David Roodberg

President, The Menkiti Group
droodberg@menkitigroup.com

David Roodberg joined The Menkiti Group as their President in early 2023. In his role, he is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the business including development, capital, commercial real estate, and strategic planning. Prior to joining the enterprise, David led two one of the largest family-owned real estate companies in DC, Horning, and Combined Properties.

Roodberg joins the firm with over 30 years of experience in the real estate industry, most recently having served as the CEO and President of DC-based real estate firm Horning since 2003. He left behind a legacy of award-winning impactful projects completed during his tenure including two which were honored by the Washington Business Journal with Best Real Estate Deal Awards for Community Impact. These include the completion of Tivoli Square which was a project that helped jumpstart development in Columbia Heights, and The Commons at Stanton Square which is home to the Ward 8 community-serving nonprofits Martha’s Table and Community of Hope.

In addition to his development leadership experience, Roodberg has a legacy of serving as a mentor and working towards expanding housing opportunities for all Washingtonians. Recently, he chaired the Washington Housing Conservancy Board through its growth from 0 units to 1,500, during which time the first deal with Amazon’s Housing Equity Fund was completed. Roodberg also serves on the Board of Wesley Housing, Martha’s Table, the Greater Washington Community Foundation, was on the Advisory Board of Housing Production Trust Fund and served as the Chair of Community Foundation’s Partnership to End Homelessness.

David graduated from the University of Michigan with his MBA and Duke University with a Bachelor of Science degree. He currently lives with his family in Vienna, VA.

Will Regan

Senior Vice President of Development & Construction
wregan@menkitigroup.com

Will Regan is currently serving as the Senior Vice President of Development & Construction at The Menkiti Group. In his role, Will oversees The Menkiti Group’s implementation and execution of its development projects, managing a team of development professionals, standardizing development and construction processes and protocols, and coordinating with other business units across the enterprise.

Prior to his joining the The Menkiti Group, he spent time with companies as varied as Monument Realty, Transwestern Commercial Services, The Prudential Realty Group, as well as serving as a founder of several development management and advisory companies. Will has extensive experience in real estate development, advisory and asset management with over 25 years in the field.

Will graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and a concentration in Chinese Studies.  He lives with his family in Northern Virginia.

Kymber Menkiti

President, KWCP
240-438-9465
kymber@menkitigroup.com

Kymber Menkiti is the President of Keller Williams Capital Properties (KWCP), a brokerage with eight offices across the DC, Maryland, and Virginia region. She is also the Regional Director of Keller Williams Realty International for the Maryland / DC (MDC) Region where she oversees 4,500+ agents and is the first African American female to hold this position. Kymber also served as the 2020 President of the DC Association of Realtors and was appointed by the mayor to serve on the District of Columbia Arts Commission. She is also a Board Member of Crittenton Services and is the head of the Keller Williams National Social Equity Task Force.

Prior to her roles within KWCP and the Keller Williams MDC Region, Kymber was the President of Sales for The Menkiti Group. Throughout her time with the company, she built a dedicated and passionate team of real estate professionals who assist the clients of The Menkiti Group in meeting their real estate goals. Under Kymber’s leadership, the MG Residential Sales Team assisted over 1,000 first-time homebuyers and brokered the sales of over $1B in residential real estate. The MG Residential Sales Team has been recognized internationally as being among the Top 50 teams within the Keller Williams franchise as measured by sales volume.

Kymber previously served as the President of the 2019 DCAR Executive Committee, as well as the Greater Capital Area Association of REALTORS® (GCAAR) Rookie Committee Chair, and a member of the Keller Williams Capital Properties Agent Leadership Council. As one of the best and brightest young businesspeople in the greater Washington, DC region, Kymber was recognized by the Washington Business Journal as a 2018 40 Under 40 Honoree, a Real Estate Newsmaker by RISMedia for 2 consecutive years (2021 & 2022) and NAR’s 2021 District of Columbia REALTOR® of the Year.

Kymber is a graduate of Bryn Mawr College and James Madison University and currently lives in Washington, DC with her husband and four young sons.

Bo Menkiti

Founder and CEO
bo@menkitigroup.com

Bo Menkiti is the Founder and CEO of The Menkiti Group, a real estate company dedicated to transforming lives, careers, and communities through real estate. The Menkiti Group is focused on strengthening neighborhoods through the strategic development, management, and disposition of real estate in urban markets and on delivering the power of home through its brokerages and affiliates. Mr. Menkiti also serves as CEO and is the Founding Partner of Keller Williams Capital Properties (KWCP), a residential real estate brokerage managed by The Menkiti Group. The Menkiti Group also has an ownership stake and plays a management role in three Keller Williams Regions; Maryland and DC, Virginia and West Virginia, and the Greater Heartland, which combined represents over 15,000 agents. In 2020, Mr. Menkiti founded Mission Mortgage, a double bottom line regional mortgage lender. Prior to forming The Menkiti Group and KWCP, Mr. Menkiti served as Chief Operating Officer of College Summit, a national non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the college enrollment rate of low-income students. In this capacity, Mr. Menkiti oversaw the organization’s successful growth into a multi-site national organization. 

Under Mr. Menkiti’s leadership, The Menkiti Group and KWCP have been recognized by Inc. Magazine as a Best in Business recipient as well as by the Initiative for Competitive Inner City (ICIC) and Fortune Magazine as two of the fastest growing inner-city businesses in America. Development projects led by The Menkiti Group have been awarded top accolades including MLK Gateway which was named by the Washington Business Journal as the 2022 Best Redevelopment project, and as the 2022 Excellence in Historic Preservation for Design and Construction recipient by the DC Preservation League. 

Named one of the Top Executives for 2023 by the Swanepole Power 200, Mr. Menkiti has also been recently recognized as the 2022 DEI Champion of the Year by the Washington Business Journal, the 2022 Developer of the Year by DCBIA (District of Columbia Building Industry Association), the 2017 EY Entrepreneur of the Year in the Mid-Atlantic by Earnest and Young, and with the Marcia Lamb Award for Inner City Innovation by the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City

Mr. Menkiti’s work has been featured in David Bornstein’s book on social entrepreneurs, How to Change the World, and in Stephen Goldsmith’s The Power of Social Innovation, and he has been recognized nationally by Ebony and Inc. magazines as one of the coolest young entrepreneurs in America. In 2006, Mr. Menkiti was recognized with The National Association of Realtors Prestigious “30 under 30” award, and in 2014 was honored by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) as the District of Columbia Realtor of the Year and served as a NAR director. Additionally, in 2014, Mr. Menkiti was named to the Washington Business Journal’s Power 100, a list of the most influential business leaders in the Washington metropolitan area and selected as Keller Williams Realty International’s Entrepreneur of the Year.

Committed to strengthening communities and transforming neighborhoods by serving on civic and public service organizations, Mr. Menkiti previously served as the Vice Chair of the Board of City First Bank and as the 2013 President of the District of Columbia Association of Realtors, was appointed by the Mayor to the board of DC Water, the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority, and was a board member for the Greater Capital Area Association of Realtors, Dance Place, and the Blitz for Better Foundation. In 2014, Mr. Menkiti launched the Capital Properties Menkiti Group Foundation (CPMG Foundation), an organization that focuses its resources on serving the diverse social needs of the community in the areas of Housing, Youth, Education, and Entrepreneurship and has donated more than $2MM to local neighborhoods since its inception.  

Mr. Menkiti currently serves on the board as a Director for the Meyer Foundation, is a Director on the DCBIA board, and is a Founding Director of Founders Bank, a De Novo community bank headquartered in Washington, DC. Additionally, Mr. Menkiti is currently a trustee for and serves on the executive committee for the Federal City Council and is a trustee for Roxbury Latin School in MA. 

Mr. Menkiti is a graduate of Harvard University and lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and four young sons. 

Melissa Lee

Senior Vice President of Capital and Investments
melissa@menkitigroup.com

Melissa Lee is the Senior Vice President of Capital and Investments at The Menkiti Group where she is responsible for structuring and growing the capital, investment, and fund management activities of the organization. In this role, Melissa also serves as the Vice Chair of Menkiti Group’s Investment Committee. Melissa brings over two decades of finance experience with expertise in investment management and treasury management across multiple industries.

Prior to joining The Menkiti Group, Melissa was the Founder and Managing Principal of Lee Squared Consulting Group, LLC a consulting firm that delivered financial management advisory and analytical solutions for community development organizations. Melissa formerly served as the Chief Financial Officer for the Sheridan School located in Washington, D.C., where she delivered the school’s finance and operations strategy, including investment oversight for the Retirement Plan and Endowment. Prior to that Ms. Lee served as the Director of Treasury Operations at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) in Washington, D.C. where she was responsible for delivering the cash, debt, and investment strategy for an annual $3 billion operating and capital budget. In addition, she served as a trustee on several of WMATA’s retirement plans with responsibility for setting and monitoring the strategic direction; issued and managed compliance on over $1 billion in debt instruments to fund operating and capital activities; and delivered a myriad of financial management solutions resulting in more effective processes and practices. 

Ms. Lee has also delivered a range of treasury and investment management activities at the Maryland State Retirement Agency, Amtrak, Pepco Holdings, Inc., and Chevy Chase Bank (acquired by Capital One in 2009) that include internal management of investment portfolios up to $500 million and external management of portfolios for plans with assets up to $38 billion, across asset classes that cover real estate, equity, and fixed income.

Melissa holds an MBA from George Washington University, a BBA in Finance from the University of the District of Columbia, and the Certified Treasury Professional designation from the Association for Financial Professionals.  Melissa resides with her family in Washington, D.C.

Katie Heaton

Katie Heaton 2016

Chief Operating Officer
kheaton@menkitigroup.com

Katie Heaton is currently serving as the Chief Operating Officer at The Menkiti Group. In her role, Katie manages corporate operations for the family of companies, including a multi-services real estate and development company, a local mortgage lending company, as well as a residential brokerage firm.

Prior to joining the company, Katie was the Executive Director to the Washington Homeland Security Roundtable and a Founding Member of the Washington Cyber Roundtable, an organization focused on promoting collaboration between federal agencies and corporate leaders across numerous industries. Before joining the Washington Homeland Security Roundtable she served as Special Assistant to the CEO of Venturehouse Group where she managed the CEO’s office including the direction of all special projects. She has also served as Deputy Director of the Office of Business Liaison at the Department of Commerce and Special Assistant to the Secretary. In these roles, she provided guidance on policy initiatives for the private sector community including economics and homeland security issues.

She also worked at the Department of Homeland Security focusing on public/private partnerships for the Homeland Security Advisory Council. Prior to public service, Katie worked at JPMorgan in the Private Client Group and Portfolio Management in the New York City and Washington, DC offices.

She is a graduate of the College of William and Mary and resides with her husband, Will, and two children in Alexandria, Virginia.

Simon Frewer

President of Home Services
simon@menkitigroup.com

Simon Frewer is the President of Home Services for The Menkiti Group and Keller Williams Capital Properties. In his role, he will lead the Home Services division which includes Core Services, Technology, and the Brokerage as the firm consolidates and integrates all the components to deliver the Power of Home.

Simon joined the enterprise as an experienced executive with an impressive record of building businesses and leading great teams. He has held the CEO, COO, and President roles at several globally renowned companies, where he led through times of incredible growth and significant transition. Simon is known for his people leadership, business-development acumen, partnership development, and product development expertise, and for successfully building and leading innovative businesses in the tech-enabled services and ed-tech space. Simon’s experience spans public, private, and PE-backed organizations and much of his career has focused on helping organizations innovate and empower their teams to deliver truly differentiated customer experience and customer loyalty.

Simon graduated from Northwestern University with his MBA and McGill University with a Bachelor of Commerce in Finance and Economics. He currently lives with his family in sunny St. Augustine, Florida, and commutes to the DMV area.

Brian Burke

Executive Vice President, Development & Finance 
brian@menkitigroup.com

Brian is a seasoned finance executive with deep experience in both real estate development and financial services.  At The Menkiti Group, Brian serves as Executive Vice President.  In this role, he is responsible for financing the company’s development projects and portfolio of real estate assets, managing the development team, analyzing potential acquisitions, efficiently allocating capital, investor reporting, and other strategic projects.

Previously, Brian served as the CFO for Ditto Residential, a design focused real estate developer that builds condos and apartment buildings in Washington, DC. In this capacity, Brian was responsible for all financial aspects of the company including proforma modeling of new deals, raising debt and equity to finance the projects, managing the construction budget and loan draws, overseeing accounting, and investor reporting. As a member of the executive management team, Brian was involved in all key decisions, set the strategic direction for the firm, and managed a team of 12 development and construction professionals.

Prior to Ditto, Brian spent eight years with Capital One executing mergers and acquisitions and managing a product development team.  In these roles he led large, multi-functional teams through the financial analysis and due diligence of potential bank and credit card acquisitions, he negotiated term sheets and contracts with external counter parties, and he simplified the small business banking product suite by designing and rolling out a new line up of business accounts.

Brian graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Economics and received an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. A California native, he now resides with his wife and son in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Washington, DC.