John Weil is Senior Program Manager for Downtown Conversions at the City of Boston Planning Department, leading Mayor Wu’s new program converting underutilized office into new residential in the CBD. He is a real estate professional with proven skills and experience in office-to-residential conversion, life science lab development, mixed-use projects, and capital markets. Having previously worked for Longfellow Real Estate Partners and Cottonwood Management among others, his strength is finding unique solutions for investing and innovating in commercial development by re-envisioning traditional opportunities for today’s market. John graduated from

the MIT Center for Real Estate, the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Bowdoin College.

Mr. Oran is a Managing Partner and Founder of Dinosaur Capital Partners with over 35 years of local, national and international real estate experience.

Previously, Mr. Oran served as Executive Director of Morgan Stanley where he was responsible for its real estate investing activities in New England and the Mid-Atlantic United States, including acquisition and planning of 26 acres in the Boston Seaport. Earlier in his career, he was Partner and Regional Director of TA Associates Realty, Vice President of Fleet Bank in Boston where he managed an REO portfolio, and Director of Acquisitions for Unihab, a Cambridge-based real estate developer. He began his career at Booz, Allen & Hamilton, the management consulting firm. Mr. Oran graduated from Harvard Business School and Princeton University.

From 2011 to 2016, he was a Director and Trustee of Granite REIT, a $2 billion NYSE-listed real estate company. From 2011 to 2020, he was Chair of the Board of Brooke Charter Schools, a high-performing public charter school network in Boston, MA. He is currently Trustee and former Treasurer of the non-profit Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. He was formerly a Trustee of the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology. From 2001 until 2011, he was on the board of NAIOP Massachusetts, the Commercial Real Estate Development Association.

Vince Pan founded Analogue Studio in 2011 and has built an interdisciplinary practice devoted to transforming existing buildings alongside long-term clients. Analogue Studio works closely with universities, developers, and operators to adapt their building portfolios to evolving needs. The alignment between design and business objectives is nurtured over time: most clients have been with the firm for over a decade. Before starting Analogue Studio, Vince designed everything from performing arts venues to research labs, and draws on that experience to apply proven ideas from one building type to another.

As Senior Vice President of Building Repositioning, Brooks McDaniel provides overall direction and leadership to STOBG’s Building Repositioning Group. He works closely with the NYC-based executive leadership for Pavarini McGovern and Structure Tone to develop long-range strategic plans to help establish STOBG as an expert in building repositioning, particularly in the NYC market, as well as work with leadership across the organization to best leverage the company’s expertise in this important sector.

Brooks was previously Vice President of Design & Development at Extell Development

Company, where he was responsible for the design of millions of square feet of residential,

commercial office, hotels, retail, and educational buildings. Prior to working at Extell, Brooks

was a project director at SHoP Architects in New York, where he worked on various cultural,

residential, and institutional projects. Earlier in his career, he also worked as an architect at

Asymptote Architecture, Davis Brody Bond, and Roger Ferris & Partners. A registered architect, Brooks earned undergraduate degrees in management and in marketing from Lehigh University and a master’s of architecture from Parsons New School in New York.