Management Team
Michael Burress, Managing Partner
Michael Burress has over 18 years of experience in the financial services, real estate and software industries. Prior to Montecito Medical Ventures, Michael founded Sierra Principal Group, LLC, a Dallas-based private equity group, where he was the Managing Partner. Sierra Principal invested in and currently owns and manages a portfolio of medical, data center, and commercial real estate limited partnerships.
Leete Jackson
Leete Jackson has over 14 years of debt/equity finance, underwriting and sales experience. Specifically, for the past 5 years, Leete played an integral role in direct financings of Physician Owned Ambulatory Surgery Center/Surgical Hospital (roughly $100MM worth of investment capital raised) Limited Partnerships and medical real estate developments and acquisitions (roughly $500MM worth of investment capital raised). Prior to Montecito Ventures, Leete served as a Co-Founding Principal at Upstream Capital Partners, a Private Placement Broker-Dealer based in Dallas, Texas. Prior to Upstream, he served as a director of the Corporate Client Group at Salomon Smith Barney in New York City.