As the CEO of SAA interiors + architecture, Nelson Algaze consults with clients to develop and evaluate real estate, facility development and design strategies. Nelson is NCARB certified and is licensed in 12 states across the country. He also has an active role in the industry and is member of BOMA, the ULI Leadership Council and the International Code Council.

With over 30 years of industry experience, Nelson has made a commitment to innovation and authenticity in his approach. His personal portfolio includes corporate designs that have been described as innovative and timeless. He looks to provide business-drive design solutions to all clients through integrated project delivery. As a business owner, Nelson values the investment in infrastructure and people and has a strong interest in professional development in his role. His energetic personality and down to earth attitude weaves enthusiasm and transparency into all interactions, highlighting his passion for the company, employees and clients.

Megan Moloughney is Vice President of Development for the Los Angeles region of

Skanska USA Commercial Development, which delivers customer-focused, highly

sustainable office, mixed-use and multi-family properties across the United States.

With more than 20 years of experience in commercial real estate management and

development, Megan is responsible for guiding her project teams through the execution

of Skanska Commercial Development’s regional strategy. This is not limited to

conceptual design, permitting, pre-construction and construction activities, leasing,

operations and recapitalization.

Most recently, Megan worked as the Senior Development Manager for The Ratkovich

Company overseeing recapitalization of assets, redevelopment, leasing, as well as

entitlements for a 790-unit residential project. Megan is a member of the Urban Land

Institute, ICSC, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of

Art. She currently serves an executive board member of the Alhambra Chamber of

Commerce as well as the Sister Stella Foundation. In 2018 Megan was recognized

BisNow’s SoCal Power Women.

Moloughney graduated with a bachelor’s degree in art history from the University of

Washington.

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.

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.

Gabriel Marquez is a partner in CohnReznick’s Real Estate Assurance practice with over 32 years of

professional experience. He has served a variety of public and privately-held real estate and construction

companies, including real estate developers/owners/operators, pension-sponsored and private equity real

estate funds, homebuilders, engineering firms and contractors.

Gabriel has extensive experience in GAAP technical matters, Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 controls and SEC

experience with both 1933 and 1934 Act Filings. He has led various client projects ranging from land

development/construction cost and operational audits, contract claims resolution, mergers and acquisitions,

and restructurings/reorganizations. He serves as a firm subject matter expert on contract accounting matters

and has authored several industry-related articles.

He has served as a National and Los Angeles Chapter Director for the Construction Financial Management

Association (CFMA), and is a member of the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) and California Society of

CPAs. Gabriel has served as a Corporate Advisory Board member for the Association of Latino Professionals

in Finance and Accounting (ALPFA).

Ricardo Pagan is the founder of Claridge Properties, a 100% minority owned real estate investment and development firm. Mr. Pagan brings over 16 years of experience in real estate acquisition and development. Mr. Pagan is an established real estate developer, investor and operator with projects in Los Angeles, the New York City metro area, Detroit, Atlanta and Phoenix. Over the span of his career, Mr. Pagan has completed well over $1 billion in acquisitions and development of assets in his specified markets, encompassing more than 3,500 residential units and 500,000 square feet of office space.

Jason Gannon is the managing director of SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park. In this role, Gannon has primary oversight over Hollywood Park and its operational components, which includes SoFi Stadium, YouTube Theater, as well as the retail, office and parkland that form Hollywood Park, the near 300-acre mixed-use development being built in Inglewood, CA, by E. Stanley Kroenke.SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park are transforming the site of the former Hollywood Park Racetrack to a year-round sports and entertainment destination for the enjoyment of people throughout Southern California, as well as visitors to the region. This will be the new must-see entertainment destination and gathering spot in the center of the Los Angeles basin. This monumental project is located two miles off the I-405, one-and-a-half miles off the I-105, and four miles from Los Angeles International Airport. The centerpiece of the district is a 70,000-seat stadium that is the home of NFL’s Los Angeles Chargers and Los Angeles Rams. SoFi Stadium features sporting events, including the Super Bowl LVI in 2022, the College Football National Championship game in 2023, and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2028 Olympic Games,as well as major concerts and other entertainment year-round.As managing director of SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park, Gannon is leading a world-class team that includes Turner, AECOM Hunt, Wilson Meany and Legends. He is responsible for all business matters regarding the project, including business development, marketing, sales, communications, government affairs, finance and legal. He also oversees all the contractors, including the thousands of workers, that built SoFi Stadium and are continuing to build Hollywood Park. Gannon has been with the Kroenke Organization for more than 12 years. During this time, he has served in executive, project management, and legal capacities for various platforms and projects.

Sejal Sonani, AIA is a Principal and Managing Director at HLW, a leading architecture and design firm. Since joining HLW in 2012, Sejal has been instrumental in transforming the firm’s Los Angeles studio into a holistic practice with a strengthened focus on architecture. In the last five years alone, Sejal has overseen more than 1.5 million square feet of office projects in the area, while championing the firm’s adaptive reuse, repositioning, master planning, and ground-up construction expertise along the west coast from Silicon Beach to Silicon Valley. Currently, her team is designing over 500,000 square feet of transit-oriented redevelopment along LA’s Expo Line, aimed at creating vibrant, walkable, and prosperous communities anchored by sustainable mobility.

The studio's active work builds on a nearly 30-year legacy of pioneering economic growth through transformative design. In recent years since, the team has continuously evolved to help reshape the city’s built environment, including reimagining the former Macy’s store at Westside Pavilion as a creative office campus, redeveloping abandoned industrial parks into urban institutions, and renovating the city's first historic-designated skyscraper, Union Bank Plaza.

Daniel Kaven is a co-founding principal of the multi-disciplinary design studio William / Kaven Architecture. He is widely known for designing visionary architectural concepts that defy convention and for creating interventions that lie at the intersection of the built environment and art. His architecture and visual art have won a number of distinctions from the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and his work has been published in outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The Architect’s Newspaper, Dwell, Architectural Digest, Wallpaper, and Hypebeast.

Kaven's first book, Architecture of Normal, will be published by Birkhäuser in Spring 2022. The book is a visual and literary exploration of how evolving forms of transportation have dramatically shaped the built environment of the American West since the arrival of the Spanish in New Mexico in the 1500s.

Kaven is a passionate advocate of great architecture. He regularly writes and lectures on design, his artistic practice and urban planning. Recently, he won an Architecture Masterprize for the design of the Royal Residence.

Carey is the Managing Principal of the Real Estate Industry. He has close to 20 years of experience providing accounting, assurance, tax, and consulting services to real estate industry owners, operators, family offices, developers and syndicators. Carey has a proven track record of helping clients build and retain capital by leveraging tax- and cost-saving strategies, including a wide range tax credits and incentives.

Mr. Schlehuber has led Rexford Industrial’s property acquisition efforts since joining in 2009. He is also a member of Rexford’s Investment Committee. To date, Mr. Schlehuber has led the acquisitions team through 131 property acquisitions totaling nearly $2 billion and adding 17.2 million square feet to Rexford’s portfolio. Mr. Schlehuber has over 20 years of property investment and finance experience including acquisitions, dispositions, asset and construction management and leasing throughout California. Prior to his time at Rexford, Mr. Schlehuber was an Investment Officer at First Industrial Realty Trust, another publicly traded Industrial REIT. Additionally Mr. Schlehuber spent time working in investment banking and financial consulting at Relational Advisors (formerly Batchelder & Partners) and Arthur Anderson. Mr. Schlehuber is a Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Public Accountant (Illinois-Inactive). He received his Bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Notre Dame.

Ken Fields, a partner in Greenberg Glusker’s Real Estate Practice Group, practices all aspects of real estate legal transactions, including buying and selling individual properties and multi-property portfolios, construction and development and leasing of industrial, retail, and office properties, and permanent, construction, mezzanine, and other real estate secured loans. Ken's clients include industrial, retail, and office building owners and tenants, commercial brokerage firms and real estate investors and syndicators.

He has assisted clients in buying or selling billions of dollars’ worth of real estate assets, has negotiated leases affecting billions of square feet of space, and has helped clients raise hundreds of millions of dollars in real estate syndications. Ken frequently represents owners and tenants in single-tenant "big-box" leases. Ken understands his clients' business objectives and strives to help achieve those objectives in an efficient and cost-effective manner. He maintains a business-like and deal-oriented approach, focusing on what is important to his clients. Among the many other transactions Fields handled in 2020, he partnered with his clients to close four of the ten largest industrial transactions in Southern California, with those four deals alone totaling approximately $750,000,000.

In 2021, Ken was recognized as a top 10 real estate attorney in California by Connect CRE in their annual Lawyers in Real Estate Awards. Ken has also been recognized in real estate law in both Best Lawyers and Super Lawyers. He received his B.A. from UCLA and his J.D. from Loyola Law School. He is a Founding Member and member of the Advisory Committee of the Conejo Valley Boys and Girls' Clubs, and has previously chaired the Legal Committee of Heal the Bay.

BRIAN SAENGER is the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Ratkovich Company, a Los

Angeles-based real estate development company specializing in urban infill and historic

rehabilitation of landmark properties. He previously served as the Company’s Chief Operating

Officer and General Counsel and was responsible for overseeing the Company’s operations,

including development management, property management, and legal and administrative

functions. In 2021, Brian was named to the Los Angeles Business Journal’s list of 500 Most

Influential People in Los Angeles.

Brian joined the Company as the Vice President of Acquisitions and played a leading role in the

Company’s acquisition of The Bloc, a 1.8 million square foot, mixed-use property in downtown

Los Angeles consisting of retail, office and hospitality uses. He also represented the Company in

the successful negotiation of a 50-year ground lease for the development of West Harbor

(formerly known as the San Pedro Public Market), a $150 million transformation of a 42-acre

site along the Los Angeles waterfront in San Pedro. Recently, West Harbor was featured in the

Los Angeles Times for landing seven high-profile restaurant and entertainment leases during

the pandemic.

Prior to joining the Company, Brian served as the Company’s outside counsel when he practiced

with the international law firms of DLA Piper LLP (US) and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman.

Brian serves on the Board of Directors for the San Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership. He is a

member of the Urban Land Institute and serves on the Urban Development and Mixed-Use

Council. He previously served on the Board of Directors for the California YMCA Youth &

Government program and was a past Chair of the Board. Brian is a member of the State Bar of

California and a licensed California real estate broker.

Brian received his Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, with honors, where he

served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. He received his Bachelor

of Arts degree from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Sean Cunningham is Chief Financial Officer for Integrated Capital Management (ICM). He oversees all

aspects of the firm’s financial functions including fund accounting and control, investor back office,

reporting, SEC and FINRA compliance, audit and tax matters, and corporate finance activities. Mr.

Cunningham brings more than three decades of financial management experience in the real estate

investment, development and property management industry to ICM.

Prior to joining ICM, Mr. Cunningham spent nine years as Chief Financial Officer for Pacific Equity

Properties, Inc., a privately-held real estate investment and land development company. In that role, he

led the corporate finance team, sourced and cultivated the acquisition of a $170 million mixed-use

development, and handled all financial and operational aspects of a $200 million portfolio of mixed-use

assets located throughout Southern California. In addition, he successfully worked with an institutional

capital partner to construct a 250,000-square-foot mixed-use development anchored by a Whole Foods

Market flagship store.

Prior to that, Mr. Cunningham was Corporate Controller at Global Entertainment Partners, a full-service

post production facility. He also held previous accounting positions, including Real Estate Accountant at

CPG Accounting and Project Accountant at La Mancha Development / Centers Business Management.

Mr. Cunningham was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and moved to the United States in 1988.

Aliza Karney Guren is the Chief Executive Officer and co-owner of Karney Properties. She assumed her position in 2003 and sets the overall strategy for the company. She is also directly involved in all key areas of the company’s activities, including development, finance, acquisitions and dispositions and asset management.She has spent more than 20 years in the real estate industry, including related experience in law and mediation. Prior to joining the company in 1991, she was a practicing attorney and mediator, and founded and directed an independent nonprofit arts organization. Aliza Guren, a California-licensed general contractor, is an active member of the Urban Land Institute and the National Association for Industrial and Office Parks. She is also a board member of the Center Theatre Group, one of the nation’s largest and most active theater companies. In 2014, she was named one of Bisnow’s top 60 women in Los Angeles commercial real estate. She is a member of ULI, RPO, POWRE, and Land Ladies. Aliza Guren earned a bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Harvard University, where she also earned a law degree cum laude from Harvard Law School. She is a member of the State Bar of California.

Alain M. R'bibo is a partner in our Century City office where his practice focuses on commercial real estate transactions. Alain’s practice covers a wide variety of real estate matters, with an emphasis on advising clients in the acquisition, disposition, leasing and day-to-day management and operation of commercial real estate across the country, including office, retail, industrial and multifamily properties. Alain has represented a diverse group of clients, ranging from private individuals and closely-held entities, to REITs, pension funds and institutional owners and investors.

Lindsay has over 15 years of experience in communications and sustainable

development. She currently serves as a Communications Manager for Verdani

Partners, a full-service ESG consulting firm with 13 national and international real estate portfolios with over 900 million sq ft managed. Lindsay supports Verdani's certifications, engineering and corporate ESG teams by creating strategic communications materials for client's sustainability and ESG programs and annual reports. She also supports Verdani's internal marketing program and brand development. Lindsay launched her career by co-founding the University of Utah Office of Sustainability, creating the first department of its kind within the Inter-Mountain West in 2006. She then pursued a Master's Degree from the University of British Columbia in Urban Planning with a focus on sustainability. She co-founded the Healing Cities Institute in Vancouver, BC and has continued to develop her passion for health and wellness in the built environment. Her professional career has focused on marketing and communications in the high-performance building industry with a specialty in energy efficiency and building information management systems.

Loretta is a partner with the Real Estate practice team at Withersworldwide. Ms. Thompson’s practice includes both commercial and residential real estate matters. She regularly negotiates and facilitates real estate acquisitions and dispositions and handles tax exchanges for REIT’s, public and private corporations and high net worth individuals. Ms. Thompson also has over 20 years of extensive experience negotiating and administrating finance transactions, commercial leasing, property management contracts, construction and design contracts, and development agreements and easements. Ms. Thompson was a member of the Sustainability Committee for the Greater Los Angeles chapter of BOMA for over 7 years, where she spoke about sustainable practices and their legal impact as a frequent panelist at various organization events. Prior to her legal career, she worked for several years in real estate management, leasing, and sales in Southern California. Ms. Thompson also held positions in real estate asset management with Northern Trust Bank, Prudential’s Premisys Real Estate Services, and the former Tooley & Company, in addition to holding a real estate sales license.

Paul Hoffman is senior vice president of the commercial property assessed clean energy (C-PACE) financing program at Western Alliance Bank. Based in Los Angeles, Paul works with commercial property owners and developers in over 30 states that have adopted C-PACE legislation to provide financing for energy efficiency and renewable energy improvements on commercial properties to improve infrastructure, reduce carbon footprint, replace aged equipment, reduce a building’s operating costs and increase collateral value.

Mr. Hoffman joined Western Alliance Bank in 2021 and has over 25 years of experience in residential and commercial real estate including expertise in business expansion, debt and equity finance, sales management, acquisitions, and construction and development. Prior to joining Western Alliance, Paul held leadership positions at several financial institutions, most recently at Genesis Capital, Banc of California, and Citizens Business Bank.

Paul sits on the Board of Directors at South Coast Communities Inc., is the Co-Founder of the Ambassadors Program at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and is a Certified Mortgage Banker with the Mortgage Bankers Association of America.

He graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics.

Mary successfully led Armanino's B Corporation certification journey, establishing

Armanino as the largest B Corp accounting firm in the globe. She brings the deep

experience of responding to one of the most complex environmental, social and

governance verification frameworks to her clients. Serving as a trusted advisor, Mary

gives organizations the confidence to set and attain ambitious ESG goals.

Mary is an award-winning, results-oriented strategy, project management and

communications professional with experience in the professional services, healthcare, financial services, technology, and non-profit sectors. She leads her firm’s ESG Services team and the firm’s corporate foundation, delivering on the Armanino purpose to be the most innovative and entrepreneurial firm that makes a positive impact on the lives of its clients, people and community. She introduced innovative programs such as Volunteer Vacations, Financial Literacy and Virtual Volunteering to drive employee and community engagement. Mary earned her Bachelor of Arts degree from Saint Mary’s College of California and assisted Armanino in winning the 2020 CalCPA Public Service Award and placement on the Bay Area Top 100 Corporate Philanthropists List from the San Francisco Business Times.