Holt Lunsford

Holt Lunsford is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Holt Lunsford Commercial (HLC), a commercial real estate service and investment company founded in 1993. HLC’s core lines of business include development, leasing, property management and investments in the office, industrial and multifamily sectors. They manage and lease an 83 million square foot portfolio of buildings in Dallas, Fort Worth and Houston for private and institutional owners, and have developed or acquired over 10 million square feet through their investment company, Frontier Equity.

In addition to his commercial real estate business, Holt is Founder and Chairman of Liberty Capital Bank, a Texas-based banking institution founded in 2007, and GFS Logistics, an integrated third-party logistics and fulfillment company.

Professional Affiliations

Holt is a guest lecturer at Harvard Business School and Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, teaching cases in the Harvard curriculum called “Holt Lunsford Commercial, Inc. and Shady Trail.”

Holt feels giving back of time and treasure to the community is vital and currently serves on the Board of the Baylor Health Care System Foundation and the Baylor University Medical Center. He also has served as Chairman of the Board of The Real Estate Council (TREC), a 1,200-member real estate trade organization based in Dallas, Texas, and The Board of Trustees for Abilene Christian University.

Holt is actively involved philanthropically through a family foundation organized to help the disadvantaged and underprivileged. Non-profits they support include Rio Bravo Ministries, RREACH, Dallas Leadership Foundation, Denison Forum for Truth and Culture, Dolphin Heights Neighborhood Association, ChristianWorks for Children, First Liberty Institute, EvanTell, and East West-Ministries International.