Executive Team
Meet the
A small group of professional, passionate, ambitious and results-driven individuals. We value bold vision, innovation, quality and opportunity.
Frank Lonardelli
President and CEO
Frank Lonardelli is a driven entrepreneur committed to innovation and strategic thinking, with an aptitude to foster a dedicated executive team and the ambition to ensure success for each and every Arlington Group endeavour.
Frank completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Winnipeg and an Executive Master’s Program at the Sloan School of Management. Diversity in education, life experience and a strong business acumen has allowed Frank to become a prominent figure in the business community and specifically in the real estate industry. Over the last 7 years, Frank has developed a multiple award-winning real estate investment firm that has amassed and developed some of the most high profile development sites in Calgary’s inner city core.
Growing up on Arlington Street in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Frank faced challenges that immeasurably shaped his business acuity and defined his ambitions and goals. His greatest achievement is the Arlington Street Foundation Scholarship, dedicated to cultivating the talents and inner beauty of underprivileged youth. The program was launched in 2009 to honour those who believed in him while he was a student at Gordon Bell High School, and give back by creating opportunities for deserving students facing their own adversities in life. He intends to expand the program nationally within the next 5 years.
Under Frank’s astute leadership, the Arlington Group has been recognized as a four time winner (2013, 2015, 2017 and 2018) of the PCMA commercial Real Estate Deal of the Year award. Frank has also been recognized as one of Alberta’s 2016 Business Leaders of the Year and was recently named as an EY 2016 Entrepreneur for the Year Finalist.
Ralph Bennetsen
EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT OF DEVELOPMENT AND ACQUISITIONS
Committed to community engagement and collaboration, Ralph has a long and successful history of completing projects that are what he calls 100-year buildings – buildings that enhance neighbourhoods by becoming an integral part of the landscape and the lifestyle. Ralph is the VP of Acquisitions and Developments at ASI where he is responsible for asset selection, acquisition, conceptual and strategic planning, site feasibility, financial modeling and marketability.
He brings 30 years of industry experience as a building technologist and an experienced real estate and development professional to this role.
His career in development began in the late 1970’s in a family enterprise, with a multi-tenant commercial retail development on Vancouver Island. Ralph has been the senior lead on many successful construction development projects in Calgary and Vancouver. Projects include commercial, industrial, multi-family low-rise, and high-rise residences.
Ralph has directed more than 30 development projects in a lead project management role, totalling more than $1 billion dollars in construction costs and over 3.5 million of square feet.
Dean Campbell
COO of Construction and Development
Dean Campbell, COO of Construction and Development is a building professional at Arlington Street providing over 30 years project management expertise to the team. Dean’s passion for building was shaped pre-professionally growing up in a drywall contractor’s family. The value of quality construction in a volume platform was instilled at an early age.
For the first decade in his career, Dean worked in project management for some of the largest self- performing developers in Toronto in the high-rise purpose built rental, condominium, suites hotel and office tower sector. From there he transitioned into residential housing in both multi and single family. He was key in establishing two regional start up operations in Ottawa and Calgary. During this time Dean and his team were awarded JD Power & Assoc. Top Satisfaction Award and Avid Western Canada Award recognizing best customer experience in market respectively.
Lachlan Griffiths
Vice President, Finance
Lachlan is a seasoned finance executive with deep experience across many successful private companies. His entrepreneurial soul and technical backing provides great vision and strategic thinking for the company.
Lachlan is a chartered CA (CPA) obtaining his designation in 2006. He spent over a decade working for a big four accounting firm across two countries before being tapped to lead the accounting team of one of Alberta’s largest commercial developers.
His classical training in accounting is counterbalanced by his entrepreneurial and strategic vision, giving him an ability to focus on the detail while driving the strategic direction.
Lachlan has handled over $250m in assets in over 50 developments across Canada and the US across his career.
