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Jeff Githens

Jeff Githens

President, Development

Peak Campus

Jason Doornbos

Jason Doornbos

Executive Managing Director

Landmark Properties

Jourdan Manley

Jourdan Manley

Director, New Development

CA Ventures

Douglas LoPinto

Douglas LoPinto

VP, Finances and Acquisitions

DMG Investments

Jeff Githens

President, Development

Peak Campus

Jeff joined the Company in 2008. In his role as President of Development, he is responsible for all aspects of sourcing, underwriting, and executing of new development opportunities for the Company. Jeff has been directly involved in the development of over $500 million of student housing apartment properties including all product types – garden-style, mid-rise, high-rise, and historic redevelopment. He has successfully conducted complex land acquisitions, redeveloped environmentally sensitive Brownfield properties, as well as qualified projects for tax credit programs, including historic, and led difficult rezoning and entitlement efforts. Prior to joining the Company, he held several senior management positions in the development, construction, and technology industries. Jeff earned his MBA from the Goizueta Business School at Emory University, and his BS in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology where he graduated with honors.

Jason Doornbos

Executive Managing Director

Landmark Properties

Jason joined Landmark Properties in 2010 and is responsible for identifying development opportunities throughout the US in university markets. In this role, Jason is responsible for structuring acquisitions, overseeing the entitlement process, design and engineering of new developments, as well as working with Landmark's debt and equity partners to secure appropriate capital for development opportunities. Landmark's development pipeline is currently the largest of any student housing real estate developer in the US. Before joining Landmark, Jason was the Director of Finance for Place Properties. Prior to entering the student housing sector, Jason worked in the real estate finance sector as an Investment Officer at Merrill Lynch Capital and began his career as a Credit Analyst at Regions Bank.

Jason obtained his B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Georgia in 2000. He Serves on the board of the Athens Chamber of Commerce and is an elder at First Presbyterian Church of Athens. Jason and his wife, Andrea, live in Athens with their three daughters.

Jourdan Manley

Director, New Development

CA Ventures

Jourdan Manley has 14 years student housing experience in over 60 markets. She joined CA Ventures New Development team in 2015 and has been an integral part of the new development portfolio achieving 95% each year. In her current role as Director of New Development, Jourdan oversees the growing new development portfolio by focusing on the pre-development details and coordinating with the investment, development, design and property management teams to ensure successful properties from inception to stabilization.

Douglas LoPinto

VP, Finances and Acquisitions

DMG Investments

Douglas LoPinto currently serves as the VP of Finance and Acquisitions of DMG investments. Doug has an extensive background in real estate having experience participating in loan originations, capital markets and portfolio management. His resume includes Prudential Financial, CSM Corporation, Olympus Ventures, and Aspen Heights. In those roles he has been involved in structuring, financing and sourcing multifamily, hotel, office and industrial transactions across the country. Doug is a proud graduate of the University of St. Thomas where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Real Estate.

Summary

  1. What efforts are being made to keep students safe on campus as universities reopen this month?

  2. How are you charging rent if you don't even know if school is starting? Are there clauses in the leases that require students to pay rent even if school is cancelled?

  3. Has the pandemic made you reconsider how you would build student housing? What's the number one thing you'd change?

  4. What new amenities in student housing may be on the rise, even after a vaccine?

Agenda

Time Activity
2:30 PM
3:30 PM
Future of Atlanta Student Housing

How Developers and Universities are Working to Keep Students Safe As Colleges Reopen

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