Company History

Our Locations

Corporate Headquarters 5373 North Union Boulevard, Suite 200 Colorado Springs, CO 80918 Phone: (719) 575-0075 Fax: (719) 575-0065 Denver, Colorado - Property Management Office 8753 Yates Drive #200 Westminster, CO 80031 Phone: (303) 873-1644 Phoenix, Arizona  - Property Management Office 18413 North Cave Creek Road, #N-3 Phoenix, AZ 85032 Phone: (602) 992-2507

John Spade - Principal

Patrick R. (Pat) Scanlon - President and COO

Pat Scanlon is president and owner of PRS Associates, Inc., and he is an internationally recognized real estate recreation expert with over 25 years of senior executive experience in land planning and developing large-scale, commercial recreation and resorts projects. He spent 18 years with Walt Disney Imagineering, the Disney subsidiary responsible for creating, planning, designing, engineering, producing and constructing the company’s theme park and other leisure ventures, where he served in several senior executive positions including Senior Vice President of Project Management, Vice President and General Manager of the Creative Group and Vice President of Development.

Mr. Scanlon’s experience includes planning for and/or development management of the following projects: (1) Islands of Paradise, a theme park project currently being developed in Hawaii on the island of Oahu; (2) NASA visitor Centers at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and Johnson Space Center in Texas; (3) Disneyland Paris; (4) Epcot Center and (5) Tokyo Disneyland. Through Diamante Properties Corp., Mr. Scanlon is an investor and principal in a number of commercial real estate properties in Denver, Colorado Springs and Phoenix, and he serves as a director of the Omnipark Development District in Denver. He holds a Masters Degree in finance from the UCLA Graduate Schools of Management, and a Bachelors Degree in economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Gabriela Augustine - Controller

Gabriela Augustine, Controller, has over 25 years of experience in accounting including the preparation on the general ledger, financial statements, and tax returns. Furthermore, she oversees the year-end financial audits. For the past 20 years, Ms. Augustine has worked in the field of commercial real state. She has been Diamante’s controller since 1995.

In addition to directing Diamante’s accounting department, Gabriela is responsible for coordinating year-end audits with CPA firm, Sanden, Shambo and Anderson; she oversees the preparation of all financial and tax return statements interfacing with Exchange Systems Inc. on 1031 transactions and BiggsKofford, PC on tax returns reviews. She maintains Diamante’s banking relationships and she administers Diamante’s employment benefit programs including its 401k plan

Richard F. Nipert- General Counsel and Pricipal

Mr. Nipert servers as General Counsel for Diamante Properties Corp. Rich Nipert’s responsibilities include oversight of all legal matters ranging from acquisitions and dispositions, preparation and review of leasing documents, corporate regulations, governmental and tax law compliance, financing and 1031 tax deferred exchange transactions.

Mr. Nipert is a partner in the Denver law firm Bright, Gibson & Nipert, P.C. Previously he practiced law with the major national law firm of McKenna & Cuneo, and Denver-based Calkins, Kramer, Grimshaw & Harring. Mr. Nipert earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Southern California and his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Irvine

Rich Nipert is Manager of Briali LLC. He is also Vice President of Summit Investments, Inc., the company responsible for master development of the 950-acre Maryvale (Rendezvous) mixed-use residential, commercial and golf resort community development project in Fraser/winter Park, Colorado, which was sold in 1999 by Summit Investments to Denver development company Koebel & Company. Mr. Nipert served as the Managing Partner in charge of the Maryvale development and has managed the development of multi-family projects in Lone Tree, Colorado. He was also Executive Vice President and Director of Acquisitions of D.E. Enterprise, Inc., which owns in excess of 100 real estate properties including regional shopping centers, retail centers, industrial parks and office buildings

James L. Williams- Principal

Jim Williams is President and owner of West Coast Capital Corporation, a financial consulting firm. He is a CPA and a Certified Financial Planner. Mr. Williams served as Assistant Tax Director for Whittaker Corporation and as Manager of Taxation at Deloitte Haskens and Sells, CPAs. He is a member of the American Institute of CPAs and Institute of Certified Financial Planners.

Mr. Williams holds a Masters Degree in taxation from the UCLA Graduate School of Management, and he received his Bachelors Degree in business economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is an active investor and principal in commercial real estate projects in Colorado and Arizona, and he serves as a technical consultant for several charitable organizations.

Mr. Williams advises the company on financing strategies and taxation.