Our Team

John Carmichael - Founder

Westwood Residential Companies

Founding partner of Westwood Residential. After a successful career with Trammel Crow Residential throughout the western United States, John returned to Texas and co-founded Westwood, in 1992. During his forty years of development experience, John completed over 200 apartment communities, including traditional garden style and high density developments. The development platform that John established at Westwood positioned the company to move forward and carry out his vision of high quality developments.

Tom Teague - Chairman

Westwood Residential Companies

Tom started his development career at Trammell Crow Residential in 1973. Until, 1986, Tom focused on apartment development and management, rising to Managing Partner of Crow-Teague Companies. In 1986, Tom became a National Partner at Trammell Crow Company, where he managed the financial restructuring of assets in the Trammell Crow Commercial Company, which involved over $10 billion in loans. In 1992, Tom co-founded Westwood Residential. Tom has a B.S. from Abilene Christian University and a M.B.A. from Texas A&M University.

Jeff Lindsey - President

Westwood Residential Companies

Jeff began his career in banking in 1983 and his experience has grown to include commercial real estate lending, institutional equity placement and real estate development. Since joining Westwood in May, 2005, his responsibilities have expanded to include oversight of development, financing and equity relationships for all multifamily activities. To date, in excess of $500,000,000 worth of new developments have been completed, or are in process. Jeff is also responsible for all acquisition and disposition activities.

Stanley Fimberg - Managing Member

FSC Realty & Taylor Land Two Company

Stanley Fimberg has been involved in negotiating the acquisition, management, financing and disposition of real estate properties. Through the private businesses he has headed since 1970--Capital Asset Management, Ltd., Stanley R. Fimberg, Ltd. Fimberg & Williams, and FSC Realty--Mr. Fimberg has specialized in multi-residence investments but has also owned shopping centers, industrial properties, and office buildings in over 38 states. Mr. Fimberg graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1955 with a B.A. in Political Science. From 1955 to 1957 he served in the United States Army, and then attended UCLA Law School, graduating first in his class in 1960 with a Bachelor of Law Degree. He was editor-in-chief for the UCLA Law Review. Mr. Fimberg began his law career at O'Melveny & Meyers in Los Angeles. He then wrote international tax law with the United States Treasury Department in Washington, D.C. Returning to Los Angeles in 1965, he became a partner in a highly successful entertainment law firm and since 1970 has devoted his energies solely to real estate investments.

Albert Baril - Member

FSC Realty & Taylor Land Two Company

Albert is actively involved in all phases of the business of FSC Realty. In particular, he has been in charge of the renovation and repositioning of properties, the development of new apartment properties and in arranging of financing for new acquisitions and the refinancing of existing properties. Prior to joining FSC Realty in 1996, Mr. Baril was director of the Los Angeles office of Belgravia Capital Corporation, a national mortgage banking operation. He was involved in the solicitation and placement of all types of commercial loans through Belgravia's direct lending programs. Before that, Mr. Baril was responsible for the corporate operations, direct lending programs and management of mortgage portfolio of WestReal Advisors, Inc., Santa Monica, where he was instrumental in the formation of a Wall Street conduit lending program. After graduating from the University of Southern California in 1990 with a B.S. Degree in Business Administration, Mr. Baril joined the Richland Group, where he negotiated and structured joint venture equity participating mortgages with capital raised from private investors.