Leadership

Andrew Segal

Chairman & CEO

Andrew Segal formed Boxer Property in September 1992. Under his oversight, the company has successfully reached into segments as diverse as resort hotels, retail centers, office and other real estate businesses, accounting for approximately 20 million square feet of space across the United States.

He is the co-founder of Stemmons Enterprise software company. He received his B.A. from the University of Southern California. He attended the New York University School of Law and graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1992.

Justin Segal

President

Justin Segal oversees operations, marketing, leasing, and technology for a national portfolio of commercial properties. Justin’s passion for analytics, enterprise data, artificial intelligence, and process engineering has helped establish Boxer as a national leader in CRE technology. He co-founded Stemmons Enterprise, a universal operations platform allowing companies to operate with pervasive data, organized processes, and a single view of everything.

Justin serves on the boards of the Lawndale Art Center and Sketch City, and is a long time member of the Realcomm CIO Advisory Council as well as the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences (the Webby Awards). He formerly served on the boards of YES Prep Public Schools and Glasstire.

Justin graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (BA) and the New York University School of Law (JD).

Michael T. Pariza

President - Boxer Retail & Resorts 

Michael Pariza is an MBA and licensed real estate broker with an extensive background in commercial real estate investment, operations, and strategy. Currently, Michael is involved in the strategy and oversight of Boxer’s office portfolio and as President of Boxer Retail & Resorts is responsible for the design, implementation, growth and oversight of the Company's retail and hospitality businesses which includes golf, restaurants, and parking operations as well as related business ventures with third parties.

Michael has held several key leadership positions with Boxer throughout his 20+ year tenure with the company.  They include Broker of Record, Director of Leasing, Asset Manager and Director of Operations and he has supervised the leasing, marketing, operations, and engineering teams of Boxer's portfolio in multiple markets across the Unites States.

Michael has spearheaded several of the company's most notable and complicated projects. He handled the company’s first multi-family development and began and completed the redevelopment of an enclosed super-regional shopping center, which included the negotiation of a City Chapter 380 Municipality Agreement. Michael founded an oil and gas pipeline and production company to take advantage of mineral rights for several properties in the Texas Barnett Shale and after successfully obtaining a gas well permit for more than 80 acres of mineral leases, the project was sold to XTO/Exxon.  Most recently Michael initiated and oversaw the development of a point of sale ordering system used in the hospitality and retail sector.  He is noted for his talent at analyzing financial statement for various income producing properties and has negotiated an array of contracts and commercial leases for the company's office, retail, parking, and multi-family businesses as well as access agreements, franchise agreements and mineral leases for its hospitality and oil and gas businesses.

Michael is a licensed Right-of-Way agent in the State of Texas and a licensed Real Estate Broker in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas.  He has earned Master’s in Business Administration from Dallas’ Southern Methodist University and is a member of the Real Estate Council, American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association, the Building Owner's Management Association, National Association of Realtors, International Council of Shopping Centers, National Apartment Association, National Golf Foundation, and the American Hotel & Lodging Association.

John Rentz

Vice President and Chief Counsel

John Rentz joined Boxer in 1997. He has been the face of the company in multiple legal forums. He has represented Boxer in numerous jurisdictions in litigation matters, and tried many bench and jury trials. In addition to managing the legal department, he also oversees transactional matters on behalf of the company, including sales, acquisitions, and financing.

John is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the Houston Chapter of the General Counsel Forum, the Houston Bar Association, and the Houston Real Estate Council (2018 Board President). He has served as a coach for the West University baseball and soccer leagues. Mr. Rentz previously served on the Long Range Planning Committee of his church and on the Zoning Board of Adjustment for the City of West University Place. Alongside his license to practice law in the State of Texas, he has been admitted to practice in the United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit (1993); the United States District Court for the Southern District of Texas (1992); Western District of Texas (1996); and the Eastern District of Texas (1997). He was Board Certified in Labor and Employment Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization from 1997-2007.

Prior to Joining Boxer Property, Mr. Rentz was an associate attorney at Baker & Botts LLP. A Texas A&M alumni, Mr. Rentz earned a double major in Political Science and Economics. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Houston Law School (graduated cum laude; Order of the Barons; UH Law Review, Associate Editor; Order of the Coif). 

Blake Morris

Chief Financial Officer

As Boxer's CFO, Blake Morris leads the finance and accounting teams which are responsible for accounting and financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting, treasury management, loan compliance, lender relations, property tax management, income tax planning and compliance as well as property and casualty insurance.

Blake has 30 years of experience in financial operations and analysis in multiple operating environments, including public corporations, private equity, investment banking and strategic consulting. Most recently he worked for a $2 billion offshore drilling company as their Vice President of Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis where he was responsible for their annual budgeting and forecasting and led the implementation of a new planning system (BPC). Blake spent the majority of his career as a partner at a private equity firm where he helped invest in and raise financing for 15 portfolio companies across three funds and served on the boards of directors of six of those companies. Early in his career, Blake spent time on Wall Street with Credit Suisse First Boston in their mergers and acquisitions department and he started his career in strategic consulting with Bain & Company in Boston.

Blake holds an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a BA in Economics, magna cum laude, from Rice University.