THE FIRM
A Charleston Sponsor.
Communities Across the Southeast.
We buy and operate 50–100 unit garden communities in secondary Southeast markets — with leverage low enough to hold, and operators close enough to know the property.
HQ
Charleston, SC
FOCUS
Garden Style Apartments, 50-100 Units
MARKETS
Secondary Southeast
Partners
Chris Copenhaver
Partner
Chris is a VMI graduate (BA, Business/Economics) and co-founder of Protos Security, the tech-enabled guarding platform he and Patrick Henderson built from a Roanoke basement into a national operator. At Missional he sits on the GP and oversees the firm’s accounting — books, reporting, and the numbers partners actually see.
Paul Desiderio
Partner
Paul is a Charleston–based partner with more than twenty years in sales. He has held a South Carolina real estate license since 2023 and works the Charleston market as both an operator and a licensed agent. He now also helps oversee the legal structure of Missional’s syndications — entities, offering documents, and the close — so each fund is built as carefully as the asset.
Patrick Henderson
Partner
Patrick is a VMI civil engineer and co-founder of Protos Security with Chris Copenhaver; they still sit on the board after the 2019 recap. He has operated his own rentals, commercial, and multifamily since 2018 and is a founding partner of Missional. At the firm he carries a large share of client and investor outreach — the calls, the updates, and the relationships that keep partners informed.
Nate Shields
Partner
Nate has been in real estate since 2013 as an agent, then as an investor flipping, wholesaling, and holding rentals. He has written for BiggerPockets and is a founding partner at Missional, where he handles investor communications and deal coordination. He also runs most of the firm’s insurance operations — placing and keeping coverage on the communities.
Troy Zimmerman
Partner
Troy is a founding GP in Charleston and still practices as a financial advisor through Missional Advisor Group, where he manages more than $50 million in client assets. At Missional Capital Group he is intimately involved in identifying and underwriting properties, as well as structuring loans with various lenders.