Trey brings 15 years of experience to The Expert Companies in strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, capital fund raising, business development, franchising and financial operations management. Trey earned an MBA from Southern Methodist University with an emphasis in Real Estate Finance.

Trey oversees Expert’s strategic partnerships, new business initiatives and growth strategies. He is President of Expert Development, which focuses on build-to-suit projects, value-added retrofit and re-tenant opportunities, and equity opportunities for other developments. Expert Development is committed to capitalizing on the experience and success of its partners, including leveraging Surplus Real Estate's ability to maximize the value for excess portfolios.

Previous Experience
Trey grew up in the family businesses of franchising, energy, banking, travel and entertainment industries. With his exposure to and involvement in these ventures, Trey garnered valuable experience including:

• Growing, operating, and divesting of the oldest travel agency franchisor in the country – International Tours. International Tours was comprised of over 1000 franchise and affiliate locations grossing over $2 billion in sales before it was sold in 1999 to the public travel company,Travelbyus (Nasdeq: TRIP).

• Acquiring, developing, structuring, and financing a 17-mile natural gas pipeline in the Dallas Fort Worth area.

• Acquiring and developing a $12 million limited stakes casino in Central City, Colorado.

• Operating and restructuring a public gaming company (North American Gaming and Entertainment Company) that generated $22 million in annual revenue and managed over $10 million in retail real estate in Louisiana. While Trey served as interim COO and CFO, he was able to increase net income 15% (approximately $700,000).

• Acquisition of the second largest cruise-only franchise system in the country, and then assisting in tripling the number of locations in two years (25 to 76) and growing system-wide cruise sales to $200 million.

• Portfolio management of $1.2 billion in mortgage back securities for the largest Savings & Loan in Oklahoma (Sooner Federal Savings & Loan) in the late 80's.

Apart from the family businesses, Trey served in executive roles in two large Top 100 travel companies and experienced the early stages of the e-commerce developments.

• As CFO of Passport Travel, Trey successfully reduced overhead by 23% in one year while generating significant additional cash flow by disposing of unprofitable accounts yielding a total annual cost savings of $1.2 million.

• As COO of ITRAVEL, Trey was responsible for streamlining and reducing overhead 30% and centralizing the 44 locations into one. He played a key role in landing and implementing the $20 million Sprint PCS account – the largest travel account in the company’s 32 year history.

Most recently, Trey served as Investor and Vice President of eBusiness Development for ITRAVEL where he championed the e-commerce sales strategies through channel development and strategic partnerships. ITRAVEL was a national travel company that transformed it's 32 year old traditional model into a 15 million venture funded internet travel management company. Trey played a key role in securing the venture capital funding as well as securing the strategic funding from an AOL partner (Purchase Pro). Trey's biggest success came from this partnership with AOL /Netscape where ITRAVEL become their preferred online travel service provider giving ITRAVEL access to over 3,000,000 small to middle size businesses. He also played a critical role in helping drive online adoption to over 50% for business users.

Education
University of Kansas - BS in Business Administration
Southern Methodist University - MBA - Real Estate Finance