A 20 year insurance industry professional, Bob is accredited for his technical expertise in the area of property and casualty insurance products and services.  He is also recognized for his client focused service approach, utilizing resources to effectively address client needs and objectives.  Bob and his teams have been successful in designing unique risk transfer and risk financing mechanisms for public and private entities, including, alternative risk transfer solutions, such as captives. 

Prior to joining Beecher Carlson in 2005, he was an operating principal at Lane & Associates, Inc. an Atlanta, Georgia based commercial insurance brokerage, where he spent 16 years working in sales and operations. 

He began his career with, Commercial Union, a London domiciled property and casualty insurer, specializing in claims and underwriting for property, general liability and workers compensation coverage lines. 

A graduate of Georgia Tech, Bob holds a Bachelor of Science in Management and has an Accredited Advisor in Insurance IAAI) designation from the American Institute of CPCU/Insurance Institute of America.

Christopher J. Hart, head of the Firm's Real Estate and Finance Group and co-head of the Firm's Financial Regulatory Reform Group, has more than 20 years of experience in commercial real estate transaction work, including acquisitions, dispositions, intercreditor negotiations, financings, restructurings, workouts and enforcement actions.  He has significant experience in managing complex, multi-state transactions, focusing on the hotel and hospitality industry as well as mixed-use projects.  His project finance experience includes multi-state pipeline transmission projects and co-generation power production facilities.  Mr. Hart's finance practice includes all aspects of senior, mezzanine and subordinate secured debt origination, sales, participations and other dispositions in the capital markets, and restructuring.  He has been involved in numerous portfolio and pooled property dispositions throughout the United States.

Michael Renetzky’s practice focuses on investment management, securities and corporate law.  Mr. Renetzky devotes a substantial portion of his time to representing buyers and sellers in mergers and acquisitions transactions.  Additionally, he has considerable experience counseling clients on securities law compliance, debt and equity financing matters, investment adviser, investment company and broker-dealer regulation.  Mr. Renetzky is a former member of the Firm’s Executive Committee and Board of Directors, the head of the Firm’s Investment Adviser and Fund Management practice and a contributing author and editor of the firm’s FUNDamentals(TM) Investment Management Client Alert Series, which is prepared for investment advisers, fund managers and private investment companies.

Wayne B. Heicklen, Co-Chair of the Real Estate Group, concentrates his practice in the areas of real estate and corporate law, finance and general business transactions. Mr. Heicklen has a broad range of experience in such matters including development, sales, acquisitions, financings, joint ventures and commercial leasing. He also has extensive experience with Real Estate Investment Trusts and securitized ownership and financing of various real property interests, including tenant-in-common interests. Mr. Heicklen has advised major financial institutions and real estate owners and developers in numerous sophisticated transactions involving office buildings, regional shopping centers, hotels, multi-family residential complexes, mixed-use projects, warehouse and industrial sites, and commercial and residential condominiums and cooperatives.  Recently, Mr. Heicklen has focused a large part of his practice in the restructuring and workout of commercial mortgage and mezzanine loans affecting distressed properties, including foreclosure of such loans, deeds in lieu of foreclosure and structuring complex reinvestment and repositioning of the real property affected by such loans.

Michael Chang is a Senior Vice President and Global Risk Management/Global Real Estate Unit Manager of Chubb Commercial Insurance.  He assumed this current role in June of 2009.  Michael began his career at Chubb as a Surety trainee in 1997.  He left the Surety department and joined Chubb’s Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) as an underwriter in 1998.  Since 2000, Michael had served in various management capacities in Chubb’s New York Brokerage Zone DFI operation.  In October of 2005, Michael was promoted to run the newly formed Global Real Estate Practice of Chubb Specialty Insurance.

Prior to joining Chubb, Michael spent sixteen months as a financial analyst for the Melville Corporation in Mahwah, NJ.  He also graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton Undergraduate Division in May 1995 with a Bachelor of Science in Economics.

Mitchell Gerber is a managing director of MSG Consulting, Inc., one of the largest insurance consulting firms in North America. MSG is a partnered affiliate of UIC, Inc. which Mr. Gerber helped establish  at its inception. He has 25 years of experience in the insurance industry.  His areas of expertise include residential and Commercial Real Estate, retail, Manufacturing, Wholesale Distribution as well as mergers and acquisitions due diligence, where he presently heads the M&A practice for MSG Consulting.  His clients operate both domestically and internationally and are involved in a diverse range of industries.

Mr. Gerber is recognized worldwide as an expert in commercial property and casualty insurance and frequently provides expert testimony on complex insurance matters.

Mr. Gerber began his career at American Mutual Insurance Company, where he worked in both underwriting and commercial sales.  He received a B.S. in Finance from the State University of New York at Albany in 1986 and graduated Summa Cum Laude.

Ed is the National Industry Leader for KPMG’s U.S. Real Estate Tax Practice and the Partner-in-Charge of KPMG’s Northeast Real Estate Tax Practice.  Prior to his current role, Ed was the Partner-in-Charge of KPMG’s Pennsylvania Tax Practice.

Ed has over 28 years experience providing tax services to the real estate industry.  His clients consist of Real Estate Opportunity and Private Equity Funds, Real Estate Investment Trusts, real estate developers, property management companies, contractors, corporate real estate departments, pension funds and specialty finance companies.  Ed has extensive experience in Real Estate Investment Trust public offerings, acquisition and disposition tax structuring, securitization transactions and partnership structuring.  He is also a member of KPMG’s Firmwide Partnership Taxation Specialty Team.

Harry Shannon is a US international tax principal of Ernst & Young LLP, specializing in international real estate fund structuring and transaction work.  Since June 2006, he has led a dedicated group of international tax practitioners in New York advising the firm’s international real estate fund clients.  Prior to the ITS Real Estate Group in New York, Harry spent over six years as the head of the United States tax desk for Ernst & Young in Germany where he focused on fund structuring and acquisitions for international real estate clients, including structuring funds for the acquisition of German and European situs commercial, residential and office properties, and non- and sub-performing loan portfolios. Harry has over 20 years of experience advising United States and German corporate and institutional clients on international tax law matters, including extensive experience in structuring international real estate funds and investments for taxable and tax exempt institutional investors.  He received a J.D. from the University of Virginia and a Dr. jur. Degree from the University of Munich and has practiced in Germany and the United States.

Mr. Schwarz is currently a Senior Vice President at Colony Capital, LLC, and is responsible for the identification, evaluation, consummation and management of new real estate investments.  From 2006-2010, David was a Principal at Warburg Pincus LLC where he was focused on U.S. real estate investments.  Prior to Warburg Pincus, David worked for the Carlyle Group in Washington DC where he was involved with the acquisition and oversight of over $3 billion of real estate investments. David started his career at Merrill Lynch & Co. in the real estate investment banking division, and graduated from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Bruno Bagnouls joined Alter Domus in 2000 and evolved in the company to become Head of the Real Estate for the group. He is a member of the Alter Domus Market Committee. Bruno has a strong experience in the implementation, management, accounting and administration of private equity and real estate entities and serves as board member of Luxembourg companies for significant real estate funds. He also sits on the Real Estate working group of the ALFI (Association of the Luxembourg Fund Industry) and he regularly represents Alter Domus in various conferences on topics relating to Real Estate.

Prior to joining Alter Domus, he worked at Natixis Bank in Paris and Luxembourg. Bruno is member of the Luxembourg Ordre des Experts Comptables (certified accountant organisation). He has a degree in business studies delivered by IPAG (Ecole supérieure de commerce) in Paris and in French accounting (D.E.C.F, Diplôme d'Etudes Comptables et Financières).

Roel Campos, a partner in the Washington, D.C. office, is the Firm's National Chair of Securities Regulation and Enforcement.

Mr. Campos' practice consists of advising and defending corporate management teams and boards of directors with respect to enforcement, internal investigations, prosecutions, securities and international regulation, and corporate governance.  Mr. Campos is a highly sought after orator and regularly serves as lead speaker for prestigious legal and business conferences around the globe.

Mr. Campos was recently named to President Barack Obama's Presidential Intelligence Advisory Board, and he was a Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He was sworn in as a Commissioner of the SEC on August 22, 2002. On June 2, 2005, he was nominated by President George W. Bush for a second term, and was confirmed by the United States Senate on July 29, 2005.

Mr. Campos served for four years as the Commission's liaison to the international regulatory community. During his time at the SEC, Commissioner Campos became one of the best known regulators in the world.  As the Vice Chair of the Technical Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissioners, he developed productive relationships with securities regulators in Europe, Asia, Australia, and Latin America. Mr. Campos also facilitated the development of international auditing and accounting standards through his work as Chair of the Monitoring Group, which oversees the setting of International Standards of Audit.

Mr. Campos has presided over hundreds of complex enforcement cases, applying the Securities Act of 1933, the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Company Act of 1940, and the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. He also has extensively participated in the crafting and adoption of many of the SEC's recent major regulatory initiatives, including: the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, mutual fund governance and compliance rules, and the new National Market System. In addition, Mr. Campos has spoken and published extensively in the areas of the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, corporate governance, director liability, corporate penalties, international accounting and auditing standards, Securities Act reform, SRO and market reform, retirement investment protection, research analyst conflicts, and the internationalization of the securities markets.

Prior to being nominated to the Commission, Mr. Campos was one of two principal owner-executives of El Dorado Communications, a radio broadcasting company, at its headquarters in Houston. However, he began his career as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. After attending Harvard Law School, he worked in Los Angeles for major law firms as a corporate transactions/securities lawyer and litigator.  Beginning in 1985, Mr. Campos served as a federal prosecutor for five years in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles.  He prosecuted complex and violent narcotics cartels and, in a celebrated trial, convicted defendants for the kidnapping and murder of a DEA Agent. He also investigated and prosecuted major government contractors for fraudulent conduct. He then returned to private law practice for several years before co-founding El Dorado Communications, Inc.

Mr. Campos is a founding member of the New America Alliance, a Latino initiative for raising awareness of investment opportunities in the Latino sector in the United States.

Mr. Giller founded Clairvue Capital Partners to invest in specified indirect real estate opportunities, which in the current market environment, consist predominantly of recapitalizations of real estate funds, operating companies, portfolios and other types of real estate platforms.  Mr. Giller has worked in the real estate private equity sector for 25 years and prior to starting Clairvue, served as Managing Principal and Chief Investment Officer of Liquid Realty Partners, Chief Operating Officer of Somera Capital Management, and Managing Director of JER France (the first European platform of the J.E. Robert Companies, now JER Partners).  His experience participating in excess of $4 billion in closed transactions and forming and managing eight real estate private equity funds includes the acquisition, asset management, structuring, financing, underwriting, pricing, and closing of investments in the U.S., the UK, Western Europe, Mexico, and Asia.    During his career, Mr. Giller has led transactions to acquire or finance partnership interests in funds, individual properties, large portfolios, and real estate operating companies in the real estate private equity, distressed commercial mortgage, and commercial real estate mortgage backed securities markets.

Chris Niehaus is a Managing Director and Partner of GreenOak and has responsibility for the North America business. GreenOak is a partner owned, real estate principal investing and advisory firm that seeks to create long term value for its investors and clients. It was founded by former senior MDs from Morgan Stanley in 2010 and has over 45 professionals in offices in New York, London, Tokyo, Los Angeles and Madrid. Its investment business targets discrete investment strategies in the US, Asia and Europe.

Chris joined Morgan Stanley in 1981 and during his tenure, Chris helped build and run one of the leading global real estate banking, lending and investing businesses. He was named Co-Head of Global Real Estate Investment Banking in 1994 and Vice Chairman of Morgan Stanley Real Estate from 2006-2010. Chris has 31 years of experience in advising companies on mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, capital raisings and investing in the real estate sector. While at Morgan Stanley, Chris was an Investment Committee Member for the Morgan Stanley Real Estate and Special Situation Funds from 1994 to 2010. He served as Portfolio Manager for Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund VI International from 2009 to 2010, leading the restructuring and stabilization of the second largest real estate private equity fund, which had over $33 billion of assets in 71 investments in over 20 countries.

Chris has served as Lead Director or Board Member of a number of MSREI investment companies. He is a Trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the International Council of Shopping Centers, a member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts and the Urban Land Institute. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Dartmouth College, where he chaired the Real Estate Advisory Council and serves on the President’s Leadership Council. He received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1985. Chris is Chairman of Sponsor Partners of New York City, an organization that helps educate 1,400 at risk high school students, as well as several other community organizations.

Tim Wang is a Director and the Head of Investment Research at Clarion Partners, a leading U.S. real estate investment manager with more than $33 billion in total assets under management. Tim leads the group in supporting the development of firm-wide and business unit-specific investment strategy and advising on portfolio strategy through proprietary analytics and econometric forecasting. Additionally, he is responsible for macroeconomic analysis, market forecasting, and research support for capital raising and client services. He joined the firm in 2006 and is a member of Clarion Partners’ Investment Committee. Tim has published numerous real estate research articles and co-authored five real estate strategy books, including Active Private Equity Real Estate Strategy (2009), Guide to U.S. Real Estate Investing (2009), Emerging Market Real Estate Investment: Investing in China, India, and Brazil (2010), Inside the Real Estate Fund Investor (2011), and Real Estate Mathematics (2011). He is a frequent guest speaker at real estate investment conferences. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and currently serves on the PREA Research Committee, the NCREIF Research Committee, and the Real Estate Research Institute Advisory Board. 

Peter Sotoloff serves as Co-Founder, Managing Member & Chief Investment Officer of Mack Real Estate Credit Strategies (MRECS). Mr. Sotoloff previously served as Managing Director and Head of U.S. Originations of Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies (BREDS) fund series and was a founding member of the Advisor. Over the past 7 years Mr. Sotoloff helped to build Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies into a $10Bn (equity capital) platform. Mr. Sotoloff oversaw structured finance acquisitions including both origination and legacy loan portfolio investment activities on behalf of the BREDS series fund and developed and executed the key strategies of the program including: legacy loans, legacy CMBS and new originations plus sourced several large, successful equity deals for Blackstone Real Estate Partners Equity program. Mr. Sotoloff served as a member of the Investment Committee for Blackstone Mortgage Trust (NYSE: BXMT), the Review Committee for the Blackstone Tactical Opportunities Fund and served on the Board of Directors of Landmark Apartment Trust. Mr. Sotoloff led the development of BREDS’ key, multi-faceted strategies including: CMBS securities, CMBS JV, legacy loans -- $4Bn+ face purchased in 173 credits and over 90 discrete investment deals since inception and contributed to the successful launch of Blackstone Mortgage Trust. Prior to joining Blackstone, Mr. Sotoloff was a Principal at Tribeca Associates, where he oversaw the acquisition, financing and development of large scale office, lodging, for-sale residential and mixed-use assets and portfolios. Prior to that, Mr. Sotoloff oversaw US financing, nonperforming loan acquisition and global currency and interest rate risk management strategies for the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds, a series of global opportunity funds. In addition, Mr. Sotoloff was involved with the management of the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Special Situations Fund investment program. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Sotoloff was with Goldman Sachs’ Whitehall Funds, a global real estate opportunity fund sponsor. Mr. Sotoloff is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York, the Urban Land Institute, the CRE Finance Council and the International Council of Shopping Centers. Mr. Sotoloff graduated with highest honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Finance with concentrations in Finance, Real Estate Finance and Management, and completed the International Business Strategies Program at the London School of Economics.

Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Dean S. Adler is CEO and Co-Founder of Lubert-Adler Partners, L.P., a real estate equity firm with over $6.5 billion in equity and $16 billion of assets under management.  Dean is Head of the Investment Committee, and is responsible for leading the strategic direction of the team.  Lubert-Adler invests on behalf of, among others, 30 major university endowments, state pension funds, and major foundations.  It is headquartered in Philadelphia, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Atlanta.  Dean is also a partner in Independence Capital Partners, a family of funds totaling $11.7 billion in equity invested in real estate, private equity, corporate restructurings, venture capital and asset-based lending. 

Prior to Lubert-Adler, Dean graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.  He also holds a J.D. degree with honors from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and was an instructor at the Wharton School between 1981 and 1983. Subsequently, he worked at Ernst & Young, Baker and Hostetler and CMS.  Currently, he is an Executive Committee Member and Research Sponsor for the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center of The Wharton School,  and currently serves on the board of directors of Bed Bath & Beyond (NASDAQ: BBBY).  He has been a keynote speaker for national real estate organizations such as the Urban Land Institute and the International Council of Shopping Centers.Dean has served on numerous community boards and has served on the City of Philadelphia's Economic Development Summit.

Jeffrey A. Lenobel is a partner with Schulte Roth & Zabel, where he is Chair of the Real Estate Group and a member of the Firm’s Executive and Operating Committees. Jeff practices in the areas of real estate development, finance, restructuring, sales and acquisitions. His clients include real estate funds, developers, borrowers, lenders and other financial institutions in their real estate and capital markets activities. An elected member of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers, Jeff is consistently listed in industry and ranking publications, including New York Super Lawyers New York Metro Top 100, Chambers USA, The Legal 500 United States and the Commercial Observer’s “New York’s Most Powerful Real Estate Attorneys.”

Dan Hartman has over 25 years of experience in commercial real estate.  At Ares Management, he is responsible for originating, structuring and closing first mortgage and mezzanine debt in the Eastern United States, concentrating on the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic markets from Virginia to Massachusetts.  He was previously with GE Capital’s North American Equity team where he was responsible for identifying and establishing equity joint venture relationships and investments with real estate operating partners in the Northeast.  Previous positions have been with Daimler Chrysler Capital (debis), ORIX Real Estate and Chase Manhattan Bank.  He holds an undergraduate degree in economics from Cornell University, a real estate degree from New York University and a MBA from Fordham University.   

John W. Randall is a Senior Vice President of PCCP, LLC.  Mr. Randall joined PCCP in December 2009 and focuses on East Coast debt and equity originations particularly in the Mid-Atlantic area.  Prior to PCCP, Mr. Randall spent six years and invested over $1 billion in real estate debt and preferred equity positions within the Real Estate Private Equity group of Lehman Brothers.  Prior to Lehman Brothers, Mr. Randall was a Vice President with Deutsche Bank, originating and underwriting mezzanine investments for the DB Real Estate Mezzanine Investment Funds.  Mr. Randall's experience also includes work at Daiwa Securities originating and structuring conduit loans for their CMBS group.  Mr. Randall started his career with Arthur Andersen and Jones Lang Wootton where he valued over $1 billion of real estate in the U.S. and Latin America.  Mr. Randall has over 14 years of real estate experience and holds a B.A. in Economics from Bowdoin College, magna cum laude, and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Sammann is a Principal and member of Colony’s investment committee.  Mr. Sammann is focused on the identification, evaluation, and consummation of new investments across all sectors of commercial real estate and operating businesses with significant real estate holdings.  Prior to joining Colony, Mr. Sammann was Managing Director and Head of North American Large Loan Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities at Deutsche Bank, where he oversaw the origination of more than $50 billion of highly structured real estate-secured financings.  Prior to joining Deutsche Bank in 2002, Mr. Sammann spent six years at Goldman, Sachs & Co. as a Vice President within the real estate investment banking unit.  Mr. Sammann earned a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and an M.B.A. from Duke University.  He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and the CRE Finance Council. 

Donald Monti, President and CEO of Renaissance Downtowns, has over 35 years of diverse experience covering all aspects of the real estate spectrum having played a major role in the development, construction and management of 80+ development projects. Renaissance has become the branded leader in the holistic and comprehensive development of suburban downtowns with a focus on transit oriented development. The Company is Master Developer in 6 projects throughout the Northeast, with a total development value in excess of $8 Billion along with along with a pipeline of 10,000 plus residential units.  Four of these projects are slated for shovel ready status by late 2012.

Two of Mr. Monti’s Long Island based projects have been designated as “Projects of Regional Significance” by the Long Island Regional Planning Council, representing the transformative nature of Renaissance’s downtown redevelopment efforts.  One of those projects is the $2 Billion+ dollar mixed-use TOD in Hempstead, NY which was recently awarded a $5 Million grant by the New York State Economic Development Council initiative, the second largest award on Long Island.  Hempstead represents a true game changer for Long Island and other mature suburbs by ushering in the ideals of large scale, mixed use, smart growth redevelopment that abide by Renaissance’s “Triple Bottom Line” approach to real estate development – social, environmental and economic responsibility.

Under Mr. Monti’s leadership, the Company has instituted the nation’s first grass roots, social media campaign for public outreach (“Crowdsourced Placemaking”) which allows community members to provide input to the planning process through web based and in-person initiatives. Utilizing the patent pending Crowdsourced Placemaking process in Renaissance’s Bristol, CT downtown redevelopment project, the Company has engaged nearly 2,000 people on their social media website,www.bristolrising.com, which has become a national example for broad based community outreach. Mr. Monti’s proactive approach to community engagement provides for a streamlined approval process by garnering public input and generating public support for the Company’s redevelopment efforts from the outset of the planning process. The Bristol Rising community provided support for Renaissance`s efforts in Bristol, leading to a unanimous 7-0 approval of the Company`s development plan, slated to break ground in the upcoming months.

Mr. Monti has been quoted in numerous nationally respected media sources as an expert in downtown revitalization and been a keynote speaker / panelist at numerous national conferences, including the CNU annual congress, Railvolution, American Planning Association, California Downtown Association, Wharton Real Estate Summit at the NYSE, Private Equity Real Estate Annual Forum, and Vision Long Island amongst others.

Jeffry Haber is Professor of Accounting and Chair of the Accounting Department at Iona College, teaching undergraduate and graduate classes in a variety of accounting areas.  He publishes in the areas of investments, anti-money laundering and terrorist financing, earnings quality, ethics, bankruptcy prediction and other areas of financial and managerial accounting.  Haber received a BS and MS from Syracuse University and a PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and a CPA licensed in New York. He is a frequent speaker at academic, professional, investment and accounting conferences. Haber is also Controller of the Commonwealth Fund, a private foundation seeking to move the United States towards a high performance health care system that achieves better access, improved quality, and greater efficiency.  The Fund is a value-added foundation – conducting intramural research, working closely with grantees in designing, publishing, and communicating the results of projects, and conducting a web-based and media-oriented communications program aimed at reaching influential health policy and practice audiences.  The Commonwealth Fund has $600+ million under investment. 

Mr. Rollins is President and co-founder of JCR Capital, LLC (Johnson Capital/Rollins). JCR Capital is a specialty real estate finance company, specializing in providing structured debt and equity capital for value added and opportunistic and value added commercial real estate transactions. Prior to forming JCR in May 2006, Mr. Rollins was a Managing Director of GMACCM’s Structured Products Group. In this role Mr. Rollins managed a $500 million balance sheet position that focused on originating bridge loans, mezzanine loans, and participating debt. The platform focused on opportunistic real estate transactions, in particular, multifamily, retail, office, industrial, land and affordable housing asset classes. Mr. Rollins started the Structured Products Group (SPG) in 1999, and over that time originated and was repaid on over $1.1 billion of high yield loans, achieving an unleveraged IRR of 9.7%. SPG was recognized nationally by numerous industry periodicals including Mezzanine Lender of the Year honors. Prior to GMACCM, Mr. Rollins was the President and Founder of Eastern Realty Corporation, a real estate investment and advisory company. Eastern Realty purchased over $400 million of distressed (primary, land and commercial) assets from the RTC and other distressed financial institutions. The assets were repositioned and resold by Eastern Realty. These repositioning efforts included debt restructuring, land development and construction. Eastern Realty was a joint venture partner with Wall Street investment banks, real estate opportunity fund and private equity firms. Prior to forming Eastern Realty, Mr. Rollins was Director of Finance for the public homebuilder, NVR, LP. In this position Mr. Rollins was responsible for capital relationships and structuring debt and equity for land development and construction projects. Mr. Rollins began his career as a commercial real estate lender with regional banks in the Washington, DC area. Mr. Rollins holds an MBA in Finance from George Washington University and an undergraduate degree in Finance and Marketing from Virginia Tech.

Shahab is the head of the Real Estate Services Group at WeiserMazars and has more than 20 years of experience providing accounting services to middle market businesses. He specializes in providing auditing, accounting, tax and consulting services to the real estate industry. His clients include real estate investment advisors, private equity, real estate investment funds, residential builders, commercial and residential building owners and managers, as well as shopping center developers and operators.

Shahab has expertise in the area of litigation support services and has consulted with clients across several industries regarding loss profit calculations, business valuations, fraud investigation and other forensic accounting matters. He also has assisted with financing transactions as well as with mergers and acquisitions including due diligence reviews.

His industry experience includes real estate, construction, professional services, wholesale and distribution, and apparel. Shahab is a graduate of from St. John’s University with a BS in Accounting and is a Certified Public Accountant in New York. He is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Jeff’s responsibilities will include consultative solution design and implementation for both prospects and clients alike. Jeff’s intimate knowledge of the marketplace and executive liability exposures helps to identify how a company’s risks should be treated.

Jeff’s experience includes working at Marsh for 15 years. He was responsible for leading a group of professionals in designing and negotiating Directors & Officers Liability, Employment Practices Liability, Professional Liability, Fiduciary Liability, Crime and other related Executive Liability insurance lines. Jeff has worked extensively on Fortune 1000 and complex Executive Liability risks. Prior to Marsh, Jeff was a regional manager for National Union Fire Insurance Company, a member company of AIG.

Jeff holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Management and Productions/Operations Management from University of Scranton.

David Eyzenberg is president of Eyzenberg & Company, a NYC-based investment bank delivering best-in-class debt, equity and ground lease capital solutions for existing, transitional and to-be-built projects. Additionally, Mr. Eyzenberg is the founder of Eyzenberg LFC, an institutionally backed private equity vehicle specializing in the creation and acquisition of leased fee positions, subject to long term ground leases, on development and existing income producing real estate. Complementing his professional endeavors, Mr. Eyzenberg teaches graduate real estate finance studies in the New York University Schack Institute’s Masters of Science in Real Estate and NYU Stern MBA programs.

Mr. Eyzenberg is an investor and board member of REZI, a technology enabled start up that helps landlords manage vacancy risk by prefunding rents for vacant apartments. Additionally, Mr. Eyzenberg is an investor and board member of VR WorldNYC, a leader in virtual reality currently operating the largest VR experience center located in North America and the Western Hemisphere.

Mr. Eyzenberg previously was a principal and U.S. lead for the real estate capital raising practice of Avison Young. He co-founded and oversaw a group that during his tenure expanded throughout multiple offices and consummated well over $1B of financing transactions. Prior to Avison Young Mr. Eyzenberg was a managing director and head of commercial real estate for NewOak Capital. His tenure at NewOak began in 2011 after its acquisition of the investment banking practice of Eyzenberg’s Prodigious Capital Group, where Mr. Eyzenberg served as president since 2005. Prior to running Prodigious Capital Group, Mr. Eyzenberg was associated with several boutique real estate investment banks. Mr. Eyzenberg began his real estate career on the buy side working for Merrill Lynch, Ramius Capital Group and Greenstreet Partners.

Mr. Eyzenberg is a graduate of New York University, where he received a Bachelor's Degree and a Master's Degree in real estate finance and investment. He also serves on the NYU Schack Real Estate Institute advisory committee. Mr. Eyzenberg is an active member of NMHC, ICSC, RELA and MBA, and is a frequent speaker at industry events.

Throughout his nearly twenty five-year career in real estate, Jonathan B. Schultz has remained passionately committed to maintaining the highest standards of innovation, growth and excellence in every endeavor he leads. Alongside co-founder John Saraceno, Jonathan has been responsible for building Onyx Equities, a private real estate investment management company that provides in-house asset management, construction management, property management and leasing, from inception. Today, Onyx, which spans the east coast, is known as one of the largest, most active and diversified organizations in the industry. Jonathan also has led the effort to build Onyx’s Receivership/REO Services platform, which has become one of the largest of its kind, managing millions of square feet in hundreds of properties. Having helped strategically position Onyx as a leading innovator that embraces technology in ways few other real estate companies have experienced, Jonathan has become a noted author, public speaker and advisor on all things tech within the real estate sector.

He currently serves on the advisory board of Real Estate Tech News, a leading real estate news website that profiles technologies, apps, websites and more. Jonathan is a member of the Metro NY chapter of YPO. He is a Founding Board Member of the “Award of Courage” Foundation, raising significant funds for Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and is a past recipient of their Humanitarian Award.

David Lynn, Ph.D., is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Everest Medical Core Properties, building on his extensive experience as a real estate investor and strategist. Dr. Lynn has over 25 years experience in national and international markets, investing and managing tens of billions of dollars in commercial real estate portfolios.Dr. Lynn has extensive familiarity with medical office building real estate with more than 40 deals totaling $750 million in gross asset value.

Before founding Everest Medical Core Properties, he founded and led Everest Investment Property, served as Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer and Head of Portfolio Management at Cole Real Estate Investments, Inc., as a Partner and Managing Director at ING Clarion Partners and as a Senior Manager at AIG Global RE, Avalon Bay Communities and the Target Corporation.

As a preeminent thought leader in the commercial real estate industry, Dr. Lynn speaks frequently at national industry events and media interviews. He has written several books on commercial real estate investing. He earned his Ph.D. and MS in Financial Economics at the London School of Economics, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Sloan School of Management, MIT, an MA at Cornell University and a BA from the University of California at Berkeley.

Dr. Lynn is a Counselor of Real Estate (CRE), a Certified Portfolio and Investment Manager (CPIM), a Chartered Management Analyst (CMA) and an ISO 9000 Certified Auditor.

Raphael Fishbach is a director and head of east coast originations at Mesa West Capital. With offices in Los Angeles and New York, Mesa West is a real estate finance company with over $2 billion in lending capacity.   Mesa West primarily provides non-recourse first mortgage loans for value added or transitional properties throughout the United States.  The portfolio includes all major property types with loan sizes from $10 million to $100 million.

Mesa West is actively making non-recourse loans up to 75% loan-to-value and will consider assets with little to no current income.  As a privately funded portfolio lender, Mesa West has great structuring flexibility and can provide certainty of execution for its borrowers.  The investment and due diligence process is extremely streamlined allowing Mesa West to perform under very tight time constraints. 

Prior to joining Mesa West Capital, Mr. Fishbach spent three years at Ramius LLC, an $8 billion asset management firm based in New York City with a specialty investment platform in real estate. As Director of Ramius’ Real Estate Group, Mr. Fishbach`s responsibilities included deal sourcing, origination and underwriting, negotiation of acquisitions, joint ventures and financings, as well as asset management.  Previous to Ramius, Mr. Fishbach was at Wells Fargo Bank in the Real Estate Merchant Banking Group from 2000-2006, both in Los Angeles and New York.  As a Vice President, Mr. Fishbach sourced, structured, negotiated, and closed over $1,000,000,000 of debt originations. While at Wells Fargo, Mr. Fishbach also graduated from the bank`s credit management training program. In 1999, Mr. Fishbach received a Bachelor of Science from Cornell`s School of Hotel Administration.

With over 20 years of experience in commercial real estate, Rick is a senior research professional at AEW Capital Management, one of the nation’ leading real estate pension advisors with over $40 billion in assets under management. Rick has primary responsibility for providing strategic direction, research and risk assessment for the AEW Partners Funds, the firm’s opportunistic investment platform.  In this capacity, Rick is well versed in economic and capital market conditions affecting both the debt and equity real estate. Rick joined AEW in 2007 after eight years with CBRE/Torto Wheaton Research in Boston where he established and directed the firms consulting business and was a member of the executive committee. Previously, he was research director at AMRESCO, Inc. and head of research for UNUM.

Rick is a graduate of Dartmouth College and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.  He is active in a number of professional associations, including the Urban Land Institute as part of Council and Research Forum leadership, NCREIF, Boston Security Analysts Society, CFA Institute and NAREIM. Rick is a frequent speaker at industry events and has served on the editorial board of The Institutional Real Estate Letter.

Paul M. Fox joined Cerberus Capital Management in November 1997 and is currently a Managing Director responsible for identifying and negotiating new investments. Additionally, Mr. Fox is the liaison between Cerberus private equity, Ableco finance and Cerberus real estate. 

Cerberus Capital Management a global private investment firm with over $25 billion of discretionary capital under management. Cerberus Real Estate Capital Management invests directly and indirectly in real estate equity, debt and operating businesses, and has consummated over two hundred fifty distinct investments since inception in 1994 in the United States and abroad. Cerberus Real Estate Capital Management, LLC is an industry leader in delivering innovative, customized solutions for the capital needs of real estate professionals and owners of complex real estate and real estate-related assets. 

From 1987 to 1997, Mr. Fox held various positions at Jones Lang Wootton culminating in the overall responsibility for the Corporate and Advisory Services division for North and South America. Jones Lang Wootton’s Corporate and Advisory Services advised and implemented strategic elements of the real estate holdings of global corporate and institutional clients worldwide. 

Prior to Jones Lang Wootton, Mr. Fox served in the United States Air Force. Mr. Fox graduated from the University of Texas summa cum laude with degrees in real estate and finance.

Mr. Neveloff represents clients in all aspects of transactional real estate as well as complex restructurings.  Mr. Neveloff has represented developers of numerous mixed-use projects, including Time Warner Center, as well as numerous regional and local shopping centers, and other commercial projects throughout the country.

Recently, Mr. Neveloff represented Starwood Hotels in selling the retail portion of the St. Regis Hotel, Manhattan; the owner of Starrett City, the largest federally subsidized housing complex in the United States, in a capital transaction; Fortress Investments in connection with The Sheffield, a 497-unit condominium; New York Life Insurance Company in the sale of Manhattan House, a residential complex comprising an entire block of Manhattan; and the seller of The New Frontier Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.  Mr. Neveloff has represented Donald Trump for more than 25 years in innumerable matters.

Mr. Neveloff received his J.D. from NYU and was elected to the American Law Institute, American College of Real Estate Lawyers and American College of Mortgage Attorneys.

A founder of The Praedium Group and its President, Mr. Appel has been building the Company since 1991 and has overseen all aspects of The Praedium Group`s activities, including its strategy and its investment policy. In addition to his responsibilities with The Praedium Group, Mr. Appel ran CSFB`s Commercial Mortgage Finance business from 1991 to 1994, where he became a Managing Director. At CSFB, Mr. Appel supervised the execution of commercial and multifamily asset securitization and sale advisory assignments totaling in excess of $13 billion. Prior to joining CSFB in 1991 and his association with The Praedium Group, Mr. Appel was a Vice President in the Real Estate Department of Goldman Sachs & Co. for five years. At Goldman Sachs, he was involved in real estate-related sales, financings, mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions totaling in excess of $3 billion. Mr. Appel holds a B.S. in Economics (magna cum laude) and an M.B.A. (with distinction) from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Appel served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Pension Real Estate Association between 2008 and 2010, and he has previously held the positions of Vice Chairman, Treasurer and Board Member.

Mr. Roeloffs is the Global Chief Investment Officer for RREEF, Deutsche Bank`s real estate, investment management division. Previously, he held the positions of Chief Executive Officer of RREEF Asia Pacific (2006-2009), Regional Head of Global Opportunistic Investments for Asia Pacific (1997-2006) and for the Americas (2003-2006). During his tenure at RREEF, he has been responsible for over $4 billion of equity investments with a total transactional value in excess of $10 billion. Prior to joining RREEF, Mr. Roeloffs was a Managing Director of Bankers Trust`s Real Estate Investment Banking Group where he completed over $10 billion of equity, debt and advisory assignments from 1989 to 1997 as well as founding its Asia business in 1994. Prior to joining Bankers Trust in 1989, Mr. Roeloffs was a Project Manager for Trammell Crow Company in its Philadelphia, Pennsylvania office where he managed the development of a 750,000 square foot office park including financing, construction, leasing, and asset management. He is a member of The Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center, the Urban Land Institute where he has served on its Japan Council and currently serves on its Global Exchange Council, the Pension Real Estate Association, The Asia Society and The Japan Society.   BA from Columbia College; MBA from Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a lecturer in the real estate related master degree programs of Harvard University, The Wharton School, The Kellogg School and New York University.

Jeffrey is responsible for the Real Estate Investment Group (REIG) within the Investment Management Division, which invests in core, core plus and value added real estate assets in the United States on behalf of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Private Wealth Management clients. He has over 25 years of real estate investing experience. Jeffrey joined Goldman Sachs as a managing director in November 2010.

Prior to joining the firm, Jeffrey was responsible for leading real estate investment activity, including both direct investments and joint ventures, throughout the United States for ING Clarion Partners, one of the largest US real estate investment management firms and a wholly owned subsidiary of the ING Group. He served on the firm’s Executive Board, Operating Committee and led its Investment Committee. Prior to joining ING in 1993, Jeffrey was a partner at Hamilton Securities, a Washington, DC-based investment bank. From 1989 to 1992, he was responsible for investment sales at Jones Lang LaSalle. Jeffrey began his real estate investment career in 1983 at the Lawrence Ruben Company, a private development and investment company. He also worked in the real estate department of Chemical Bank and in the equity research group at CS First Boston.

Jeffrey is vice chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers (NAREIM), chairman of the IOPC Gold Council of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), and member of the board of the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA). He has also served as an adjunct professor in the MBA program at Columbia Business School since 2004.

Jeffrey earned a BS in Economics and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from Columbia University.

Reid Liffmann joined Angelo, Gordon’s real estate group  in 2010.  He is responsible for assisting Adam Schwartz with the management of the portfolio as well as sourcing strategic opportunities nationally.  Reid has over 20 years of direct real estate ownership and operating experience with a focus on development, redevelopment and asset repositioning.  Formerly Reid was a partner with Greenebaum & Rose Associates, a real estate development and investment firm focusing on the mid-Atlantic.  Reid was previously one of Angelo Gordon’s operating partners and completed several real estate transactions with the firm.  Reid began his career as a real estate financial analyst at LaSalle Partners.  He holds a Bachelor of Accountancy from The George Washington University and an M.B.A. degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Steve LeBlanc is the Founding Partner of CapRidge Partners, a fully integrated office building investor and manager headquartered in Austin, Texas, and serving the major markets throughout the state, including Austin, Dallas, Houston and San Antonio. Founded in 2012 by Steve LeBlanc and Tom Stacy, the company is dedicated to providing superior services to its customers and tenants.

Mr. LeBlanc is the former Senior Managing Director of Private Markets, overseeing the Real Assets, Private Equity, and Principal Investments portfolios at the $110 Billion Teacher Retirement System of Texas (“TRS”).  Mr. LeBlanc’ team was responsible for managing the over $45 Billion Real Estate and Private Equity portfolio exposure for the fund. His team made 116 investment commitments around the globe of nearly $30 Billion in equity from 2008 to 2012.  Steve led the creation of the $ 6 Billion Private Markets’ Strategic Partnership Network at TRS.

An experienced leader of investment professionals and assets in the Real Estate Industry, Steve was President and CEO of NYSE-listed REIT Summit Properties in Charlotte, North Carolina.  Summit had 500 employees, 18,000 apartment homes and $150-300 million of annual development and acquisitions.  From 1998 to 2004, Summit increased its equity market cap from $0.5 Billion to $1.1 Billion (225%) and the total market cap from $1.26 Billion to nearly $2 Billion (155%).  The total rate of return for shareholders was 144% and averaged nearly 20% a year.  Summit Properties merged with Camden Property Trust on February 28th, 2005.  He was recognized as the MF Executive of the Year.

He also served as President of Urban Growth Property Trust in Chicago, IL, where he developed the company’s strategic business plan, orchestrated the transition to REIT status and recruited, hired and trained the team, which initiated over $250 million in acquisitions and developments.

Prior to that, he served as the Executive Vice President for Archstone Communities Trust in Santa Fe, NM. Initially  he was head of acquisitions of existing communities, then promoted to head of land acquisitions, then promoted to head of development, then promoted to head of development for Security Capital Atlantic and helped take it public and subsequently merged into Archstone.   He was responsible for the development, acquisition and management of 11,000 apartment homes and the purchase of land for an additional 10,000 apartment homes.

Prior to that he was a Senior Partner at Lincoln Property Company where he was initially the Partner for Austin/San Antonio (1984-1987).  He was then promoted to Senior Partner for all of Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. (1987-1989). He was then promoted to open the office in the northeast (1989-1992).   He was responsible for the management of 17,000 apartments as well as the firm’s acquisition and development activities. 

Steve is a member of the Private Capital Research Institute and the SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies.  He is a member of the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA), and on the Editorial Advisory Board of The Institutional Real Estate Letter – North America.

He is a Trustee and Governor of the Urban Land Institute and formerly served as Chairman of the District Council in Austin. He has served on the Board of Trustees of the Real Estate Roundtable, the Investment Advisory Board of the Employee Retirement System of Texas and the Penland School of Crafts and Charlotte Latin School. 

In 2011, Steve was invited to testify in front of the Congressional Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises on the “Reopening American Capital Markets to Emerging Growth Companies Act of 2011”.  He has been a guest host on CNBC’s Squawk Box as well as on Bloomberg Television’s Street Smarts and Money Moves and Fox Business Network’s Countdown to the Closing Bell.

Steve has a Bachelor of Business Administration in Real Estate/Finance from The University of Texas at Austin where he is the Associate Director of the Real Estate and Finance Council and a professor at the McCombs School of Business where he led the creation of the Real Estate Certificate Program for Undergraduate Students at The University of Texas at Austin.