The investUS team is comprised of seasoned professionals with institutional investment experience in a variety of industry sectors that include real estate, energy, retail, manufacturing, technology, hospitality, biotechnology, film, media, transportation, financial services, aerospace, aviation, mining, utilities, infrastructure and industrial sectors.
Managing Partner
Ms. Burns’ financial career spans more than 30 years and includes roles as an institutional investment officer in New York City, finance officer at a New Mexico start-up company that became the largest publicly-traded company in the state, and Chief Lending Officer for a community bank. In these roles, she honed her ability to determine key factors for business sustainability, profitability and growth in a wide variety of industries.
During her investment career, she analyzed more than 3,000 businesses and invested more than $3 billion. During the 1990s, Ms. Burns founded the Project Finance Group at TIAA-CREF and she was the lead institutional investor for construction and long-term investments in the US and emerging markets. Over the course of her investment career, Ms. Burns specialized in a wide variety of industries including energy, utility, industrial, retail, transportation, manufacturing, entertainment, media, private equity, and infrastructure. Ms. Burns developed expertise in structured finance, emerging market finance including project finance, asset-backed securitization, and infrastructure construction lending.
Ms. Burns returned to extraordinary New Mexico, her birthplace, as a senior member of the initial team that developed an innovative lending platform and was responsible for issuing over $40 billion in publicly-registered securities. She is now using her years of experience to expand capital sources for New Mexico to stimulate economic growth, create jobs and facilitate investments with a positive social impact on urban and rural communities.
An Albuquerque native, Ms. Burns graduated from Albuquerque Academy. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Princeton University. As an undergraduate, Ms. Burns was a research analyst for Burton G. Malkiel, head of the Economics Department at Princeton, and she worked with him on his New York Times best-selling book, “A Random Walk Down Wall Street.” Ms. Burns also earned an Executive MBA in Finance from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
CFA. Managing Director
Mr. Fellers is a results-oriented investment professional with over 20 years of experience in the areas of portfolio management, trading, risk management, financial modeling, and corporate finance. His experience comes from various institutional investment management roles including Investment Officer at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Seattle, Senior Portfolio Manager and Treasurer at a $50 billion REIT, and most recently, Investment Manager for a $5+ billion corporate pension plan. In each of these roles, Mr. Fellers has directly or indirectly managed $5 – $50 billion in investment capital deployed across numerous asset classes ranging from real estate to securitized debt to emerging market equites.
Throughout his career, Mr. Fellers has been key to the evaluation, acquisition, and disposition decision-making process behind thousands of transactions ranging in size from thousands to billions of dollars. Beyond transactional expertise, Mr. Fellers has played a lead role in portfolio management activities such as defining asset allocation strategies, setting investment policies and guidelines, performing risk analysis and risk budgeting exercises, and monitoring portfolio performance and compliance.
Mr. Fellers is a member of the CFA Institute and was awarded the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 2000. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Brigham Young University.
Principal
Mr. Lautman has more than 30 years of experience as a professional economic developer. He has designed and managed four economic development programs that procured more than 80 corporate locations, accounting for more than 15,000 new jobs, 6 million square feet of industrial space, and $11 billion in new investment.
Mr. Lautman is former Chairman of the New Mexico Economic Development Commission, 2000-2010. Most recently, Mr. Lautman was Vice President of Economic Development of Mesa del Sol where his business unit was responsible for recruiting Albuquerque Studios, Schott Solar, Fidelity Investments and several other businesses. Mr. Lautman’s previous New Mexico economic development assignments include Santa Teresa, Rio Rancho and Grants.
Mr. Lautman’s recent consulting projects include Spaceport America, Artesia Chamber of Commerce, San Juan County, Cibola County, Rio Rancho Economic Development Corporation, Oklahoma City, and Vermillion, SD. Mr. Lautman currently leads the New Mexico Legislature’s Interim Jobs Council and is consulting with Sandoval County in the development of a comprehensive economic/workforce development program. In addition, Mr. Lautman’s consulting business, Lautman Economic Architecture, LLC, works with community leaders to transform community economies and elevate the professional practice of economic and workforce development.
Mr. Lautman is the author of “When the Boomers Bail: A Community Economic Survival Guide.” He is a founding director of the Community Economics Lab, a private not-for-profit think tank that innovates new approaches for economic development in labor and capital constrained economies. Mr. Lautman is a 1971 graduate of the University of New Mexico in Economics, Architecture and Geography, and a former Peace Corps volunteer.
Secretary and General Counsel
Mr. Singer is a licensed attorney in the state of New Mexico and is Of Counsel with Keleher & McLeod, P.A., based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His areas of practice include national and international business, finance and economic development, technology transfer and entertainment law. Mr. Singer also represents major banks, credit unions and other financial institutions in various commercial, transactional and regulatory matters.
Mr. Singer has gained significant experience in international trade and commerce and has worked on major economic development projects throughout the United States, Mexico and greater Latin America, Europe and Asia. He founded and served as President of International Arts and Technologies, Ltd., which represented domestic and offshore companies seeking international business and investment partners in a variety of industries. Also in that time, Mr. Singer served on the US District Export Council; was a Presidential Appointee to the US Department of Commerce Small Business Advisory Council; and chaired a major White House conference on international trade issues.
Mr. Singer has been involved in numerous multimillion-dollar projects around the country, including for the Choctaw tribe in Mississippi, the Viejas tribe in California, the Navajo nation, the Laguna Pueblo and the Zuni Pueblo in New Mexico. These ventures include theme parks and attractions, casinos and resort hotels, renewable energy installations and banking endeavors.
Mr. Singer was also among the founders of the World Law Institute with honorary chairmen that included former President Jimmy Carter and former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev. The mission of WLI is to train lawyers from former Soviet countries in the rule of law. Mr. Singer has served as trustee of the University of Albuquerque and on the board of the Catholic University of America School of Law in Washington, D. C., where he received his law degree. In law school, he was employed by the Senior New Mexico Senator in the United States Senate.
Principal
Ms. Scott served as the President of the Rio Rancho Economic Development Corporation (RREDC) from 1994 to 2014. In that 20-year period, Rio Rancho’s population grew from 28,000 to more than 100,000. The RREDC team oversaw the location and expansion of 63 companies and added more than 15,000 jobs to the region. The location of quality companies like Sprint, Hewlett Packard, Victoria’s Secret, Alliance Data, Bank of America and many others along with three expansions of the Intel Corporation made Rio Rancho the go-to location in New Mexico. Currently the New Mexico Economic Catalyst Foundation continues New Mexico focused location and expansion services along with training statewide.
Ms. Scott spearheaded the organization and implementation of the Rural Economic Development Forum and was a New Mexico representative to the Council of Governors Policy Advisors Rural Academy. She is also a founding member of the New Mexico Economic Development Institute at Western New Mexico University and currently serves on the faculty of the Economic Development Institute. She has served on the faculty of the Economic Development at the University of Minnesota in Duluth and the Economic Development Institute in Norman, Oklahoma. She is also past chair and has served on the Education and Certification committee for the International Economic Development Council.
Ms. Scott holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Journalism from Mundelein College, Loyola University in Chicago, a Master’s Degree in Guidance and Counseling from Western New Mexico University, and is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma Economic Development Institute. She has served on the boards of directors of the United Way, the New Mexico Rural Alliance, the Rio Rancho Chamber of Commerce, the Center for Hands on Learning, the International Women’s Forum, and Presbyterian Hospital, among others, and was a member of the Board of Regents at Western New Mexico University from 2004 to 2012.
Vice President – Operations
Mr. Guerrero – Cordero comes to investUS from the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center (AFNWC), where he served as a Program Manager. There Mr. Guerrero – Cordero mapped the relationship and responsibilities of a joint program of more than 10 government agencies and department in order to align priorities, schedules, and risks, and optimize communications throughout. Additionally, he led acquisition efforts to provide support to the AFNWC legacy systems and acquisition programs.
Prior to that Mr. Guerrero – Cordero was a Contract Specialist with the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL) Directed Energy Directorate located at Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In this role, he was responsible for various types of acquisitions from small contractual agreements with universities and Small Business Innovative Research programs to multimillion-dollar efforts. At AFRL Mr. Guerrero – Cordero developed a $25 Million interagency agreement between the AFRL and Sandia National Laboratories and contributed to a $175M sole-source acquisition, for which he provided direct support throughout the process, from market research to competitor evaluation and contract award.
Mr. Guerrero – Cordero is active in community organizations such as TEDxABQ, where he volunteers as a speaker coach, and is a member of the Community Economics Laboratory, a “Think Tank-Do” focused on empowering government and communities to improve New Mexico’s economy and enhance its future. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Studies from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, achieving five minors (in Homeland Security, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, International Relations, Business Administration and Corporate Finance) while participating in several cultural and business exchange programs in China, France and Laos. He also obtained a master’s degree in entertainment business from Full Sail University, during which he spent several years in the entertainment industry as a Communications Manager and photographer.
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