Delphi Group

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Mr. Jeff Swaney, President of Delphi Group, Incorporated, is a Michigan State University Graduate (BS ’80 EGR) and Hewlett-Packard Alumni. Delphi was started in 1987, and has been one of the preeminent Real Estate firms active in Texas with well over $100MM in Brokerage and Development projects completed to date. Jeff has also diversified into other areas, including Angel Venture Investing, and Real Estate Lending, nationally. Jeff Swaney and the Delphi Group embrace Conscious Capitalism principals. If you had to identify reasons for the Delphi’s success, you'd find a fusion of elements such as a love of working with talented and artistic people, a keen eye for fresh ideas that present a message consistent with defined social-political beliefs, an intense drive to meet objectives regardless of the obstacles, and a commitment to the bottom line. Jeff believes that, “If I can't do something truly outstanding and original that makes people think, then I'm not interested in the project. If I make the commitment, it becomes an obsession. That's the key to fulfillment and success." THE EARLY YEARS Mr. Swaney’s earliest influence was a poetic mother who stressed education first. College at Michigan State University in East Lansing resulted in a B.S. in a select Engineering / Marketing program with special interests in quantitative marketing methodologies and the arts. Upon completion of the program, Mr. Swaney sold his possessions and embarked on a year long world-wide solo backpacking journey focusing on cultural exchange, writing, photography, the outdoors and the arts. The journeys he experienced in high school through his reading planted the early seed that drove his post college travels around the world. Collectively, these experiences continue to inspire Jeff’s entrepreneurial spirit and passion for life. Returning to the states, he accepted a commercial systems marketing position with the Hewlett-Packard Company in Richardson, Texas. (HP was recognized that year by Fortune magazine as the finest U.S. company with which to work). After a 3-year tenure with HP, marked with top producer awards and promotions, and passing on an HP paid MBA at Stanford University, he opted for an entrepreneurial opportunity with the Data Switch Corporation, a high-flying high-tech specialty switching equipment manufacturer. Finally, with the desire to strike out on his own, Jeff Swaney left the corporate world to pursue his newfound passion – Downtown Dallas and the undeveloped Deep Ellum district, on the city's East side. Deep Ellum began in the late 1800’s as a freedman’s town and was a nationally recognized center of jazz and blues music in the 1920’s and 30’s featuring such notables as Columbia Record’s Blind Lemon Jefferson. But the area declined sharply in the years following World War II with businesses and residents moving to the suburbs. Until..... ENTERTAINER AND ENTREPRENEUR Jeff Swaney began his entertainment career in his 20's in Deep Ellum in June of 1985 with a series of roving "warehouse parties" where various forms of entertainment, art, dancing, live music, bizarre environmental displays etc, were the talk of the “see-and-be-seen” crowd.

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