Founders and Leaders

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Managing Member/Partner

 Amir brings structuring, business and investment management experience. At Khanda, Amir's focus is on deal negotiations, structuring, pricing and modeling. Amir also seconds Rick and helps oversee project designs and design teams, entitlement and construction management of Khanda’s assets. 

From 2016 to 2022 he was a Direct Lender to institutional CRE projects requiring Construction and Bridge financing, and focused on underwriting, portfolio management and structuring functions. From 2011 to 2016 he was the Founder and President of R3 Management - a self and family-funded distressed real estate investment firm. 

Prior to R3, Amir was Partner and Portfolio Manager at 3V Capital Management, a billion- dollar distressed credit hedge fund where he managed all the ABS, MBS and Aircraft portfolios. Amir was the COO and Global Head of Sales and Trading at Libertas Partners (the precursor to Knight Fixed Income) from 2004-2007 and DebtTraders from 2001-2004. At these firms, Amir built out highly successful global sales and trading businesses in areas such as Aircraft backed securities, Distressed corporate debt, Emerging Markets Debt and High Yield Bonds. Amir was a trader focused on Emerging Markets at Goldman Sachs, NY, Merrill Lynch, HK and at UBS, Singapore. Amir is a CFA charter-holder, with an MBA from University of Delhi and a B. Tech. in Chem Engg. from the IIT​ ​Delhi,​ ​India.

Managing Member/Partner

Rick is the Director of Development

Activities at Khanda. He is actively involved with the project designs,

entitlement and construction management of the Khanda’s assets. He is responsible for overseeing design

teams, shepherding the projects through jurisdictional agencies, supervision of construction drawings,

preparation of construction budgets and schedules and providing the on-site construction management of

sitework and building improvements required to produce a finished, occupied asset.

Rick is also the President of

Summerset Senior Communities (“Summerset”). Summerset

develops and operates assisted living and memory care facilities in California and Nevada.

Beasley is a licensed Professional Civil Engineer in California with a background in business management,

development, land planning, design and construction management. Over the last 38 years, Beasley has

designed and overseen the successful development and construction of thousands of units throughout

California and Nevada. These units include multi-family projects, senior multi-family communities, along

with single family residential developments and commercial centers.

Prior to joining Khanda and forming Summerset, Beasley had worked as a Civil Engineer and Construction

Manager to a number of large development and building companies. The companies included Lennar

Homes, Beazer Homes, Kaufman & Broad, Reynen & Bardis, Morrison Homes, Richland Properties and

Del Webb Communities. A representative sample of projects designed, managed or constructed by

Beasley are shown below:

 A $106 million Multi-Family and Residential development in West Sacramento, California

 A $167 million Mello-Roos infrastructure project in Roseville, California

 A $211 million Commercial and Retail center in Woodland, California

 A $2.4 billion Mello-Roos infrastructure and Residential development in Lincoln, California 

Managing Member/Partner

Ronak has deep experience in deal origination, trading and capital markets, including acquisitions, growth management and related activities. Ronak is focused on Deal Sourcing, Restructuring Advisory mandates and creating JV partnerships with financial investors for Khanda as well as Structuring, negotiating and managing all the financing for Khanda's projects. He seconds Amir in Deal negotiations and in pricing and structuring transactions. From 2017 to 2022 Ronak was in partnership with Amir and focused on Origination of CRE project financing opportunities. From 2012 to 2016, Ronak was a co-founder and CIO at GRK Partners, a mortgage-backed securities hedge fund. From 2007 to 2011, Mr. Khichadia served as the Global Head of Mortgage-Backed Securities and Asset-Backed Securities at Knight, having played a critical role in the acquisition of Libertas by Knight. Ronak also spearheaded the acquisition of Urban Financial, a reverse mortgage originator, and grew it into the single most profitable component of Knight’s fixed income business (in 2013, Urban was sold at a significant profit, to Blackstone Group). Prior to joining Libertas, Khichadia worked at both buy-side and sell-side firms and received a B.S. in Economics​ ​and​ ​Accounting​ ​from​ ​Norwich​ ​University​ ​Military​ ​College​ ​in​ ​1998. 

Head of Construction  

Jan is the Head of Khanda’s Construction Division. Jan is actively involved with the construction management of the Khanda’s assets and for 3rd party contracts. He is responsible for overseeing design teams, shepherding the projects through jurisdictional agencies, supervision of construction drawings, preparation of construction budgets and schedules and providing the on-site construction management of sitework and building improvements required to produce a finished, occupied asset.

Head of Investor Relations  

Hardik is an experienced real estate investment professional with expertise in investor relations, operations, accounting, and legal coordination. He is responsible for all these activities at Khanda. In addition, he manages all relationships with 3rd party operational service providers such as lawyers, title companies, accountants and oversees all administrative activities. Hardik has verifiable experience in supporting capital raising, managing investor communications, and delivering transparent financial reporting.

He oversees operations, budgeting, compliance, and coordinating legal documentation and regulatory requirements to drive efficient execution from acquisition through asset management.