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The partnership between Mark Hemmeter and Koelbel & Company combines experience from the two industries required to implement a successful business strategy for the Work Simple platform.
Mark Hemmeter
Mark has founded and led multiple organizations in the coworking, hospitality, franchising and commercial real estate industries with annual revenues from $10m to $30m and 25 to 750 employees.
Work Simple, his latest venture and in partnership with Koelbel and Company, is exploiting the structural changes in the traditional office industry by acquiring distressed buildings and converting them to dedicated flex office ecosystems.
Prior to Work Simple, Mark founded Office Evolution in 2003. The team and its franchisees expanded OE into North America’s largest co-working franchisor. As of April 2023, OE has 80 locations in 25 states. In addition to embracing its powerful culture called “Ohana”, OE won numerous awards including the Franchise 500 award every year from 2017 through 2022, been listed in the Inc 5000 twice and a winner of one of Franchise Business Review’s top awards.
Koelbel and Company
Colorado’s longest operating family-owned real estate firm, Koelbel and Company boasts a slate of successful developments stretching from Vail and Winter Park to Denver and Boulder. A powerhouse in shaping residential communities, the company has also made an indelible impact on bustling retail centers and co-working campuses and has transformed workspaces for the healthcare, life sciences and defense industries.
Koelbel’s portfolio includes notable innovative healthcare integrators and highly amenitized, secured defense campuses; each designed to maximize talent attraction. To round out its Commercial ventures, Koelbel is now actively acquiring value-add commercial opportunities throughout the U.S. Leveraging more than 70 years of ageless values and pacesetting design, Koelbel and Company is extending its reach beyond Colorado to place its stamp of success on commercial developments nationwide.