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Speakers and Panels

Investing in Multifamily

Daniel Doyle

Daniel Doyle

President

The Beach Company

Nelson Crowe

Nelson Crowe

Principal

Endeavor Real Estate Group

Amy Heskett

Amy Heskett

Senior Director, Real Estate

Greystar

Ken Copeland

Ken Copeland

President

Tidal Real Estate Partners

Marc Brambrut

Marc Brambrut

SVP

Portman Residential

Philip Head
Moderator

Philip Head

Partner

Holland & Knight LLP

Daniel Doyle

President

The Beach Company

Dan Doyle joined The Beach Company in 2004, with the role of expanding the company’s multi-family residential real estate portfolio throughout the southeast. Today, as President and Chief Operating Officer, Dan is responsible for all development, marketing, asset and property management functions of The Beach Company. He has more than 30 years of real estate industry experience, with the majority spent in the multifamily development and management sectors.

Dan’s undergraduate and graduate degrees are from The University of Michigan. His community involvement includes serving on the Board of Directors of the Charleston Regional Development Alliance, Operation Home, and past Board Member of the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce, its Executive Committee and Chair of its Developer’s Council. Dan is also an active member of The Cathedral of St. John The Baptist parish and serves on its Finance Council. Under Dan’s leadership, the company’s development department has expanded to more than 20 areas in the Southeast to include dynamic emerging cities such as Greenville, SC, Nashville, TN, Richmond, VA, and Huntsville, AL.

Nelson Crowe

Principal

Endeavor Real Estate Group

Endeavor Principal Nelson Crowe is responsible for leading the

company’s multifamily acquisition and development team, overseeing

site selection, entitlements, design, consultant coordination, construction,

project capitalization and asset management.

Currently, Nelson is working on the development of multifamily and mixed-use projects in Austin,

Nashville, Dallas Fort Worth, Salt Lake City and Denver totaling 13,000 units and nearly $3 billion in total

capitalization.

Prior to joining Endeavor in 2016, Nelson spent eight years at Forestar Group, where he served as Vice

President of Multifamily. In 2010, he was a founding member of the organization’s multifamily group,

which developed and/or managed more than 4,000 units in Nashville, Austin, Dallas, Denver, Charlotte

and Houston, with a total capitalization of $600 million.

Nelson previously worked for Crow Holdings, a private equity firm that focuses on direct real estate

investment through equity funds for the Trammell Crow family and its capital partners. While there, he

worked on the capital placement of an $850 million equity fund.

Education and Credentials

Southern Methodist University, Cox School of Business, Dallas, Bachelor of Business Administration, Real

Estate Finance, 2006

Southern Methodist University, Dedman College, Dallas, Bachelor of Arts, Spanish, 2006

Professional and Community Involvement

Real Estate Council of Austin – Member of Executive Committee and Board of Directors; Finance Chair

Apartment Life - Advisory Council Board Member

Real Estate Finance and Investment Center at McCombs School of Business – Associate Council

Austin Achieve Public Schools – Vice Chairman of Board of Directors; Facilities Chair

Urban Land Institute – Multifamily Silver Product Council

National Multi Housing Council – Member

Austin Ridge Bible Church – Member

Amy Heskett

Senior Director, Real Estate

Greystar

Amy started her career in the multi family industry with Post Properties in 1995; working her way up

from Leasing Consultant to Community Manager. She worked on several communities throughout the

Atlanta area and achieved Manager of the Year in 1998. In 2004 she joined United Residential

Properties, a privately held firm located in Macon, GA. While with United Residential, Amy oversaw a

portfolio of 2,200 Class A communities throughout the Southeast. Amy then joined First Communities in

2008 and was a part of the Century Portfolio working exclusively with Centennial Investment Group as a

Senior Property Manager and Area Manager. The focus was on value-add opportunities throughout the

Atlanta market. In 2015 she joined Greystar as a Regional Manager and has worked with both third-

party clients and the Greystar Investment Group. Amy was awarded Regional Manager of the Year in

2016 and 2018. She was a part of lease ups with the Overture brand in 2017. In 2018 she was promoted

to Sr Regional Manager and moved to exclusively work on the Greystar Investment Group communities

with a focus on value add. In May of 2019 Amy and her family relocated to Nashville and she is currently

the Director of Real Estate with Greystar and oversees a portfolio of 24 communities and just under

7,000 units. The portfolio will nearly double in size with the pre-development opportunities over the next two years. She has a BBA with an emphasis in Marketing from Georgia Southern University.

Marc Brambrut

SVP

Portman Residential

Marc previously served as the southeast regional development partner for Fairfield Residential, and prior to that as Senior Vice President of Novare Group. At Portman Residential, he is responsible for managing and executing our development activities nationwide. Marc’s career spans more than two decades, during which he has overseen the development of more than 6,000 apartment and condominium residences in markets throughout the country, valued at more than $1.5 billion. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Atlanta Apartment Association and the Atlanta chapter of the Urban Land Institute.

Philip Head

Moderator

Holland & Knight LLP

Focused on booming multifamily real estate sector

Real estate private equity funds, syndicators, developers, investors, and owner-operators involved in the multifamily real estate sector rely on Philip Head for counsel in transactional matters. Negotiating the complex joint ventures and multi-tiered ownership structures necessary for sophisticated acquisition and financing vehicles, Philip has closed apartment acquisitions, dispositions, and re-financings with an aggregate value in excess of $9.5 billion.

Philip has guided borrowers through the intricacies of financing multifamily properties through the:

Freddie Mac Seller Services Program

Fannie Mae Delegated Underwriting and Servicing product line

HUD/FHA insurance program

In addition to his multifamily experience, Philip assists developers, owners, and tenants in the development and leasing of stand-alone and multi-tenant office, industrial, retail, and healthcare properties.

Multifamily Design, Development, and Construction Trends

Jim Irwin

Jim Irwin

President

New City

Rajen Shastri

Rajen Shastri

CEO

Akara Partners

Elizabeth Herzberg

Elizabeth Herzberg

SVP, Development

Mint House

Mark Valliere

Mark Valliere

Principal

Smallwood

Martha Weidmann

Martha Weidmann

CEO and Co-founder

NINE dot ARTS

Lida Alsobrooks
Moderator

Lida Alsobrooks

Partner

Waller

Jim Irwin

President

New City

Jim Irwin is the President of New City, LLC and directs the company’s real estate development and consulting operations, as well as new business pursuits. Over the course of his career, Jim has been responsible for over $500 million of new investment around the United States.

Prior to founding New City, Jim served as a Senior Vice President at Jamestown Properties, leading the development of Ponce City Market, a 2.1 million square foot former Sears, Roebuck & Co. distribution facility that was originally constructed in the 1920’s. During its redevelopment, the project was one of the largest and most significant historic renovations underway in the United States.

Jim began his career in real estate working for Atlanta-based Barry Real Estate Companies. Among other projects, Jim managed the development of a FBI Regional Headquarters, a $60 million-build-to-suit project in Minneapolis, and Harrison Square, a 16 acre mixed-use development in Fort Wayne, Indiana, anchored by an 8,000 seat minor league ballpark associated with the San Diego Padres. Since it opened to the public, the ballpark has been named “best overall minor league baseball experience” in the country four separate years.

Jim earned a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College, where he played football for four years. After college, he served as a legislative aide to two U.S. senators and a U.S. representative before returning to Atlanta to pursue a MBA with a concentration in real estate finance at Emory University’s Goizueta Business School. Jim and his wife, Elisabeth, have three young children.

Rajen Shastri

CEO

Akara Partners

Rajen Shastri has spent over 12 years working in senior management roles across the spectrum of the commercial real estate value chain, from being an investment professional at a global real estate institutional investor to acting as a Principal at an operator/developer. His vision for Akara partners is to offer investors the ability to participate with a vertically integrated real investment firm, allowing them to capture value from the elimination of the inherent information asymmetry between investors, operators and developers.

Prior to founding Akara Partners in 2013, Rajen was a Principal, CIO and Co-COO of Campus Acquisitions (“CA”) a developer and operator of student housing assets from 2009-2013. While at CA, Rajen led the capitalization and monetization of over $1 billion in student housing assets across the U.S., including the $627 million sale of a portfolio of assets to American Campus Communities (NYSE: ACC) in 2012.

Prior to CA, Rajen worked at Syndicated Equities and Jones Lang LaSalle, where he identified and structured commercial real estate investments across asset types both in the U.S and Internationally.

Rajen has a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He serves on the Kellogg Alumni Real Estate Board, is a member of YPO, Windy City Chapter and is on the Board of Advisors for the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate at the University of Wisconsin School of Business.

Elizabeth Herzberg

SVP, Development

Mint House

As Senior Vice President of Development and Strategic Partnerships for Mint House, the leading

tech-enabled residential hospitality operator, Elizabeth oversees strategic expansion of the

company’s portfolio across the U.S. through management partnerships with real estate owners and

developers. Founded in 2017, Mint House is transforming the way we live, work and play away from

home – delivering apartment-style, design-forward spaces that offer the conveniences of home,

reliability of high-end hospitality, and tech-enabled amenities that travelers have come to expect.

Elizabeth has been a key leader in the company’s growth to 25+ properties in 16 markets. She

currently manages a team of development executives and serves as the Chair of the Mint House

Development Board of Advisors. Prior to Mint House, Elizabeth was a commercial real estate broker

with CBRE in New York, and before that, held positions in business development and marketing with

CBRE and Transwestern.

Mark Valliere

Principal

Smallwood

Mark is a Principal at Smallwood, an international design firm that provides architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and experiential graphic design services. For over 35 years,

Mark has successfully designed and managed projects in the Multifamily, Hospitality, Mixed-use, Office, Retail and Institutional sectors.

He has a strong focus on Multifamily and Hospitality projects and through design creates memorable experiences for residents and guests. In Nashville, Mark was involved in the design of the SkyHouse, Viridian and Encore residential projects, as well as the JW Marriott hotel.

Recent Multifamily projects of his include Vireo in Atlanta, and Icon Harbour Island in Tampa Bay. Mark also designed the Thompson Savannah and The Cherokee, Harrah’s Cherokee Hotel.

Mark holds an Undergraduate degree from the University of Florida and a Graduate degree from Rice University.

Martha Weidmann

CEO and Co-founder

NINE dot ARTS

As a formally trained artist, self-taught businesswoman, and lifelong entrepreneur, NINE dot ARTS CEO and Co-founder Martha Weidmann aims to be a mentor and champion for aspiring artists and business leaders alike. Martha and Co-founder Molly Casey formed NINE dot ARTS in 2009 with the vision of building a forward-thinking art consulting company that both curates incredible art experiences and advocates for art and artists. Since then, the firm has completed nearly 1,000 real estate projects across 39 states and five countries, generating more than $50M in revenue for the creative economy. Currently, their artist application, Dotfolio, features over 10,000 artists from around the world.

Lida Alsobrooks

Moderator

Waller

A well-rounded approach to real estate deals

From the mixed-use projects that are redefining the Nashville skyline to multi-family residential communities across the United States, Lida Alsobrooks' real estate experience and acumen are valued by developers, property management companies, property owners and investment firms. Her practice encompasses every aspect of the real estate industry - from the acquisition of raw land, the negotiation of construction financing, the negotiation of design and construction contracts and the resolution of land use and zoning issues to the negotiation of economic development incentives from state and local government agencies.

Lida also represents clients in tenant leasing agreements and the purchase and sale of high-profile properties and real estate assets.

Clients appreciate Lida's responsiveness and her keen understanding of both their objectives and the complex challenges they face in a dynamic marketplace. Before attending law school, Lida assisted in the management of corporate office buildings in Atlanta and gained practical insights into both the day-to-day operational issues faced by clients as well as their larger strategic imperatives.

Opening Remarks

Keith Hayman
Opening Remarks

Keith Hayman

SVP

Goodman‐Gable‐Gould

Why This Matters

What You'll Learn: 

  • A recent Harris Poll shows that 75% of the work force prefers some form of work from home. How has the pandemic changed multifamily design and amenities, and what pivots to current projects have occurred because of this?

  • Nashville did not see the same slow down in population growth during the pandemic that other big cities did. What is driving the population to continue to increase? Where is this pushing new multifamily developments?

  • Where is financing coming from for multifamily projects? What financial constraints have been caused by Covid-19 and how is the multifamily ecosystem recovering?

  • Nashville has continued to see big multifamily projects progress and deliver. What are the effects of rising construction and labor costs on various projects and are these funds able to be recouped?

How You'll Do More Business: Nashville's multifamily market has continued to remain strong throughout the pandemic. Even so, this past year-and-a-half has brought new trends into the industry. Find out what changes are here to stay, and which of these to put your money into for the best return on investment.

Who You’ll Meet: Nashville's top multifamily owners and developers, property managers, and more.

What Does Your Ticket Get You: Bisnow events bring together the biggest power players in the industry to identify opportunities, build your network and expand your business. With the largest audience of commercial real estate professionals in the world, no one knows how to help your business more than us. 

For questions, recommendations, comments, or press inquiries please email our Mid-Atlantic  Event Producer, Virginia Baker, at virginia.baker@bisnow.com 

Venue

Hutton Hotel
1808 West End Ave.
Nashville, TN 37203

Ballroom: Vista Ballroom A - 6th Floor Meeting Space


Parking information: Valet: $22+
Self: $20+

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Agenda

Time Activity
1:00 PM
2:00 PM
Registration, Networking, & Breakfast
2:00 PM
2:45 PM
Investing in Multifamily

Where is the money for multifamily coming from and where is it going? The pandemic has raised construction and labor costs across the board. How and where can that money be gained back?

2:45 PM
3:30 PM
Multifamily Design, Development, and Construction Trends

In what direction has the pandemic driven multifamily market changes. Are these long term changes that should be permanently integrated into build and design?

3:30 PM
4:00 PM
Post Panel Networking

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