Tammy Harpster serves as the Chief Executive Officer for Roundtree Properties. Her real estate career includes co-founding LaTerra Development, a Southern California development company with more than 3,000 multifamily units under construction with an estimated value at completion of more than $2 billion. She also served as a fund manager for a real estate opportunity fund as well as an investment advisor for hundreds of millions of dollars of residential and commercial assets.

Prior to LaTerra, she was Senior Vice President of Acquisitions at Phoenix Realty Group (PRG) and ran the firm’s San Diego Smart Growth Fund, a $90 million workforce housing opportunity fund with institutional investors such as CalPERS, Washington Mutual, and Northwestern Mutual. Ms. Harpster was also Assistant Vice President for Buchanan Street Partners, a leading real estate investment management firm, where she closed $300 million and managed over $600 million in commercial assets across four funds. Early in her career, she managed $125 million of pharmaceutical, biotech, and microelectronic construction development projects for DPR.

Ms. Harpster holds a Masters in Business Administration from the Anderson School at UCLA and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Purdue University.

Greg Verabian, AIA is a Partner at HKS. He is Design Director and Practice Leader at HKS Los Angeles with knowledge of building types from commercial and multi-family/mixed-use towers to corporate HQs and laboratories. Greg was Chair of the Design Awards Committee for AIA California and the AIA Los Angeles, past Treasurer, Vice President and the 2020 Board President of AIA/LA.

In March 2017, Doane Liu was appointed by Mayor Eric Garcetti as the

Executive Director of the Los Angeles Department of Convention and Tourism

Development (CTD), with the goal to further enhance and increase Los Angeles’

prominence and attraction as a world class tourist and convention destination.

Liu joined the CTD after serving as Deputy Executive Director and Chief of Staff

at the Port of Los Angeles, where he was the second in command at the busiest

container port in North America and head of the Port’s External Affairs Bureau.

Before the Port, Liu was Deputy Mayor for the City of Los Angeles. He managed

the Mayor's Office of City Services and helped the Mayor oversee 15 City Departments,

including the Los Angeles Department Water and Power, Public Works, Transportation,

Recreation and Parks, Public Library, and LA Zoo. He also established the Great

Streets Studio and LA RiverWorks in the Mayor’s Office. A first-generation Korean-

American, Liu also was a liaison in the Mayor’s Office to the Korean-American

community in Los Angeles.

Liu was previously Chief of Staff for Councilman Joe Buscaino and served as

Chief of Staff for Councilwoman Janice Hahn, Deputy Mayor for Mayor James K. Hahn

and District Director for Congresswoman Jane Harman. He was also Senior Vice

President of Government Banking at JP Morgan Chase and Vice President in the Real

Estate Industries Group at Security Pacific National Bank.

Liu currently serves on the boards of AltaSea at the Port of Los Angeles, the

Los Angeles Fleet Week Foundation, and Sister Cities of Los Angeles. He has

previously served on the boards of LA24 Olympic Bid Committee, Los Angeles County

Business Federation, Harbor Interfaith Shelter, Palos Verdes Peninsula Land

Conservancy, Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative, Los Angeles Regional Food Bank,

Mary Star of the Sea High School, and Holy Trinity School.

Liu graduated from the Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and

received an MBA from University of Southern California. He and his wife have four adult

children and have lived in San Pedro for nearly 30 years.

Bryan Shaffer is Principal/Managing Director of George Smith Partners where

he focuses on delivering solutions to address his clients’ real estate capital

requirements. Mr. Shaffer works hard to arrange structured financings for

multifamily and commercial properties, including acquisition, refinance,

construction, bridge and permanent loans. Mr. Shaffer has successfully

structured both debt and equity placements for private entrepreneurs and

institutional clients. He has been able to utilize his prior vast and diverse

experiences in owning, operating, developing commercial real estate to help

him succeed in capital raising for multi-family, affordable, office, retail,

industrial, hospitality, data centers, healthcare/medical and senior facilities

sectors to provide the best options and structure for his clients.

In his career, Mr. Shaffer has been deeply involved in over $8.5 billion in real

estate transactions, including the structuring or arranging over $3 billion of

debt and equity placements and the repositioning and sale of $2 billion of

properties for a Japanese institutional investor, Mitsui Real Estate

Sales/Mitsui Fudosan. His focus is understanding the needs of clients large

and small, so with his team, they can provide the best solution in the market.

Mr. Shaffer closed transactions with every type of capital provider including

Banks, Insurance Companies, Family Offices, Private Equity Firms, Bond

Funds, CTL Lenders, Funds, Community Development Lenders, and

Institutional Investors. He serves on the direct investment committee for

Clearinghouse, CDFI and has advised two family offices.

Prior to serving as a Principal and Managing Director at George Smith

Partners, Mr. Shaffer ran his own global investment advisory company, led

dispositions for the world’s largest real estate owner, created a global trade

association and operated projects for several development firms. He has

served as a contractor for the United States Resolution Trust Corporation

(RTC), as an Expert Witness and California Superior Court Receiver.

Mr. Larry J. Kosmont, CRE®, is the President and CEO of Kosmont Companies, which he founded in 1986. Kosmont Companies is an industry leader in public/private real estate transactions and economic development. In 1990, he founded Kosmont Realty Corporation, a real estate brokerage firm. In 2015, he launched Kosmont Transactions Services which sources private financing for public projects, P3 initiatives, and infrastructure funding. He’s also a Principal of California Golden Fund, an approved EB-5 Regional Center.

Mr. Kosmont’s 40-year career encompasses public/private financial structuring and negotiations, development, and management of real estate and public finance transactions exceeding $12 billion. He has an extensive track record as a public/private real estate consultant and public finance advisor. Mr. Kosmont has assisted hundreds of local government agencies in public finance and real estate matters ranging from large-scale economic development programs to site-specific real estate strategies and projects. He has guided over 1,000 private sector projects in obtaining public approvals, structuring deal terms, and securing public/private financing.

Mr. Kosmont served as Interim City Administrator for the City of Montebello, CA from May 2011 to March 2012 as part of a financial turnaround assignment awarded to Kosmont Companies. From 1975 to 1986, Mr. Kosmont served in the roles of City Manager, Director of Community Development, and Redevelopment Director in the cities of Santa Monica, Seal Beach, Bell Gardens, and Burbank.

Mr. Kosmont is a registered Municipal Advisor with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and achieved a Series 50 professional qualification. Mr. Kosmont is also a licensed real estate broker in California (BRE No. 01182660), a designated Counselor of Real Estate, CRE®, and has served or is serving on:

· City of Manhattan Beach Economic Development Advisory Council – Chairman

· MWD Board (represented City of Los Angeles)

· State Commissioner – California Economic Development Commission

· USC Executive Education – Board of Directors

· Los Angeles City Commissioner – Industrial Development Authority

· California Assoc. of Local Economic Development (CALED) – Board Advisor

· Los Angeles Business Federation (BIZFED) – Board Member

Mr. Kosmont holds a Masters of Public Administration Degree from the University of Southern California and a B.A. in Political Science from the State University of New York – Binghamton.

Mr. Kosmont is a recipient of the 2016 California Business Properties Association (CBPA) Champion of the Industry Award for his service in real estate and economic development. Kosmont Companies received the Latin Business of the Year Award from Los Angeles Business Journal (2016).

William Chun serves as the Deputy Mayor of Economic Development. Over two decades, he has been involved in a broad range of economic development projects and investment deals. Mr. Chun is charged with growing a prosperous economy; specifically creating jobs, attracting investment and increasing tourism. He oversees six departments totaling over 6,000 employees and a combined budget of $8.6 billion: Department of City Planning, Department of Building & Safety, Los Angeles World Airports, Port of Los Angeles, Department of Convention & Tourism Development, and the Economic & Workforce Development Department. Before joining the Mayor’s Office in 2013, Mr. Chun was Vice President at Capri Global, a private equity and investment manager with almost $4 billion of assets under management. He was responsible for sourcing and underwriting acquisitions, asset management and equity investment activities including origination, direct and joint venture investing. Prior to Capri, he was at CRA/LA and at CBRE’s consulting group (NYSE: CBRE). A native Angeleno, Mr. Chun holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics at Wesleyan University.

Gary Painter is a Professor in the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California. He also serves as the Director of the Sol Price Center for Social Innovation. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1996. He has published numerous articles in top journals such as the Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Human Resources, Regional Science and Urban Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Real Estate Economics, Urban Studies, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, Economics of Education Review, Public Finance Review, Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship, Housing Policy Debate, Journal of Housing Economics, Journal of Housing Research, The American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Harvard Business Review and Industrial Relations.

Professor Painter’s research interests focuses on social innovation, housing, urban economics, and education policy. He is among the world’s foremost experts on how changing demographics impact U.S. housing markets. Recent work has focused on how immigrants are integrating into housing markets across the U.S. and the role of the economic cycle on household formation. Other recent work has studied immigrant integration issues in spatial labor markets and in education. Current research focuses on how to evaluate social innovation.

He has served as a consultant for the National Association of Realtors, Pacific Economics Group, Andrew Davidson Co., Fannie Mae, Grant Thorton LLP, Burr Consulting, and the Research Institute for Housing America.

Gregg Bloomberg, CPA, is a partner with CohnReznick and the leader of the Firm’s Commercial Real Estate Industry Practice in our West Region. With more than 25 years of tax accounting experience, Gregg has extensive and specialized expertise in the areas of entity structuring, tax planning, compliance, and consulting for commercial real estate and financial services entities worldwide, including REITs, public and private equity and debt funds with foreign and tax exempt partners, pension funds, privately held commercial property owners and operators, homebuilders, retailers, developers, and hotel and resort owners and operators. Prior to joining the Firm, Gregg served as director of tax for Westfield Corporation, Inc. in Los Angeles, a $30B publicly held shopping center REIT where he was in charge of tax structuring, compliance, and strategic tax planning for the Company’s US multistate and international operations. Prior to Westfield Corporation, Gregg was a senior tax consulting director at Kenneth Leventhal & Company and Ernst & Young’s real estate and financial services tax group for 12 years, specializing in entity structuring, tax compliance, and strategic tax planning for publicly traded and privately held real estate and financial services companies.