Three men. Three disciplines. One development standard.

Felipe Soares brings practical experience in real estate investing, capital strategy, and partnership development to Threefold Development Academy. He is a co-founder and principal of Threefold Development Partners, where he leads Capital, Strategy & Partnerships.

Born in Brazil, Felipe immigrated to the United States in 2001 and has been active in Dallas–Fort Worth real estate investing since 2008. His background also includes 11 years of service as a firefighter and paramedic in Texas.

Felipe is the Founder and Fund Manager of RAW Capital Fund, Managing Partner of RAW Equity Group, and Founder and Host of Deal Maker DFW. His career experience across his prior ventures includes 412+ real estate transactions, $63M+ in transaction volume, and $45M+ in private capital raised.

At the Academy, his teaching focus includes evaluating opportunities, understanding underwriting assumptions, organizing capital requirements, and building clear relationships among owners, investors, lenders, and operating partners. He helps participants connect the financial plan to the development decisions and construction responsibilities that shape a project.

His instruction emphasizes practical questions: What supports the assumptions? What will the project require? Who is responsible for each decision? How should the risks and commitments be communicated?

Felipe’s perspective complements Robert K. Bishop’s construction and execution experience. Together, these perspectives help participants understand how capital, development, and construction relate throughout a project.

Through Deal Maker DFW and his broader professional work, Felipe also shares knowledge and builds relationships within the real estate community. His approach to education emphasizes preparation, teachability, accountability, and responsible stewardship.

He supports the Threefold commitment to honor God, steward resources wisely, serve people faithfully, and create lasting value for partners and communities.

Robert K. Bishop is a construction and development executive based in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, with decades of experience leading complex projects across California, Arizona and Texas. His career spans luxury single-family homes, multifamily and condominium communities, build-for-rent developments and commercial rollout programs, with direct oversight of budgets, contracts, scheduling, risk management and full project lifecycle execution.

Operating at chief-executive and principal-partner level, he has led teams, managed general contractors and trade partners, negotiated vendor and subcontractor agreements, and provided independent oversight for owners, lenders, family offices and private equity sponsors. He also intervenes where projects have stopped working — distressed and stalled jobs needing rapid assessment, leadership restructuring, budget recalibration and operational course correction.

Robert K. Bishop Advisory is separately owned and separately contracted; an engagement with one is not an engagement with the other. At the Academy he carries construction and execution: preconstruction, scope, estimating, procurement, owner representation, cost and schedule control, completion and recovery.