Our People.
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Andy Cates is the Managing Member of Value Acquisition Fund and the General Partner of RVC USA, LP (a related company). Cates began his real estate career in Dallas, Texas, where he worked as an Analyst in Trammell Crow Company’s Capital Markets Group. After two years there, he became an Associate for Crow Family Holdings, the Trammell Crow Family’s ownership and asset management vehicle also based in Dallas. At Crow, he was a member of a team responsible for partnership and loan workouts, office and industrial acquisitions, asset management, and commercial development. In 1996, Cates was a founding partner of Viceroy Investments, LLC which has been the General Partner in over $120 Million of commercial real estate transactions.
In 1999, Cates relocated to his hometown of Memphis, Tennessee, to develop the Soulsville Revitalization Project as its Project Developer and Board Chairman. This $30 Million nonprofit project includes the Stax Museum of American Soul Music and The Stax Music Academy (www.soulsvillefoundation.org). Both buildings, as well as the Soulsville Charter School, serve as anchors for what is now one of the largest inner city revitalization projects in the country.
In the summer of 2000, Cates began working with a team of business and civic leaders attempting to attract the Vancouver Grizzlies National Basketball Association franchise to Memphis, Tennessee. The “Pursuit Team” was successful in its efforts, and Cates became a member of the local ownership group that purchased a minority interest in the franchise.
Cates earned a Bachelor of Business Administration (Finance) degree from the University of Texas at Austin and was inducted into the Order of Omega National Honor Society and the Omicron Delta Kappa Leadership Society. In 2001, he was inducted into Lambda Alpha International, an honorary land economics society. In addition to serving as a Board Member of Pioneer Natural Resources (PXD: NYSE), Cates serves on the boards of the Soulsville Foundation, Soulsville Charter School, and the Memphis Grizzlies Charitable Foundation.
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Gladys is the Office Manager and Research Analyst for Val Fund and RVC USA (a related company). Gladys graduated from the University of Tennessee at Martin with a degree in Business Administration. After working twenty years in telecommunications, Gladys managed an Executive Suites business before joining Val Fund.
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Yale has been in the hospitality industry since retiring from full-time professional ski jumping in 1990 and has served in various management roles for Harrah’s, Hilton, and Caesar’s, including Director of Hotel Operations for Caesar’s Tahoe. Yale was also responsible for Harrah’s Post Hurricane Katrina Relief Operations. Before joining ValFund (Director of Operations for RVC USA, a related company), he served as Vice President of Operations responsible for all Harrah’s hotel properties in Tunica, Mississippi.