ABOUT
An Experienced Team Focused on Your Success
IN BUSINESS FOR 20+ YEARS, the partners of Peregrine have extensive experience in the various aspects of real estate development including site selection, acquisition, debt/equity financing, public/private partnerships, community and stakeholder engagement, design, engineering, permitting, project management, construction, leasing and property management.
As Real Estate Advisors and Project Managers, who also own, develop and manage properties, Peregrine brings a comprehensive understanding of the development process life-cycle and the challenges and opportunities that exist in every phase. Based in Rumford, Rhode Island, Peregrine brings a regional presence with national experience across multiple facility types.
Colin Kane
Founding Partner
Colin is a founding partner of Peregrine Group LLC, Peregrine Real Estate Advisory LLC and Peregrine Property Management LLC. Founded in 2001, Peregrine is a real estate development, property management, and third party advisory firm with offices in Rumford, RI; Newport, RI; and Boston, MA.
Colin is Peregrine's lead partner for project transactional activities, project planning, asset acquisition, leasing, permitting/due diligence, and debt/equity capitalization.
Prior to Peregrine, Colin worked for Gilbane Properties and as a naval officer serving as a Flag Lieutenant and division officer stationed aboard USS KIDD (DDG-993). Colin has broad experience in development and project management, including successful projects throughout the United States and overseas over the past twenty-two years. Successful projects include commercial office, medical office, mixed-use campuses, historic rehabs, multi-family housing, hospitality venues, planned communities, large-scale corporate and institutional build-to-suits, waterfront development and brownfield redevelopment.
Colin is a Managing Member of Peregrine Group's asset portfolio. Current projects include office, retail, multi-family, medical, and hospitality projects throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Colin has been a guest lecturer on real estate development at Harvard Law School, Harvard Business School, The Graduate School of Design at Harvard, Brown University, and Roger Williams University.
Academic
- The United States Naval Academy (B.S. of Science with Distinction)
- Georgetown University (M.A)
- Harvard Business School (MBA)
Affiliations
- Board of Directors, BankNewport
- Board of Directors, Delta Dental of Rhode Island
- Former Admiral for the Rhode Island Commodores
- Former Chairman of the 195 Redevelopment Commission in Providence, RI
- Combat Veteran of Operation Desert Storm
Jordan Stone
Founding Partner
Jordan is a founding partner of Peregrine Group LLC, Peregrine Real Estate Advisory LLC, and Peregrine Property Management LLC. Founded in 2001, Peregrine is a real estate development, property management and third party advisory firm with offices in Rumford, RI; Newport, RI; and Boston, MA.
Jordan is Peregrine's lead partner in the physical conceptualization, planning, budgeting, and delivery of projects. Prior to Peregrine (1985-1988) Jordan was a project manager for Mark Development, the construction division of The Flatley Company, Braintree, MA. From 1988 until 2001 Jordan was vice-president of his family's manufacturing (Norwood Stamping Co, Norwood, MA) and real estate interests.
Jordan has broad experience in real estate development, construction, and project management, including successful projects throughout the United States and Mexico over the past twenty years. Some of the previously completed projects include The Ocean House, a $150 million replication of a historic beachfront hotel in Watch Hill, RI, the $56 million dollar mixed-use renovation/new construction of the former Rumford Chemical Works in East Providence, RI and the completion of The Parkside on Adams apartment building in Roslindale Square, MA. And 1943 Dot Ave apartment building in Dorchester, MA.
Current projects include numerous multi-family, mixed-use, medical, and hospitality projects throughout Massachusetts and Rhode Island
Jordan has been a guest lecturer on real estate development at Harvard Law School, The Graduate School of Design at Harvard, Mass College of Art and Design, and Roger Williams University.
Academic
- The University of Rochester (B.A. in Political Science)
Affiliations
- Board of Directors, Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras
- Board of Directors, The Rhode Island Builders Association
- Trustee at Hebrew Senior Life serving on various committees
Samuel Bradner
Managing Partner
Sam is a managing partner at with Peregrine Group LLC and Peregrine Real Estate Advisory LLC. Headquartered in Rumford, Rhode Island, with offices also located in Newport, Rhode Island and Boston, Massachusetts.
As the managing partner for all third-party advisory services, Sam brings more than 20 years of land-use planning, development, policy and construction experience in both the public and private sectors.
Prior to Peregrine, Sam was a development director with Struever Bros. Eccles and Rouse, a developer that specialized in historic tax credit development in seven cities throughout the United States. As development director, his responsibilities included managing and negotiating the commercial development process, including design, acquisition, scheduling, New Market and historic tax credit financing and implementation for redevelopment projects throughout the New England region. In addition, he facilitated new business opportunities and planning initiatives in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Sam just completed the four-year, $120 million Rhode Island Veterans Home in Bristol, RI where he has provided leadership in all aspects of the project from designer selection, concept development, contractor selection all the way through the ribbon cutting and move in November 2017.
Academic
- University of Rhode Island (Bachelor of Landscape Architecture)
- The University of Maryland (Masters in Public Policy)
Affiliations
- Board of Directors, GrowSmart RI
- Board of Directors, Distributed Generation Board
- Trustee for the Providence Foundation
- 2018 graduate of Leadership Rhode Island
Eric Busch
Managing Partner
Eric is a Managing Partner at The Peregrine Group LLC and Peregrine Real Estate Advisory LLC. He works with a diverse set of clients and partners in all aspects of project management and project implementation. Eric often leads and supports strategy formulation, business planning, feasibility, finance/capitalization and process/critical path definition.
Previously, he was the Founder/Principal of Rustpoint Advisory, LLC, a RI-based boutique real estate development consulting firm. After partnering on engagements for many years, Rustpoint and Peregrine merged in January of 2017 in order to establish a larger and more diversified advisory platform.
Eric has a long track record of managing large-scale private, for-profit real estate projects, public and institutional engagements as well as impactful, non-profit neighborhood-scale economic efforts. His role often includes public/private partnerships, as well as complex economic modeling and financing strategies. Through decades of experience, he employs and maintains a clear focus on process-based solutions. Eric specializes in helping clients work through complicated issues in a pragmatic and thoughtful manner. His background in finance leads to an emphasis on practical, executable solutions.
Prior to starting Rustpoint Advisory in 2009, Eric was Development Director at a national planning, development and construction firm for five years. His primary responsibility was the development management of a complicated, multi-phased, historic, Brownfield project in Providence, RI. - from initial acquisition, team selection and master planning through entitlements, financing and construction. Before relocating to Rhode Island in 2004, he held a position as a Real Estate Associate for a private equity firm in San Francisco. His role was to identify investment opportunities, perform economic /market analysis, outline risks and to complete due diligence in order to define equity and mezzanine investments. Eric was also an Analyst/Consultant for the City of Oakland (CA) Community and Economic Development Agency. In that position, he worked with non-profit and for-profit real estate developers in organizing and structuring projects seeking private, tax credit, federal, state, and local funding mechanisms.
Prior to those roles, he spent five years at Accenture in Washington, DC as a Senior Process Consultant in the capital markets industry. Eric's role was to enact a process-based approach to complexity reduction, metric definition, new process innovation, and strategic cost reduction for financial services companies throughout the US and Europe.
Academic
- James Madison University, BBA; Finance with a Concentration in Real Estate (magna cum laude)
- University of California - Berkeley, Master of Business Administration; Haas School of Business
- Certificate in Real Estate, Multi-disciplinary graduate coursework in Law, City Planning, Architecture and Public Policy
Affiliations
- Adjunct Professor: Roger Williams University School of Architecture, Art and Historic Preservation; Project Development & Finance
- Former Chairman, Sustainable Cities, RI Green Building Council
- Founding Board Member & Founding Treasurer, Hope & Main | Culinary Business Incubator
Mark Hartonchik, CPA, CGMA
Chief Financial Officer
Mark is responsible for all accounting, human resources, and technology activities for the advisory practice and related entities, which include more than $150 million in assets under management.
Prior to joining the Peregrine Group in 2015, Mark was the Controller for a multi-faceted services company in RI. He also gained expertise as the Finance Director and CFO for a large non-profit organization with an annual operating budget of over $20M.
Mark brings over two decades of accounting and operational experience to help support and lead Peregrine, as well as to provide asset management support services for dozens of real estate entities.
Christian Rubeck
Senior Project Manager
Christian brings over 30 years of experience in the construction industry as a Project Manager and Owner's Representative with him to Peregrine. He holds a successful record overseeing a wide range of commercial construction projects at various locations up and down the East Coast.
Christian has worked on many large scale projects including currently managing the Barrington Middle School and the Villages at Mount Hope Bay. Previous projects include, Massachusetts College of Art high rise residence in Boston, the luxury residence at Waterplace Towers and the Rising Sun Mills commercial fit-out, both located in Providence, Rhode Island. Other projects took him into NYC, New Haven CT and Baltimore MD. Christian is comfortable managing multiple team partners and working towards common project goals of scheduling and budget demands.
An artist at heart with a keen sense of design, Christian pulls from his interior design, sculpture and construction background to work with Architects, Owners and General Contractors to realize the project vision while staying within the bounds of budget and schedule. Highlights in the role of owner's representative include the Annie E. Casey Foundation's expansion to Charles Street in Baltimore, MD which won the Builders Congress Award. After that successful project, Christian was asked to continue his role as owner's rep for the Casey Family Services project in New Haven CT.
After graduating from the Mercersburg Academy in Pennsylvania, Christian went onto Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA to pursue a Fine Arts education with a focus on Interior design and Sculpture.
Rachel Bauman
Project Manager
Rachael joined Peregrine Group in 2015 as a Project Manager. Since joining the team, she has taken a leadership position in many of our institutional and development projects. Rachael possesses an intrinsic ability with project processes and organization, as well as development of administrative delivery protocols. She has distinguished herself as a team leader across several projects, specializing in budget development and management. Her responsibilities span from pre-development through completion and has played a significant role in delivering several projects on time and within budget.
Additionally, Rachael has led the FF&E development process for several of our primary medical and academic clients. This has entailed developing written formats for thorough tracking for highly technical FF&E items, as well as coordinating results and approvals across multiple end-users groups.
Rachael works with a diverse array of our clients across many project types and serves both in leadership and support roles, as needed.
Prior to joining Peregrine Group Rachael was a project administrator with Mill Creek Residential Trust and Charles River Contracting, where her roles included submittal management, contract administration, budget and schedule development as well as lease generation.
Rachael is a graduate of Boston University with a degree in English, Bridgewater State University with a focus in Education & Mental Health and from Northwestern University with a focus in Political Science. She is currently receiving certifications from Boston University in their Real Estate Development & Finance Programs.
Abigail Jones
Project Manager
Abigail joined Peregrine in 2016 as a Project Manager. Since joining the team, she has been supporting multiple projects on and off site for the team. Abigail comes to us from CBRE/NE where she provided administrative and site support to projects within their Massachusetts portfolio.
Prior to working with CBRE/NE, she was an Urban Planning and Design Intern for City of Central Falls, where she proposed a Growth Center Amendment aimed at redeveloping the City's historic mill buildings and a set of Main Street Design Guidelines targeting the revitalization efforts of the City's dominant arteries.
She earned her degree in Urban Studies from Brown University with coursework including land use, the built environment, urban planning, architecture, and law.
Erik Andrutis
Project Manager
Erik joined Peregrine in 2010. With his ability to adapt to highly demanding situations, and strong quantitative, analytical, and problem solving skills, Erik has managed projects all throughout Rhode Island and Southern Massachusetts. Erik just completed the $120.5 million Rhode Island Veterans Home and is currently providing on-site project management and clerk of the works services at the Barrington Middle School project in Barrington, Rhode Island. Erik is responsible for QA/QC, vendor coordination and day-to-day reporting and coordination with the construction, design and ownership teams.
Prior to joining the team at Peregrine, Erik held the position of Assistant Project Manager and Project Engineer at New England Construction Company in Rumford, Rhode Island. Here he worked on projects from $1 million to $9 million and spent 50% of his time in the field. Erik handled all submittals, RFIs, drawing logs, transmittals, and change requests. He also assisted the company's procurement department in takeoffs and scoping potential subcontractors. Erik was also a Project Engineer on sites such as the renovation of Home & Hospice in Providence, the new construction of multiple ALDI Supermarkets, and the Lincoln School interior renovation in Providence.
Mark Peters
Project Manager
Mark joined Peregrine Group in 2014 as a Project Manager. With over 20 years experience in the construction industry, he is a valuable part of the Peregrine team. Mark recently worked with the State of Rhode Island along with the Department of Administration and Capitol Projects, where he managed multiple historical renovation projects at the Pastore Complex in Cranston, RI.
Mark is currently overseeing a $14 million interior/exterior senior housing renovation in Brookline, Massachusetts. Prior to Peregrine, he was a Regional Facilities Manager for Peregrine Property Management, Peregrine Group's sister company and Manager for O'Neill Properties where he oversaw the development of the Carnegie Abbey Club and Carnegie Tower located in Portsmouth, RI. Mark was responsible for overseeing the construction of multiple multi-million dollar homes and a 25 story high rise tower inside the gated community of Carnegie Abbey.
Anne DaSilva
Senior Project Manager
Anne brings over 20 years of experience in Project Management in construction and real estate development. She has worked closely with clients nationally and internationally in taking projects from inception through completion. From managing all aspects of site and team selection, project design, furniture selection, construction, close-out and turnover, her success with keeping a project on time and on budget has proven valuable to owners and partners throughout the industry.
Anne is often involved early in the construction process with clients to assist with design and value engineering while maintaining the client's vision. Her ability to facilitate necessary permits and approvals enable her to complete complicated and fast tracked projects. Anne's most recent experience includes a role as Project Manager for Brown University, Senior Real Estate Manager for IGT/GTECH in supporting and expanding their global infrastructure. She holds a B.S. Architecture and Building Technology.
Erica (Kreuter) Schechter
Project Manager
Erica is a Project Manager at the Peregrine Group LLC and she joins the team after having spent nearly ten years working in economic development for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and brings her knowledge of public financing tools.
Before joining Peregrine, Erica was Director of the MassWorks Infrastructure Program and brings a depth of knowledge on working with key agencies and permitting entities in Massachusetts and the City of Boston. In addition to interagency coordination, program management included external stakeholder engagement through public forums, events, or meetings.
While overseeing the program MassWorks invested in several Boston project including the Neighborhood of Affordable Housing, Inc.'s Coppersmith Village, the Jamaica Plain NDC's Jackson Commons, and Dorchester Bay EDC's Bornstein and Pearl Food Production Small Business Center. Erica worked closely with the Boston Planning and Development Agency and the Department of Neighborhood Development to ensure compliance with state funding and fiscal requirements through contracting and the review and approval of project requisitions and project closeout.
Erica also spent time in political strategies and community engagement while working at Dewey Square Group and as Regional Field Director for Governor Deval Patrick's second Gubernatorial Campaign.
Mary Cummings
Project Manager
Mary is a Project Manager at Peregrine Group; she joined the team after spending 10 years working in the architecture and construction industries. She brings both architectural and construction project management experience. Mary has led teams through both the design phase and construction process. Having experience in both project sectors allows Mary to better understand all parties' interests and focus on all team members objectives and priorities.
Mary has worked on projects ranging from 2000 SF to 1 million SF, in a wide range of project types including mixed-use development, multi-family housing, community development, and historic renovation, and restoration. Mary has managed multiple project budgets and timelines concurrently, including projects with budgets exceeding twenty million dollars and completion timelines of 5 years.
While at Peregrine Group Mary's project focus has been on housing, hotels, and charter schools. Mary is currently working with two charter schools with varying project scope. One school's scope includes master planning and implementation for a Lower and Upper School including design professional procurement, property acquisition, RIDE approval, and a multi-phase estimating and construction schedule. The current project budget is $12 million dollars with a 5-year phased construction timeline. The second school's scope of work includes a summer renovation to an existing unoccupied building. Renovations to include MEP upgrades, interior finish updates, and accessibility updates including a new elevator.
Mary holds a Bachelor of Architecture from Boston Architectural College.
Chris Cardarelli
Real Estate Associate
Chris Cardarelli is an Associate at the Peregrine Group. Chris is involved in Peregrine's asset portfolio. He is responsible for performing market research, evaluating potential asset acquisitions, assisting with the due diligence, and underwriting processes, assessing property lease agreements, and providing transaction advisory services.
Prior to joining Peregrine, Chris was a Manager at Ernst and Young LLP within their audit group, working with a broad range of clients, including real estate funds, real estate investment trusts and publicly traded companies.
Chris holds a B.S. in Business Administration and Master of Professional Accountancy from Bryant University. Chris also holds an M.B.A. from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.
Jennifer Vinnitti
Marketing Consulting
Jennifer has worked with the Peregrine Group Team for over 18 years, developing strategic marketing plans that provide a road map for all communication efforts at the forefront and during each construction project. Most recently she worked closely with the Central Falls School District Administration and Government officials on a public relations campaign to develop messaging in support of the bond referendum and its efforts for the successful city-wide vote passage.
Managing team members and client expectations during the construction project allows the project to move more smoothly and efficiently from start to finish. An integral part of the Project Management Team, she aids in proposal development, branding support for Peregrine's clients and websites management.
Owner of her own marketing firm, Jenn works with clients to develop concrete, practical action plans, with a strong track record of guiding businesses and organizations in the right direction.