Mr. Rappaport has over 30 years of real estate investment experience. Beginning in 1982 he was a General Partner in Charles River Park, where he managed the daily operations of the mixed-use development which generated over $40,000,000 in annual revenue. Also during the 1980s, he personally purchased, repositioned, and sold several properties in Hawaii, including the Kauai Resort Hotel. From 1991 to 1994, Mr. Rappaport served as President of Charles River Properties, Ltd., overseeing company operations, investments, and public affairs. Mr. Rappaport is actively involved in numerous civic and charitable organizations, including serving in a number of leadership positions for the Combined Jewish Philanthropies. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees for the Dana Farber Cancer Institute as well as the Board of Overseers of Boston's Children's Hospital.

Jim was co-founder and chairman of Park Transit Displays Ltd., which managed the outdoor advertising contract for the M.B.T.A for almost eight years, growing revenues from $3.5 million to over $15 million. In addition, Jim co-founded and was Chairman of Silent Systems, Inc., a technology company that built the first silent computer, reaching revenues over $12 million before it was sold to Molex Inc., a major computer aggregator.

Mr. Rappaport is a member of both the Massachusetts and Vermont Bar and holds a BS from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a JD from the Boston University School of Law.

Katie Keenan is a Senior Managing Director in the Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies (“BREDS”) group and Chief Executive Officer of Blackstone Mortgage Trust (NYSE:BXMT), a publicly-traded commercial mortgage REIT managed by Blackstone. Ms. Keenan leads all aspects of BXMT, a real estate finance company that originates senior loans collateralized by commercial real estate in North America, Europe and Australia. Ms. Keenan is also involved in commercial debt investments across the global BREDS platform and is based in New York.

Before joining Blackstone in 2012, Ms. Keenan held positions at G2 Investment Group, Lubert-Adler Real Estate Funds and in the Real Estate Investment Banking Group at Lehman Brothers.

Ms. Keenan graduated cum laude with an A.B. in History from Harvard College. She sits on the Board of Directors of Getting Out and Staying Out and the Advisory Board of Governors of NAREIT, and is a member of WX New York Women Executives in Real Estate.