Accountability

Collaborative

Communication

Initiative

Problem Solving

Reliability

Teachable

You take your personal performance and delivery of results seriously. You take ownership of your work. You are quick to admit mistakes. You don't blame others because you value learning and blaming gives away your ability to learn

You agree that the team's outcome is a reflection of your work, so you want the best idea to win even when it's not your own. You bring ideas and listen to others' ideas

Candor = honesty dipped in honor. You value candid feedback, both receiving it and giving it, so much so that you are willing to be uncomfortable in the process. You believe that even difficult feedback and feedback given to difficult people should be given with respect. You hold others responsible for their commitments and results.  You do not slander or gossip but have direct conversations as soon as possible. You treat others with dignity regardless of status 

You're an empowered person. If you see an issue and can easily make something better, you do it. If it was someone else's responsibility, you have a candid conversation afterwards. You don’t “walk past the piece of trash on the ground”. You challenge assumptions when warranted and suggest better approaches

You ethically deliver impressive amounts of results. You are tenacious. There are usually multiple ways to accomplish an objective, and you persevere to seek out different paths when met with obstacles. You ask for help but don't "dump"-- along with your request for help you demonstrate what you've personally done to solve the problem

You do what you say you will, no one has to wonder if you will follow through. You track your own commitments. You’re ambitious but don't over-promise. You are responsive and keep deadlines

When presented with better ways to accomplish results, you are open to testing them and willing to change. No sacred cows. 

Greg Picone, CFA & Managing Partner

Greg is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) charterholder and has overseen portfolios of investments in alternative and traditional assets. He is an experienced real estate investor and operator with a background in owner financing, lease options, discounted notes, short sales, foreclosures, market research, property management, property rehabilitation, entity structuring, and lien negotiations.

Greg had profitably bought and sold 98 properties before co-founding Ripe in 2014. He grew up in New York and moved to Colorado in 1992. He serves on the board of an international non-profit and lives in Denver with his family.

Tim Ulibarri, CPA & Managing Partner

Tim is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and has also passed his Series 65 examination. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in Accounting and minored in Mathematics at Northwestern College in Orange City, IA. Tim has extensive experience working in
both tax accounting and single and multi-family offices for 10+ years.

He has prepared tax returns for non-profits, partnerships, C-corps, S-corps, trusts, and individuals. In his work with family offices, Tim was the director of accounting and oversaw investment and tax reporting. He fostered client relationships worth anywhere from $30 to $500 million. Because of his work in the ultra-high net worth space, Tim has over ten years’ worth of experience transacting in private equity and hedge funds.

Outside of the office, Tim assists a local faith-based nonprofit in a financial oversight role and also enjoys officiating football. Tim was born and raised in Denver, CO where he currently resides with his wife of 12 years and their two children.

Joerg Adams, Advisor

Joerg is a managing director at Silver Lake, a leading technology investment firm with more than $83 billion in combined assets under management and committed capital. Before joining Silver Lake in 2006, Joerg worked in the Investment Banking Group at Goldman Sachs and in the Fixed Income Investment Management Division at J.P. Morgan. He earned his B.Sc. in Finance with highest distinction from Indiana University in Bloomington and he also holds a degree in Business Administration from the European School of Business in Reutlingen, Germany.

Joerg is an experienced real estate investor and has acquired more than 40 multifamily properties over the past 18 years in Colorado, Texas and California. Joerg grew up in Germany before moving to the United States in 2001. Together with his family, he now lives in San Francisco.

Ryan Dickerman, Asset Director

Ryan has an extensive background in facilities management and operations. After graduating from The New England Institute of Technology, Ryan began his career in the hospitality industry, focusing on hotel renovations and facilities management.

Ryan managed a flagship hotel for a large chain while also overseeing and improving the social media and brand reputation for an additional 48 assets. During his tenure onsite at assets in the multi-family sector, Ryan was an award winning manager for his diligence in improving his residents’ quality of life.