{"id":5071,"date":"2021-05-18T10:40:09","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T14:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brookwood.davisadbeta.com\/?p=5071"},"modified":"2021-05-18T10:42:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-18T14:42:41","slug":"ericka-l-ayles-and-mark-j-daniels-elected-partner-of-brookwood-financial-partners-llc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brookwood.davisadbeta.com\/?p=5071","title":{"rendered":"Ericka L. Ayles and Mark J. Daniels Elected Partner of Brookwood Financial Partners, LLC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>(Beverly, MA \u2013 May 17, 2021)<\/strong> \u2013 Brookwood Financial Partners, LLC (\u201cBrookwood\u201d), an<br \/>\ninternationally-recognized private equity real estate investment firm, is pleased to announce that Ericka L.<br \/>\nAyles and Mark J. Daniels have each been promoted to partner of the firm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEricka and Mark have each made outstanding contributions to the firm as integral members of our senior<br \/>\nmanagement team. Both are well respected by colleagues and clients for their financial acumen, integrity,<br \/>\nand depth of experience and have been tremendous assets for our firm,\u201d said Thomas Nicholas Trkla,<br \/>\nChairman and Chief Executive Officer of Brookwood. \u201cIt is a great pleasure to celebrate their<br \/>\nachievements, and we are proud to welcome them to the partnership.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Ayles is a Managing Director and the Chief Financial Officer for Brookwood and Chief Financial<br \/>\nOfficer of Yesway. She oversees all of Brookwood\u2019s and Yesway\u2019s financial operations, accounting, tax<br \/>\nreporting, budgeting, audit, and cash management processes, as well as banking relationships and the<br \/>\nimplementation of financial and risk management strategies for Brookwood and its affiliated entities. Ms.<br \/>\nAyles analyzes the impact of acquisitions, potential sales, property re-financings and other upcoming<br \/>\ncapital requirements to make strategic recommendations for investor distributions while ensuring<br \/>\nadequate levels of reserves. She also oversees the firm\u2019s corporate financial planning function and<br \/>\nquarterly financial reporting to its investors and is responsible for the development and maintenance of<br \/>\nadequate internal controls. She serves as the Company\u2019s Financial and Operational Principal, overseeing<br \/>\nBrookwood\u2019s regulatory financial reporting and is a member of Brookwood\u2019s Executive and Investment<br \/>\nCommittees.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining Brookwood, Ms. Ayles worked for JDJ Family Office Services, a private financial and<br \/>\nadministrative service company for high-net-worth families and individuals. Previously, she served as a<br \/>\nVice President of Portfolio and Financial Reporting at New Boston Fund, Inc., where she was directly<br \/>\ninvolved with property, portfolio, and fund accounting. Ms. Ayles began her career in public accounting<br \/>\nat PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP as an Associate and Senior Associate focusing on technology and higher<br \/>\neducation clients.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Ayles is a graduate of Bryant College. In 2017, she completed the Oxford Strategic Leadership<br \/>\nProgramme at the University of Oxford\u2019s Sa\u00efd Business School, and in 2021 was recognized as a Woman of<br \/>\nthe Year in the annual Convenience Store News \u201cTop Women in Convenience\u201d awards program, after being<br \/>\nhonored as a Senior Level Leader in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Daniels is a Managing Director and serves as the firm\u2019s Chief Strategy Officer. He has been<br \/>\ninstrumental in identifying, evaluating, and recommending strategies and specific opportunities for<br \/>\ninvestment, most significantly the recession-resistant characteristics of the convenience retailing industry.<br \/>\nThis led to the establishment of BW Gas &amp; Convenience Holdings, LLC, which was founded in 2015 and<br \/>\noperates the Yesway brand of convenience stores. As one of the country&#8217;s fastest-growing convenience<br \/>\nstore chains, Yesway&#8217;s rapidly expanding portfolio currently consists of 402 stores located in Texas, New<br \/>\nMexico, South Dakota, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Wyoming, Oklahoma, and Nebraska, including, most<br \/>\nrecently, the 304-store Allsup&#8217;s Convenience Stores chain.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining Brookwood, Mr. Daniels was a senior operations consultant with Stroud Consulting,<br \/>\nwhere his work leading client teams to drive process improvements resulted in millions of dollars in<br \/>\nannual savings. At Stroud, he worked extensively for a multi-national oil producer, exporter, and retailer<br \/>\nand a major food-service processor and manufacturer, where his specific areas of expertise were in the<br \/>\nconsolidation and roll-up of facilities, network optimization, capital-free cost reduction, and the<br \/>\noptimization of capital projects. He also served as the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Digital<br \/>\nField Theory, an international software company specializing in the applied numerical simulations of<br \/>\nsports.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Daniels serves as Secretary of the Board of The Princeton Tiger, Inc. He is an active member of the<br \/>\nTau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society, the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Honor Society, and the<br \/>\nCanadian and American Mathematical Societies. He remains the Chairman of the Board of Digital Field<br \/>\nTheory and serves on numerous executive and advisory boards. Mr. Daniels is a magna cum laude<br \/>\ngraduate of Princeton University, where he also received his master\u2019s degree in Mechanical and<br \/>\nAerospace Engineering.<\/p>\n<p>Both Mr. Daniels and Ms. Ayles were instrumental in the success of Yesway\u2019s recent acquisition of the<br \/>\n304-store Allsup\u2019s Convenience Stores chain, one of the largest acquisitions in the c-store space &#8211; from<br \/>\ndriving the integration of the two companies, to establishing Yesway\u2019s new headquarters location in Fort<br \/>\nWorth, TX, to securing upgrades to Yesway\u2019s corporate and credit facility ratings, and to overseeing the<br \/>\nintegration of updated back-office and point-of-sale systems, including PDI, across the entire Yesway and<br \/>\nAllsup\u2019s portfolio.<\/p>\n<p><strong>About Brookwood Financial Partners, LLC<\/strong> \u2013 Brookwood is an internationally recognized private equity<br \/>\nreal estate investment firm that specializes in acquiring and managing value-add commercial real estate<br \/>\nand related operating businesses on behalf of a select group of institutional investors, including<br \/>\nendowments, pension funds and foundations, family of ices and high-net-worth individuals. Since its<br \/>\ninception, Brookwood has invested over $1.7 billion of equity to acquire a portfolio of 200 commercial<br \/>\nreal estate properties, seven operating companies and 451 gas stations and convenience stores. The firm\u2019s<br \/>\n$3.6 billion historical portfolio has spanned multiple asset classes, geographical markets and industries<br \/>\nacross the United States.Media Contact:<br \/>\nErin Vadala, Warner Communications<br \/>\n(978) 468-3076; <a href=\"mailto:erin@warnerpr.com\">erin@warnerpr.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Beverly, MA \u2013 May 17, 2021) \u2013 Brookwood Financial Partners, LLC (\u201cBrookwood\u201d), an internationally-recognized private equity real estate investment firm, is pleased to announce that Ericka L. Ayles and Mark J. 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