OUR TEAM

DANIEL R. LEIGH

President, Sole Shareholder, Sole Director
More than 30 years experience

Daniel Leigh has extensive experience with large regional real estate firms, particularly with the development of master-planned communities. He has experience with corporate acquisitions and dispositions, land development, home building, and corporate business development activities.

His experience includes:

• Successful development and construction of numerous new home communities ranging from entry-level to high-end.
• Marketed over $1 billion of real estate assets.
• Managed, built and sold lots in commercial and industrial business parks; negotiated transactions with tenants such as Price Club, Kmart and Home Depot.
• Interaction with various regulated and non-regulated financial entities.
• Distributed over 150 million in profits from 1997 until current.
• Guest speaker for various industry seminars related to the California real estate and financial markets.

Self-Storage:
Corman Leigh has extensive experience in the self-storage arena. Corman Leigh has purchased and operated existing self-storage facilities, rehabbed outdated and underutilized facilities and ultimately sold self-storage facilities. In addition, Corman Leigh has purchased and entitled raw land for self-storage facilities and built new ground up facilities. Corman Leigh has significant operating experience with a track record of success. Corman Leigh has developed more than a dozen self-storage facilities as well as acting as the in-house manager of these facilities. Corman Leigh currently has 2 self-storage facilities in various stages of development and sold an additional 2 facilities to national self-storage organizations in the 2021 calendar year.

Mr. Leigh has been actively involved with the Building Industry Association for many years. He has served as the treasurer, Vice President of Community Affairs, First Vice President and the Riverside County BIA President for 1999. He has served as Secretary/Treasurer for BIA of Southern California and will be President of BIA of Southern California in 2007. He has served numerous years as a Political Action Committee Trustee for BIASC and CBIA. He is a Board of Director for both BIA of Southern California and CBIA. Mr. Leigh has been extremely active in a number of other professional, civic and community organizations such as Home Aid, Olive Crest, Habitat for Humanity, American Youth Soccer Organization, and the Southwest Detention Center. The Riverside County Chapter of the Building Industry Association honored him with the 1997 Community Service Award presented for his extensive charitable work. He has served as Vice Chairman of the Lincoln Club of Riverside and Secretary/Treasurer of Home Aid Inland Empire. Mr. Leigh was granted a State of California Senate Resolution commending him for his community service.

He has served on both the production builders committee and business management committee for the National Association of Home Builders. He is currently a member of the National Association of Homebuilders, Building Industry of Southern California, Home Aid America and the Lincoln Club. Additionally, Mr. Leigh is a Trustee for both the California Building Industry Association and the Building Industry Association of Southern California Political Action Committees. He has received such prestigious industry awards as the Builder of the Year (Riverside County), Gold Nugget Merit Award, Spike Award and numerous Laurel Awards.

Daniel Leigh graduated Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science and an MBA in real estate and finance from San Diego State University.

JON THINGVOLD

Finance Accounting Tax Management
More than 30 years experience

With more than 30 years of applied accounting experience with large and small southern California builders, Jon Thingvold brings both perspective and foresight to the Corman Leigh Companies team. His background includes positions with home builders whose annual revenues exceed $50 million. Mr. Thingvold is seasoned in all aspects of accounting and financial reporting and is adept in the preparation of consolidated financial statements, analysis for investors, facilitation of audits and government reporting.

Integrity is the cornerstone of Mr. Thingvold’s work ethic and his commitment to accuracy is reflected in all aspects of his work and throughout the staff he manages.

Mr. Thingvold holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Indiana State University.

FRANK (WAYNE) DOLLARHIDE

Has thirty-five years of strong and diverse experience in the field of construction. During his career, Wayne completed over 1,860,310 s.f. of building projects throughout Southern California. He has extensive knowledge of residential construction techniques in Estate Homes, Production Housing, Multi-Family Housing, apartments on podium, mixed retail use, high volume production and budget maintenance. Dollarhide is experienced with developing a project from raw land to the completion of all on and off-site tasks. He has a vast knowledge of budgeting, managing, customer service skills, computer skills, Procore, Primavera P3, SureTrak, Meridian’s Prolog Manager, and Microsoft Office. He has been recognized in the industry through letters of commendation and awards. He has also worked the infrastructures for City officials in CFD districts.