Our Team

Jason’s work has included financial feasibility analysis, investment deal structuring and capital aggregation for a wide range of hotel and resort developments in the United State, Caribbean, Mexico and South America; economic and fiscal impact evaluation in support of public investment in real estate and natural resource development programs; valuation, accounting, economic and monetary damages assessment in support of expert witness testimony in commercial litigation matters and market and supply/demand evaluations to support of real estate development planning and programming.

Jason graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a B.Sc. degree in Resource Economics. He completed his M.Sc. degree in Resource Economics at the University of California at Davis with an emphasis in quantitative methods. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation from the CFA Institute, and is a Certified Public Account (CPA) licensed in California.

Prior to joining EKN, Arya worked as a financial analyst for a mid-market investment bank in New York City.  Arya also worked for the Financial-Economic Institute as a financial research analyst specializing in equity research and portfolio and asset management. In addition to this, Arya is a published author for Seeking Alpha and continues to publish papers specializing in macroeconomic analysis, real estate economics, and company valuation analysis. Arya has been ranked on Seeking Alpha as a top 100 author in the world in the categories of Initial Public Offerings (19th), Cryptocurrencies (42nd), Commodities and Other Derivatives (47th), Short Ideas (83rd), and Technology (97th).

​​​​​​Arya graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Finance. Arya’s thesis involved the development of a geo-political risk-augmented capital asset pricing model and used a Fama-Macbeth regression with Newly-West standard errors to analyze the model’s effect on long-term security returns.

​​​​​​​During his time at Claremont McKenna, Arya served as the CEO of the Claremont McKenna College Student Investment Fund, which actively manages over $2.8 million of the Claremont McKenna College endowment and is one of the largest undergraduate student investment funds in the world. Under Arya’s leadership, the Fund saw an asset under management increase of over $1 million.

His early employment as a development manager with Marriott made him familiar with responsibilities ranging from asset acquisition to project management through the design and construction phases. With his work as the regional vice president of Intrawest Corporation, Tom realized his interest in and love for community development and has since honed his skill set to continue that work. Throughout his acquisition and development career, he has been responsible for managing hundreds of millions of dollars. He has been integral in the successful inception and completion of several mix-use projects. As the SVP of Development for EKN Development Group, Tom will continue to take the initiative to move projects forward. 

Tom takes responsibility and oversight for the delivery of large complex projects.  In this role, he provides senior oversight across the end-to-end project lifecycle (e.g. Planning thru Occupancy). He works closely with internal clients, and key stakeholder groups to gather inputs to the project’s goals and manages this plan throughout the process.  Tom provides leadership and direction to the teams to ensure projects are effectively and efficiently organized and delivered on time, on budget, with high-quality outcomes and high customer satisfaction. 

Balancing confidence with humility to transform sites into places, is a skill that Tom has honed over his career.  Real estate development can be a complex tapestry of connections and negotiations, filings, and approvals. Tom understands first hand the challenges and opportunities that are faced to transform ideas into realities. Collective insights in design, construction, real estate ownership, and management allow him to work through complexities and manage every aspect of a project.  From site analysis and acquisitions to economic incentive structuring and negotiations, he has this covered. 

Tom earned a Bachelor’s and MBA with an emphasis in Finance from Brigham Young University.  

Evan graduated from Claremont Mckenna College with a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Applied Mathematics. In his time there he was able to co-author a paper in the mathematical field of knot theory.

While at CMC, Evan co-founded the Blockchain Investment Group, a club focused on sifting through and investing in the ICO and cryptocurrency space.

With more than 10 years of full cycle accounting experience, Ronald has lead and supported organizations that specialize in manufacturing, retail/e-commerce, technology, and engineering/construction. Before EKN Development, he oversaw the accounting and finance department at XG Inc, which under his tenure deployed more than 300 of the first 5G constructions for markets in Northern California and Missouri. There he created models and budget forecast to control cost and monitor performance. Accounting and finance has not been his only specialties but also has helped firms create and administer HR services for employees like company handbooks, health benefits, profit-sharing, retirement savings, and other retention programs. At the University of California, Riverside, he majored in U.S. History and minored in Accounting.