Maria Nenciu, CFIC – Founder, Lease Auditor, Adviser
Maria Nenciu is the founder and principal of Richvale Consulting and a forensic lease auditor dedicated to helping commercial tenants control occupancy costs and improve lease administration. With hands-on experience in property accounting and lease audit management, Maria knows how landlord and tenant billing systems work and how errors happen so, she finds recoveries and prevents recurring overcharges.
Before founding Richvale Consulting, Maria worked in property accounting and lease audit roles for large private real estate service providers and REITs, giving her a rare perspective on both sides of the ledger. She’s an affiliate member of the Association of Certified Forensic Investigators of Canada and has completed advanced financial accounting coursework.
Maria brings a forensic, numbers-first approach to every engagement: audit, document, recover, and implement controls.
Laura Bedal, BBA, CPA, CMA – Accountant & Auditor
Laura Bedal is a professional accountant (CPA, CMA) who has had a focus on operational efficiencies and helping her business partners make solid decisions with the aid of financial data.
After 15 years in manufacturing, of which approximately half was in Plant Controllership, Laura decided to transition to a role that allowed her to sample different industries. It is here that she had her first opportunity to work in real estate and gained her first experiences with property accounting. She spent more than 5 years maintaining the books of the Landlord and working with the tenants to understand the costs that were being presented. In that time Laura became well versed in the lease clauses and would review the work of her team to ensure compliance to the lease. Laura has a Bachelor of Business Administration from the Schulich School of Business at York University.
Rouben Alchoujian, MCR – Director, Lease Administration & Abstraction
Rouben Alchoujian brings 25 years of Corporate Real Estate services experience to occupiers who need clarity, control and savings. He has more than 12 years of hands-on lease administration experience, overseeing portfolios exceeding 18 million square feet and $350 million in annual rent, delivering recurring savings of about $1M a year. His client list includes major institutional and corporate occupiers such as the Government of Ontario, GMP Securities, Loblaws, McMillan, PMA, Thrivent Financial and Walmart.
Beyond audits and recoveries, Rouben leads CRE technology selection and implementation, from portfolio data management systems to executive dashboards and data visualization, and drives the change management needed for adoption. An innovation champion, he is an active advocate for AI and other technology disruptors that materially improve lease administration and portfolio performance. Rouben holds an MCR (Master of Corporate Real Estate) from CoreNet Global.
Richvale Consulting has grown significantly and earned the trust of a growing list of happy clients in Canada and United States in the last decade. If you are looking for a partnership, have too many projects too deliver and a tight deadline, let us know so we can come with some solutions to save time and money with your commercial real estate function.