DR. DIANA DRISCOLL
CEO, LEED AP
Real Estate Interests
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes.” (Marcel Proust)
LEED AP
Member, Hotel Industry Professionals Worldwide
Member, U.S. Green Building Council
Ridgeline Hospitality, LLC: Founder and Principal of this development company, focused solely on the development of unique, high-quality hospitality projects.
Realty Capital Corporation: served as a limited partner investor in numerous commercial, residential and mixed-use projects. Assisted developers with various retail and residential projects, including the purchase of Corral City, Texas.
Mansfield Warehouse Project, Mansfield, TX: Purchased 6.5 acres in Mansfield, with a 30,000 sq. ft., fully-leased building as a 1031 exchange.
Keller Office Park, Keller, TX: I served as co-developer (with my husband) on
this office development, and successfully formed a syndication, personally raising all
equity needed for the project in one day.
Fossil Creek Building, Fort Worth, TX: Purchased, self-managed every aspect of ownership, and sold this office building with a 1031 exchange, and a high return on investment.
Excellence in Educational Achievement
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.” (Abigail Adams).
Doctorate of Optometry, University of Houston, 1985 (Summa Cum Laude)
Graduate, University of Texas at Austin, 1980 Bachelor of Arts (Summa Cum Laude)
Entrepreneur
“The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore. ” (Dale Carnegie)
Founder, President, Ridgeline Hospitality, LLC
A corporation established solely for the development and acquisitions of unique, up-scale hotels
Founder, President, Driscoll Realty Developments, Inc.
A corporation set up for the development, management, and investment in office, retail and industrial real estate.
Private Optometric Practices
My optometric career involved the successful development of numerous practices – including an array of established practice purchases, start-up endeavors, and small chain developments.
Founder, President - Professional Money Management, Inc.
As a Registered Financial Advisor, while actively practicing optometry, I started Professional Money Management, Inc., focusing primarily on assisting doctors and single women with their financial goals.
Founder, President - Practice Dynamics, Inc.
Through this start-up corporation, I appraised optometric practices, assisted doctors in brokering their practices - bringing buyers and sellers together, assisting with negotiations, contracts, etc.
Professional Consultants, Inc.
This corporation arranged for doctors to fill in at offices throughout Texas on an as-needed basis. I was eventually brought into this corporation and made its President.
Frequent Speaker and Author
“Sharing what I have learned with others means that I must always stay informed, and challenges me to always stay on top of my game.”
Lecturer, American Optometric Association's Annual Congress, 1999
Lecturer, Ehlers-Danlos National Foundation Conference: Lectured at the 2008 EDNF Conference with an audience of hundreds of patients, doctors, and researchers.
Lecturer, I am honored to have been asked to speak at the 2009 EDS Conference in Sweden
Numerous public appearances, including radio (WOAI) and TV (”Good Morning Austin”)
Professional publications, include articles in: Optometry News, Review of Optometry, American Optometric Association News, Optometric Management
Co-authored, numerous publications for doctors on preparing their offices for the Year 2000.
Honors
“Recognition by my peers is a great compliment for which I am both grateful and proud.”
Texas Association of Optometrists Foundation of Excellence Award
Ave Custos Oculi Award for Outstanding Achievement in Contact Lens Studies
Excellence in Optics Award
Excellence in Pathology Award
Barnes-Hind Hydrocurve Contact Lens Award
Albert Schweitzer Award
Honor Fraternities: Phi Beta Kappa, Psi Chi, Beta Beta Beta, Beta Sigma Kappa
Optometric Honor Fraternity, Phi Kappa Phi, Alpha Lambda Delta
Philanthropist
"Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others." (Barbara Bush)
Slides and Smiles
Advisor/director of this non-profit organization that provides free playgrounds for the disadvantaged.
Whites Chapel United Methodist Church
Active involvement in my church, I have served on the Administrative Board, Preschool Board, and Family Board, I served as a Barnabas minister, and have participated in both the choir and orchestra, and missionary trips.
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome National Foundation
As both a doctor and patient, I am working closely with the researchers on this rare, genetic condition, and spoke at the 2008 annual convention.
Board Member, Schola Cantorum of Texas, Inc.
A volunteer position for one of Texas' premiere choral organizations. Schola has a long tradition of creating an appreciation for, and preservation of, the music of the great masters.
Personal Information
“Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
(Dale Carnegie)
Living in Keller, Texas, with my wonderful husband, Rich, and our children, Taylor and
Jimmie.
