Martin Heflin

Marty Heflin is a founding member of Verta Capital Partners, merging the former Verta Development firm into the venture with Charlie Evans. In his real estate career, Marty has been involved with the development of over $350 million worth of real estate in the Southeast and Metro Washington D.C.

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Marty graduated from Vanderbilt University and received his MBA from Wake Forest University, where he was the Babcock Scholar recipient of the Bob White Award.

Heflin is a former development partner with Trammell Crow Residential and one of the founding partners of Wood Partners, both national development firms. He founded M2H Group, a boutique development company that won numerous awards for their projects including recognition from Urban Land Institute and the Nashville Historic Society. Marty has worked with such quality development firms as The Beach Company and StreetLights Residential and has joint ventured with such quality local developers as The Mathews Company and Legacy South

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Heflin serves on the faculty of Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Business as the Real Estate Coordinator and teaches Real Estate Finance among other courses.  A former Naval Officer, he serves on the Board of the NROTC Alumni Association for Vanderbilt.  He served on the Executive Committee of the Nashville District Council for the Urban Land Institute where he chaired the Infrastructure Initiative.  Under his leadership, the “Music City Infrastructure Report” was produced documenting Nashville’s needs in this critical area.  He has served as an Advisor to the Dominican Campus and on the Advisory Board of Alpha Investments, a uniques on-line crowd sourcing platform for commercial real estate.