Mike Sebastian has been in real estate technology for 14 years working with many different asset classes including multi-family, office, industrial and retail and other types of assets in real estate. Mike has worked with investment management clients for over 10 years ranging from small offices and syndications to large private equity funds and institutions. Mike has worked with clients to help them leverage state of the art software to streamline business process around the entire lifecycle of real estate starting with fund raising and investor relations, acquisition and underwriting, investment management and reporting, though property management and construction.

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.

Heath Binder manages Investor Relations for LBX Investments. In this role, he oversees investor relationships with both high net worth and institutional capital, financial reporting, and marketing efforts for LBX.

Heath has over 16 years of experience in commercial real estate and financial services. Prior to joining LBX, he managed investor relations for Big V Capital, and previously, for RealtyMogul.com.

Prior, he worked with ultra-high net worth real estate investors at Barclays Wealth in Los Angeles. Previously, he began his real estate career with Colliers in 2002, then worked as an equity REIT analyst at UBS.

Heath has an MS in Real Estate Finance from New York University.

Chris is a Staff Product Manager for Appfolio Investment Management. He owns the roadmap and development of core functionality such as distributions calculations and waterfalls, performance metric calculations, and investor reporting.