David M. Rubenstein
Co-Founder and Co-CEO , THE CARLYLE GROUP

David M. Rubenstein is a Co-Founder and Co-CEO of The Carlyle Group, one of the world’s largest private equity firms.  Mr. Rubenstein co-founded the firm in 1987.  Since then, Carlyle has grown into a firm managing more than $157 billion from 32 offices around the world. 

Mr. Rubenstein, a native of Baltimore, is a 1970 magna cum laude graduate of Duke, where he was elected Phi Beta Kappa.  Following Duke, Mr. Rubenstein graduated in 1973 from The University of Chicago Law School, where he was an editor of the Law Review.

From 1973-75, Mr. Rubenstein practiced law in New York with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison.  From 1975-76 he served as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Constitutional Amendments.  From 1977-1981, during the Carter Administration, Mr. Rubenstein was Deputy Assistant to the President for Domestic Policy.  After his White House service and before co-founding Carlyle, Mr. Rubenstein practiced law in Washington with Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge (now Pillsbury, Winthrop, Shaw Pittman).

Mr. Rubenstein is Chairman of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, a Regent of the Smithsonian Institution, Vice-Chairman of the Boards of Duke University, the Council on Foreign Relations and the Brookings Institution, and the President of the Economic Club of Washington.

Mr. Rubenstein is on the Board of Directors or Trustees of Johns Hopkins University, University of Chicago, the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, the Institute for Advanced Study, the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution and the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution.

Mr. Rubenstein is a member of The Business Council, Visiting Committee of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, the Harvard Business School Board of Dean’s Advisors, the Woodrow Wilson School Advisory Council at Princeton, the Board of Trustees of the Young Global Leaders Foundation, Advisory Board of School of Economics and Management Tsinghua University, the Madison Council of the Library of Congress, and the International Business Council of the World Economic Forum. 

Stephen J. Furnary
Chairman & CEO, CLARION PARTNERS

Stephen J. Furnary is the Chairman & CEO of Clarion Partners, LLC, as well as Chairman of its Executive Board.  Clarion Partners, a leading real estate investment manager in the Americas, was founded in 1982 and today has $27 billion in total assets under management across the United States, as well as Mexico and Brazil.  Steve led the 2011 management buyout of Clarion Partners from ING Group after a twelve-year affiliation.  He joined Clarion Partners in 1984, and was a founding partner of the firm.  From 1980 – 1983, Steve was a Partner and Executive Vice President at Lazard Realty, Inc.  Prior to that, he was a Vice President and regional head of acquisitions in Citibank’s Real Estate Investment and Management Department from 1974 – 1980.

Steve received a B.S. from Villanova University in 1972, and an M.B.A. from Boston College in 1974.  He is a Governor and former Trustee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), a former Chairman of the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA), as well as former Chairman of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers (NAREIM).  Steve is an appointed vice president of the Muscular Dystrophy Association, a voluntary national health agency, and serves as an advisory board member to the Villanova School of Business.

Coburn Packard
Partner, APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT

 

Coburn Packard is a partner at Apollo Global Management, responsible for the firm’s U.S. real estate equity investment business.

Prior to joining Apollo in September 2010, he led the investment activities of Ridgeline Capital Group, an independent real estate investment management company focused on investments to restructure and recapitalize real estate companies and properties in the United States. Prior to co-founding Ridgeline in 2009, Mr. Packard was a senior principal of Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners. Mr. Packard was a founding member of Lehman Brothers’ real estate private equity business focused on investing in the Americas with involvement in the formation, structuring and fundraising activities of the business. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners in 1999, Mr. Packard was a member of Lehman Brothers' Real Estate Investment Banking Group, where he participated in numerous debt, and public and private equity financing and strategic advisory assignments on behalf of public and private real estate companies.

Mr. Packard has directly invested and has been actively involved in the asset management and disposition activities of real estate transactions with a total capitalization of over $25 billion throughout the United States and Latin America and across asset classes. He has served as on the board of directors of portfolio companies including Archstone and Tishman Hotel & Realty. Mr. Packard is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the Yale Real Estate Alumni Association and earned a B.A. in Ethics, Politics and Economics from Yale University.

John Randall
Senior Vice President, PCCP LLC

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.

Stephen M. Coyle
Chief Investment Officer, Global Realty Partners, COHEN & STEERS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, INC.

Steve joined Cohen & Steers in May 2008 as the Chief Investment Officer for Global Realty Partners, a private multimanager real estate investment business.  As of March 30, 2012, Cohen & Steers managed $44.9 billion on behalf of its clients and has offices in New York, Seattle, London, Brussels and Hong Kong.  Steve was a Managing Director at Citigroup Property Investors (CPI) from 2002 through 2008, where he was the founder and portfolio manager of Citigroup Real Estate Partners, a series of globally focused multimanager funds.  Also, Steve functioned as CPI’s Chief Investment Strategist and headed all global research and investment strategy decisions.

Prior to joining Citigroup, Mr. Coyle was the Senior Strategist at Property & Portfolio Research.  From 1990 to 1996, Steve conducted strategic research and due diligence for office, land, and industrial acquisitions for TCW/Westmark Realty Advisors (now CB/Richard Ellis Investors). During the late 1980s, Mr. Coyle was also a Research Director at Grubb & Ellis and worked for Park Square Associates, a New York – based developer.

Steve has been published in many journals and newspapers, and he is a frequent speaker at industry-sponsored events.  Mr. Coyle received a B.A. in Economics and German from Hampden-Sydney College, and an M.A. in Economic Policy from Boston University.

Peter Merrigan
President & CEO, TAURUS INVESTMENT HOLDINGS, LLC

As CEO and co-founder of Taurus, Peter defines the overall strategy of the company and oversees its execution. Peter has negotiated, structured and closed more than $3 billion worth of complex real estate transactions, spanning over 20 years in numerous U.S. states and 9 countries. Peter is co-founder of Taurus Investments Holdings, LLC, along with Lorenz Reibling and Günther Reibling.

Jeffrey A. Barclay
Managing Director, GOLDMAN, SACHS & CO

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.

Paul Mouchakkaa
Executive Director, MORGAN STANLEY REAL ESTATE

Paul Mouchakkaa is an Executive Director of Morgan Stanley and Head of Global Research and Strategy for the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing business (“MSREI”).  Paul was a managing director of real estate consulting services for PCA before joining MSREI.  Prior to this, he served as a Portfolio Manager for real estate at the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), where he oversaw the research, operations and analytics for CalPERS' entire real estate portfolio.   Paul is an active member of various real estate organizations including NCREIF, IREI and the REIS Council.  He received a BA with Highest Honors in Economics from Carleton University and an MBA in Finance from the University of Oregon.

Thomas B. Brown
Partner, LGT CLERESTORY

Mr. Brown is a Partner at LGT Clerestory LLC (formerly part of Clerestory Capital Partners, LLC) where he serves on the Real Estate Investment and Management Committees and focuses on setting investment strategy and making investments globally in Underlying Funds, Co-Investments and Secondaries.  LGT Clerestory is the dedicated real estate competence center for LGT Capital Partners business unit.  Prior to co-founding Clerestory Capital Partners in 2007, Mr. Brown was the Global Head of Real Estate for Deutsche Bank Private Wealth Management and was based in London.  Prior to joining Deutsche Bank in 2005, he was a real estate investment banker with JPMorgan Investment Banking for 12 years in London, New York and Frankfurt.  He began his career with Oak Tree Capital, Inc. in New Orleans, formerly a real estate asset management firm and a subsidiary of Oak Tree Capital Savings and Loan.  Mr. Brown holds a B.A. from the University of Mississippi.

David Schwarz
Senior Vice President, COLONY CAPITAL, LLC

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.

Peter J. Sotoloff
Managing Director, THE BLACKSTONE GROUP

Peter Sotoloff is a Managing Director of Blackstone Real Estate Special Situations Advisors. He is based in New York.   Prior to joining Blackstone, Mr. Sotoloff was a Principal at Tribeca Associates, an institutionally capitalized owner, operator and developer in New York City. Mr. Sotoloff oversaw the acquisition, financing and development of largescale 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 RealEstate 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 has been involved in analyzing and structuring acquisitions and financing for numerous real estate investments across all property types and geographies. 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. Mr. Sotoloff is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York, the Urban Land Institute, the Commercial Mortgage Securities Association and the International Council of Shopping Centers. 

Sonny Kalsi
Founding Partner, GREENOAK REAL ESTATE

Sonny Kalsi is one of the Founding Partners of GreenOak Real Estate, a real estate merchant banking platform with operations in New York, London and Tokyo.  He formed GreenOak in early 2010 along with his partners, and former Morgan Stanley colleagues, John Carrafiell (London) and Fred Schmidt (Tokyo).  Sonny was, until early 2009, the Global Head of Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (MSREI) and President of the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds (MSREF).  Prior to that, he was the Global Co-Head of MSRE Investing.  At its peak, MSRE Investing had approximately $100 billion of assets under management in 33 countries and 25 offices around the world with over 800 full time staff.  The largest concentrations of asset holdings were in the US, UK, Germany, Japan and China.

Prior to managing MSRE Investing globally, Sonny helped to build its Asian business, spending nine years in Hong Kong and Tokyo.  During his tenure, the team grew to over 300 professionals, with an operation that included Japan, China, India, South Korea, Australia and a number of other countries. Before joining Morgan Stanley in 1991, Sonny was employed by PaineWebber in the Mergers and Acquisitions Department.  Sonny has been involved on the boards of a number of the MSRE portfolio companies and continues to act as an important advisor to many of their management teams.  He has been cited in several publications for his profile in the real estate industry, including Private Equity Real Estate magazine as one of the “30 Most Influential” people in private equity real estate globally.

He is a graduate of Georgetown University with a degree in Business Administration and remains actively involved with the school.  Sonny is also involved in a number of industry organizations, including the Urban Land Institute and PREA.  He is a member of the Board of Regents of Georgetown University, a Trustee of the Asia Society and a board member of the Jorge Posada Foundation.  Sonny is also actively involved in the Metro NYC and International chapters of YPO.  During the Fall of 2009, Sonny served as an Assistant Adjunct Professor at Columbia University in the Master’s of Real Estate Program, teaching a course in International Real Estate with a focus on Japan and China.

Raphael Fishbach
Director, MESA WEST CAPITAL

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.

Ellie Kerr
Managing Director, J.P. MORGAN ASSET MANAGEMENT

Ellie Kerr, Managing Director, is J.P. Morgan Asset Management – Global Real Assets director of valuations. An employee since 2001, Ellie is responsible for overseeing the appraisal process. She served as chairperson of the NCREIF Valuation Committee from 2004 to 2005 and continues to be actively involved. Ellie has also served two terms as a council member for Real Estate Information Standards (REIS).  Prior to joining the firm, she was employed by SSR Realty Advisors, Inc. as director of valuations. Ellie earned a B.A. in economics from Williams College and holds an M.A.I. from the Appraisal Institute and the MRICS designation from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Bruce Batkin
President & Chief Executive Officer, TERRA CAPITAL PARTNERS

Bruce Batkin co-founded and is President and Chief Executive Officer of Terra Capital Partners. Mr. Batkin has over 30 years’ experience in real estate acquisition, finance, development and investment banking. Prior to founding Terra Capital Partners, he held senior management positions at Merrill Lynch & Co., Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, ABN AMRO and several private real estate development partnerships. Mr. Batkin has acquired major commercial properties throughout the United States and has acted as managing partner in over $4 billion of real estate investments for domestic and foreign investors. He has managed numerous real estate securities offerings and has advised some of the largest domestic and foreign real estate companies. He holds Series 7, 24 and 63 securities licenses and is a member of the Urban Land Institute. Mr. Batkin received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from Cornell University and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School.

David J. Lynn
Executive Vice President & Chief Investment Strategist, COLE REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTS

David Lynn, Ph.D., serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Strategist at Cole Real Estate Investments. In this role, Dr. Lynn leads Cole’s investment strategy and research group and underwriting team, and is primarily responsible for portfolio investment and management strategies, capital market analysis and economic research. In addition, he is an instrumental member of our real estate team, working closely with Cole’s capital markets platform, assisting in the strategy of new products and strengthening relationships with key stakeholders. Dr. Lynn is a member on both Cole’s Executive Committee, which drives the strategic direction of the firm, and Investment Committee, which drives real estate investment decisions.
Dr. Lynn has more than 25 years of investment and research experience. Prior to joining Cole, Dr. Lynn served as Global Head of Investment Strategy and Research at Clarion Partners (previously ING Clarion Partners), where he directed their investment decisions across multi-billion core and value-add real estate investments. He also was a member of their Investment and Operating Committee. Previously, he held senior real estate positions at AIG Global Real Estate, AvalonBay Communities and the Target Corporation. Dr. Lynn has written several books, including Active Private Equity Real Estate Strategy (John Wiley and Sons, 2009), Emerging Market Real Estate Investment (John Wiley and Sons, 2010) and Real Estate Mathematics (PEI, 2011).
Dr. Lynn earned his Ph.D. in Financial Economics at the London School of Economics. He earned a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the Sloan School of Management, MIT, where he specialized in Finance and Real Estate. He earned an M.A. at Cornell University and a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Lynn is a designated member of the Counselors of Real Estate (CRE).

Hugh Macdonnell
Managing Director, CLARION PARTNERS

Hugh Macdonnell, Managing Director, is the Global Head - Client Capital Management for Clarion Partners. He is a member of the firm’s Executive Board, Investment Committee and Operating Committee. He has global responsibility for the firm’s client relationships and capital raising. Hugh joined Clarion Partners in 2011 and began working in the real estate industry in 1991.

Peter DiCorpo
President, Managed Accounts Group, CBRE GLOBAL INVESTORS

Peter DiCorpo has been with CBRE Global Investors since 2008. He initially served as the firm’s Global Chief Operating Officer with responsibility for the global execution of the company’s business plan. In 2010, he served as President of CBREI’s European and UK businesses. With the completion of the Europe, Asia, and Securities business of ING-REIM, Peter now oversees the $13B U.S. Managed Accounts Group. He is a member of the firm’s Global Leadership Team and is Chairman of the America’s Operating Board.

Mr. DiCorpo is a seasoned real estate professional who has a broad range of experience in many facets of the industry. He joined CBRE Global Investors from AIG Global Real Estate Investment Corp., where he served in various capacities since 1995, including Chief Administrative Officer. He also served as Head of Residential Production where he created a national investment team and oversaw all multifamily investments. Mr. DiCorpo has been involved with Multi-Family opportunistic investments totaling over $3 billion in his career.

Mr. DiCorpo earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematical Economics from Colgate University, a Master of Arts degree in Professional Accounting from the University of Hartford and an M.B.A. in Finance and Management from New York University Stern School of Business.  He is active in the National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers, National Multi-Housing Council and is a member of ULI’s Multifamily Silver Council (he was previously Vice-Chair of the Multifamily Blue Council).

Josh Cleveland
Partner, CLAIRVUE CAPITAL PARTNERS

Mr. Cleveland has worked in the real estate, private equity and capital markets sectors in the U.S. and Europe for the last 15 years.  Previously, Mr. Cleveland served as Director of Business Development at Liquid Realty Partners where he played a key role in sourcing new real estate private equity secondaries investments and assisted in the firm’s capital raising activities. Prior to joining Liquid Realty, Mr. Cleveland was a Vice President of Capital Dynamics, a Swiss-based private equity manager with $20 billion under management, where he was instrumental in the establishment and growth of its North American business. Before Capital Dynamics, Mr. Cleveland worked in the debt capital markets division of Credit Suisse First Boston, where he was a member of an origination team that lead]managed over $10 billion of corporate financings. Mr. Cleveland began his career at Bank of America as a financial analyst in the capital markets division. Immediately prior to joining Clairvue Capital Partners, Mr. Cleveland acted as the board advisor and project manager for North Shore Land Holdings, a fully funded $150 million luxury resort and residential development project in the Caribbean.

Mr. Cleveland holds a Bachelors degree from the University of South Carolina, where he studied Economics and German. He has been a member/delegate to the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) and the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE) and is a frequent speaker at real estate industry conferences. In 2007 Mr. Cleveland was selected by PERE (Private Equity Real Estate) magazine as one of 20 “rising stars” under 40 (years old) in the real estate industry.

Jay Rollins
President & Co-Founder, JCR CAPITAL

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.

John A. Garth
Managing Director, Originations, THE PEMBROOK GROUP, LLC

Mr. Garth leads new business originations for The Pembrook Group, a debt investment fund management firm that has originated and closed over $300 million of bridge loans, mezzanine loans, and other debt instruments. In addition to originations, Mr. Garth is responsible for pricing, structuring, syndication and closing. Pembrook is actively lending and continues to garner new equity commitments.  Mr. Garth was previously Chief Operating Officer of a publicly-traded REIT managed by Chartermac. Prior to joining Chartermac, Mr. Garth was a senior originator for 7 years at GMAC Commercial Mortgage Corp., where he specialized in both conduit and highly-structured debt transactions. Before joining GMAC in 1997, Mr. Garth spent 12 years in the real estate investment area of The Prudential Insurance Company of America.

 

Mr. Garth earned a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Science degree in Civil Engineering from Tulane University, and a Master of Business Administration degree in Real Estate Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the President’s Circle for Habitat for Humanity and is active in several volunteer organizations.  Pembrook Capital Management is a strategic partnership with Mariner Investment Group, Inc., an institutional fund manager that along with its affiliates manages more than $10 billion in assets. Pembrook Capital is a subsidiary of The Pembrook Group, www.pembrookgroup.com, headquartered in New York.

Jay A. Neveloff
Partner, KRAMER LEVIN NAFTALIS & FRANKEL LLP

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.

Jonathan B. Schultz
Managing Principal, ONYX EQUITIES, LLC

As co-founder and Managing Principal of Onyx Equities, LLC, a private real estate investment, development and management company, Jonathan oversees investor capital raising initiatives, strategic planning, portfolio management, investor relations and business development.  Since inception, Onyx has purchased over $1,000,000,000 of office, retail and industrial properties throughout the tri-state area. 

Jonathan is also co-founder, President and CEO of The Schultz Organization, LLC, founded in 1990.  Schultz and its affiliates provide commercial real estate brokerage and advisory services to institutions, lenders, private owners and tenants. A graduate of Syracuse University, Jonathan earned a degree in Finance and Economics.

Marshall S. Brozost
Partner, SCHULTE ROTH & ZABEL LLP

Marshall S. Brozost is a partner in the New York office of Schulte Roth & Zabel, where his practice deals with all aspects of commercial real estate, including purchases and sales, formation of joint ventures, real estate fund formation, mortgage and mezzanine financing, REIT structuring, workouts and leasing. His clients include a wide variety of real estate private equity funds, investment advisers, domestic and foreign institutional investors, lenders and developers. Marshall’s practice has also included many CMBS, private equity and merger and acquisition transactions. Marshall received his J.D. from New York University School of Law and his B.A. from Wesleyan University.

John Baczewski, CPA
Chair, REAL ESTATE INFORMATION STANDARDS BOARD

John Baczewski, CPA, is president of Real Estate Fiduciary Services, LLC (REFS), which provides independent fiduciary services and consulting to institutional investors. Baczewski has over 25 years of experience in institutional real estate investment, finance, management and monitoring, along with 10 years of Big Four public accounting experience.  

Baczewski’s breadth and depth of institutional real estate experience includes investment strategy development, portfolio and asset management, due diligence and transaction management, operational reviews, accounting, performance measurement, client service and capital formation. At REFS, which he founded in 2005, his responsibilities include leading consulting assignments in the areas of investment, portfolio, asset and transaction management, including due diligence and Real Estate Information Standards (REIS)  related policy development.

Baczewski has led clients through real estate strategy development, portfolio analysis and review, independent fiduciary assignments, transaction due diligence, manager and vehicle selection and performance measurement analysis.  He has also performed operational audits of real estate investment and management organizations. 

Baczewski Chairs the REIS Board, which promulgates information standards for the institutional real estate investment industry. Additionally, he formerly served on the REIS Council and served as technical project manager for the 2003 Real Estate Information Standards rewrite.

Since 1999, Baczewski has been an independent consultant serving the institutional real estate industry. Additional positions have included: chief financial officer of Pyramid Hotel Group; and managing director of business development for AMRESCO Advisors, where he was a member of the firm’s Management and Investment Committees.  Baczewski also held a series of real estate consulting and portfolio management positions with PricewaterhouseCoopers, the Frank Russell Company, Russell Fiduciary Services Company and AEW Capital Management.  

Baczewski is a Counselor of Real Estate; a fellow of the Homer Hoyt Institute, which comprises a group of industry leaders who lend their expertise to the Weimer School of Advanced Studies in Real Estate and Land Economics; a former Editorial Board Member of The Institutional Real Estate Letter-North America and serves as a director of Benchmark Research Technologies, an independent research and strategic consulting firm serving the real estate industry.

Baczewski actively participates in several professional associations, including the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (former board member), Pension Real Estate Association, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), CFA Institute, the Boston Security Analysts Society, and the Massachusetts Society of CPAs.

A graduate of Merrimack College, Baczewski received a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration and has published several articles and speaks frequently on pension real estate issues. He is a Certified Public Accountant, licensed in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. 

Timothy Peterson, CFA, CAIA, CIPM
Partner, ASHLAND PARTNERS & CO. LLP

Timothy is a Partner with Ashland Partners, an investment-specialist CPA firm, providing audit and consulting services to hedge funds, private equity and real estate firms, investment companies, and insurance companies. He has executive responsibility for over 100 client relationships, including the firm's largest "household name" clients, as well as the firm's Asian joint ventures. Timothy is an investment performance measurement expert with specialization in alternative assets. Prior to joining Ashland, Timothy served as the CFO for a Houston-based financial firm where he had responsibility for co-managing an option based hedging strategy as well as the firm’s real estate portfolio. Other experience includes serving as Global Head of Performance and Attribution for an international asset management firm, and as Director of Performance Reporting for a leading US wrap fee investment manager.  He is a dual graduate of the University of Colorado with a Master of Science Degree in Finance and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics.  Timothy has authored numerous papers and articles and has spoken at conferences around the world.  He works from an office in Houston, Texas.

R. Charles Tschampion, CFA
Director, Special Projects , CFA INSTITUTE

R. Charles “Chuck” Tschampion, CFA, is Director, Special Projects, of the CFA Institute.  Among his responsibilities is representing the CFA Institute to a wide range of constituencies, including firms that employ CFA Institute members and candidates in the Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA®) program as well as other industry groups containing investment professionals.  Prior to joining the CFA Institute in August 2005, Chuck was Managing Director, Investment Research, Chief Investment Strategist and Managing Director, Defined Contribution Plans for General Motors Asset Management (GMAM).
Chuck sat on the AIMR Board of Governors from 1995 to 2001 and served as the Board’s chair from 1999 to 2000.  He also chaired CFA Institute task forces on personal investing standards and soft dollar standards, co-chaired the CFA Institute Performance Presentation Standards Implementation Committee, and chaired the task force that developed the CFA Institute’s  The Corporate Governance of Listed Companies: A Manual For Investors.  
He holds both a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and an MBA from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa.  From 1990-2008, Chuck served on the endowment investment committee for Lehigh University and from 1998-2008 was the committee's chair; from 1998-2010 he served as a member of Lehigh’s Board of Trustees, and is currently a Lehigh trustee emeritus. 
He has served on the Real Estate Information Standards (REIS) Board since its inception in 2007.  He also currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the SPDR Select Sector Trust and is a member of its Audit Committee. He is a Director, and Chair of the Audit Committee, of the db-X Target Date Funds, Inc.. He is also a member of the Investment Advisory Committee of the NY State Common Retirement Fund. Chuck has held the CFA designation since 1986.

Matt Brody
Principal, WALTON STREET CAPITAL, LLC

Mr. Brody joined Walton Street in 2006 and is a Principal responsible for investor relations/client service.  Mr. Brody also assists with marketing efforts, including the coordination of investor due diligence, and is responsible for Walton Street’s portfolio management and reporting, including fund operations and valuation under the auspices of Walton Street’s Investment & Management Committee.  Prior to joining Walton Street, Mr. Brody was an Associate in the Real Estate Assurance practice at Ernst & Young where he performed services for various real estate private equity funds.  Mr. Brody has a BBA and MS from the University of Michigan.

Andre Boreas
Director, INTRALINKS

Andre Boreas is the Director of Product Marketing, Alternative Investments for Intralinks, Inc., where he leads the product management efforts in delivering critical information exchange capabilities for alternative investment firms. He started his career at Thomson Financial and worked at Abbott Capital, a private equity fund-of-funds as well as at PFM Advisors, an institutional investment consulting firm where he oversaw all investment research activities. In addition, Mr. Boreas was a senior member at an institutionally-focused fund-of-hedge funds. Before joining IntraLinks, Mr. Boreas was the Chief Investment Officer at a NYC-based family office. Mr. Boreas has a BS in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Villanova University and an MS in Information Systems from Drexel University. He is a member of the CFA Institute.

R. Byron Carlock, Jr.
U.S. Real Estate Practice Leader, PWC

Byron currently serves as the U.S. Real Estate Practice Leader.  Byron joined PwC after a distinguished career in the private sector of the real estate industry. Prior to assuming his current role, Byron served as the CEO and President of CNL Lifestyle Properties, Inc for seven years.  His resume also includes three years as Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of Post Properties and nine years as Managing Director for Crow Holdings International.   Byron brings extensive knowledge of the real estate industry across the real estate life cycle, including the capital markets, experience in developing and implementing a strategic vision and a strong commitment to a partnership culture.  Byron is a CPA and is currently a member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and a board member Emeritus of Harvard Business School.  He also serves on the Board of Directors at Hope Network Ministries and is on the board for the Dallas Summer Musicals.

Justin D. Krebs
Principal - Region Head, NORMANDY REAL ESTATE PARTNERS

Justin Krebs is a Principal and Region Head for Normandy. He is responsible for directing the firm's real estate investments in the New England region. Prior to Normandy, he held the position of Vice President for J.P. Morgan investments, where he was Senior Acquisitions Officer for the Northeast and Southeast. During this time he was responsible for sourcing, negotiating, underwriting, and closing over $4 billion in multi-family, office, retail, and industrial properties. Other experience includes Associate Director of Acquisitions for UBS Asset Management, a multi-billion dollar investment management firm where he led the placement of over $400 million in equity investments for international investors and domestic pension funds. Mr. Krebs secured his Bachelor's degree Cum Laude in Political Science/Pre-Law from Providence College and also graduated Cum Laude from Fordham University, where he earned his Master's of Business Administration degree in Finance.

Joan N. Hayden
Vice President and Corporate Counsel , PRUDENTIAL REAL ESTATE INVESTORS

Joan Hayden is a Vice President and Corporate Counsel of Prudential Financial, Inc., supporting PREI^®, its investment management firm that advises institutional investors on commercial real estate investing world-wide. Ms. Hayden’s responsibilities include structuring, marketing and launching new products. Prior to joining Prudential, Ms. Hayden practiced law at Greenberg, Traurig, Weil, Gotshal and Manges and Schulte, Roth & Zabel and served as a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York.  Ms. Hayden received a B.A. in Political Philosophy from Syracuse University and a J.D. from Seton Hall University and is a co-author on several articles on real estate topics.