About

A small team, an unhurried plan, and a long view of an old industry.

SunHaven was founded in 2025 to do one thing well — partner with the founders of great regional community-management companies, and build the technology that lets their work continue for another generation.

— The story

How we got here.

The origin of SunHaven is a conversation we kept having. Founders of exceptional regional community-management companies — businesses built over decades, deeply embedded in their markets — wondering aloud what the right next chapter looked like. Not because anything was wrong. Because everything had gone right.

These companies are often at an inflection point. The founders who built them are thinking about what comes next — for themselves, for their teams, and for the communities that have counted on them for decades. The question they are asking is not whether to change, but whether the right partner exists.

SunHaven was founded to be that partner. The thesis is simple: keep the local company local, keep the founder's name on the door, build the platform underneath where the boards can't see it, and hold the business indefinitely. The capital is structured for that timeline. The team is structured for that timeline. The work is built around it.

We launched in 2025. The first partnership closed in early 2026. We are talking with founders across the country about the next.

— Founder & CEO

Elliot Cohen

Founder & Chief Executive

Elliot Cohen is the Founder and CEO of SunHaven Management, launched in 2025 with a mission to partner with the nation's top independent community-management operators and build the platform best suited to support them for the long term.

Elliot spent most of his career running large, service-driven residential businesses with thousands of field people. He believes the founders who built the best independent management companies in this industry have earned something better than what's typically offered to them — and that the right partnership should reflect the decades of work that came before it.

Before SunHaven, Elliot served as CEO of Sears Home Services, the country's largest in-home appliance service business, where he led 3,500 employees including 2,500 expert field technicians. There, he led the integration of AI and technology into large-scale field operations — applying machine learning to dispatch, predictive maintenance, and customer routing across thousands of daily service calls.

Prior to Sears, Elliot served as Chief Business and Corporate Development Officer at ADT Home Security, where he spearheaded a $600 million partnership with Google. Earlier, he founded Citymaps, a venture-backed technology company acquired by Tripadvisor.

Elliot holds a degree from Cornell University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He lives in New York with his wife, Isabel, and their two young daughters.

Adam Eskreis

VP of AI & Technology

Adam leads AI and technology for SunHaven. He previously co-founded Citymaps alongside Elliot, which was acquired by Tripadvisor, where he went on to serve as Senior Principal AI Engineer. He brings deep applied AI experience to SunHaven's platform and operating infrastructure. He holds a degree in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Davidi Confino

VP of Corporate Development

Davidi leads M&A and partnership activity for SunHaven. He previously served as VP at Temasek, one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds, where he sourced and executed investments across services and consumer businesses. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia.

Tom Kiernan

Board Director

Tom serves as a Board Director of SunHaven Management. He is the Founder & former CEO of ClickPay, a leading payments and resident services platform for the property management industry, which was acquired by RealPage. He brings deep expertise in proptech and services industry operations to the SunHaven board.

The work is local.

The relationships, the knowledge, and the trust live in the local team. Our job is to support that — never to displace it.

Capital should be patient.

We hold for decades, not for a five-year clock. Patient capital makes patient decisions; that's the only kind that compounds.

The founder is the brand.

The name on the door is worth more than any rebrand. We protect it, and we make it worth more in five years than today.

Test cheaply.

It's not how good our ideas are. It's how cheaply and quickly we can find out which ones are wrong.

Make complex things simple.

The job of the platform is to take the back-office complexity off the manager's desk. Not to add a dashboard.

Take the long view.

If we won't be proud of a decision in ten years, we won't make it. Integrity is a long-cycle asset.

— Capital partners

Backed by long-hold capital.

SunHaven is backed by Thayer Street Partners, a boutique private investment firm focused on opportunistic investments in recurring revenue businesses operating in the financial services, business services, and real estate services sectors. The firm specializes in providing companies with customized capital solutions and partners with management teams to help scale their businesses.

Thayer Street has partnered with leading companies in the elevator maintenance industry, the marina sector, and other essential service businesses. The capital behind SunHaven is structured without a fund clock — built to compound, not to exit on schedule.

Most of what matters happens in person.

If you're a founder, a board member, an operator, or someone who would like to work with us, we'd be glad to know you.

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