Randall S. Kroszner served as a Governor of the Federal Reserve System from 2006 until 2009. He chaired the committee on Supervision and Regulation of Banking Institutions and the committee on Consumer and Community Affairs. In these capacities, he took a leading role in developing responses to the financial crisis and in undertaking new initiatives to improve consumer protection and disclosure, including rules related to home mortgages and credit cards. He represented the Federal Reserve Board on the Financial Stability Forum (now called the Financial Stability Board), the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, and the Central Bank Governors of the American Continent and was a director of NeighborWorks America. Dr. Kroszner chaired the working party of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), composed of deputy central bank governors and finance ministers, on Policies for the Promotion of Better International Payments Equilibrium. As a member of the Fed Board, he was also a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee.

From 2001 to 2003, Dr. Kroszner was a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA). He was involved in formulating policy on a wide range of issues, including responses to corporate governance scandals, government-sponsored enterprise reform, pension reform, terrorism risk insurance, tax reform, currency crisis management, sovereign debt restructuring, the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and international trade and development.

Since 1990, Dr. Kroszner has taught at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Dr. Kroszner was Director of the George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy and the State. He served as editor of the Journal of Law & Economics and has been associate editor of a number of other academic and policy journals. He was a member of the board of directors at the National Association for Business Economics. Dr. Kroszner also was a member of the Federal Economic Statistics Advisory Committee at the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the Department of Labor. He is currently a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and serves on the Committee on Economic Statistics of the American Economics Association. He serves on the board of the Financial Management Association and of the Paulson Institute. He is the Booth Academic Director of the CEO Perspectives program.

Dr. Kroszner has been a visiting scholar at the Securities and Exchange Commission, the IMF, the Stockholm School of Economics, the Stockholm University, the Free University of Berlin, Germany, the London School of Economics, and the American Enterprise Institute. He was the John M. Olin Visiting Fellow in Law and Economics at the University of Chicago Law School the Bertil Danielson Visiting Professor of Banking and Finance at the Stockholm School of Economics, and the SK Chaired Visiting Professor at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea.

His research interests include regulation of financial institutions, international financial crises, the Great Depression, monetary economics, corporate governance, debt restructuring and bankruptcy, and political economy. His paper on managerial stock ownership (with Clifford Holderness and Dennis Sheehan) won the Brattle Prize for best corporate finance paper in the Journal of Finance. His book co-authored with Robert J. Shiller, Reforming U.S. Financial Markets: Reflections Before and Beyond Dodd-Frank (MIT Press) appeared on the Washington Post’s Book World political best sellers list.

Dr. Kroszner is a frequent commentator in the international media. He provides advice to financial institutions, government organizations, and central banks throughout the world. He is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on the global financial system and is involved with Gates Foundation initiatives on promoting access to financial services for the poor in emerging market countries.

Dr. Kroszner received a Sc.B. (magna cum laude) in applied mathematics-economics (honors) from Brown University in 1984 and an M.A. (1987) and Ph.D. (1990), both in economics, from Harvard University.

Publications:

With Robert Shiller, Reforming US Financial Markets: Reflections Before and Beyond Dodd-Frank (MIT Press, 2011).

With Luc Laeven and Daniela Klingebiel, “Banking Crises, Financial Dependence, and Growth,” Journal of Financial Economics (April 2007).

With Thomas Stratmann, "Corporate Campaign Contributions, Repeat Giving, and the Rewards to Legislator Reputation," Journal of Law and Economics (April 2005).

With Philip Strahan, "Bankers on Boards: Monitoring, Conflicts of Interest, and Lender Liability," Journal of Financial Economics (December 2001).

With Philip Strahan, "What Drives Deregulation? Economics and Politics of the Relaxation of Bank Branching Restrictions," Quarterly Journal of Economics (November 1999).

With C. Holderness and D. Sheehan, "Were the Good Old Days that Good? Changes in Managerial Stock Ownership since the Great Depression," Journal of Finance (April 1999).

David Helfand is President and Chief Executive Officer of Equity Commonwealth (NYSE: EQC), a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) that owns and operates commercial office properties throughout the United States.

Mr. Helfand has served as Co-President of Equity Group Investments, a private investment firm, since January 2012. Prior to rejoining Equity Group Investments, Mr. Helfand was Founder and President of Helix Funds LLC, a private real estate investment management company, where he oversaw the acquisition, management and disposition of more than $2.2 billion of real estate assets. While at Helix Funds, he also served as Chief Executive Officer for American Residential Communities LLC, a Helix Funds portfolio company.

Before founding Helix Funds, Mr. Helfand served as Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer for Equity Office Properties Trust, the largest REIT in the United States at the time, where he led approximately $12 billion of mergers and acquisitions activity. Prior to joining EOP, Mr. Helfand served as a Managing Director and participated in the formation of Equity International, a private investment firm focused on real estate platforms in emerging markets. He also held the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of Equity LifeStyle Properties, a publicly traded REIT that operates manufactured home communities. His earlier career included investment activity in a variety of asset classes, including retail, office, parking and multifamily. He serves as a Director of the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, is on the Executive Committee of the Samuel Zell and Robert Lurie Real Estate Center at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and on the Board of Visitors at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. Mr. Helfand also serves on the board of The Ounce of Prevention Fund, a national leader in early childhood education policy and advocacy. Mr. Helfand holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a B.A. from Northwestern University.

Mr. Primo serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Capri Investment Group, a group of affiliated companies providing real estate investment management services globally to pension funds and other institutional investors. Active in the real estate industry for over 30 years, he has challenged conventional wisdom in developing new markets for investment. Under his leadership Capri was an early investor in US multifamily and urban property markets and is now expanding internationally in the emerging regions of Africa, India and the Middle East. He is co-chairman of the Primo Center for Women and Children, was founding chairman of the Chicago Alliance to End Homelessness, and is a board member of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He received his MBA from Harvard University and a BS in Finance with honors from Indiana University. In addition to public company board experience, he is often featured in major news publications and is a business contributor to CNBC. He resides in the Chicago area with his family.

Eugene "Gene" J.M. Leone is a Partner in the Global M&A Practice

Group and a member of the Real Estate Industry Group, based in the

Chicago and New York offices. Gene represents some of the most

recognizable names in real estate and has a track record of leading,

structuring and executing complicated deal transactions for a broad

universe of investors, including private equity, entrepreneurs and public

companies. His practice focuses on all aspects of commercial real

estate, including joint ventures, acquisitions, dispositions, leasing,

financings and workouts.

A highly rated lawyer and sought-after speaker, Gene is a member of

the American College of Real Estate Lawyers and the Real Estate

Roundtable and frequently speaks on a variety of real estate topics at

conferences around the country.

Rahul Shah is a Managing Principal at Sherpa Capital Group, LLC (Sherpa), co-founding the company in 2010.

Sherpa manages a private capital fund that specializes in originating bridge and hard money loans secured by commercial real estate. Sherpa has funded more than 250 transactions and is a direct lender with its own proprietary capital. All credit decisions and servicing administrations are performed in house by the firm's principals. Before co-founding Sherpa, Rahul founded a mortgage banking company. He originated more than $500M in residential and small balance commercial loans.

Previously, Rahul was a Manager of Business Development and Strategic Alliance at Encyclopedia Britannica executing internet strategy. Prior to Britannica, he was a Senior Consultant in the Transaction Advisory Group at Arthur Andersen. His focus was performing due diligence on corporate finance transactions involving financial institutions, private equity firms and mid-sized corporations. He consulted on more than 50 transactions in various industries with deal sizes ranging from $50M to $1B. Rahul is a CPA and graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy with Concentration in Finance.

Daniel A. Eibler is a Director with Hunt Mortgage Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary

of Hunt Companies. Mr. Eibler is based in Chagrin Falls (Cleveland), Ohio, and

heads of the Ohio office originations for Fannie, Freddie, FHA, Hunt Proprietary

Lending, and CMBS for multifamily, commercial, and healthcare assets. Mr. Eibler in

2015 originated some of the first commercial loans for Hunt’s new Proprietary Loan

Program.

Prior to Hunt, Mr. Eibler worked for Red Capital, and prior as a Director for Column

Financial, where he closed over $1.0 billion in CMBS transactions.

Mr. Eibler obtained a BSBA from Kent State University, with majors in finance and

real estate.

John is the Regional Production Manager for the Great Lakes region and oversees the origination of

multifamily and commercial loans across the Midwest. In addition to his production responsibilities, John

has been active in the new production innovation for the Commercial Mortgage Group. Most recently,

John helped in developing CMG’s non-recourse “debt fund” programs. Prior to taking his role as the

team leader for the Midwest John oversaw the commercial production team from the Mid-Atlantic to the

West Coast.

Before joining Key, John worked at The Private Bank (CIBC) where he was a Managing Director. Prior

to The Private Bank, John was the Co-Head of the Nomura Credit and Capital Inc’s Chicago office,

responsible for sourcing CMBS and balance sheet loans throughout the Midwest. John started his career

at LaSalle Bank where he originated large loan and structured CMBS transactions.

John received his Bachelors of Science from Miami University and Masters in Business Administration

from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management.

He is a member of the ICSC and Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA).

Not only does Todd Stofflet have more than 20 years of experience in brokering and owning multifamily assets: He is one of the most recognized Midwest market experts in the industry. Todd has negotiated the sale of more than $2.0 billion of assets for the most prominent institutional owners in the industry. In addition to his Midwest expertise, Todd has established himself as one of Chicago’s top performers, with more than $700 million in sales. Todd leads the KIG sales team in Chicago while managing strategic growth throughout the Midwest. Prior to joining KIG, Todd was a Senior Vice President at ARA Real Estate Investment Services.

Todd is a graduate of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and The John E. Dolibois European Center in Luxembourg. Todd is a licensed real estate broker in Illinois, Kentucky and Ohio and is an active member of National Multifamily Housing Council and ULI.