Christopher Rising is the CEO of Rising Realty Partners (RRP), a Los Angeles-based real estate investment and operating platform that owns and manages over five million square feet of properties. He serves on the company's Executive and Investment Committees, drawing on his extensive experience in managing acquisitions and creative development. Prior to joining RRP, Christopher was Senior Vice President of Asset Transactions at MPG Office Trust, where he worked directly with the CEO to improve finances through debt reduction and restructuring.

Under Christopher's visionary leadership, RRP has spearheaded the revitalization of historic buildings in Downtown Los Angeles into creative office spaces, attracting unique businesses back to the region. The company's transformation and subsequent sale of the PacMutual Campus, one of the oldest office buildings in the heart of DTLA, was described by the Los Angeles Times as a "record price for a pure office building downtown." More recently, RRP has generated great success by entering the industrial space, acquiring five multi-tenant light industrial properties in the past year. Christopher's success in the real estate industry has earned him recognition by the Los Angeles Business Journal as one of the 500 most influential people in Los Angeles.

In 2003, Christopher founded The Rising Real Estate Group (RREG) and eventually partnered with Barker Pacific Group to create Hamilton Capital Partners (HCP), an equity fund vehicle. RREG is also a principal in 626 Wilshire Blvd, a 156K square foot office building located in downtown Los Angeles.

Christopher began his career as an associate at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro and later worked at Cushman Realty Corporation (CRC) under brokerage legend John C. Cushman, III. He then served as a Director at Cushman & Wakefield of California, Inc. (C&W), joining C&W after its merger with CRC in 2001.

Outside of work, Christopher is an active member of the Los Angeles community, serving on the River LA Board and The Rose Bowl Legacy Foundation. He formerly sat on the Board of Overseers at Loyola Law School and the Duke Athletic Advisory Board. He is a past President of the Board of Chandler School in Pasadena and served for ten years on the Board of Regents of Loyola High School, where he chaired the Investment Committee. Christopher holds a J.D. in Real Estate Law from Loyola Law School and a B.A. in History and Political Science from Duke University. He also attended Duke on a football scholarship and was a member of the 1989 ACC Championship team.

Clare De Briere is a native Angeleno and has spent her career creating special places for the citizens and visitors of Los Angeles.

Clare joined The Ratkovich Company as a summer intern in 1991 after graduating from UCLA and worked her way through property management, leasing, construction, financing and development management while earning her graduate degree at USC's prestigious Lusk Center for Real Estate. In her career with the company she has overseen the acquisition, entitlement, planning, development and/or disposition of millions of square feet from The Wiltern Theatre, 5900 Wilshire, 800 Wilshire, The Alhambra, The Hercules Campus in Playa Vista and, most recently, The Bloc in downtown Los Angeles. Clare retired from the Company after 26 years, the last decade of which she spent as its Chief Operating Office and Executive Vice President. She remains affiliated with the Company through its Advisory Board.

Clare and her husband, Chef Christopher Barnett, have started a new company, C+C Ventures, a Los Angeles based experience company to develop places that inspire creativity, curiosity and delight whether through a wonderful neighborhood restaurant or a fantastic renovated work or living space.

Clare is an active member of the Urban Land Institute serving on the National Advisory Committee for Building Healthy Places and Building Healthy Corridors, and on the Los Angeles District Council'€™s Executive Committee and Advisory Board. She has served on a ULI Advisory Panel in the City of Denver and on a local Technical Assistance Panel for the Huntington Hospital and Cal Poly Pomona. She has been named on the Los Angeles Business Journal's Women Making a Difference list and has been on the Real Estate - Southern California's Women of Influence list every year since 2003. Clare is also on the Advisory Board of the UCLA History Department; and served on the Executive Committee of the Board of the Los Angeles Conservancy.

Ireland’s loss was Southern California’s gain. The co-founder of our company is the garrulous Irishman John Parker. On the surface, he is an easy-going gentleman. On the job, he is all business.

John Parker co-founded Parker Brown, Inc. in 1994 with Scott Brown. The two set the “get the job done” tone for the company’s construction operations and corporate management.

Leaving Ireland for the U.S. in 1989, John owned and operated John Parker Building Ltd., a residential remodeling firm. After relocating his family to Los Angeles, John was the construction manager at a Los Angeles area commercial construction company until the inception of Parker Brown, Inc. in 1994.

John and Scott are personally involved in every project that Parker Brown, Inc. is awarded. They provide oversight from the job site or from the corporate office, and, in a lot of cases, from both.

John is deeply involved in the communities he serves. He is the past president of the Canoga Park/West Hills Chamber of Commerce, former president of the Canoga Park Improvement Association, a past member of the Oversight Committee on the Bond Program of Pierce College, and executive vice president of the Women’s Odyssey, a residential drug and alcohol recovery program. Currently, he is a commissioner serving on the Los Angeles County Building Rehabilitation & Appeals Board, and is presently the president of the United Chamber of Commerce of the San Fernando Valley.

Dan Klein is Vice President, Asset Management and Development at Rising Realty Partners. He assists in maximizing the value and performance of the company's assets through construction management, leasing, and development analysis.

Dan previously worked for Marshall and Stevens Capital, where he identified financial and strategic buyers through due diligence collection and review. Prior to Marshall and Stevens, he was drafted by the Baltimore Orioles in the 3rd round of the 2010 Major League Baseball draft. He played professionally through 2014 when a shoulder injury forced him to medically retire.

Dan received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from UCLA where he was an All-American for the 2010 national runner up baseball team.

Although he no longer plays baseball, Dan is still very involved in youth sports programs; he often gives pitching lessons to kids of various ages. He loves to travel, is an active guitar player, and plays a lot of golf.

Jon Mohle is a Senior Product Manager, Structural Engineer and obsessively curious about the world around us. Passionate about the built environment and sustainability, Jon believes that the biggest opportunities for change lie carefully hidden in the gaps between traditional roles. To truly infect change, products must be driven toward a simple elegance by passion, hard work and iteration.

Mark has been providing contract administration, project management, project controls and cost estimating services for the international construction industry since 1991. As Regional Director, Mark is responsible for the overall delivery of cost and project management services to our valued client base within the south-western United States. Mark’s experience includes large scale mixed-use, regional retail and hospitality projects and has worked for contractors, private development firms and consultant organizations.

Mark has extensive working knowledge of providing cost management, commercial control and contract administration for all conventional and alternate project delivery methods. Additionally, Mark has experience preparing contracts analyzing bids, negotiating change orders, and participating as lead in negotiation and preparation of pleadings in alternate dispute resolution, arbitration and adjudication.

Kwaku Gyabaah is the Vice President of Project Development for Clark Construction’s Southwestern

Region. In this role, Kwaku leads front-end activities for the region from the project identification and

pursuit phases through cost estimating, procurement, virtual design & construction and design phase

management.

Kwaku is an active member of the L.A. Business Council and was previously recognized as one of

Engineering News Record (ENR) California’s top 20 Professionals Under 40. Kwaku’s leadership and

experience in project development and construction spans several building types and multiple U.S.

Metropolitan markets including Washington D.C, Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego and Los Angeles. A

few of the notable L.A. area projects where Kwaku played a key role include the Long Beach Civic Center

P3 Development, L.A. County Hall of Justice Project, L.A. Forum Renovation, L.A. Federal Courthouse,

Rose Bowl and the UCLA Engineering Building. Most recently Kwaku has also spent time supporting the

City of L.A.’s vision to address the homelessness crisis recognizing it as one of the greatest humanitarian

and business issues of our day.

Kwaku earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Howard University in Washington, DC, and his

Master of Business Administration in General Management and International Real Estate Development

from the University of California, Irvine. Kwaku is happily married to his wife of 10 years with whom he

has three energetic children. When not at work, Kwaku enjoys coaching youth sports as an avenue to

develop future leaders.

As Managing Partner for Greater Los Angeles at Ernst & Young LLP, Patrick Niemann

leads a team of nearly 2,000 professionals who serve 40% of the Fortune 1000

companies and 31% of the Russell 3000 in LA. Their clients include innovative and

entrepreneurial companies spanning the consumer products, engineering and

construction, financial services, healthcare, life sciences, manufacturing, media &

entertainment, private equity, real estate, retail and technology industries.

Most recently, Pat has been instrumental in leading the EY LA office redesign as part of

the EY@Work initiative, emphasizing EY’s dedication to providing energizing and

efficient environments for its workforce. He is also a client-serving partner, who works

with public and private companies in diverse sectors, from start-ups to Fortune 100

companies. Prior to his current role, Pat managed EY’s Greater Los Angeles Audit

practice and served as industry leader for the Media & Entertainment and Japanese

Business Services practices.

Pat is a graduate of the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business.

He currently is a member of the USC Marshall School of Business Corporate Advisory

Board and the Board of Advisors for the USC Marshall School’s Leventhal School of

Accounting. He is the past President of the USC Accounting Circle Board and a recipient

of the Distinguished Service Award presented by the USC Leventhal School of

Accounting.

Pat is also actively involved in the LA community. He serves as Chairman of the Board for

Children’s Bureau and as a member of the board of directors for the YMCA of

Metropolitan Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce and Town Hall

Los Angeles.

Pat and his wife, Rebecca, live in Palos Verdes Estates with their two young sons, Patrick

and Timothy.

Katy Mercer has 17 years of experience practicing architecture and interior design both locally and internationally. As a Senior Interior Design Leader at the global architecture firm Woods Bagot, Katy has a strong sense of innovative concepts, strategic programming, cohesive stakeholder engagement, and advanced detailing. She is currently leading the design of a 400,000 sf workplace HQ in LA, where Woods Bagot has just opened a studio, for a confidential client.

Katy’s expertise is particularly strong in the workplace interiors sector, where her clients number Dropbox, Google, HP, Twitter and TenCent. She is skilled at introducing influences from other sectors – transportation (SFO Harvey Milk Terminal), higher education (UC San Diego), hospitality and high-end residential -- to create meaningful and memorable experiences for the user. She received her Bachelors of Architecture from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo. Publications include articles in Colorado Real Estate Journal and the San Francisco CREW magazine, and she has lectured widely.

Good design aims to please. But for James Woolum, great design elicits transformative human experience. Designing for significant organizational and cultural change, James creates transformative human experiences through well-crafted environments to enhance wellbeing, performance, and bring renewed purpose to under-valued buildings and spaces. James has led the design of many diverse adaptive reuse projects across the country, including a Nabisco factory turned corporate workplace in NYC, an office-to-healthcare clinic conversion, and the historic preservation and adaptive reuse of a mass timber airport hangar into a modern workplace for Google. James splits his time between his hometown of Los Angeles and his adopted home, New York City.

As the President of Openpath, James runs operations and leads marketing, public relations and partnerships for the company. A serial entrepreneur, James has built and sold three successful technology companies (EdgeCast Networks, KnowledgeBase and Virtualis) over the past 17 years. While at Edgecast, James helped to build the company’s global network to carry more than seven percent of global internet traffic. Prior to Edgecast, James built KnowledgeBase into a profitable, industry-leading company that was ranked by Forrester as the Industry Leader in eService. James received the E&Y's 2014 Entrepreneur of the Year award for the greater Los Angeles area, is an investor in and advisor to tech startups and VC/PE funds, and is active in various community and philanthropic organizations.

Luke Lucas is Senior Manager of Engineering Business Development & Build Your Own Coverage (BYOC) for T-Mobile USA. His focus is on enterprise and in-building coverage, furthering the role of wireless in buildings as a 5th utility-like service. In his role, Lucas is involved with smart building and smart city technologies, 5G wireless and the relationship between enterprises installing infrastructure and the connection to T-Mobile signal source and backhaul. He has been with T-Mobile for more than two decades, previously in several regional and market development manager roles. Prior to joining T-Mobile, Lucas was a real estate manager for Pacific Bell Mobile Services’ wireless network in San Diego. Lucas is a graduate of Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California and the practitioners Master of Real Estate Development from USC’s Lusk Center for Real Estate.

Edward has extensive experience in activating thoughtful, practical and beautiful interior environments

to set the stage for meaningful interactions. He holds a master’s degree from Pratt Institute, he

founded and ran his own interior design firm for over a decade and he held the position of Chief Design

Officer for a large dealer design firm in Florida before moving to California and joining Pivot as the

Senior Director of A+D.

Edward focuses on supporting the A+D community and enriching relationships to provide the

appropriate resources throughout their design process. Through consistent communication and

involvement, Edward investigate the drivers behind project decisions and generates focused product

and services solutions.

Dave has spent his 30-year real estate career helping media and technology companies solve their real estate needs. His experience has included managing the global real estate needs of corporate companies. Locally, Dave is a recognized leader in the Los Angeles media and technology sector, representing hundreds of emerging and middle market companies.

Dave has a passion for the Los Angeles media and technology sector, and his network of relationships within it is extremely robust. He goes out of his way to make introductions that will help media and tech companies succeed, knowing that successful companies will eventually have a real estate need he might be able to solve.

London Kemp is the Director of Global Portfolio Strategy & Transactions for the Global Real Estate & Facilities (GREF) team at Amazon, Inc. She is responsible for leading global portfolio strategy, transaction management, project management, and vendor team management for Amazon’s Global portfolio across business lines, including Amazon Studios. Prior to joining Amazon, she previously worked at Netflix, initially as Director of Studio Real Estate & Facilities going on to become the Director of Corporate Real Estate consolidating production and corporate real estate globally. Other prior roles include Director of Americas Transactions at NBC, Global Head of Real Estate at Ingram Micro and Realty Management at Walmart.

Her core areas of expertise include strategy, transactions, operations, M&A, and development. London has over 15 years of experience in real estate. She has managed over $8 billion in assets and negotiated contracts in excess of $2 billion.

Delmar L. Nehrenberg was appointed Senior Vice President, Los Angeles of Kilroy Realty Corporation in June 2018.

Delmar joined Kilroy after over 20 years as a partner with Allen Matkins. He is a national expert on complex commercial and residential development, construction, disposition, acquisition and leasing projects. He has been the lead attorney on over $10 billion of major development projects and has drafted and negotiated numerous development leases of 250,000 square feet or more. Among recent honors, Delmar was named as one of the "Top 30 Real Estate Attorneys" by the Daily Journal in 2012, selected for inclusion as a Southern California Super Lawyer in 2012, a "Rising Star" in the Los Angeles Magazine Super Lawyer section for both 2007 and 2008 and is noted as the head of the Firm's construction practice in the Chambers and Partners rankings.

Delmar's experience includes representing a wide range of clients, including owners, developers, landlords, sellers, buyers, and other business enterprises in complex transactions relating to their business. Delmar gives seminars to builders, landlords, developers, brokers and other real estate professionals (and graduate students) on a variety of legal issues impacting their business activities, including lecturing for graduate programs at USC, UCLA and Loyola Marymount University. He has negotiated with all major design firms and contractors working in California. Delmar was the "go to" lawyer for many of the Firm's top clients including Boston Properties, Hines, Disney, Kilroy Realty, Blackstone, EOP, Beacon Capital Partners, Vintage Capital, Platinum Equity, Fox, Kamehameha Schools, Festival Companies, Lincoln Properties, Highridge Partners, et. al. on their real estate projects. In such regard, Delmar provided expert legal oversight of large real estate portfolios, negotiating and strategizing on our clients' largest and most complicated deals. He has gained extensive expertise in legal issues surrounding many cutting-edge design and construction issues such as LEED certification, integrated project delivery systems and Building Information Modeling.

Delmar is an avid surfer. He also enjoys mountain biking and hiking with his Rhodesian Ridgebacks or hanging out with his three young boys in his spare time.

Mr. Ollen oversees all leasing responsibilities for Tishman Speyer’s Southern California properties. He joined the company in 2001 and was charged with leasing MGM Plaza in Santa Monica. Prior to joining Tishman Speyer, Mr. Ollen was with Insignia/ESG, where he ran the Agency Group for Los Angeles. Over the course of his career, he has completed over 14 million square feet of transactions for some of the highest profile buildings in the Los Angeles area. Mr. Ollen is an executive member of the Los Angeles Real Estate Association and was named “Top Landlord Office Representative” by the Los Angeles Business Journal in 1994. He received his BS degree in marketing from the University of Maryland.

555 AVIATION OVERVIEW:

Situated on nearly 14 acres in the South Bay’s flourishing El Segundo submarket, the single-story, 260,000 sq. ft. commercial building is primed to be transformed into a collaborative creative space tailored to fit the lifestyle of the innovative millennial. The new space will offer a state-of-the-art fitness center, coffee shop, outdoor lounge area with fire features, bike storage and ample parking.

HIGHLIGHTS:

Adaptive reuse: 260,000 SF best-in-class collaborative creative campus at the heart of growing El Segundo submarket

Delivery to the market is slated for January 2018 with delivery for TIs in October 201

HLW is the renovation architect

Open collaborative spaces with flexible floor plates

Ample tenant parking providing 3.75/1,000 ratio

Direct access to the 405 and 105 freeways and two blocks from the Metro Green Line

Close proximity to premium dining, hotels, shopping and cultural destinations

James is an Executive Vice President located in Jones Lang LaSalle’s Los Angeles corporate office, where he focuses on tenant and landlord representation services in the Los Angeles area. James advises clients on a full range of real estate services including portfolio and leasing strategy, space acquisition, disposition and occupancy analysis, and cost savings strategies. James has a dynamic professional background that includes 25 years of experience in real estate brokerage leadership, agency leasing, tenant representation, corporate services, real estate development, and law. This breadth of experience allows James to provide clients with strategies that offer cost savings and value for a broad range of transactions such as leases, building and land acquisitions, and property dispositions.

James returned to JLL after leading seven brokerage offices in the Los Angeles region for a global real estate services firm overseeing 90 real estate professionals James was responsible for business planning and client pursuit with individual brokers and brokerage teams, recruiting and training brokers, enhancing the office culture, and implementing company initiatives. Previously, he was the Vice President of Leasing for Brookfield Properties’ Downtown LA office portfolio, which consisted of 8.5 million square feet of Class A office buildings. At Brookfield, James developed and successfully implemented leasing strategies and marketing campaigns for Trophy assets including community, tenant and broker engagement events, building tours and presentations, and negotiating leases from initial proposal through execution. He began his real estate career with Catellus Development Corporation and was responsible for the marketing and leasing of Union Station in Los Angeles and the Mission Bay project in San Francisco. James is also a lawyer having practiced commercial litigation with Haight, Brown & Bonesteel.

Timothy Haskin is a Partner and Senior Managing Director of AECOM Capital and is on the investments team, joining the firm in 2013. He focuses on all AECOM Capital investments and identifying, structuring, and negotiating complex development and value-add projects. He has an extensive background in real estate finance, with over 39 years of experience and expertise in developing, financing and repositioning large-scale real estate projects.

Previously, Haskin was the Founder and President of Peninsula Real Estate LLC, a New York City based real estate investment fund focused on value add investments. Prior to Peninsula, Haskin was a Partner and Managing Director and Executive Vice President of Tishman Hotel and Realty Corporation for 13 years. He was responsible for acquisitions and capital raising for the company’s substantial principal investments, including the Westin New York Hotel at Times Square and E-Walk Retail on 42nd Street, and was involved in closing over $5 billion of transactions.

Haskin holds a Bachelor in Business Administration with certificates in Real Estate and Finance from Southern Methodist University, Edwin L. Cox School of Business. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and has been a guest lecturer at various academic institutions.

Former President of Maguire Investments: responsible for the oversight of a 5 million square foot portfolio, primarily located in Southern California. Grew revenue from approximately $100 million to $250 million in 3 years.

Former Managing Director at Eastdil Secured: responsible for debt placement and loan sales. Placed over $20 billion of commercial real estate loans, sold more than $3 billion of performing & non-performing mortgages and mezzanine loans, and participated in a variety of M&A and recapitalization transactions.

Former Manager in KPMG’s Real Estate Consulting Group: performed a variety of consulting engagements and managed due diligence activities for over $5 billion of commercial real estate transactions.

As Chief Executive of Lionstone Investments, Jane Page leads the firm in effectuating strategy and managing real estate investing. Lionstone Investments a private equity real estate firm managing over $8 Billion in AUM. The firm invests across the risk spectrum and focuses on a strategy of providing real estate for the highest productive segment of the US economy. Ms. Page joined Lionstone in 2012, serving as the firm’s first Chief Operating Officer prior to being promoted to Chief Executive Officer in 2014. Previously, she spent 10 years at Crescent Real Estate Equities and 15 years at Metropolitan Life. Ms. Page received a B.B.A. in Business Administration and Economics from Point Loma College in San Diego and an MBA in Real Estate Finance from the University of San Francisco.

Robert F. Kane joined Lincoln Property Company in 2012,

and is responsible for Acquisition, Dispositions,

Development and Finance related activities for the

Company. Since joining Lincoln, Robert has been involved

in the acquisition of over $1 billion square feet of commercial

development projects and successfully entitled more than

one million square feet of commercial projects including the

Parsons campus, the largest commercial project ever

approved by the City of Pasadena.

Prior to joining Lincoln, Robert was a Vice President at

Thomas Properties Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: TPGI), where he

focused on acquisitions and development of office,

residential, and mixed-use properties throughout the country,

including the entitlements effort for the Wilshire Grand

Redevelopment project proposed by Korean Air Lines

totaling $1.4 billion and 2.5 million square feet of mixed-uses

which was unanimously approved by the City of Los

Angeles.

Rob is on the Board of Directors for the Ketchum-Downtown

YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles.

John is the Operating Partner of the Century City office of Allen Matkins, immediate past Chair of the firm's Real Estate Department and one of the top attorneys in California with respect to real estate acquisitions and dispositions, leasing, and asset management. John represents his clients in actively buying, financing, developing, leasing and selling office centers, shopping centers, mixed use projects, hotels and multi-family projects throughout the United States. He also has extensive experience in representing owners, operators, and partners in all types of development, construction, management and operating agreements.

John represented the buyer in the largest commercial office transactions in Los Angeles for each of calendar years 2012-2014. He also represented Tishman Speyer Properties in the acquisition and development of commercial office property at Playa Vista, California, Raytheon Company in its $9.5 billion acquisition of Hughes Aircraft Company, a transaction involving 20 million square feet of space in 30 states, Lubert-Adler in the repositioning of over 200 Mervyn's throughout the western United States, and Extended Stay America as west coast counsel in facilitating their national rollout of extended-stay hotels.

John represents numerous clients in the development, management, and disposition of assets throughout the western United States. He also represents owners and developers in the acquisition and development of, and the redevelopment of office buildings into, residential buildings.

Martin founded the company in 2002, inspired by a family tradition in the construction industry. With an engineering background and a clear mission of becoming a worldwide leading studio in the technical delivery and coordination of projects, Martin built the company around solid processes and strong communication, understanding that the centrepiece of the project is always the client and the end-user.

With forward-thinking and an innovative spirit, he is leading the company to a more comprehensive role in the AEC industry with his completely new approach, the "Construction Digital Prototype" methodology.