The Future of El Segundo

Suzanne Fuentes has served as Mayor of the City of El Segundo, Calif., since April 2014. She was originally elected to a four-year term on the City Council in April 2010 and was re-elected in April 2014. El Segundo is a small coastline community in southwestern Los Angeles County that is renowned for maintaining a quaint, small town atmosphere as well as a thriving business environment that caters to some of the region's most prestigious corporations. Suzanne is a lifelong resident of El Segundo and still lives on the street where she grew up. As a City Council member, she is focused on financial stability, economic development, emergency preparedness, preserving El Segundo’s unique character and retaining Los Angeles Air Force Base. She represents the City Council on the South Bay Cities Council of Governments, the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. and the Los Angeles Jobs Defense Council. Suzanne also serves on the El Segundo City/School Affairs Subcommittee, Reach Out Against Drugs (ROAD) and Park Vista Senior Housing Board.

Jonathan Lowe is a strategic marketing and promotions professional with a proven track record of creating dynamic and innovative campaigns for sports teams, live events, music artists and consumer products. In his 14 th year with sports and live event leader, AEG (Anschutz Entertainment Group), Jonathan has created and executed marketing campaigns for its most prized assets including The LA Kings, STAPLES Center, The LA Galaxy and The StubHub Center as well as national music tours and pay-per- views. Currently, Jonathan serves as the Senior Vice President of Marketing for the LA Kings and AEG Sports, overseeing creative/branding, advertising, media buying, promotions as well as playing a key role in driving digital and social media innovation.Jonathan has been behind a number of innovative digital and social media “firsts” that have positioned his properties as leaders in this ever-changing landscape. His marketing campaigns and promotions have received regional and national recognition in media outlets including the LA Times, New York Times, Daily News, Forbes.com, MSN.com, Fast Company, Life Magazine.com, Sports Illustrated, Los Angeles Business Journal, Entertainment Tonight, E!News, ABC (Los Angeles), ESPN TV and FoxSports.com. In addition to his role at the LA Kings / AEG Sports, Jonathan is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of San Francisco’s Graduate Program in Sports Management and serves as a Clio Sports Awards Judge.

Luc Robitaille – a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame, the highest scoring left wing in NHL history and the all-time Kings leader in goals scored -- is in his ninth season as Kings President, Business Operations. He played 19 seasons in the NHL – including 14 with the Kings – and won a Stanley Cup in 2002. Since retiring as a player and assuming his front office position, Robitaille has had a tremendous impact on the Kings Business Operations department, especially in the areas of Sponsorship Sales and Renewal, Fan and Customer Relations, Game Entertainment, Media Relations and Broadcasting as revenue has doubled and the Kings have won their first two Stanley Cups in franchise history. Since 2007-08, the Kings have increased their number of sellouts at STAPLES Center each full season, and the team concluded the 2016-17 regular season with a club record sellout streak of 202 straight games. Under Robitaille the Kings were named the Sports Team of the Year at the Sports Business Journal’s Sports Business Awards event in 2015. Robitaille serves as an Alternate Governor with the Kings. He has been a driving force behind unique events including the 2010 NHL Entry Draft at STAPLES Center and the Kings will host the 2017 NHL All-Star Game at STAPLES Center. In 2014 the Kings hosted the Anaheim Ducks in a regular-season outdoor NHL game at Dodger Stadium in front of 54,099 fans and the Kings also played outdoor hockey again in 2015 in front of 70,205 fans at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara. In addition to being the highest scoring left wing in NHL history, a mark he set in a Kings uniform with his 1,370 th point in 2004, Robitaille holds the NHL record for left wingers for most goals (668). He is also 12 th in overall NHL goal scoring with 668 goals, 21 st in overall NHL scoring with 1,394 points and he is the only left wing in NHL history to record eight consecutive 40-goal seasons (all with the Kings). With the Kings, Robitaille ranks second all-time in games played (1,077), second in points (1,154) and fourth in assists (597). In 2006, Robitaille set the Kings all-time record for goals when his 551 st goal as a King surpassed Marcel Dionne. In 1,077 total regular season games as a King, Robitaille had 557 goals. Robitaille, 50 (2/17/66), was selected by the Kings in the ninth round (171 st overall) of the 1984 NHL Entry Draft. As a rookie, the Montreal native became the first (and only) King to win the Calder Memorial Trophy and he was named to the NHL’s All-Rookie Team. Later he helped lead the Kings to the club’s first trip to the Stanley Cup Final in 1993 and that season Robitaille set NHL records for the most goals (63) by a left wing and for the most points (125) by a left wing. Robitaille would go on to reach other milestones in a Kings uniform, including his 500 the career goal in 1999 and his 1,000 th game as a King in 2004. When Robitaille had his jersey retired by the Kings, he became just the fifth player to be so honored. In 2009, Robitaille – an eight-time All-Star (all with the Kings) – was selected for the Hockey Hall of Fame. In 2014 he was named a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame Selection Committee. Robitaille has also immersed himself into the Southern California community. He is on the Board of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Ronald McDonald House, and he and his wife Stacia are the co-founders of a non-profit organization, Echoes of Hope. Founded in 2007. Luc and Stacia have two sons, Steven and Jesse. They reside in Santa Monica.

Mr. Miller joined Tishman Speyer in 2003, and is currently responsible for the firm’s activities in the Southern California region. In this role, he oversees the acquisition, disposition, development and operations of the Southern California portfolio. Mr. Miller was previously responsible for real estate activities in the western region of the United States and was a member of the Management, Investment and Compensation Committees from 2003 to 2014. Prior to joining Tishman Speyer, he spent over 30 years in the real estate industry, including 14 years as a partner with Lincoln Property Company and five years with Maguire Partners in Los Angeles, overseeing the firm’s finance and leasing activities. Mr. Miller graduated with a BS from the University of Southern California.

David oversees all phases of SSV’s real estate activities and plays an active role in the firm’s investment, development decisions as well as the day to day operations of projects. David has over 20 years of direct experience sourcing, structuring, entitling, developing, managing, leasing and disposing of commercial real estate. Prior to founding SSV, David worked for Hines Interests for 8 years. He was a key member of the team that completed numerous, successful projects throughout Southern California including the renovation of 10100 Santa Monica in Century City, the re-leasing of Wilshire Rodeo Plaza in Beverly Hills, the renovation of 600 and 626 Wilshire in Downtown, the re-leasing of Manhattan Towers in Manhattan Beach, the successful development and repositioning of Lantana Media Campus in Santa Monica and 2211 Michelson in Irvine. In total, these projects total over 2 million square feet and $400 million in value. Institutional capital partners included the State Board of Florida, AEW, GE Capital, Crescent, and a variety of Hines commingled funds. David began his career as a commercial real estate broker at Cushman Realty Corporation completing over a million square feet of lease and investment sale transactions. David has a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles and a J.D from Southern Methodist University. He has two daughters.

As Managing Director of Acquisitions and Development, Gregg Hall is responsible for acquisition and development activity in Los Angeles County. In this capacity, he is involved in deal sourcing and feasibility analysis, debt origination, contract negotiation and asset management. Gregg has been involved in the origination and financing of over $1.75 billion of SteelWave transactions totaling over 5.2 million square feet, including development and entitlement projects. Gregg has 12 years of real estate experience, all with SteelWave. Prior to joining SteelWave, Gregg spent eight years in a variety of investment management and consulting roles, including raising capital for venture backed start-ups, as well as institutional fund placement for numerous general partnerships.

Live Oak Properties, LLC is an entrepreneurial-based real estate development firm headquartered in Manhattan Beach, CA. Founded in 2001 as a partnership between Jan Holtze and Jerve Jones, founder of Peck-Jones Construction, Live Oak Properties acts as principal and development partner on a wide variety of development projects ranging from Hospitality to Multi-Family to Industrial to Commercial Office. Expert at quantifying risk on projects involving a significant construction component, Live Oak leverages its financial expertise along with an unequalled depth of construction knowledge to create super-normal returns for its investors. Live Oak Properties has successfully completed over $155 million of real estate development projects across the Western US from Kansas City to Denver to Los Angeles and San Diego. Prior to his real estate endeavors, Mr. Holtze worked in the mergers and acquisitions group with Merrill Lynch Capital Markets both in New York and Los Angeles working with financial institutions in some of the largest bank and thrift mergers at the time. Mr. Holtze holds a BA from Colorado College in Mathematics, and BS in Civil Engineering from Columbia University and an MBA from the the UCLA (Anderson) Graduate School of Management. He lives in Manhattan Beach with his wife Karin and three children.

Mr. Alex J. Rose serves as Senior Vice President of Development at Continental Development Corporation. Mr. Rose served as Senior Vice President and Director of Development at Continental Development Corporation. Mr. Rose serves as a Trustee at Urban Land Institute.

Sam uses his deep transactional background and extensive network of relationships to lead our acquisition and disposition activities, and supervise our capital markets group. In addition to managing our deal sourcing, underwriting, due diligence, and execution activities, Sam chairs our Investment Committee. Sam has over 30 years of equity investment, loan origination and portfolio management experience in commercial real estate. He has sourced and closed more than 300 transactions totaling over $4 billion in property acquisitions and structured debt during his career. Prior to joining ECP in 2003, Sam was director of acquisitions for ATC Partners, a San Francisco-based commercial real estate investor. He also provided term, bridge, and mezzanine financing to the commercial real estate market as vice president of Finova Realty Mezzanine and regional director of Finova Realty Capital. Sam is a graduate of University of California at Berkeley.

Gary Horwitz, a Managing Director of the Jones Lang LaSalle Los Angeles region, specializes in representing Tenants in the South Bay and West LA markets and multi-market account management. Throughout his career, he has exclusively represented tenants in structuring and negotiating lease and purchase transactions. Gary provides his clients with a full range of advisory services and is an expert in orchestrating specialty services, including consulting/strategic planning, project management, and lease administration. He enjoys helping his clients shape real estate strategies that support their overall corporate objectives.

Marc Gordon is the founder of the Rubicon Companies, which are affiliated hospitality and real estate investment, development, and asset management companies focused on achieving superior returns through the hands-on application of their industry expertise. Rubicon’s team has extensive experience in acquisition, finance, development, operations, and marketing throughout the United States and Europe. Rubicon was recognized by The Wall Street Journal as having acquired the Deal of the Week when it purchased the Marriott hotel at LaGuardia airport in Queens, New York, in January 2013. Prior to founding Rubicon in 2011, Mr. Gordon was the President and a Director of Morgans Hotel Group, a publicly traded, fully integrated hospitality company that operates, owns, acquires and redevelops boutique hotels in gateway cities and select resort markets worldwide and established the rapidly expanding boutique hotel sector. In his capacity as President, Mr. Gordon oversaw all departments of MHG including operations, marketing, development, architecture/construction/design, and finance. As a member of the Board of Directors, Mr. Gordon was integrally involved in driving the company's strategic direction. Mr. Gordon was the company's Chief Investment Officer and Executive Vice President of Capital Markets since he joined the company in 2005. Mr. Gordon previously served as a Vice President of NorthStar Capital Investment Corp., where he was responsible for the origination, structuring and negotiation of investment and financing transactions including NCIC's investment in MHG as well as the raising of capital for NCIC's investment activities since joining the company in October 1997. Over the course of 14 years, virtually every transaction that MHG was involved with was led by Mr. Gordon including every acquisition, joint venture, management contract, renovation, and financing. Mr. Gordon's has executed transactions in the US (New York, Boston, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, among others), Europe, and the Middle East. Prior to joining NCIC, Mr. Gordon was a Vice President in the Real Estate Investment Banking Group at Merrill Lynch & Co., where he executed corporate finance and strategic transactions for public and private real estate related companies, including REITs, real estate service companies, and hospitality companies. Mr. Gordon graduated from Dartmouth College with an A.B. in economics and also holds a Juris Doctor from the UCLA School of Law.

The City of El Segundo employs more than 240 employees and has a budget of $115 million. Before being named City Manager of his hometown in March 2012, Greg was the City’s Director of Planning and Building Safety since 2008. El Segundo is part of the vibrant, South Bay hub for business that was recently named LA County’s Most Business-Friendly City. Home to numerous Fortune 500 companies, El Segundo also has a reputation as one of the best places to work, live, and play. Prior to the City of El Segundo, Greg worked 18 years for the City of Long Beach and two years in Lawndale. Greg is also a member of the South Bay Cities Council of Governments (SBCCOG), Government Council Affairs, and Chair of the Independent City Association (ICA) City Manager Task Force Committee. Greg holds a bachelor’s degree in geography and a master’s degree in public administration from California State University, Long Beach. Greg was born and raised in El Segundo and is still a resident. He has been married to his high school sweetheart for the past 30 years. They have two grown sons.

Mr. Jeff Kreshek is Senior Vice President – West Coast Leasing for Federal Realty Investment Trust. In this capacity, Mr. Kreshek oversees the day to day leasing activities of the west coast portfolio. Primary responsibilities include sourcing new retailer relationships, negotiating all leases and lease related documents, and overseeing and directing third party real estate professionals. Prior to joining Federal Realty, Mr. Kreshek was the Principal in charge of leasing for The CIM Group where he was responsible for formulating the leasing strategy on CIM’s commercial portfolio of approximately twelve million square feet. Prior to joining The CIM Group, Mr. Kreshek was the Vice President of Development and Operations for Regent Properties, Inc. and before that, Mr. Kreshek formed and operated Vision Property Management, Inc., a full service real estate development, leasing and management company. Mr. Kreshek brings over 26 years of experience to the Trust in leasing, entitlements, property and asset management with an emphasis on redeveloping and repositioning underperforming and functionally obsolete assets. Mr. Kreshek received his undergraduate degree in Real Estate Finance, his Masters of Business Administration and his Masters of Real Estate Development from the University of Southern California. In addition, Mr. Kreshek holds the Certified Leasing Specialist (CLS), Certified Property Manager (CPM), Senior Certified Shopping Center Manager (SCSM), Certified Commercial Investment Manager (CCIM) designations, and retains his position as Adjunct Faculty at the University of Southern California, teaching Retail Development in the Masters of Real Estate Development program.

Drew achieved his Bachelor’s Degree by the age of 21 while working full-time on graveyard shifts, troubleshooting fighter aircraft in the US Navy. After an Honorable Discharge from the military, he quickly progressed through the leadership ranks at Brunswick Corporation and Starbucks Coffee. Drew went on to get his MBA in Finance from USC and joined Arthur Andersen where he served as an Executive in Management Consulting, advising large corporations primarily in the retail and restaurant industries. Drew then co-founded a dry cleaning start-up, where he and two partners raised several million dollars to reinvent the staid, cottage industry. Drew’s next entrepreneurial adventure was consolidating 1-800-GOT-JUNK? franchises in Illinois and California through an unprecedented 28 mergers and acquisitions in 11 years. Drew is also a franchisee of You Move Me, America’s Favorite Local Mover, in Southern California. In 2014, Drew founded Haz Away Today, the first of its kind residential Household Hazardous Waste Removal Service. As a principal in Endless Pursuit Consulting, Drew advises businesses through technology, human resources, finance and process improvements, delivering superior customer experiences, employee satisfaction and stakeholder returns. Drew is a long-standing member of the Kiwanis, a Community Board Member of ESMoA and serves as Chairman of the El Segundo Economic Development Advisory Council. Drew has held numerous posts in other non-profit organizations and has served in various leadership capacities with Entrepreneurs’ Organization, including two terms as President of the Los Angeles Chapter, two terms as a US West Area Director, the US West Membership Director and the US West Regional Director. Drew has been married to wife Lee for over 16 years, and their two children attend Center Street School and El Segundo Middle School. Drew also has three adult sons with whom he enjoys surfing, skiing and other adventures.