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Gregg I. Goldenberg

Gregg I. Goldenberg is a Founding Partner and serves as Vice Chairman of The Ardent Companies. Ardent is a private real estate asset management firm specializing in opportunistic real estate investments. Ardent’s primary investment strategies include specialty/transitional lending and selective/opportunistic equity investing. Since its founding in 2012, the firm has invested in 239 transactions in 29 states and two foreign countries totaling over $2.9 billion in aggregate capital.

Goldenberg’s history in the homebuilding, development, and real estate investment businesses began in 1991, when he left the management consulting firm of Bain & Company to join The Ryland Group. During his 10 years of service to Morrison Homes (the former U.S. operation of Great Britain’s largest homebuilder) from 1994 to 2004, he served in several leadership roles.

Goldenberg started K2 Ventures in 2005. K2 identified, entitled, purchased, and developed residential communities for regional builders as well as housing giants Beazer Homes and the Ryland Group. In 2007, K2 formed a strategic development partnership with fellow Wahoo Jim Chapman to purchase, develop, and construct active adult communities in the Southeast. This team developed 328 lots and constructed over 200 active adult homes. Additionally, during the Great Recession, this group built or completed 150 additional homes for commercial banks and opportunistic investors.

Goldenberg started Acadia Homes & Neighborhoods in 2010. As "A New Builder for a New Time," Acadia Homes & Neighborhoods’ strategy was to restore viability to the Atlanta new home neighborhoods that bore the impact of the housing market’s collapse in 2008 and 2009. Acadia started operations in 2010 and in 2013 was recognized as Atlanta’s fifth fastest growing privately held company and its 10th largest homebuilder. In 2016, Goldenberg sold Acadia Homes & Neighborhoods to the large publicly traded homebuilder Taylor Morrison for $85 million.

Goldenberg is a 1989 graduate of the Commerce School and holds a Master's in Business Administration with a concentration in Real Estate Finance from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

He sits on the McIntire School’s Foundation Board and is a Board member of Spencer Healthcare Solutions and nonprofit TeachUNITED, an organization that supports and empowers teachers to ensure every child has access to a quality education. 

Goldenberg lives in Wilmington, NC, with his wife and teenage daughters.