Bob Champion is the Founder, CEO and Managing Partner of Champion Real Estate Company, a family office that specializes in real estate investment with multiple business strategies currently being executed via the company’s platform. Under Bob’s leadership, the Champion platform has generated in excess of a 20 annual return (XIRR) to its investors over the past 20-years. Bob has a Master's of Real Estate Development from the University of Southern California where he also taught real estate investment, development, and urban planning for over 16 years. He has also taught at the graduate level at UCLA, ICSC University, and the CRA University. He is an expert in shopping centers, multifamily, ertical retailing, public-private partnerships and mixed-use development with retail, residential, office, and entertainment components. Bob is a nationally recognized speaker at real estate industry events and has published numerous articles on real estate, the economy, and public policy. He has developed and invested in all of the major real estate product types and has completed over $1 billion in transactions.

Moderating/Speaking Engagements:  RealShare Apartments – The Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles: Oct 20, 2016  15th Global Real Estate Private Equity Summit – Sofitel Beverly Hills: Sept 15, 2016  Multifamily Annual Conference West – Omni Downtown, Los Angeles: July 20, 2016  Greater Los Angeles Development Summit – DoubleTree by The Hilton: June 21, 2016  Marcus and Millichap/IPA Multifamily Forum – The Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles: June 2, 2016  RealShare Los Angeles – LA’s Emerging Neighborhoods – The Beverly Wilshire: March 24, 2016  Bisnow Annual Multifamily/Mixed-Use Event – Montage Beverly Hills: February 24, 201  Lido Wealth Management Event – Intercontinental Hotel, Century City: November 19, 2015  Bisnow’s BMAX West- A Developer’s Outlook on California’s Booming Multifamily Industry – JW Marriot, Los Angeles: July 28, 2015  Bisnow The Future of Hollywood Event – The W Hotel, Los Angeles: April 29, 2015

 2nd Annual Multifamily Forum Socal – California Market Center: June 5, 2014.

David Simon was appointed Executive Vice President, Southern California, in September 2014 after serving as Executive Vice President since March 2012 and is responsible for executing the development and repositioning of office and mixed-use projects, as well as identifying and acquiring value-add opportunities throughout Southern California. Mr. Simon was formerly a Managing Director at BRCP. Prior to joining BRCP in 2004, Mr. Simon was a Partner with Kearny Real Estate Company, a partnership originally established as a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds. Previously, Mr. Simon was with the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds in Southern California, where he focused on acquisitions, asset management and dispositions of real estate across all asset types. Mr. Simon received a Master’s Degree in Real Estate Development from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Florida. He is a licensed California Real Estate Broker and a full member of the Urban Land Institute. He is a board member of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and a board member and trustee of the Oakwood School in North Hollywood. He previously served as a member of the board of directors and a trustee for the nonprofit Affordable Living for the Aging based in Southern California. In 2011, he established the Simon Family Drug Research Fund at the University of Alabama to promote drug research for neurofibromatosis.

Michael Homeier practices in the area of general business, corporate, transactional, and business financing law. With nearly 25 years' experience in the corporate and business transactional field, both as in-house corporate counsel and with private law firms, Michael's practice emphasizes the drafting, negotiation, and review of contracts, including commercial contracts, financing agreements, factoring packages, intellectual property licensing agreements, new media, technology, and commercial contracts, and entertainment industry agreements for both production houses and industry professionals. An integral part of Michael's practice includes a comprehensive ""entity practice"" involved with the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of corporations and limited liability companies, both in the for-profit and non-profit sector.

Prior to his co-founding of Homeier & Law, P.C., Michael practiced business, contract, corporate, and securities law both as in-house counsel for large public companies (including Countrywide and Herbalife) and private enterprises, and in association or as of-counsel to prominent Los Angeles law firms such as Ball Hunt Hart Brown & Baerwitz (now part of Carlsmith Ball) and Wasserman Comden & Casselman. In the past, Michael has also garnered invaluable experience on the opposite end of the ""size spectrum,"" working with a sole practitioner in a combined business and civil litigation practice assisting small- and medium-sized clients, where Michael authored and then argued two published, precedent-setting appeals cases, Matthews v. Regents of the University of California (34 Cal. App. 4th 598) concerning workplace sexual harassment, and Jenkins v. Inglewood Unified School District (34 Cal. App. 4th 1388) regarding breach of a school district employment contract.

In addition to numerous engagements as a university law professor, Michael also actively participates in public speaking engagements, both in the business financing and business law arenas, and as an inspirational speaker to teenaged and young adult cancer survivors on post-treatment life success.

Michael received his J.D. from University of Southern California and his B.A. from The University of California, Los Angeles. Michael is a member of the State Bar of California.

Mahsa Aliaskari has dedicated her legal career to guiding and advising clients through the labyrinth that is U.S. immigration law. As an immigrant who, at one time, also ran a business, Mahsa brings a truly unique perspective to each engagement. With each case, her focus is to understand the operations of each business. With this understanding, she is better equipped to work with clients in developing strategies that make sense to them; strategies that can be implemented with limited disruption to their world.

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.

Kacy Keys launched Praxis Development Group (www.praxisdevgroup.com) in 2019 with the express intent of “Building with Purpose.” She comes to the endeavor with 25 years of experience in large and complex development projects, with a track record of success. Kacy has overseen the development of more than $1B in real estate assets (exclusive of land value) with experience in residential, retail, office and mixed-use product types. Praxis partners with institutional and legacy land owners, to help realize vision and value, and is currently building out the Family Life Center for West Angeles Church, as well as partnering with a local family on Crenshaw Blvd. to build multi-family apartments. Specializing in urban infill, Kacy has a passion for projects that result in a positive impact, with an eye towards simultaneous value creation and neighborhood enhancement. With her multi-disciplinary background as a land use/real estate attorney and developer, she looks at opportunity as “what can be” versus “what is.” Understanding the regulatory and entitlement framework, and seeing opportunity in creative solutions, she brings her business savvy and creativity to everything she does.

Prior to forming Praxis Development Group, Keys was Senior Vice President for Seritage Growth Properties, overseeing all development for the company in the Western United States. Prior her role at Seritage, Keys was Head of Development and General Counsel for JH Snyder for over a decade. Also having practiced law for several years and worked for the Mayor’s Office of Economic Development, Keys brings depth and varied experience to her work.