Leadership Team
Lucas Michael Payne
Lucas Michael Payne is a business owner, real estate investor, and entrepreneur. He is the President and co-Founder of Force Energy Group and Force Global Supply. For the last 20 years he has focused on green building, energy efficiency, and new construction projects for schools and commercial real estate developments around the country.
During the early months of the pandemic, he utilized his knowledge of the global supply chain and founded Force Medical Supply. Force aided government agencies to obtain the necessary masks, gloves, and medical supplies. While his intention was to “just keep the team working”, Force Global posted over $21 million in sales in 2020 and was able to donate millions of masks and critical PPE to underserved communities in the US and around the globe.
To date he and his team at Force have completed over 2,000 projects in 44 states for clients such as NAI Hiffman, Chicago Public Schools, and Jones Lange Lassalle. Lucas previously served as V.P of Sales at Verde Solutions. Lucas led Verde to explosive growth resulting in being listed as one of Inc. 500's fastest growing businesses in 2017. Prior to his work with Verde, in 2011 Lucas founded ACES (Advanced Custom Energy Solutions) that was eventually purchased by a publicly traded company Trans-Lux (TNLX).
Lucas’ entrepreneurial journey has included cell phone stores, entertainment & concert promotion, and most recently he developed a mobile app HSTL.app to help entrepreneurs properly price their goods and services.
Lucas relocated from Chicago to Frisco Texas with his wife Marquita in 2019. They are both passionate about serving youth and young adults through various ministries and organizations. They founded Kenzo’s Well (named for their son Kenzo) in June of 2022 whose mission is to provide clean drinking water in Africa and commissioned the first well in Ghana.
Dan Rose
Dan’s more than 16 year career in real estate and finance brings experience on projects that cover a wide spectrum of the real estate industry. After graduating from Wake Forest University in 2005, he took a position with Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) in their real estate lending division in London, England. At RBS, he participated in 3 different groups: as a credit analyst in the credit department, as a relationship manager on the lending team, and as an analyst on the strategic property finance team overseeing the large transaction approval process within the bank. In 2006, Dan returned to Illinois to work on the finance team with Mid-American Development Partners (Midco), a middle market regional real estate development firm with a focus on retail. While at Midco, Dan oversaw more than $500 million dollars in real estate finance consisting of debt, mezzanine, and equity sources. He reported directly to the CFO of the company, and by the time he left, was in charge of retail deal feasibility. His main area of focus was retail, although the company was also in many hotel and mixed-use developments, where Dan assisted when necessary at the request of the CFO.
Since joining LFI, Dan has been an integral part of both the leasing team as well as the finance team but is a principal now and the director of retail development. is the primary LFI contact for many of the national retailers/clients in addition to brokers in the Chicago marketplace. On new projects, his underwriting expertise is used for feasibility analysis. Dan continues to take an active role in the day-to-day management of projects. Dan has served as a special project manager for politically sensitive developments. In 2016, Dan founded LFI Energy, a mineral rights royalty company that owns a minority share of an operating mineral rights royalty company in Denver Colorado. He currently sits on the board of Petram LLC to help steer the direction of that investment. Dan is a core member of the LFI team on corporate strategy and is critical in developing the direction of the overall business.
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