Allan Dunne, Owner and CEO

 

Allan is Chief Executive Officer of Dunne Investments, Inc., a private family-owned business based in Wichita, KS.  He is responsible for oversight of management and capital investment.  The company is focused on real estate investment throughout the country as well as limited crude oil & natural gas exploration and production investment opportunities primarily in the Mid-Continent region.

 

Dunne Investments currently owns or manages real estate in Wichita and Lawrence, KS.  The company’s energy portfolio consists of holdings throughout Kansas and Oklahoma, eastern Colorado and Alaska’s north slope.  In addition to its two primary investment vehicles, Dunne Investments has also invested in several other alternative investment categories, including venture capital, private equity and private note investments.

 

Prior to returning to Wichita in 2006, Allan was a Senior Real Estate Analyst in Holliday Fenoglio Fowler’s (HFF) Dallas office, where he helped raise capital for commercial real estate assets of all different types.  He valued commercial real estate for debt and equity purposes in all of the four major property types as well as hospitality, self-storage, regional mall and development land.  Allan was fortunate to work on approximately $1 billion in closed equity and debt transactions during his three and a half years with HFF.

 

He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from The University of Kansas and a Masters in Business Administration (with concentrations in Real Estate Finance and Entrepreneurship) from The University of Texas at Austin.

 

Allan is an Advisory Member on the University of Texas Real Estate Finance and Investment Council (REFIC).  He has volunteered with several other organizations over the past twelve years, including the Sedgwick County Zoo, Visioneering Wichita, Wichita Collegiate School, Wichita Rotary Charitable Fund and Youth Entrepreneurs.

 

He has been married to his wife Nicole since 1999, and they have two children, Charlie (age 15) and Darcy (age 14).  In his spare time, Allan enjoys traveling with his family, playing golf and tennis, reading, coaching basketball and fly-fishing.