Ms. Ng is the Managing Director and Co-Head of Investments of Cottonwood Group. In her role as Managing Director, she oversees the Group’s real estate investment activities. Previously, Ms. Ng was Managing Principal at Athena International Capital in Hong Kong, Executive Vice President of Investments at Easternflair in China, Head of Real Estate Business Development – APAC at Aviva Investor in Singapore, Director of Real Estate Acquisitions at Blackrock in Hong Kong, and Director & Principal of the Capital Markets Group at Taurus Investment Holdings in Boston. To-date, she has completed over 100 real estate transactions, totaling over US$2.5 billion in the US, EU, and Asia, representing investors from eight jurisdictions globally.

Ms. Ng graduated from MIT with a Bachelor of Science and from Harvard University with a Master of Architecture with Distinction, as well as being a CFA and CAIA charter holder.

Since joining MBBC in 1997, Charles has managed both the sales and marketing organizations. He became President in 2014. Storey is a 1982 graduate of Harvard College, and received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1989.

Hotelier with over 35 years in the industry leading, inspiring, and engaging associates and executive teams with strong communication skills and a creative approach, fostering a culture of accountability and innovation for achieving success through leading by example.

Extremely responsive to new concepts and how they affect the industry which will always hold a place in the process of strategic planning.

An out of the box thinker, was among the first to embrace social media marketing, and the hotels have been at the forefront of sustainability initiatives, earning three Starwood sustainability awards.

Excellent Crisis Management skills, having weathered multiple crises affecting his hotels as well as the surrounding areas. Experience has taught that the best way to handle a crisis is thorough preparation, beginning with building a team you trust and who trusts you, followed by contingency planning and ability to stay calm and gather facts before making an informed decision.

Has a unique ability to inspire associates and has earned multiple accolades, including Hotel of the Year for Westin Hotels and Resorts as well as Massachusetts Lodging Association General Manager of the year, as well as a go-to resource for federal, state and city officials during change events.

Prior to his beginning his tenure with Omni Hotels and Resorts, Jorgensen served as the general manager at The Drake Hotel in Oak Brook, Ill, The Westin St. Louis, The Westin Copley Place, and the Westin Boston Waterfront.

A Design Principal with expertise in complex mixed-use, technology office, life science and academic projects that drive innovation in urban centres. His work is sensitive to human scale, urban context, and sustainable practices.

Elie’s portfolio includes innovation districts; lab and tech-office buildings; and academic and research facilities in the UK, US, Europe and China. Since relocating to London, Elie has brought a global perspective to the design of a new campus masterplan for King’s College London; an office and laboratory building for Guys & St Thomas at London Bridge and the design of Europe’s largest commercial lab, One North Quay at Canary Wharf.

James von Klemperer is President and Design Principal at Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates where he began as a young architect in 1983. His work ranges in scale from a house to a city, and he contributes closely to these efforts from conception to completion. In addition to focusing on his own projects, he leads the community of designers within the firm in exploring shared architectural agendas and goals. As President of the firm, he is responsible for leading the staff of 750 people in 10 offices around the world.

A major focus of Jamie’s work has been to heighten the role that large buildings play in making urban space. He has explored this theme in major projects in Asia including Plaza 66 and the Jing An Kerry Centre in Shanghai, China Central Place in Beijing, and the 123-story Lotte World Tower in Seoul. In New York, his design for One Vanderbilt, Midtown’s tallest tower, links directly to Grand Central Terminal. Each of these projects creates strong symbiotic relationships between program space and the public realm. At the larger scale, his design for New Songdo City extends this challenge to the scope of urban planning.

Jamie’s designs have been recognized for the marriage of efficient program with adventurous form. His Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington DC, Dongbu Financial Center in Seoul, Park Fifth residential project in Los Angeles, and Riverside 66 urban market in Tianjin have all received AIA design awards.

In London, Jamie led the design of the One Nine Elms residential towers. He has also been active on the continent, in particular in Paris, where he completed a building for the Ministry of Justice at the Parc du Millénaire and in Lyon where he is designing a series of buildings within the Part Dieu station precinct. In Vienna, he is currently designing a new campus for the Central European University on the site of Otto Wagner’s Steinhof.

Jamie has lectured at Harvard, Columbia, Tsinghua, Tongji, Seoul National, and Yonsei Universities, the ESA in Paris, and at Yale, where he has taught as a Saarinen Visiting Professor. After graduating from Phillips Academy Andover, he received a BA from Harvard in 1979, Magna Cum Laude in History and Literature. In 1980 he was the Charles Henry Fiske Fellow at Trinity College Cambridge. He received his MArch from Princeton in 1983. Jamie chairs the Board of Directors of the Skyscraper Museum and the Urban Design Forum. Jamie also serves as a Trustee of Bard College.

Jorge E. Mendoza has more than 20 years of architectural design and project management experience. Since joining KPF in 2004, he has led a variety of projects from concept through construction throughout the United States and abroad, with a particular focus in Boston. Jorge’s skillset is broad and he adeptly applies his expertise to a range of project types, from tall towers and large-scale master plans to suburban corporate campuses, leading teams through day-to-day operations and ensuring that client’s expectations are met.

Jorge is a seasoned project manager, having led large, multidisciplinary teams in the design of complex projects throughout the world. Projects managed by Jorge often require intense collaboration with numerous consultants, stakeholders, and public agencies. Jorge has been actively leading KPF’s efforts In Boston. He led KPF’s Seaport Square project, a mixed-use project located in one of the most active arteries in the city. The largest private real estate project in the city since the 1960’s, the development offers three residential towers, an abundance of retail, and a central public square, designed with flexibility in mind. Also in Boston, Jorge manages the Channelside project, a complex mixed-use development that includes research labs, offices, and residences. Located on the Fort Point Channel waterfront, the project incorporates a number of resiliency features.

Jorge is a licensed architect in New York and Massachusetts, NCARB affiliated, and an active member of the AIA and NOMA (National Organization of Minority Architects).

Cecilia Gordon serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s Hospitality and Recreation Industry Group. She frequently advises clients in the hospitality industry regarding investment in and management of hotel and resort properties across the country.

Cecilia provides the firm’s clients with the benefit of her experience handling all kinds of acquisitions and dispositions, joint venture arrangements, franchise agreements and management agreements. Her legal work in this space often involves hospitality industry brand names such as Marriott, Hilton, Hyatt, IHG, Choice and Kimpton.

Cecilia also devotes much of her time to a broad-based real estate practice in which she represents real estate owners and operators involved in property acquisitions and dispositions, finance and development projects. Cecilia has particularly strong experience in creating optimal structures for joint ventures and counseling clients looking to partner with others in the development and ownership of multifamily properties, office buildings, senior living developments, hotels and resorts.

John Hynes IV joined the BGI team in 2014. Prior to his role as Project Executive of the 10 World Trade commercial development, John oversaw numerous Seaport Square projects, totaling over $150M of development in 3-years. He has also helped lead BGI’s new business efforts, and serves as the primary point of contact for project approvals with City and State agencies. Before BGI, John spent 4 years working in the finance and construction industries in Boston, North Carolina, and Miami. John holds a bachelor’s degree from Boston College and lives in South Boston.

Levi Reilly is a Partner and leads Marcus Partners’ development group. He has been instrumental in growing the firm’s development portfolio which includes Parcels O and P in Boston’s Raymond L. Flynn Marine Industrial Park, ground-up multifamily projects in Metro Boston, New York and Washington, DC and industrial projects across Metro Boston.

Levi joined Marcus Partners from Skanska USA Commercial Development, where he led the Los Angeles development group after having spent four years with Skanska in Boston.

Levi earned a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Oregon State University.

Chris Chandor’s combined experience in both development and asset management makes him uniquely qualified to help lead those projects requiring the most significant repositioning efforts, as well as new development and redevelopment initiatives. Prior to joining The Davis Companies, he spent five years with the Boston Red Sox leading efforts to acquire and redevelop strategically important properties in the Fenway neighborhood, together with the complete renovation of historic Fenway Park. In addition, he worked closely with local municipal officials in Florida to plan and develop the new Lee County Boston Red Sox Spring Training Facility in Fort Myers, enabling the Red Sox to remain in Fort Myers for another 30 years.

Prior to joining the Red Sox, Mr. Chandor spent six years with Trammell Crow Company as Vice President of development. During that time, he led large-scale projects for a wide variety of clients, including over 450,000 sf of speculative office development in suburban Massachusetts for multiple institutional funds, a 505,000 sf distribution warehouse in Seabrook, NH, more than 550 beds of student housing for three Boston area universities, and a 475,000 sf suburban office build-to-suit for ING Financial Services in Windsor, CT. Prior to Trammell Crow, Mr. Chandor spent two years in commercial lending with Deutsche Bank Berkshire Mortgage underwriting commercial and multi-family loans. Mr. Chandor has an M.B.A. from the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College and a BA in Economics & History from Tulane University.

A senior principal and architect at Sasaki, Victor is a leader in Sasaki’s commercial practices, bringing together a broad spectrum of disciplines, from architecture and interiors, to landscape and urban design.

This breadth of professional experience has led to a deep understanding of the interrelation of commercial development, the public realm, and the needs of the people who use these spaces—as well as the processes required to make these projects happen. For over 20+ years, Victor’s focus has been on the design and development of rigorous and creative workspaces for forward-thinking corporations and institutions.

Practicing since 1994, Victor holds a bachelor of architecture from Cornell University. He is a member of the Boston Society of Architects and the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.

Joe O’Brien is Regional Director of New England for View Inc. based in Boston. Joe joined View in 2016 and has overseen View projects installed in over 1.5 million square feet. Representative developments include Office, Life Science, Airport, Multifamily, and Healthcare. Joe leads View’s operations and new business efforts in New England working closely with investors, developers, contractors, architects, and tenants. Prior to View, he spent several years in San Francisco with a distributed energy technology company. Joe holds a Bachelor’s degree from The University of Massachusetts Amherst and lives in Boston.

Yanni Tsipis is Senior Vice President - Seaport at WS Development in Boston and oversees the company's Seaport project, a 7.7 million square foot mixed-use development currently underway in Boston's Seaport District. Prior to his tenure at WS, Yanni spent nearly 15 years at Colliers International after completing undergraduate and graduate studies at MIT in civil engineering and planning. At Colliers, Yanni focused his work on managing large-scale urban development and historic rehabilitation projects. His project experience at Colliers included multiple commercial, multifamily residential, hotel, and other project types, and spanned over $2 billion of development projects, all in the City of Boston. Yanni lives in Westwood and has written four books about the history of the city's transportation infrastructure. He serves on numerous non-profit boards and is a past member of the Boston Landmarks Commission.

Lauren Shurtleff is the Director of Planning and the Deputy Director for Downtown & Neighborhood Planning at the BPDA, where she manages the Planning Division staff to produce plans, guidelines, and policies appropriate to the planning issues in Boston’s many neighborhoods and Downtown. She guides and mentors staff to work collaboratively with community, business and institutional organizations on public planning processes associated with physical planning in Boston. Additionally, Lauren collaborates with BPDA Development Review staff as well as with City, State and other community agencies and organizations to facilitate the coordination of the public planning and development review processes relating to planning issues.

Lauren has been with the BPDA since 2007 and has worked on a number of planning initiatives and projects, among which include the air rights planning for both the Rose Kennedy Greenway and the Massachusetts Turnpike, the Christian Science Plaza Master Plan, and the 115 Winthrop Square disposition process. She holds a Master of Science in Urbanization and Development from the London School of Economics and a Bachelor of Arts from Boston College. Lauren is a member of both the Urban Land Institute and the American Planning Association.

Residential Architecture Magazine named David to their Hall of Fame as “the person we call to ask about cities.” In recent years he created the City of Boston’s first plan for what became Boston’s Seaport District, led planning for post-Katrina New Orleans, revitalized downtowns for cities large and small, and initiated a broad reappraisal of the role of density in building more livable, resilient, and equitable communities.

His impact has not gone unnoticed—he’s won dozens of awards from Congress for the New Urbanism, the American Institute of Architects, the American Planning Association, and the International Downtown Association. A Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, David was honored with the Institute’s Thomas Jefferson Medal for “a lifetime of creating livable neighborhoods, vibrant civic spaces, and vital downtowns.”

David co-authored Urban Design for an Urban Century (Wiley, 2015) with Lance Brown FAIA and co-edited Suburban Remix: Creating the next generation of urban places (Island Press, 2018) with Jason Beske AICP.