Leadership
Built and run by hand.
W7 is led by a hands-on family team that invests its own capital alongside yours — and now carries into a second generation.
W7 is led by a hands-on family team that invests its own capital alongside yours — and now carries into a second generation.
W7 Investments is built and run by a hands-on team that invests its own capital alongside yours — and we've brought accounting and advisory in-house so nothing about your money is outsourced.
W7 began as Ayanna's idea. She imagined a firm that could build schools, homes, and community-care programs with the same care and creativity — and founded it. Pairing a background in special education and child development with a decade of building organizations from the ground up, she sets the firm's vision and leads its education and community-care platform alongside its in-house accounting & advisory practice.
An educator-turned-builder with a Ph.D. in educational leadership, Thomas spent two decades founding and leading schools before applying that same discipline to real estate — developing ground-up homes, acquiring commercial and residential property, and building the operating companies that now sit under W7. He directs the firm's strategy and capital across every sector.
A 2026 political science graduate of Sacramento State — now entering a master's program — Adia already leads one of W7's investments day to day. She brings the next generation of the family's discipline to the firm: hands-on with the operation, and learning the business of building from the ground up.
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