Michael Marks, CEO
Mick is the CEO & Managing Partner at TIG and oversees the company’s activities. He has led the development and investment in a wide range of real estate properties including office, retail, multi-family and luxury single-family.
Mick’s investment career began more than 25 years ago with the purchase of Ocean Pointe during the Savings & Loan crisis. Since then, Mick has led the team’s involvement in more than twenty real estate and private equity investments.
Mick’s prior professional experience spanned a number of technology companies culminating in a leadership role at Apple Computer (now Apple, Inc.).
Mick is a member of Young President’s Organization (YPO) and also serves on the boards of the Legacy Foundation and the William Wardrip Foundation.
Brendon Marks, COO
Brendon serves as Chief Operating Officer at TIG and Chief Executive Officer at Capture H2O. He is charged with optimizing the existing portfolio and evaluating new investment ideas.
Brendon’s prior professional experience was in investment sales at a long-only investment manager, Hodges Capital Management.
Brendon is passionate about team building and culture. He is focused on building effective teams and work atmospheres that empower and value the teammates.
Brendon is involved in Human Coalition and The Light Church in Encinitas. He and his wife, Kate, live in Encinitas, CA, with their three children.
Dennis Nicholas Marks
January 14, 1929 — January 10, 2022
Dennis is the inspiration behind Trilogy Investment Group and is represented by the first of the three pillars in the TIG logo. We will never forget his wisdom, tireless work ethic and love of family. Combine his risk taking with an attitude of never, ever giving up, Dennis will always remain the patriarch and the foundation of our company.
(An excerpt from his obituary written by Debby Marks Dillon)
Walking home from kindergarten, his mother watches for him from the tiny New York restaurant she and the boy’s father run. She asks him why he is walking backwards. Barely four years old, he says that way fewer people would see he’d wet his pants. Born to Greek immigrant parents, Dennis Nicholas Marks was already showing the creative thinking and problem-solving ability that would serve him his entire life. The Great Depression and his family etched in him the value of education and the importance of work. From the age of five, he had an all-consuming goal to be a doctor, driving him to graduate from high school at age 16 and Columbia University when only 18, while working various jobs to pay tuition. He valued the lessons learned about poverty and illness while at NYU medical school and its affiliated Bellevue Hospital.
While in medical school, Dennis was “doctor” at a camp for underprivileged kids from NYC. There he was drawn to a friendly, pretty counselor who had plans to be a pediatric nurse. After graduating, he took an internship in New Haven, a decision motivated by proximity to Nancy. They married in 1952 and at the time of her death, their marriage was 68 years long.
Serving in the Army, Dennis, Nancy and their first child moved to Tokyo. After completing his service, Sacramento became home for 66 years until his death this month. Dennis established his pediatric practice in 1956 and they had their their next 3 kids in 5 years.
At the age of 35, Dennis built and ran a residential center for 76 people with developmental disabilities, all while raising four children and working as a full-time physician and part-time entrepreneur. Additionally, Dennis was a poet, painter, sculptor, photographer, fisherman, skier and philanthropist. Dennis and Nancy strived to improve the lives of people in Sacramento, especially children, from healthcare to the arts, libraries to the zoo.
