Managing Partner, Co-Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Investment Officer
Kade Thomas
Kade serves as Emory Oak’s Managing Partner, Co-Chief Executive Officer, and Chief Investment Officer. He has nearly a decade of investment and operations experience in real estate, operating companies, public equity markets, and credit strategies, having previously led or co-led 11 investment funds focused on real estate, real estate-related essential service companies, and credit. Earlier in his career, Mr. Thomas acquired a commercial landscape construction business as owner-operator and grew the company’s top-line revenue by more than 1,000 percent. Mr. Thomas currently serves on the Real Estate Center Executive Advisory Council for The University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business, on the university’s Longhorn Foundation Advisory Council and DKR Advisory Board, and on the board of directors for Ronald McDonald House Charities. In coordination with the launch of Emory Oak, he founded the Emory Oak Initiative for Financial Literacy to promote financial literacy skills for company personnel and student-athletes at the university. Mr. Thomas graduated with highest honors from The University of Texas at Austin with bachelor’s degrees in business and finance.
Co-Chief Executive Officer, and General Counsel
Mr. Marty Meekins
Marty serves as Emory Oak’s Co-Chief Executive Officer, and General Counsel. He has over 25 years of financial strategy, business management, technology, and legal affairs experience, having most recently served for more than a decade as Partner, Chief Operating Officer, and General Counsel at a large multi-strategy investment manager. Mr. Meekins previously served in various legal roles at financial services and investment firms focused on digital strategies, mergers and acquisitions, real estate and finance transactions, and complex regulatory matters, among others. Mr. Meekins is an active advisor at The University of Texas at Austin, including as Co-Chair of the McCombs School of Business Center for Leadership and Ethics Executive Advisory Council, which includes the AI and machine learning-focused Business of Sports Institute. He is also a member of the McCombs School of Business Real Estate Center’s Executive Advisory Council and the Dean’s Advisory Council for the College of Liberal Arts. Mr. Meekins graduated from The University of Texas at Austin as a Dean’s Distinguished Graduate with a bachelor’s degree in Plan II with high honors and obtained his Juris Doctorate and Master of Business Administration from The University of Texas at Austin’s School of Law and McCombs School of Business, respectively.