Founding + Emeritus Board Members
Our Founding and Emeritus Board Members are the bedrock of SPIRE.
They had the original vision. They laid the groundwork, created the first events, enrolled our first members, and forged the relationships upon which today's SPIRE continues to be built.
Preferred Name: David
Last Name: Butler
Bio: David is Co-CEO & Managing Partner of Argosy Real Estate Partners. Argosy, with $3.5B of AUM, invests alongside its operating partners in multiple real estate asset classes through opportunistic, value-add, core plus, and Opportunity Zone strategies. David is also Co-Founder, Co-CEO & Managing Partner of Argosy-Lionbridge Management, a real estate hedge fund manager with $140M of AUM. Additionally, he is on the Advisory Board for 1SharpeVentures, a proptech VC firm. David previously worked for JP Morgan, AIG and Bank of America. David is a Co-Founder of the Stanford Alumni Real Estate Council (SREC ) and an Emeritus Board Member/Past President of Stanford Professionals in Real Estate (SPIRE). He is a member of the Water in the West Advisory Board (Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability) and of The Real Estate Roundtable and the ULI’s National Small Scale Development Council. David has a BS and BA from Stanford and an MBA from Wharton. He is a Board Member for the Boys & Girls Club of St. Helena/Calistoga.