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Meet The Team
At Nova Group, our talented engineers, environmental experts, and thought leaders are shaping the future with innovative solutions for the global real estate industry.
We do things the 'Nova Way’, we strive to exceed not only our own expectations, but also those of our valued clients and communities. Our dedication extends beyond delivering exceptional service. With a corporate culture rooted in giving back, we encourage volunteerism so our people can support the organizations they care about the most.
Meet The Team
Nova’s Executive Leadership Group is composed of the company’s top strategic leaders—our Chief Executive Officer (CEO), President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO), and Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Together, they are responsible for setting the overall direction of the company, ensuring financial strength, driving growth, and delivering on Nova’s long-term vision.
Executive Leadership
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Nova's leadership is pivotal in shaping and sustaining our culture – establishing trust and cooperation, enhancing employee engagement, and strengthening morale. Our culture instills a profound sense of belonging to the organization and fosters a shared understanding of its core values and priorities among employees.
Corporate Leadership
Strategic Advisory
The Assessor & Administrative Services Group provides integrated support across the company’s revenue-generating teams. The group brings together technical assessment expertise and centralized administrative services to ensure efficient project execution, high-quality deliverables, and consistent operational performance.
Our team delivers real estate due diligence services through qualified assessors (e.g., environmental and property condition assessments), provide operational, administrative, and production support that enables projects to be executed efficiently and at scale and serves as a central coordination point for field, production, scheduling, and support functions.
This integrated structure helps streamline communication, improve accountability, and create a unified operational framework across multiple teams.
Corporate Advisory
The Assessor & Administrative Services Group provides integrated support across the company’s revenue-generating teams. The group brings together technical assessment expertise and centralized administrative services to ensure efficient project execution, high-quality deliverables, and consistent operational performance.
Our team delivers real estate due diligence services through qualified assessors (e.g., environmental and property condition assessments), provide operational, administrative, and production support that enables projects to be executed efficiently and at scale and serves as a central coordination point for field, production, scheduling, and support functions.
This integrated structure helps streamline communication, improve accountability, and create a unified operational framework across multiple teams.
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Nova's business development team is committed to fully understanding our client's needs to provide the most optimal products, services, and technical expertise to achieve their goals.
Our team collaborates closely with the operations group to integrate valuable client feedback. This iterative process enables us to continually develop the tools and technology essential for enhancing internal communication and improving our interactions with clients.
Business Development
The AES Due Diligence division supports commercial real estate transactions by delivering architectural, engineering, environmental, and seismic due diligence services, with a primary geographic focus on the U.S. West Coast. Based in Southern California, AES specializes in Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs), Property Condition Assessments (PCAs), and Seismic Risk Assessments (SRAs) / Probable Maximum Loss (PML) services, all performed in accordance with current ASTM standards and recognized industry best practices.
AES Due Diligence
Assessor & Administrative Services
The Assessor & Administrative Services Group provides integrated support across the company’s revenue-generating teams. The group brings together technical assessment expertise and centralized administrative services to ensure efficient project execution, high-quality deliverables, and consistent operational performance.
Our team delivers real estate due diligence services through qualified assessors (e.g., environmental and property condition assessments), provide operational, administrative, and production support that enables projects to be executed efficiently and at scale and serves as a central coordination point for field, production, scheduling, and support functions.
This integrated structure helps streamline communication, improve accountability, and create a unified operational framework across multiple teams.
Nova's Carlson division helps our clients to achieve their environmental due diligence business goals, whether it is closing a real estate deal, addressing an environmental regulatory issue, or assisting in site redevelopment. Carlson has a consistent track record of success.
Our Carlson division provides innovative, practical, and cost-effective solutions for clients faced with increasingly complex regulatory systems and more challenging financial demands. Our management team has the pleasure of working with a dedicated staff of engineers, geologists, and scientists, many of whom have been with Carlson for over ten years.
Carlson Environmental
For over a decade, Nova's Capital Markets Group (CMG) has been a premier provider of environmental and engineering due diligence services. CMG consistently surpasses client expectations by catering to a diverse clientele, including banks, agency lenders, life insurance companies, CMBS lenders, REITs, pension funds, and developers.
Our accomplished team of National Account Managers, boasting an average of over twenty years of industry experience, ensures a wealth of expertise in evaluating each unique project and interpreting the latest industry standards.
Capital Markets
Nova minimizes risk to major construction lenders, developers, and building owners by providing third-party comprehensive reviews, monitoring, and reporting during the construction process.
For almost a decade our team has performed these services on hundreds of construction projects throughout the United States. We maintain a staff of experienced engineers, architects, and construction managers who are equipped to support our clients in reviewing specific building systems. From conceptual schematics to final installations and commissioning, we ensure comprehensive assistance at every process stage.
Construction
Environmental Assessment & Remediation
The Southern Region is a specialized team of environmental and engineering professionals serving regional and national lending institutions, developers, attorneys, property owners, and industrial corporations. Our team delivers independent third-party reviews, environmental and engineering assessments, regulatory compliance support, and corrective action services to help clients manage risk and make informed business decisions.
We provide comprehensive reporting and technical evaluations in support of property acquisitions, financing, foreclosures, and regulatory or legal reviews. By combining technical expertise with a practical understanding of client objectives, we deliver reliable solutions that support due diligence, compliance, and long-term asset management across a wide range of industries.
Nova provides environmental compliance services to ensure requirements are met with federal, state, and local environmental regulations. Our Environmental Compliance Group provides cost-effective solutions that promote sustainable compliance tailored to the specific needs of each client. Our goal is to exceed client expectations through our knowledge and unwavering dedication to service.
Environmental Compliance
The Nova Energy Group provides real estate investors, developers, and managers with insight into the effects of energy on the financial performance of real estate portfolios. Drawing on extensive experience in energy advising, the Nova team specializes in translating the energy performance of buildings into financial terms. We assist our clients with developing energy expense reduction strategies to increase the value of real estate assets.
We have key personnel on staff with more than ten years of experience in the energy efficiency field. Nova Energy Group provides custom energy audit reports that include site-specific solutions based on client dialogue and actual historical performance. We can meet tight delivery timelines that fit within the due diligence period for lenders.
Energy
Nova has developed a reputation for national leadership in providing due diligence services. Acknowledging that there is no 'one size fits all', our group is committed to delivering Nova clients with customized solutions at all points in the real estate life cycle.
Our approach begins with a thorough understanding of each project's scope. We advise in acquisition, disposition, pre-/mid-/post-lease, and capital planning. By focusing on our clients' needs, Nova's Equity Group can determine the appropriate scope and deliver value and cost-effective solutions to address various real estate challenges.
Equity Markets
Nova's HUD division conducts on-site inspections to evaluate the general condition, overall design, and structural elements of buildings.
Our Property Condition Needs Assessment complies with the HUD MAP and Lean guidelines, offering a complete narrative on the condition and adequacy of the site and building improvements.
Nova's Phase I Environmental Site Assessments (ESAs) also comply with HUD MAP and Lean guidelines. The ESAs are conducted to identify potential environmental concerns for on-site activities, off-site activities, and compliance with federal, state, and local agencies.
HUD
Nova's Industrial Hygiene & Hazardous Material Group offers a comprehensive suite of services. Our team's combined expertise spans decades, covering industrial hygiene, environmental health, and occupant safety. Our commitment to innovation and continuous improvement sets us apart from other service providers; we strive to be partners in creating safer, healthier, and more sustainable environments.
We are dedicated to outstanding customer service and actively support and consult with our clients throughout the project lifecycle.
Industrial Hygiene & Hazardous Materials
Nova Ambiente
Nova Ambiente provides Technical, Environmental, and Sustainability services and management programmes across all sectors of the European real estate industry.
Our services span a wide range of disciplines, including: Due diligence for property transactions, post-acquisition management programmes, land and water risk assessment, development and construction support, ESG screening and reporting, climate risk and resilience planning, decarbonisation strategy development, on-site renewables and other sustainability advisory services.
We combine technical expertise with practical, commercially viable solutions to support clients in delivering measurable outcomes across their assets and help our clients meet their sustainability commitments through responsible investment tools and asset management mandates.
Nova Group Pacific
Nova Group Pacific is a specialist engineering consultancy specialising in geotechnical and environmental engineering, helping clients remediate, develop, and manage their sites efficiently and compliantly.
Our multidisciplinary team brings together environmental scientists, geotechnical engineers and project managers who deliver end-to-end solutions — from initial site investigations through to remediation, compliance, and long-term environmental and geotechnical monitoring.
We combine technical precision with a practical, outcomes-driven approach. Backed by ISO certifications in quality, safety, and environmental and geotechnical management, we’re committed to helping every client achieve sustainable, compliant and cost-effective project outcomes.
Nova's Peak division leadership team partners with our clients to efficiently manage the environmental aspects of their business.
Peak is committed to maintaining a safe and innovative work culture with strong company values and selecting sound business strategies that support a consistently high level of company performance. Further, we are dedicated to creating a deliverable-focused company through a sustainable business plan that includes continuous staff training, efficient use of information technologies, effective communication platforms, and implementation of consistent administrative and technical procedures.
Peak's people – hydrogeologists, geologists, environmental scientists, engineers, administrators, technicians, and subcontractors – are our greatest strength and asset. The continuing investment in them and their available resources are the primary basis for Peak's success.
Peak Environmental
Southern Regional
The Southern Region is a specialized team of environmental and engineering professionals serving regional and national lending institutions, developers, attorneys, property owners, and industrial corporations. Our team delivers independent third-party reviews, environmental and engineering assessments, regulatory compliance support, and corrective action services to help clients manage risk and make informed business decisions.
We provide comprehensive reporting and technical evaluations in support of property acquisitions, financing, foreclosures, and regulatory or legal reviews. By combining technical expertise with a practical understanding of client objectives, we deliver reliable solutions that support due diligence, compliance, and long-term asset management across a wide range of industries.
Seismic & Structural Engineering Services
Nova's Peak division leadership team partners with our clients to efficiently manage the environmental aspects of their business.
Peak is committed to maintaining a safe and innovative work culture with strong company values and selecting sound business strategies that support a consistently high level of company performance. Further, we are dedicated to creating a deliverable-focused company through a sustainable business plan that includes continuous staff training, efficient use of information technologies, effective communication platforms, and implementation of consistent administrative and technical procedures.
Peak's people – hydrogeologists, geologists, environmental scientists, engineers, administrators, technicians, and subcontractors – are our greatest strength and asset. The continuing investment in them and their available resources are the primary basis for Peak's success.
Valuation & Advisory
Nova's Peak division leadership team partners with our clients to efficiently manage the environmental aspects of their business.
Peak is committed to maintaining a safe and innovative work culture with strong company values and selecting sound business strategies that support a consistently high level of company performance. Further, we are dedicated to creating a deliverable-focused company through a sustainable business plan that includes continuous staff training, efficient use of information technologies, effective communication platforms, and implementation of consistent administrative and technical procedures.
Peak's people – hydrogeologists, geologists, environmental scientists, engineers, administrators, technicians, and subcontractors – are our greatest strength and asset. The continuing investment in them and their available resources are the primary basis for Peak's success.
The Nova Zoning Group was developed in response to the increasing demand for clients to receive quick and reliable property zoning analysis that outlines zoning conformance. This analysis assures Nova clients of the property's overall compliance with local zoning laws. Without a comprehensive zoning report conducted in advance of a transaction, the potential for unidentified zoning violations poses a significant risk, potentially leading to substantial delays in the closing process or unexpected costs.
