As an owner and Managing Principal for Streetsense, Eric has established himself as a contributing member in the company’s growth and expansion to its current marketplace status. With over 25 years of executive-level experience, Eric takes a visionary and collaborative approach to every project, leading his team to produce truly innovative results for his clients. A creative entrepreneur with a passion for branding, marketing, architecture, interior design and placemaking, Eric has extensive knowledge of real estate and a passion for holistic marketing strategy and brand management. After leading his own firm for over a decade, Eric merged Burka Studios with Streetsense, where he offers his clients — from local and national real estate firms to international hotel brands — an unparalleled breadth and depth of insights, strategy, and results.

Frank Stephan is a partner with New York-based DLJ Real Estate Capital Partners and its Los Angeles subsidiary Clarett West Development. He was formerly head of The Clarett Group’s West Coast Operations. Mr. Stephan is credited with leading the community focused entitlement, planning

and development of Eastown, formerly known as Blvd6200, covering two city blocks on Hollywood Blvd adjacent to the famed Pantages Theatre. Mr. Stephan has worked in the real estate development and construction industry for 20 years. He has had senior-level project experience in over 1 million square feet of residential development, nearly 600,000 square feet of large-scale retail development, and has entitled and designed an additional 1.2 million square feet of mixed-use. All of this work has been done in the high-barrier-to-entry markets of New York and Southern California. Mr. Stephan is active in the community and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce and the Hollywood Entertainment District Business Improvement District. He is also a member of the Urban Land Institute.

Mr. Manning is one of the two original founders of Boston Capital Corporation, which was formed in 1974. From its beginning, Boston Capital’s goal was to focus on providing equity investment capital for the development of apartment properties throughout the country. Under Mr. Manning’s leadership as CEO for the past 43 years, Boston Capital has grown into one of the largest owners/investors in apartment properties in the United States. Through a number of affiliated partnerships, Boston Capital’s present portfolio is comprised of approximately 1,855 properties with an original development cost in excess of $18.7 billion. These properties are located in 49 states, the Virgin Islands and Guam, both of which are U.S. territories.

As CEO of Boston Capital, Mr. Manning continues to oversee the company’s business development goals. Capitalizing on its core competencies of tax credit investment underwriting, those business development goals include an expansion of investment capital for market rate real estate investment as well as providing mortgage financing for a limited and exclusive number of property acquisitions.

Mr. Manning is a recognized leader in the housing and real estate industries, and has served on the boards of a number of national housing organizations and governmental commissions. In 1997, President Clinton appointed Mr. Manning to the President’s Export Council, a board comprised primarily of Fortune 500 CEOs that advised the President on government policies and programs that affect U.S. trade performance. He was also a Presidential appointee to the President’s Advisory Committee on the Arts. Mr. Manning serves on the boards of numerous organizations and charities including The Alliance for Business Leadership, the American Ireland Fund and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library Foundation, where he is Chairman of the Distinguished Visitors Program. Mr. Manning is also a member of the Board of Directors of Liberty Mutual Group, the parent company of Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, and sits on Liberty Mutual’s investment and compensation committees.

Mr. Manning is a graduate of Boston College.

Edward Campbell is an associate in our Affordable Housing practice group based in our Los Angeles office. Ed advises clients on general real estate matters and a wide range of regulatory and transactional matters involving the acquisition, financing, development, asset management, rehabilitation and preservation of affordable and multifamily housing developments using various HUD subsidy programs and FHA loan products.

Robin Hughes joined the Housing Partnership Network as its

President and Chief Executive Officer in 2022. She brings over 35 years of

experience in the affordable housing and community development

sector. As HPN’s chief executive, Hughes leads a collective network of

the nation’s leading affordable housing and community development

nonprofits and oversees the vision, strategy, and sustainability of

practitioner-driven peer exchange, policy, and innovation/R&D to spark

systems change and social enterprises that solve for closing the gaps in

the sector. Hughes also manages a portfolio of businesses co-designed and/or launched with network

members, which currently include Housing Partnership Fund (CDFI), Housing Partnership Insurance

Exchange, Framework Homeownership®, and the Charter School Financing Partnership.

Prior to joining HPN, Hughes served as the President and CEO of Abode Communities for 26 years. Abode

Communities is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit architect, developer, manager, and operator of service-

enhanced affordable housing. Under her leadership, Hughes transformed the organization into one of the

nation’s top developers and the premier provider of environmentally sustainable affordable housing in

California. During Hughes’ tenure, Abode Communities developed more than 50 residential and mixed-use

communities; created new affordable homes for over 12,000 California residents and provided a social

safety net for its residents through Beyond Homes, the organization’s substantive resident services program.

Early in her career, Hughes held positions in the private and public sectors including The Richmond Group

of Companies, Citibank, the Community Development Commission of the County of Los Angeles, and the

Office of the Mayor of the City of Los Angeles. Hughes received her master’s and bachelor’s degrees in

public administration from the University of Southern California and certification from the executive program

in Community Development at Harvard Kennedy School.

David Kersh is the Executive Director of the Carpenters/Contractors Cooperation

Committee (C/CCC), a non-profit organization comprised of signatory contractors

and the Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters. For over 19 years, Mr. Kersh

has been at the forefront of regional efforts to promote the creation of good

paying jobs, fair competition and high quality construction industry standards. He

is actively engaged in the areas of land use entitlement, labor compliance,

economic development, transportation and contracting policies, where he has

focused on ensuring that construction projects are built by top-quality contractors

who generate good paying middle class jobs and rewarding training opportunities.

Mr. Kersh graduated with a degree in History from UC Santa Barbara and

completed additional studies in Madrid, Spain. Born in Lima, Peru, he lives in

Culver City with his wife Pilar and his teenage children.

Ken Kahan is Founder and President of California Landmark (or "CLG"), a real estate development and investment company. Since its inception in 1988, California Landmark has invested in or developed all types of real estate from residential (including single family as well as low and high rise multi-family) to commercial (including hospitality, office and industrial). The company has developed in excess of 3,000,000 million square feet of various products.

CLG has distinguished itself in Southern California as an innovative problem solver in both the design and development of dozens of multi-family communities. The firm is currently one of the largest private multi-family developers in Los Angeles with over 500 units in various stages of construction or development.

Current projects include three high profile mixed use projects including the bw (Wilshire at Barrington), the hw (Hollywood Blvd. near Crescent Heights) and the LC (Larchmont at Melrose and Camerford). Past projects include modern townhomes and industrial "hard" lofts in the Marina Arts District, high-rise condominiums along the Wilshire corridor, California courtyard buildings in Westwood and Brentwood, art deco apartments in West Hollywood, and Mediterranean style villas in Century City.

In the past ten years CLG has expanded its footprint of residential acquisitions by purchasing existing apartment communities throughout Southern California. Projects include townhouse condominium projects converted to rentals, middle income apartments in San Diego, renovations of 1950's apartment buildings in the San Fernando Valley and most recently, low income housing in the San Gabriel Valley. At the same time, the firm has expanded its portfolio to include industrial, office and flex space projects totaling several hundred thousand square feet.

Ken is passionate about all aspect of urban planning and development. He is a frequent speaker on matters pertaining to entitlements, zoning, multi family/mixed use projects and urban development. California Landmark has been involved in the City of Los Angeles implementation ordinance of SB1818 and has delivered several mixed income housing projects throughout the region.

A native of Los Angeles, Ken obtained both his bachelor of arts and juris doctor degrees from UCLA. Ken currently resides in West Los Angeles with his family.

As a Regional Manager for Polaris Pacific, Mike leads the firms’ efforts in Southern California, Arizona, and Hawaii to support strategic growth and provide exemplary service to industry leading development clients. His extensive consulting, project management, and sales experience spans the complete arc of the development process from pre-planning to sell out. By keeping abreast of constantly changing market and demographic trends, he has gained a reputation for being an essential resource in his clients’ efforts to maximize value, overcome obstacles, establish successful projects and forge new markets. Mike earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Southern California (USC) and his Juris Doctor with concentrations in real property and corporate law from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. He is licensed in multiple states including CA, NY, MA, and WA and is a member of the Urban Land Institute. He has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, the NY Times, the NY Post, The Observer, The Real Deal, Real Estate Weekly, and Habitat Magazine and his original writings have been widely published in the trades including a column on Business Insider.

Michael Sabet is the Vice President and Co-Founder of Southern California based Strategic Legacy Investment Group, Inc. & subsidiaries (SLIG). Michael is valued for his vast knowledge in Real Estate Investments, Multifamily Real Estate Acquisitions, Real Estate Development Analysis, Financial Analysis and Investment Due Diligence. Michael leads a diverse team of project managers, assistant project managers and acquisition officers at SLIG. Michael specializes in multifamily development; value add multifamily acquisitions and property management. At SLIG, Michael has acquired and developed over $300 Million in real estate assets ranging from Multifamily, Office, Retail and Senior Living Communities and has been in the real estate industry for over 12 years. In his free time Michael enjoys playing sports and spending time with his family, he and his wife Jessica are expecting their first child in April 2019.

Kevin Farrell is President and COO of Fifield Realty Corp.. He joined Fifield as Senior Vice President and later became President of Fifield Realty Corp (the development arm of Fifield Companies). Kevin started with Steve Fifield in the 1980's as a construction manager and is currently overseeing FRP's national apartment acquisition program as well as new construction and adaptive reuse projects in Chicago and Los Angeles. Prior to joining Fifield, Kevin was a Vice President at the Related Companies, where he managed several rental and for-sale residential development projects, including Roosevelt Square, a 2,400-unit mixed-income residential community in Chicago's near West Side. Previously, Kevin managed due diligence activities for First Union Real Estate's property investment, acquisition, and redevelopment program in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado. Kevin has an MBA from Illinois Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois. Kevin recently served on the City of Chicago's Green Urban Design Task Force.

Adrian Goldstein is co-founder of CGI Strategies. He harnesses his company’s vision and oversees its growth with detailed strategic forethought and planning, he has helped CGI achieve a total asset value of $900 million USD. His experience includes 35 years in commercial real estate, specifically institutional finance and operations. His unique experience allows him to understand the perspective of the institutional lender and he is adept at structuring deals to leverage outstanding returns for institutions, funds and private individuals who invest in our projects.

Prior to 2013 when Adrian and Gidi Cohen partnered to form CGI Strategies, Adrian was a managing partner at Gelt, Inc, a private real estate investment company. There he designed and implemented a business plan to acquire multi-family properties resulting in the acquisition and management of approximately 1,500 units in less than 3 years, valued at approximately $130,000,000 USD.

Adrian has enjoyed many successes in his career. In the 90’s, he was a founding member of the Greenwich Group International, LLC, an investment advisory/banking firm, specializing in debt and equity financings, investments and institutional lending for real estate transactions. He quickly earned a reputation as a reliably effective deal-closer after his completion of the $225,000,000 USD recapitalization of an office building portfolio and a hotel in San Diego for Southwest Realty Partners with iStar Capital.

Adrian left Greenwich to assist in the operation and liquidation of his family’s real estate developments at Weston Communities. There he managed the disposition of assets valued at $200,000,000 USD, including an apartment portfolio of 500 rental units that were sold to Archstone Smith, a public REIT for $125,000,000 USD. The start of Adrian’s career takes us back to 1982 with Cushman & Wakefield, a leading international commercial brokerage firm. In the late 80’s he co-founded a new investment group at Cushman & Wakefield specializing in institutional finance and sales.

Gidi Cohen is the man with a dream; he is the vision guy whose focus, inspiration and hard work have co-created CGI Strategies. He brings more than 25 years of commercial and residential real estate experience, including acquisitions upwards of $1 billion USD, syndication, development and dispositions across a variety of asset classes. Gidi’s ability to get the tough deals done is only surpassed by his unique vision for turning distressed assets into prominent lifestyle communities that generate altitudinous investor returns.

Before partnering with Adrian Goldstein to form CGI Strategies in 2013, Gidi was the founder and President of Cohen & Associates, LLC, a boutique real estate investment and management firm. Under Gidi’s direction, Cohen & Associates, LLC became known as “the guys who get the deal done.” He set a reliable track record by purchasing immovable, distressed assets in the post-recession market, valued over $200 million USD. His seamless execution of stabilizing, renovating and developing these properties yielded in livable homes and jobs for hundreds of thousands of people. His beginning was in construction. After a couple years working for SOS Enterprises, an LA-based construction company, he negotiated to buy the company and took over as President. When he acquired it in the 90’s, SOS Enterprises was a struggling company with sporadic successful bids and in the years to follow Gidi built it into an upscale construction and development firm, generating more than $15 million in annual revenues.

At the heart of Gidi’s work ethic is his genuine love for humanity. This passion is what drives him to create sought-after communities and motivates him to give back. Gidi has an active voice in several philanthropic, civic and professional organizations. He is a Board of Director for several organizations.

Born in Israel, Gidi served for four and a half years in the Israeli Navy Seals. He currently lives in Ojai, CA with his wife Noga and their four children.

Sam Simone serves as a Senior Managing Director in the Southern California region for Mill Creek Residential. In this role, Sam is responsible for pursuing new development opportunities, product design, and the pursuit of entitlements to meet all local jurisdictional requirements.

Prior to this position with Mill Creek, Sam was a Managing Director in the company's Mid-Atlantic region, where he oversaw the development of Trilogy NoMa, a 603-unit community in Washington DC. Prior to joining Mill Creek Residential at its formation in August, 2010, Sam served at Trammell Crow Residential for 10 years as a Development Associate and later, Managing Director. Prior to joining Trammell Crow Residential, Sam was a Senior Real Estate Consultant with Arthur Andersen’s Real Estate Consulting Portfolio Services Group in New York City. In this role, Sam’s responsibilities included the management of due diligence and advisory service projects including both single-asset and portfolio real estate acquisitions, financings, depositions; commercial mortgage backed securities transactions (CMBS) valuations and “B-Piece” acquisitions, joint venture analysis valuation, and office and hotel development financial modeling/analysis for investment banks and large institutional investors.

Sam received his Bachelor of Science Degree from the State University of New York in Business Administration/Finance.

Stephen Anderson joined CityView in 2014 and is responsible for identifying new acquisition and development opportunities. He has 11 years of experience in real estate acquisitions, entitlements and development. Prior to joining CityView, Anderson worked at the Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles for five years where he managed the approval and financing for more than 1,000 units of market and affordable housing across Los Angeles. Prior to that, he worked at Macerich leading the financing, entitlement and expansion of the firm’s regional mall portfolio. Anderson also worked for Tishman Speyer on acquisitions and development in San Francisco. He has a Bachelor of Science in Planning and Development, Minor in Architecture and a Master of Real Estate Development from the University of Southern California.

As part of the new generation of leadership at KTGY, David Senden is instrumental to the expansion and increased design profile of the firm. Mr. Senden specializes in urban infill residential and mixed-use developments, with work across the United States and internationally. In addition, he has a substantial portfolio of campus housing and specialty projects including affordable developments and recreation facilities. Since joining KTGY in early 2002, he has led teams in each of KTGY’s offices and often travels where needed to contribute to the firm’s most challenging design opportunities.

As member of KTGY’s Board of Directors, Mr. Senden is responsible for setting the big picture, strategic vision for the firm, increasing the firm’s profile and ensuring work at the highest levels. He was named to Building Design + Construction magazine’s list of the industry’s top 40 under 40 and has designed numerous award-winning projects from coast to coast.

Mr. Senden is a frequent speaker at various national and regional industry events and has written and contributed to countless articles touching on all aspects of design and the building industry. A lecturer and critic at several universities, Mr. Senden emphasizes the connection between the profession and the academy and values mentorship as key to developing talent and integrating the most current design thinking.

Mark Oberholzer supports clients’ goals with energetic visioning, inspiring design and detail-oriented expertise. Mr. Oberholzer brings a focused, personalized approach to clients, working together to find outstanding solutions that are uniquely tailored to the specifics of each project.

With over 20 years of award-winning design work focused on mid and high rise urban, mixed-use projects, Mr. Oberholzer knows what it takes to bring innovative yet practical ideas to reality.

Mr. Oberholzer’s ability to both listen and lead allows him to help clients succeed in all aspects of projects. Whether it’s a giving a presentation to a corporate board, navigating a complicated entitlement process, or maintaining design integrity from vision to detail, Mr. Oberholzer helps everyone understand clients’ vision and goals in a way that helps smooth the way for success.

Scé started her career in the 90s in Silicon Valley, designing and developing the 1st ecommerce sites for GM, HP, Blue Cross and others. Later she helped to pioneer smart phones at Palm. In 2007, Scé started her own company, Citizen, the 7th fastest growing company in Oregon which focuses on Internet of Things (IoT) products such as connected cars and connected health. While developing IoT products for these industries, she realized that there was a lack of enterprise-level Smart Apartment solution designed specifically for the Multi-Family-Home Industry. In 2014, she founded IOTAS, a smart apartment hardware and software technology company to help the MFH industry increase revenue, save costs, gather insights & monetize data from their portfolios. IOTAS has been recognized by Fortune, Wired, Gigaom, ABC, NBC, Chicago Tribune and more as the new way of automating apartments to attract tenants. Scé has spoken at Health 2.0, TechFest NW, WebVisions, NAA, and BISNOW on the impact of Internet of Things.