Hickory Creek Capital Partners
Hickory Creek Capital Partners is a private investment firm founded in 2019 by Kent Leach, based in Lenoir City, Tennessee. It invests both directly and through other firms' deals.
About Hickory Creek Capital Partners
Hickory Creek Capital Partners is an East Tennessee firm founded in 2019 by Kent Leach that raises capital from accredited investors for private alternative investments. Through the Hickory Creek SMART Flex Fund, a customizable 3(c)(1) fund in which each investor chooses which offerings to join, it invests alongside established operators in commercial real estate, affordable housing, private equity, private debt and energy, and now in rural land through Everland Equity, the company of Mark Podolsky (The Land Geek). Kent invests his own capital in every deal on the same terms as the fund's investors. Outside the fund he develops affordable housing directly. The firm aims to give investors income-oriented private investments that diversify away from the volatility of traditional markets.
Team
The person behind the firm.
Kent Leach
Founder & Fund Manager
Kent Leach founded Hickory Creek Capital Partners and, as Fund Manager, directs the investment strategy of the Hickory Creek SMART Flex Fund, which he started in 2024 as a 3(c)(1) fund. Before Hickory Creek he founded K & K Investment Properties in 2003, building a portfolio of rental properties and completing over 100 deals, including short sales, fix-and-flips and rent-to-own. Leach graduated with honors from the University of Tennessee in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy and worked as a physical therapist in an internal medicine practice.
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Headquarters
Lenoir City, Tennessee
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