General Partner
Mr. Covey founded GrayStreet Partners and its predecessor Caliburn Capital in 2009. His active investment experience spans a variety of investment classes, but has been primarily focused in outdoor advertising, debt investment, electronics manufacturing, alternative lending, and real estate. He is an active principal in Ithaca investments, LTD., which holds over 1.2 million square feet of retail shopping center space in Texas. He's also the manager of Grizzly Asset Management, the financial sponsor of the Grizzly Fund – focused in acquiring high yield and non performing debt instruments. He graduated with a degree in Economics from the University of Chicago.
Partner
Mr. Alavi is involved in transaction origination & structuring and investment management. Prior to GrayStreet, Mr. Alavi worked in Société Générale’s Mergers & Acquisitions group in New York, where he was involved in over $38 billion of completed domestic and international cross-border M&A transactions. Previously, he worked in Société Générale’s Real Estate, Gaming and Lodging Group, working on domestic and cross border M&A advisory assignments, Corporate and Project finance as well as Capital Restructuring mandates. Mr. Alavi holds an AB in Mathematics and Economics from The University of Chicago.
Partner
Mr. Covey has a BA in Economics from Cornell University. From the early seventies until 1980 he was a principal and managing partner in various real estate partnerships focusing upon apartment projects in the Washington D.C. area. In 1983 Mr. Covey founded Quimica Dinamica SA in Monterrey, Mexico, an integrated manufacturer of more than three hundred organic and inorganic chemicals used as raw materials in the electronic and pharmaceutical industries. He served as CEO until he sold the company in 1994. From 1986 to the present, through his company, Ithaca Investments, Ltd., Mr. Covey has owned more than one million square feet of retail space and hundreds of acres of urban land. Mr. Covey is also CEO of KEM Advertising which currently owns over 2000 billboards in 14 states.
Managing Director, Energy
Ms. Pommer currently acts as Managing Director for GrayStreet Energy, having joined the team in a transitional capacity in fall of 2023. She specializes in deal sourcing and evaluation. Prior to joining us at GrayStreet, she acted as CEO of EnergyFunders, where she grew the firms AUM by about $20 million. EnergyFunders recruited her following her role as CEO of a private equity backed oil and gas exploration company, Century Natural Resources, which drilled exploratory horizontals, along with developing and managing ~180 wellbores and over 200,000 acres in the Powder River Basin of Wyoming. Before leading Century Natural Resources, Laura worked in business development, exploration and operations/development for Anadarko Petroleum’s U.S. onshore assets. She’s also worked for various private equity-backed companies as lead geologist, completing regional and asset level mapping, log interpretation, risk analysis and deal evaluation. Laura is a geologist by training—earning her masters in Geology from The University of Texas at Austin and her bachelor’s in Geology from The University of Colorado. Her combination of deep technical expertise, portfolio management, and experience as a leader and CEO, makes her the perfect candidate for providing investors with the highest quality oil and gas deals available.
Managing Director Asia Pacific
Mr. Deng joined Graystreet team in October 2024. With his extensive reach and connection in Asia-Pacific market, mainly China and Japan, he is bringing in new market resources and coverage as well as investment opportunities. Prior to joining Graystreet, Mr. Deng was an investor in the real estate industry for over 15 years across different property types including commercial, residential, land development, ranch, etc. He received his MBA and BA in Marketing from University of Incarnate Word. He likes traveling and exploring the world.
Partner
Mr. Gill joined GrayStreet Partners in October of 2013 after leaving KMD Studley, a full-service commercial brokerage firm. Richard came from the predecessor firm, Davidson Gill, where he joined at founding in 2009. Previously, Richard was with INCAP Fund, where he worked on urban assemblages and mixed-use development. At GrayStreet Richard focuses on leasing and management of owned property, as well as acquisition of new sites and related development. Richard graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 2007.
CFO
Mr. Moxon has worked in accounting since 1983. He is a CPA and has served as Chief Financial Officer, Vice President of Financial Reporting and Operations and Controller. Mr. Moxon’s experiences include 4 years in heavy highway construction, 16 years in physical and electronic security solutions and 5 years in quarry operations. He holds a BBA in Accounting from Baylor University in 1983.
Managing Director, Energy
Ms. Light joined the GrayStreet team in January of 2024 and performs the roles of reservoir engineering along with energy compliance and regulatory. She is also currently the CEO at EnergyFunders, which offers retail accredited investors access to oil and gas RegD funds. Ms. Light draws upon her vast experience in estimating and appraising reserves values for some of the largest overseas oil and gas companies in the world, including her former role as Project Engineer at DeGolyer and MacNaughton. Ms. Light was Project Coordinator for reserves audits representing hundreds of billions of dollars in asset value while at D&M, including the annual reserves audit for one of the world’s largest oil and gas producers. Before joining D&M, Ms. Light practiced law as an oil and gas title attorney at Hameline & Eccleston and The Duckworth Law Firm. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Petroleum Engineering as well as a Minor in Dance from Texas A&M University where she was a President’s Endowed Scholar. Ms. Light received her Juris Doctorate degree from St. Mary’s University School of Law where she served on the Editorial Board of the St. Mary’s Law Journal. She is a licensed attorney admitted to the State Bar of Texas.
Associate
Mr. Culpepper joined Graystreet in July 2021 and works in deal origination, structuring, underwriting, and execution. Prior to joining GrayStreet, Anthony worked in Macquarie Capital’s Upstream Oil and Gas Advisory group in Houston. Previously, he worked as a Senior Associate in KPMG’s Advisory Practice. His experience includes North American Shale, the Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea, Bass Strait, Western Australia, and Algeria. Anthony holds a Master of Science in Accounting from Texas Tech University.