Meet The Team
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Teren Ramnundlall
Managing Partner
As Co-Founder and Visionary of Sunburst, Teren, specializes in a multitude of skills of which his focus in on deal acquisition and capital raising.
Teren is from Johannesburg, South Africa and a graduate from the University of South Africa where he received his Bachelor in Business Administration.
Upon graduation, he spent the first part of his career working in various managerial roles in Finance, Operations & Business Development.
Teren thoroughly enjoyed roles where he was required to locate new business premises and set-up new offices in various countries throughout the EMEA region.
In 2019, he left his corporate career and focused on real estate investing full-time. Teren started renting apartments and single family homes through buying, rehabbing and renting them out.
Teren won the Most Growth “Investor of the Year” Award in 2021 as he was able to remotely do deals during COVID. Teren then sought out more growth and identified multifamily investing in the USA as his next logical step.
Outside of real estate, he loves spending time with his wife and son. Teren enjoys reading and has read over 300 books. Teren enjoys new experiences which has led him to visit more than 35 countries.
He strongly believes in the importance of maintaining the freedom and flexibility to spend more time with family, friends, and pursuing new interests.
Shaun Pillay
Managing Partner
He is the Co-Founder of Sunburst Equity. Shaun is the deal maker in the team. His strengths lie in connecting people, seeing opportunities. He is great at networking, market research and conflict resolution. Aka the Negotiation tactician.
He enjoys maintaining key relationships with brokers and investors. He believes in open lines of communication with all members of our team. This is paramount to a successful business. He will be involved in our repositioning deals, sourcing materials and working with contractors. Shaun is also involved with the financial and operational aspects such as deal due diligence, underwriting, property managers, legal teams and accountants.
He entered the property market in South Africa in 2017 doing single family homes and then moved into student accommodation. He has successfully negotiated contracts with universities for direct rental for all his units.
He has Bachelor of Science degree and then did his Bachelors of Optometry degree. He still practices on a part-time basis. He does a lot of philanthropic work as well as doing pediatric vision care at no charge to all patients under 12 years.
Very keen golfer, tennis player and runner.