FEATURE
High Growth, High Impact
Adam Wonus Focuses on Expansion at Atrium BY DIANE SEARS
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dam Wonus met his business partner by chance. His wife, Monica, was at a charity event and another attendee, Michael Krause, requested a song she knew was popular with people from Ohio, where Wonus attended college. She told Krause, “You’re going to love my husband.”
But most of his career has been about intention, whether it was learning how to write big deals as a business banker with Wells Fargo, or buying his first business, a Kennedy’s All-American Barber Club franchise in Winter Park, or seeking the advice of people who have become his
20 NOVEMBER 2021 | i4Biz.com
longtime mentors. Today Wonus and Krause operate Atrium Management Company, which has managed single-family and multifamily properties for about 20 years. Since purchasing the firm in 2014, the partners have grown it from a couple hundred homes to more than 3,000. Atrium has been nationally recognized as an Inc. 5000 fastest-growing company and fastest growing real estate firm. “Our big goal is to get to 24,000 units in 10 years, and that's what we rally behind as a company,” Wonus said. “It's been exciting. The fun part is we're just getting started. We’ve felt like these first
“We got into this because we want to work on great projects throughout Central Florida. We want to find high-impact community projects that we can be proud of. We focus our efforts on adding to the downtown core areas of different communities.” — Adam Wonus
