David Allman is Owner & Chairman of Regent Partners, a Real Estate Investment and Development company based in Atlanta. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1976 Magna Cum Laude and with Distinction in Economics.

Mr. Allman has been in the commercial real estate business since 1980. Regent Partners has developed or acquired more than $3 billion in real estate assets including its acquisition of the $500 million, 2.2 million square foot Concourse Complex in Atlanta and its acquisition and development of the 2.5 million square foot Tower Place complex in Buckhead, including The Sovereign, a 50-story mixed use project in Buckhead and the tallest building to be built in Atlanta in 25 years.

Mr. Allman is active in numerous real estate, civic, and ministry initiatives. He currently serves as Trustee for the J. Bulow Campbell Foundation and Trustee for The Lovett School. He also serves on the Boards of the Georgia Public Policy Foundation (GPPF) and the Metro Atlanta Chamber (MAC).

As Founding Chairman of Opportunity International Nicaragua, he has spearheaded efforts to establish new models for holistic alleviation of poverty, including groundbreaking efforts to connect smallholder farmers to the global supply chain.

David also serves as Founding Chairman of the Atlanta Affordable Housing Fund, which is a $15M fund providing low-cost debt to support transformative affordable housing opportunities.   

In the past, Mr. Allman served as Founding Chairman of the Buckhead Community Improvement District (BCID), as a Trustee and Former Chairman of the Georgia World Congress Center Authority, and as a national Trustee for the Urban Land Institute (ULI). He was also the Founding Chairman of the Eleazar Wheelock Society at Dartmouth College.

He has been married for 44 years (Donna) and has four adult children and thirteen grandchildren. He and Donna are native Atlantans.