Mr. Ravi Bhagavatula serves as a Partner and Head of the Lower Middle Market at Innovatus Capital Partners, where he leverages his extensive manufacturing leadership experience as both a board member and strategic investor for Guerdon. His comprehensive financial governance and strategic oversight approach has established a robust foundation for the organization's continued growth and operational excellence.

As an accomplished Industrial Engineer, Mr. Bhagavatula has a sophisticated understanding of advanced manufacturing methodologies and deep knowledge of the construction industry. This distinctive combination of expertise enables him to address the specialized challenges inherent in factory-built structures with remarkable effectiveness and precision. His analytical capabilities are further enhanced by his dual professional credentials—the Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Management Accountant designations

Danny Haber is the co-founder of oWOW, a B2B and B2C real estate company. An innovative entrepreneur, with a flair for providing workable solutions to the burgeoning housing crisis in California, Haber has been labelled the ‘Oracle of Oakland’ with visionary solutions to the housing crisis. His company, oWOW develops, designs, and constructs net new housing units for consumers and also builds modular units for resale to developers. As a vertically integrated corporation, oWOW operations are geared towards cost-cutting measures, and luxury living courtesy of adaptable units.

As President of Avanath Investment & Development (AVID), a subsidiary of Avanath Capital Management, Keith Harris is responsible for the firm’s development activities across the U.S., including its venture with Vessel Technologies, Inc. Vessel is a mission-driven housing product company that provides key components of a building already completed through an industrial manufacturing process, which delivers full development of an apartment community swiftly and efficiently at scale. AVID focuses on the expansion of Avanath’s affordable housing portfolio, utilizing relationships with Housing Agencies and Cities throughout the country. Prior to the formation of AVID, Mr. Harris was Executive Vice President of Avanath’s Investment Group, responsible for the firm’s national acquisitions, financing, asset management, and capital renovation activities. He has more than 40 years of experience in real estate including work in acquisitions, dispositions, asset management, lending, and investment structuring. Before joining Avanath, Mr. Harris was Senior Vice President of the Bozzuto Group, an experience-focused real estate company founded in 1988 that acquired, developed, and built more than 50,000 homes and apartments. His responsibilities included institutional capital raising and client relations. Prior to Bozzuto, he spent 14 years at The Laramar Group, most recently serving as Chief Investment Officer. In this role, he led the firm’s acquisitions and dispositions as well as client capital management. Over the course of his tenure with The Laramar Group, he oversaw investment transactions for more than 30,000 apartment units valued at approximately $3 billion. Mr. Harris also spent 12 years with Heitman Capital Management and JMB Realty Corporation.

Senior Vice President-Development, Student Living with The Michaels Organization (Michaels), leading the company’s public-private partnerships with higher education institutions in California, by bringing nearly 20 years of real estate development and finance experience including the development of large-scale housing and dining facilities that utilized public-private partnership (P3) delivery models. In addition to delivering P3 real estatement development projects on-campus, Raoul is the company's leader for off-campus student housing development in California.

As Chief Executive Officer of Decro and its affiliated entities, Mr. Handel is responsible for the strategic direction and overall management of the company, pursuit of new housing opportunities, and oversight of a portfolio with 28 developments and over 1,500 housing units in California and Florida.

Prior to joining Decro, Mr. Handel had more than 25 years of experience in developing, financing, syndicating, operating, constructing and managing affordable housing developments. Mr. Handel represented nonprofits and National Equity Fund (NEF) as counsel in affordable housing transactions, formed California nonprofit public benefit corporations, and advised nonprofit Board of Directors on legal compliance issues. At NEF, he closed 57 development deals representing a gross equity investment by this low-income housing tax credit syndicator of $315 million.

Mr. Handel is President of The Carter House, Inc., a nonprofit organization that operates a HUD Section 811 housing development in South Los Angeles, and serves on the Board of the Hockey Equipment Lending Program, Inc., a nonprofit that supports disadvantaged youth playing that sport. He is the former Chair of Los Angeles Lawyer, a Los Angeles County Bar Association publication, and has been published in that magazine and the Los Angeles Business Journal. Mr. Handel has been a speaker at the National Association of Housing and Rehabilitation Officers Summer Conference and conferences of Housing California and the Southern California Association of NonProfit Housing. He is admitted to practice law in California and received a Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School (Los Angeles) and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from University of Southern California.

Benjamin Levy is the Design and Brand Manager at Consolidated Investment Group (CIG), where he leads design strategy and brand integration across the firm’s real estate development portfolio. With over 15 years of experience spanning Private Equity, Venture Vapital, and Real Estate, Benjamin brings a multidimensional perspective to development, bridging financial insight and human-focused design.

At CIG, he helps deliver high-quality, attainable housing across multiple markets, leveraging modular innovation and design efficiency to achieve meaningful affordability without compromising livability or aesthetics. His work champions a development philosophy rooted in thoughtful design, construction innovation, and the belief that well-crafted environments should be accessible to more people.

An experienced lawyer, Alon Lagstein is dedicated to representing developers, investors, borrowers, lenders, tenants, and landlords in real estate matters, including acquisitions, sales, leases, financings, and joint ventures. He represents a wide range of clients, including project sponsors, private equity firms, family offices, and financial institutions. With vast institutional knowledge earned over years at both international firms and boutiques, Alon is able to provide efficient and effective representation on matters large and small regardless of industry.

A self-proclaimed deal enthusiast, Alon is passionate about helping navigate clients through changing real estate needs and evolving market dynamics. His practical approach is informed by deep market knowledge and hands-on experience as a California-licensed real estate broker and private investor.

Born and raised in the entertainment mecca of Las Vegas, before law school, Alon pursued a career as a professional actor in Los Angeles, with appearances in films such as “You Don’t Mess with the Zohan,” television series including “Undercovers” and “The Event,” and commercials for Bank of America and Coors.

Arthur Lin is the Director of Development and Construction at Logos Faith Development, a pioneer in partnering with faith based organizations to develop high quality housing on under-utilized properties. Art has developed over 1,700 units in markets including Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego. His volumetric modular experience includes two completed multifamily projects and one multifamily project currently in design, each partnering with a different factory. Having managed those projects from acquisition to completion, Art has experienced the opportunities and challenges of modular construction. He believes that as the industry matures, modular construction will play a key role in making housing more attainable.

Jeff Spahr brings over 30 years of real estate development and construction expertise to his role

as Vice President of Construction & Project Management at DignityMoves, where he leads the

development and delivery of interim housing projects at scale across California and the broader

West Coast. His work sits at the intersection of speed, cost efficiency, and mission; making him

a natural voice in the conversation around prefabrication, modular construction, and offsite

delivery methods for social and affordable housing.

As a California native, Jeff’s career spans a wide range of building typologies; commercial high-

rise, capital improvement, renewable energy, mixed-use, and multi-family; giving him a multi-

dimensional perspective on how innovative construction methodologies can be applied to real-

world housing delivery challenges. He founded and operated his own GC firm in Los Angeles

before going on to lead development projects for Legacy Partners and Steelwave. Later driving

Central California regional growth as Division Manager for Petersen Dean.

At DignityMoves, Jeff is passionate about leveraging new tools, technologies, and delivery

strategies; including modular and offsite construction; to accelerate the creation of dignified

transitional housing for Californians experiencing homelessness. His hands-on background in

estimating, design-build, value engineering, and subcontractor management allows him to

evaluate prefab solutions not just

Michael Mathews is the Founder and CEO of Assemblage Works, Inc. (AWI), a multi-disciplinary, vertically integrated architecture, construction management and development company that operates throughout the nation. We specialize in the creation, management and execution of sustainable urban infill multi-family, hospitality and commercial projects across the western United States.

Mathews’ expertise as a senior development, design and construction executive spans all facets of complex and large-scale ($500MM+) real estate projects for a variety of prominent design, development and construction organizations nationwide, including executive roles with KB Urban, Forest City and Davis Reed Construction, among others.

In these roles, he has delivered over 6,000 units to the markets in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Southern California, Texas, Seattle and Denver metropolitan areas.

Mathews, a licensed Architect, is also an expert in off-site construction methodologies, including prefab, volumetric, panelized and mass timber construction. He has national experience in project due diligence, entitlement, design, finance, construction and construction management.

Through the formation of AWI, Mathews has created a collective of experienced and dedicated design, construction and development professionals that believe in the use of modern methods of construction and progressive delivery techniques to provide clear and predictable outcomes to their clients and investors.

AWI was created to understand the needs of development, investigate emerging technologies and collaborate with our construction partners, pushing the practice of architecture and development into the future. We eliminate unnecessary time designing systems that can be repeated, leaving more time to solve the unique design challenges of our clients, the environment and the places we design for.

Vincent Polhemus is Senior Business Development Manager at Clark Pacific, a leading design-

manufacturer-builder of prefabricated building systems. Vincent’s experience in prefabricated building

systems spans 20 years in Southern California and includes unitized curtainwalls, window walls,

aluminum panels systems, architectural precast concrete, thin-shell concrete and GFRC. Starting as a

project manager for a glazing contractor, Vincent moved to Preconstruction in 2016, and has worked on

award winning projects throughout California, including the California New Natural Resources Building

in Sacramento, 510 S Vermont in Los Angeles and One Westside in Los Angeles.