamily real estate business.

Ricardo has extensive experience in financial planning and analysis, investment evaluation along with project and people management. Prior to joining Prasiti Investments, Ricardo spent 14 years with PepsiCo where he held numerous financial leadership roles of increasing responsibility. Most recently, Ricardo held the role of Finance Director for the Frito-Lay US division, where he led the financial analysis and development of capacity investment strategies for a $14B business. His team of finance managers oversaw over 50 projects, totaling $200M in capital investments over a 2 year time span.

Ricardo received his undergraduate business degree from the University of North Texas and an MBA in Finance from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX.

Ricardo and his wife Karina reside in Frisco, TX. When not focused on multifamily real estate, they enjoy practicing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu, staying physically fit and spending time with family and friends.

PRINCIPALS

After gaining extensive IT, business and management experience from over 20 years in corporate America, Rupa was bored by the humdrum. In 2012, she made the tough decision to leave the security of a well-paying corporate job for a career that better utilizes her talents and started Prasiti Investments. To help prepare for the new career, she invested in a comprehensive education in multifamily investing through Lifestyles Unlimited. Rupa also received continuing education through the Apartment Association of Greater Dallas and is a Certified Apartment Manager (CAM) and Certified Portfolio Supervisor (CAPS).

Rupa voluntarily took a temporary step back from being a Consulting Practice Director at a fortune 500 company managing a team with over $8 million in annual revenue to learn the Real Estate Investing business from the ground up. As a conservative investor, Rupa wanted to start small in order to gain hands-on experience with accounting, payroll, renovations, marketing and even going as far as taking hand-on maintenance for managers classes and formal Spanish lessons at the Community College in order to communicate with onsite construction workers and tenants. She is an avid learner of all things of practical value. Her latest pursuit is taking designer courses to be able to better streamline the rehab process.

Her first property acquisition as a lead enabled her to learn the business, and the second was for proving her investment model at a larger scale. Third and fourth projects enabled her to put her well-vetted real estate investment process into practice on multiple projects of much larger scale. Rupa is passionate about Multi-family Investing: she does this by choice and loves doing it!

Rupa enjoys having the flexibility of spending time with her two children and husband. Rupa and her family are avid international travelers, and enjoy learning about other countries and cultures. Another new venture is learning Mandarin Chinese.

When Rupa is not busy with Real Estate acquisitions, she is analyzing other investments to generate more money to put into her Real Estate acquisitions!.