WHO WE ARE

Phillip Dotzinski, is a co-founding partner of xEquity Group, he is entrusted with executive leadership in conducting the strategic direction across the organizational framework. His role is to provide oversight for all aspects of xEquity's operational landscape, ensuring optimal alignment between people, systems, and assets. Centering on portfolio properties, developments, and owned subsidiary companies, Phillip's executive decision-making drives the unique, value-driven principles that characterize xEquity, enhancing investor returns and experiences.

He holds a strategic role in executive oversight of our development and acquisition projects, where he is responsible for project entitlements encompassing site scoping, architectural planning, governmental liaisons, builder relationships, and construction management. In portfolio assets, he maintains supervision over our property management division, ensuring seamless and efficient operational processes that yield exceptional returns and unparalleled customer service.

Phillip has 17+ years of diversified experience in real estate across investment & acquisitions, property management, renovations, as well as new developments and construction for multifamily apartments. As a serial entrepreneur, he has launched a variety of businesses across real estate, manufacturing, consumer/retail, technology and investments.  He is the founder of a family of vertically integrated companies in construction, remodeling, and manufacturing that serve the multifamily sector in Tampa Bay, FL.  Phillip holds Specialization Certification in Alternative Investments, Accounting, and Finance from Harvard Business School Online, along with Computer Science Certification and a State Certified General Contractor license (#CGC1526762).

Gary A. Tave, P.E. with over 35 years in facilities acquisition, design, construction, strategic operations, and disposal, holds unparalleled expertise and mastery in the real estate investment sector. Upon retirement from active duty as Commander, U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps in 2008, Gary meticulously curated a self-managed real estate portfolio in Tampa Bay, Florida that grew from 40 to over 500 units valued at more than $100 million.  Always focused on the market, he divested much of that portfolio during the pandemic-fueled price spike of 2020-21, and is now focused on new, ground-up development with a current pipeline of six projects representing 630 residential units and approximately $110 million of new construction.

During his Navy career, beginning as nuclear propulsion technician before earning a commission as an officer in the Civil Engineer Corps, Gary was responsible for over $2 billion in construction projects including several thousand units of all types of housing as well as a full spectrum of commercial and industrial projects on four continents requiring extensive knowledge emerging technologies of the time and always requiring complex logistics and precise cost control.  Over 20 years, beginning as a field construction manager, and culminating as Assistant Chief of Staff for Training of the 70,000 members of the Naval construction force and other shore forces, he has always focused on optimizing project budget, schedule and quality to meet mission requirements.

Gary’s other credentials include a BS in Nuclear Engineering from Oregon State University, an MS in Civil Engineering, and an MS in Finance from the University of Maryland, and an EMS from the Advanced Management Program of Tench Francis Business School at University of Georgia.  Gary is a licensed Professional Engineer (PE72732) and Building Contractor (CBC1259574) in Florida.

In a career spanning over 40 years, Matt has worked in the aviation, banking, lease finance and telecommunications industries. He was an Executive Advisor with business services firm Booz Allen Hamilton, and a Senior Consultant with economics and business advisors Charles River Associates. He has advised senior government officials on industrial policy, including Senate testimony. He is the founder and former CEO of Indigo, the nation’s first corporate jet airline backed by American Express Corporation and Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica SA (“Embraer”). He negotiated and arranged asset and structured finance including related industrial real estate.

In addition to the commercial aviation sector, he worked in private banking with Merrill Lynch & Company and in the telecommunications industry with AT&T International in wireless and privatization projects in Central and Eastern Europe totaling over $US4B. He has lived and worked in Moscow, Warsaw, Brussels, Paris, and Frankfurt. He has written over one hundred publications concerning venture investment and corporate finance and is a contributor to The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, and the Financial Times, and has been featured in The Journal of Private Equity, Institutional Investor, Fortune, Time, The Economist, Fast Company; CNN, CBS, ABC and Bloomberg. He is a jet-rated Airline Transport Pilot and received an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.