Sean Burton has over 15 years of experience in real estate and equity investments and has been with CityView since 2003. Burton manages CityView’s platform and operations and chairs the investment committees for CityView’s two Blackstone funds and its Los Angeles Urban Fund. Prior to joining CityView, Burton was vice president of corporate business development and strategy at Warner Bros. Before that, Burton was an attorney in the real estate and corporate groups of O’Melveny & Myers, LLP and served in the White House during the Clinton Administration. He is a graduate of University of California, Irvine and New York University School of Law.

Kevin Demoff is in his 11th year as Chief Operating Officer with the Rams. In this capacity, Demoff serves as the team's top front office executive and liaison to owner and chairman, Stan Kroenke, on all organizational matters.

After serving on the working group that helped Kroenke return the Rams – Los Angeles' original professional sports team – home to L.A., Demoff is now playing a significant role in delivering on Kroenke's vision to design and construct the 298-acre sports and entertainment district in Inglewood that will serve as the future home of the Rams. The campus will include a 70,240 seat stadium, performance venue, retail district and office complex and is currently the largest entitled real-estate project in Southern California.

Immediately on the heels of the National Football League's historic return to Los Angeles, Demoff and the Rams helped lead a regional effort to bring the Super Bowl to the new L.A. Stadium and Entertainment District at Hollywood Park. In addition to being the most-watched sporting event in the world, Super Bowl LVI, which will be played in 2022, will attract tens of thousands of people to the Los Angeles region and generate hundreds of millions of dollars for local hotels, restaurants, shops and other businesses. Super Bowl LVI is projected to be Los Angeles' largest tourism event since the 1984 Olympics.

The Hollywood Park development is expected to generate hundreds of millions in new annual economic activity across the region. There are up to 3,000 construction workers on-site daily, with Inglewood residents given priority placement, and more than 10 million worker hours have been completed to-date since construction began. Once completed and fully operating, the stadium and retail components are expected to generate thousands of additional jobs with long-term regional benefits.

Demoff and the Rams have also joined forces with the LA24 Olympic Bid Committee, chaired by Casey Wasserman, to help deliver the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games to Los Angeles. In addition, L.A. Stadium and Entertainment District will host the College Football Playoff final in 2023.

Demoff was recognized by the Sports Business Journal as one of its "Forty under 40" class members of 2016 and in 2010 he was named one of the "NFL's 10 Future Power Brokers" by Sports Illustrated.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Calif., Demoff received a bachelors' degree in history from Dartmouth College in 1999 and a Masters in Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in 2006. Kevin and his wife Jennifer have two children – a daughter, Claire and a son, Owen.

Ms. Lynn Owen is the Chief Operations Officer of TruAmerica Multifamily

and brings over 30 years of multifamily and commercial property

management experience to her role. Ms. Owen is responsible for overseeing

all asset and construction management and portfolio operations functions and

is a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. Ms. Owen has expertise in

managing multifamily and commercial properties of varying investment

criteria and business objectives.

Prior to joining TruAmerica Multifamily, Ms. Owen was Senior Director

of Real Estate at Greystar. Before joining Greystar, Ms. Owen was a

Principal/Owner and the Director of Business Development and

Marketing at Glacier Real Estate Services, where she had an

integral role in selling to Greystar in 2010. Prior to Glacier, Ms. Owen

held senior positions at Etico Property Management Company, Allied

Group, Lexford NW, New Ventures and C.G. Rein Company.

Ms. Owen attended The University of Minnesota, majoring in Business

Administration with a focus in Marketing. She holds a real estate

broker license in Washington State and has served on the Board of

Directors for the Washington Multi-Family Housing Association. Ms.

Owen is a frequent speaker at regional and national industry-related

events and was named one of Real Estate Forum’s California Women

of Influence in 2015, and Southern California’s Most Powerful Women

in Commercial Real Estate for 2017.

Ms. Owen is dedicated to fundraising for charities that support

children’s health and well-being, non-profit organizations that teach

job skills to homeless individuals, and organizations that assist victims

of domestic abuse.

Adam Tartakovsky is the Executive Vice President overseeing West Coast development for Crescent Heights, focusing on Seattle, San Francisco and Los Angeles and the implementation of in-house R&D innovations in sustainability, community collaboration and urban design. He attended the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the Wharton School of Business. He received bachelor's degrees in Environmental Science and International Politics & Economics at UC Santa Barbara and Tel Aviv University. Adam is a board member of various civic organizations, including the Urban Land Institute, the Housing Action Coalition, the SF Planning and Urban Research Association (SPUR), and the Friends of the Hollywood Central Park.

Tyson Strutzenberg joined Trinity Capital Advisors in 2019 and leads the development and asset management efforts for Trinity’s life science platform. In this role, he is responsible for project design, construction, leasing, and finance. Prior to joining Trinity Capital Advisors, Tyson was COO and SVP of Asset Management at Rising Realty Partners, a vertically integrated developer and investor in Los Angeles. While at Rising, Tyson oversaw the company’s portfolio, executing business plans for 20 properties totaling over five million square feet (over $1.3 billion in value). Previously, he was a Managing Director in the commercial group at Kennedy Wilson in Beverly Hills for five years. Tyson has a total of 20 years of industry experience and holds a BS from Purdue University, an MS from Stanford University and an MBA from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.

Even before earning her master's degree in architecture at Yale, I-Fei Chang had found the real estate industry alluring, with its ability to stimulate the economy and promote employment. The former Greenland CEO, who now works as a consultant, says the most rewarding part of her career is the opportunity to cooperate with other professionals around the world to invest in the development and reshaping of cities. Seeing projects she has initiated as she walks down the streets of Tokyo, Taipei, Hong Kong, Shanghai, St. Petersburg, Los Angeles and Brooklyn makes the hard work worthwhile. She makes a point to explore the cities where she travels for work. I-Fei tells us a welcome challenge is continually finding new opportunities for urban development and growth.

Clare De Briere is a native Angeleno and has spent her career creating special places for the citizens and visitors of Los Angeles.

Clare joined The Ratkovich Company as a summer intern in 1991 after graduating from UCLA and worked her way through property management, leasing, construction, financing and development management while earning her graduate degree at USC's prestigious Lusk Center for Real Estate. In her career with the company she has overseen the acquisition, entitlement, planning, development and/or disposition of millions of square feet from The Wiltern Theatre, 5900 Wilshire, 800 Wilshire, The Alhambra, The Hercules Campus in Playa Vista and, most recently, The Bloc in downtown Los Angeles. Clare retired from the Company after 26 years, the last decade of which she spent as its Chief Operating Office and Executive Vice President. She remains affiliated with the Company through its Advisory Board.

Clare and her husband, Chef Christopher Barnett, have started a new company, C+C Ventures, a Los Angeles based experience company to develop places that inspire creativity, curiosity and delight whether through a wonderful neighborhood restaurant or a fantastic renovated work or living space.

Clare is an active member of the Urban Land Institute serving on the National Advisory Committee for Building Healthy Places and Building Healthy Corridors, and on the Los Angeles District Council'€™s Executive Committee and Advisory Board. She has served on a ULI Advisory Panel in the City of Denver and on a local Technical Assistance Panel for the Huntington Hospital and Cal Poly Pomona. She has been named on the Los Angeles Business Journal's Women Making a Difference list and has been on the Real Estate - Southern California's Women of Influence list every year since 2003. Clare is also on the Advisory Board of the UCLA History Department; and served on the Executive Committee of the Board of the Los Angeles Conservancy.

Steven Fifield has been recognized as a prolific and successful office and residential developer in Los Angeles and Chicago. Known as an industry trend setter, Fifield developed over 50 mid and high rise apartment and office towers in the last 30 years. In the last decade, Steve has become a major developer of urban infill residential buildings. In total, he’s built more than 5,000 high-rise and mid-rise residential units in Los Angeles, Chicago, Southeast Florida, Las Vegas and Waikiki.

Fifield is a member of numerous real estate organizations and an active contributor to civic and charity groups. He is an Indiana University trained mathematician with an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Sterling Johnson is Vice President of Investments at Mosaic Real Estate Investors (“Mosaic”) and is tasked with originating, underwriting and closing investments made through Mosaic’s debt platform – Mosaic Real Estate Credit (“MREC”). The fund’s strategy is designed to address the needs of real estate borrowers not currently being met by traditional lenders. MREC’s focuses on providing debt capital to real estate entrepreneurs aiming to add value to their assets over a 1-3 year period and can take the form of a first mortgage loan, as well as mezzanine or preferred equity structures.

Over the span of his career, Sterling has closed real estate transactions representing over $2 billion in aggregate value across all major asset classes, including over $500 million in ground-up development. Before joining Mosaic, he served as a Vice President at Quantum Capital Partners. Previously, he was a Director in the Real Estate Group of Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, a Director at Alliance Residential and a Senior Associate at The Picerne Group. Sterling holds a Master’s Degree in Real Estate from New York University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California. He is an Eagle Scout and a member of Urban Land Institute.

Jay Newman joined The Athens Group in 2000 as Chief Operating Officer where he focuses on the company’s financial affairs and development opportunities. He has more than 32 years of experience in commercial real estate including development along with entitlements and design, acquisitions, joint ventures, finance and dispositions. Jay is primarily responsible for managing the acquisition and financing of many of The Athens Group's projects including the raising of equity capital. In addition, Jay was primarily responsible for the development and financing of the mixed-use Montage Beverly Hills in California and the acquisition, re-entitlement and redesign of the West Hollywood mixed-use Edition project and is currently engaged in the planning and entitlement for the re-development of the Miramar Hotel in Santa Monica.

In 1993, Jay was one of the founding members of the national real estate law firm of Pircher, Nichols & Meeks based in Los Angeles where he was a managing partner and a real estate transactional attorney. In 1995, he joined Highridge Partners in Los Angeles as Senior Vice President of the Summit Commercial Properties Division, where he focused on the purchasing, repositioning, leasing, management and sale of shopping centers and office buildings on both a one-off and portfolio basis. Jay was one of the founders of Lend Lease Development (US) in 1996, where he focused on the development of resorts (including The Ritz-Carlton in Half Moon Bay, California), shopping centers and office buildings. As Senior Vice President of Lend Lease Real Estate Investments, Inc., and a member of the Lend Lease Lodging Group, he focused on the development of new hotels and resorts throughout the United States and was primarily responsible for the creation of the Resort Development Program.

Jay received his undergraduate degree in applied economics (summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of California at Berkeley in 1978, and his MBA and Juris Doctorate degree from Stanford University in 1982. He is a guest lecturer at the UCLA School of Public Policy and Planning and a frequent speaker at ULI, Meet the Money, Bisnow, the Southern California Development Forum and CLE International. Jay sits on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee for the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Directors of the Beverly Hills Conference and Visitors Bureau, and the Board of Directors of Beverly Hills Rotary. Jay is also actively involved in Imagine LA. Jay and his family reside in Los Angeles, California.

Ken Kahan is Founder and President of California Landmark (or "CLG"), a real estate development and investment company. Since its inception in 1988, California Landmark has invested in or developed all types of real estate from residential (including single family as well as low and high rise multi-family) to commercial (including hospitality, office and industrial). The company has developed in excess of 3,000,000 million square feet of various products.

CLG has distinguished itself in Southern California as an innovative problem solver in both the design and development of dozens of multi-family communities. The firm is currently one of the largest private multi-family developers in Los Angeles with over 500 units in various stages of construction or development.

Current projects include three high profile mixed use projects including the bw (Wilshire at Barrington), the hw (Hollywood Blvd. near Crescent Heights) and the LC (Larchmont at Melrose and Camerford). Past projects include modern townhomes and industrial "hard" lofts in the Marina Arts District, high-rise condominiums along the Wilshire corridor, California courtyard buildings in Westwood and Brentwood, art deco apartments in West Hollywood, and Mediterranean style villas in Century City.

In the past ten years CLG has expanded its footprint of residential acquisitions by purchasing existing apartment communities throughout Southern California. Projects include townhouse condominium projects converted to rentals, middle income apartments in San Diego, renovations of 1950's apartment buildings in the San Fernando Valley and most recently, low income housing in the San Gabriel Valley. At the same time, the firm has expanded its portfolio to include industrial, office and flex space projects totaling several hundred thousand square feet.

Ken is passionate about all aspect of urban planning and development. He is a frequent speaker on matters pertaining to entitlements, zoning, multi family/mixed use projects and urban development. California Landmark has been involved in the City of Los Angeles implementation ordinance of SB1818 and has delivered several mixed income housing projects throughout the region.

A native of Los Angeles, Ken obtained both his bachelor of arts and juris doctor degrees from UCLA. Ken currently resides in West Los Angeles with his family.

The Mayor has a combined 39 years in public safety, municipal government and education. He holds a Bachelor of Science (California State University at Los Angeles) and a Masters Degree in Business Administration (California Polytechnic University at Pomona). Mayor Butts has served as a general manager or assistant general manager of large and complex municipal organizations for the past 27 years.

The Mayor served the residents of Inglewood for nearly two decades as an Inglewood Police Officer, ultimately rising to the rank of Deputy Chief of Police. Between 1980 and 1990 he was promoted 5 times. In 1991 James Butts was selected to become Chief of Police for the City of Santa Monica where he served for 15 years. During his tenure in Santa Monica as Chief, crime fell 64% to its lowest level since 1956. Citizen complaints also fell by 50% and police liability payouts dropped by 99% as well. Mayor Butts retired as one of the longest serving police chiefs in the County of Los Angeles to serve as an Assistant General Manager (Deputy Executive Director)of the Los Angeles World Airports (which includes LAX) system responsible for Public Safety and Counter-Terrorism. He was responsible for a budget of 116 million dollars and 1100 employees. From 2006 to 2010, the Mayor was directly responsible for the safety of 60 million passengers that travel through LAX. In less than 4 years LAX went from being ranked near the bottom in airport security to being named the most secure airport in the United States by the Transportation Security Administration.

On January 11th, James T. Butts, Jr. was elected as the 12th mayor in the history of the City of Inglewood.

Suzanne Fuentes has served as Mayor of the City of El Segundo, Calif., since April 2014. She was originally elected to a four-year term on the City Council in April 2010 and was re-elected in April 2014. El Segundo is a small coastline community in southwestern Los Angeles County that is renowned for maintaining a quaint, small town atmosphere as well as a thriving business environment that caters to some of the region's most prestigious corporations. Suzanne is a lifelong resident of El Segundo and still lives on the street where she grew up. As a City Council member, she is focused on financial stability, economic development, emergency preparedness, preserving El Segundo’s unique character and retaining Los Angeles Air Force Base. She represents the City Council on the South Bay Cities Council of Governments, the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. and the Los Angeles Jobs Defense Council. Suzanne also serves on the El Segundo City/School Affairs Subcommittee, Reach Out Against Drugs (ROAD) and Park Vista Senior Housing Board.

With over 28 years of real estate and business operations experience, Scott serves as CityLift’s Chief Executive Officer. Prior to creating CityLift, Scott served as Chief Operating Officer for Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust where he played a key role in establishing the single family rental industry as an institutional asset class—eventually taking the company public in 2014. Previous to this, Mr. Gable was with Wells Fargo Bank where he helped create the home equity lending business and ultimately served as its EVP of Operations across the United States. Scott began his career with Booz Allen & Hamilton where he consulted on operations and strategy for consumer products, entertainment, and retail companies—eventually becoming a principal. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB in International Relations from Stanford University.

For over 30 years, Paul Zeger has been the definitive source of information for new construction sales and marketing in the Bay Area. His leadership in identifying and capitalizing on residential development opportunities is unparalleled. Paul’s client relationships include some of the most successful real estate development firms on the west coast – TMG Partners, Emerald Fund, Lennar Urban and Wilson Meany to name a few. Paul believes in making commitments to his clients, and building trust by delivering on his commitments. Paul earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics at Colgate University and a Masters in Business Administration from the Darden School at the University of Virginia.

Jaime Lee is the Chief Executive Officer of the Jamison group of companies, a

privately-held, family-run real estate business, which controls over 18 million square feet

of commercial office, retail, medical, and multifamily properties throughout Southern

California.  Jamison has been one of the largest commercial landlords in Los Angeles

for the past twenty-five years. Since 2014, it has quickly become one of the city’s most

active multifamily developers as well, bringing to market 5,000 units with an additional

2,500 units currently under construction and 7,500 more in development.

Earning both BA and JD degrees from the University of Southern California, the Los

Angeles native currently sits on the USC Board of Trustees where she co-chairs the

Alumni Affairs and University Development committee and sits on the Executive, Audit

Compliance Risk & Privacy, Nominating & Governance, and Academic Affairs

committees. She is also a member of the Board of Councilors for the USC Dornsife

College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and an Executive Committee member of the USC

Lusk Center for Real Estate. A longtime university volunteer, Jaime previously served

as President of the USC Alumni Association Board of Governors and President of the

USC Asian Pacific Alumni Association Board of Directors. Jaime is active with her high

school alma mater, where she is a member of the Harvard-Westlake Board of Trustees

and a founding member of its inaugural Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council.

Jaime is also involved in a number of civic and non-profit organizations at the city, state,

and community levels. She has served the City of Los Angeles as an appointed

commissioner under three different mayoral administrations. Appointed by Mayor Eric

Garcetti, she was elected President of the Board of Harbor Commissioners for the Port

of Los Angeles in April 2018, the largest container port by trade volume in the western

hemisphere. She also serves on the Mayor’s International Advisory Council and as co-

chair of the public-private partnership non-profit Global LA. She previously served for

four years as President of the Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System Board

of Administration, which oversees the City’s $22 billion employee pension fund, and on

the boards for the Industrial Development Authority and the Quality and Productivity

Commission. She currently serves the State of California as Vice Chair of the California

Film Commission and previously spent seven years as a commissioner on the Speech

Language Pathology, Audiology & Hearing Aid Dispensers Board. Jaime is active in the

community as a board member of the Los Angeles Organizing Committee for the

Olympic and Paralympic Games 2028 where she sits on the Executive, Compensation,

and Conflicts committees, the Los Angeles World Affairs Council & Town Hall, and the

Korean American Foundation Advisory Board.

Recognized for her professional and civic contributions, Jaime has been named one of

the 500 most influential people in Los Angeles by the LA Business Journal every year

since 2018. She was honored by Asia Society Southern California as their 2020 Urban

Visionary, by the USC School of Architecture with their 2021 Distinguished Business

Leadership Award, and in 2022 with the LA Parks Foundation’s Rose Award and a Los

Angeles Times Woman of Influence Award.

She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their three children.

Mr. Levy is the Vice President of Investments for The Laramar Group and is responsible for acquisitions and asset management throughout the western United States with a primary focus on California markets. Mr. Levy joined Laramar after 6 years as Vice President of Acquisitions & Development at Frost/Chaddock Developers, LLC, a Los Angeles based multi-family investment, development and management company where he was responsible for all aspects of acquisitions, feasibility, design development, entitlements and structured financing. Prior to joining Frost/Chaddock, Mr. Levy was the Acquisitions & Project Manager for Beverly Hills based Casden Properties, LLC. At Casden, Mr. Levy was involved in the acquisition and development for more than 3,000 residential units and 500,000 square feet of commercial space throughout Southern California. Additionally, Mr. Levy was a Deputy to Los Angeles City Councilmember Tom LaBonge where he managed city-wide capital improvement projects, infrastructure development and land-use planning. Mr. Levy received his B.S. from the University of Southern California and a Master of Planning from the University of Southern California.

Mr. Cook is Co-President and Co-Chief Investment Officer of McCarthy Cook & Co. (“MCC”) a Los Angeles based commercial real estate investment and management firm. He is primarily responsible for acquisitions, asset management leasing and development as well as investor relations.

Founded in 1995 by Tom McCarthy and Mr. Cook, MCC invests in office, mixed use, medical research and technology properties in the major markets of the western U.S. The firm is an institutional real estate investor and vertically integrated operating company. Its current and former institutional partners include JP Morgan Investment Management, Morgan Stanley Real Estate, Canyon Capital Advisors, the California Public Employment Retirement System (CalPERS), the Blackstone Group, Stockbridge Capital Partners and BayNorth Capital. MCC maintains offices in Los Angeles, Costa Mesa, San Francisco and Phoenix.

McCarthy Cook has completed over $3 billion in transactions. Its current portfolio encompasses 4.1 million square feet of prime office space and includes China Basin in San Francisco (930,000 sq. ft.) and a 1 million sq. ft. Class A portfolio in Phoenix. In 2012, MCC completed the 230,000 sq. ft., $225 million Sandler Neuroscience Center for the University of California San Francisco in a public/private joint venture involving a $750 million capital lease and associated public bond financing.

Prior to founding McCarthy Cook & Co., Mr. Cook was a senior executive with Maguire Thomas Partners. During his decade with Maguire he held responsibilities in nearly every area of the organization including finance, leasing, development and asset management.

Mr. Cook holds an MBA in Real Estate Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Finance from the University of Southern California. He is an Executive Committee member of the Wharton Real Estate Center, member of Young President’s Organization, the Urban Land Institute, Pension Real Estate Association and actively participates in civic and charity endeavors

Jonathan is a leader in project visioning and design with diverse range of architectural, interiors and planning experience at Retail Design Collaborative. He has designed numerous award-winning and published projects of various building typologies both nationally and internationally. His transformative projects includes a range of small scale, large scale, mixed-use and master planning centered on a contextual, concept-driven design process.

Jonathan leads with a strong background in innovative architectural interiors and strategic programming with a focus on creative workplace, specialty retail, cultural and community rooted projects. Jonathan has created unique spaces for Apple Beats Campus, Equinox, and the new 32,000 SF urban office for RDC in downtown Long Beach. In addition to his notable work within the profession, Jonathan has taught as adjunct professor at Orange Coast College instructing Design Studios + Architectural Theory and Drawing + Design Visualization and continues to retain involvement as a design critic. He holds the Bachelor of Architecture from California Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo.

Joe El Rady is an Executive Managing Director at Rosano Partners.  He is an executive in charge of market research.  He is a specialist in the credit markets and special situations expert with significant capital raising and restructuring experience across a wide variety of industries. Mr. El Rady began his investment banking career at Houlihan Lokey, the top financial restructuring firm on Wall Street. Houlihan Lokey advised on 23 of the 25 largest bankruptcies in history, including Enron, WorldCom, and Tower Records. During Mr. El Rady’s time at Houlihan Lokey, the firm restructured General Motors, Lehman Brothers, and the Government of Iraq.  During his tenure at Houlihan Lokey, Mr. El Rady focused on private placements of debt and equity securities in connection with restructurings, refinancing’s, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, growth capital, and acquisitions. After Houlihan Lokey, Mr. El Rady managed a $2.2billion private equity portfolio for Frontier Group, a Private Equity Firm founded and chaired by Frank C. Carlucci, former US Secretary of Defense and former Chairman of the Carlyle Group. He later served as Senior Director and Co-Head of the Capital Markets Group at Rosano Partners. Mr. El Rady has led numerous financing, buy-side, special situation and principal investment transactions. Mr. El Rady is a frequent writer, blogger, lecturer, and speaker on financial and economic issues. He teaches economics and finance at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is working on his first book. Mr. El Rady holds an undergraduate degree with honors from Stanford University and an MBA in finance from the Wharton School.

Dave Wood is the Director of Business Development for Harman International. Based out of Orange County, CA he manages the team responsible for the Western US. Prior to Harman Dave was Regional Vice President for AMX. Before his time at AMX Dave spent 9 years in the field designing and overseeing projects for various Audio Visual integration firms and their clients. With over 20 years of Industry experience, he has helped 100’s of clients plan, implement and maintain effective collaboration spaces. High quality audio and video presentation has transformed from a “nice to have” to a necessary component of nearly every meeting space. With the growth of presentation systems comes the need to manage them correctly to maintain reliability and improve the in room experience. As the office environments have shifted toward remote based employees, open offices, and flexible work environments Dave has helped create spaces that will attract and retain top talent. Dave’s focus is on Harman's end user community to help solve their communication needs with Harman's best of breed brands like JBL, BSS, AMX, Crown, SVSI and more. Past projects have ranged from new construction of corporate headquarters, digital signage, video walls, and national roll outs of conference room standards. Dave works side by side with end users, architects, general contractors, consultants, and integrators to deliver on the client’s vision. He holds a Broadcast Degree from University of the Pacific.

Since starting in the real estate business in 1979, Mr. Marek has built a track record of success as an investor, developer, broker, lender, and manager of commercial real estate. After working at the Charles Dunn Company for seven years and a brief stint with Sycamore Financial Group, Mr. Marek, along with Mr. McBride formed Capital Lending Resources (“CLR”) and Capital Real Estate Advisors (“CRA”) in 1994. Since the formation of these two companies, Mr. Marek has participated in over $1 billion dollars worth of real estate and finance transactions. Additionally, Mr. Marek has been actively involved in numerous real estate investment and development projects as an owner and managing partner. Mr. Marek’s broad range of experiences in both the investment and financing arenas provide him with a unique and balanced perspective when analyzing and structuring loans. Mr. Marek’s clients include such national firms as Rite Aid Drug Stores (as a preferred developer), Chicago Title, American Golf, Regency Centers, and Wachovia Securities (now Wells Fargo Bank).

Mr. Marek is a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), Urban Land Institute (ULI), California Mortgage Association (CMA), and Rainmaker U. His charitable affiliations include the California Heart Center Foundation, Maryvale, Catholic Big Brothers, and his alma mater Crespi High School, where he previously served on the Board of Directors. Mr. Marek resides in Westlake Village with his two children. Mr. Marek has an undergraduate degree from California State University, Northridge, and a graduate degree from the University of Virginia.

Dave is responsible for managing four teams within the Orange County and Los Angeles office locations, including Virtual Design and Construction, MEP, Scheduling, and Quality Control. During his time with Swinerton, his roles have included Project Manager, VD&C/BIM Manager, MEP Coordinator, and Design Engineer. A registered Professional Mechanical Engineer, Dave is also a LEED AP and DBIA certified. As Director of Project Support Services, he oversees each internal group while also teaming closely with clients, architects, and subcontractors. Embracing a whole team approach with great attention to detail, he continues to research innovative technologies to help maintain a competitive edge.

As the CEO of iBorrow, former real estate lawyer, real estate owner and adept businessman, Brian has a vast array of knowledge in the commercial real estate sector, specifically structuring complex deals. Borrowers and investors alike turn to Brian because of his ability to underwrite deals quickly while adhering to a high standard of ethics and due diligence. Not only is Brian well-positioned in understanding every aspect of the deal process – including what is vital and what isn’t – but he goes beyond the numbers by taking a comprehensive and strategic approach to each deal. Brian first founded Eagle Group, LLC in 2001, as a fully-integrated real estate company that handles all aspects of commercial real estate including finance, loan servicing, management and advisory services. In 2012, Brian branched off to create iBorrow (formerly Eagle Group Finance), a dedicated lender specializing in private loans for commercial properties in the Western U.S.

Prior to iBorrow, Brian was a real estate transactional attorney at the law firms of TroyGould and Kulik, Gottesman & Mouton, where he represented real estate investment trusts, publicly traded real estate companies and high-net- worth individuals. He also served as President and Board Member of TenantDirect.com, the developer of the first web-based property management software system for the real estate industry. Brian earned his B.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara and his J.D. from Loyola Law School. He also has an MBA from Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business.

Brian is a licensed California real estate broker and a member of the State Bar of California. He has taught multiple courses at UCLA Extension, and currently serves as Vice President of the Guardians, Board Member of the Southern California Golf Association Foundation and Member of the Real Estate Council of the Federation.

David A. Shimkin is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Cozen O'Connor, an international law firm consistently ranked among the top 100 law firms in the country.

His litigation practice includes complex commercial matters, with a focus on representing hospitality, construction/real estate, and food and beverage clients, and David was recently named co-chair of the firm's Food and Beverage industry team.

A former Bronx prosecutor, David has briefed more than 40 appeals in the state and federal courts, and has tried numerous cases. David was also an adjunct professor at New York Law School, and sits on the board of a major nonprofit organization.

David was a John Kluge Scholar as an undergraduate at Columbia University, from which he graduated in 1993. He earned his law degree in 1997 from Cornell Law School, where he was a general editor of the Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy.

David was chosen as a 2013 Rising Star by the New York Law Journal and named as Cozen O'Connor's 2016 Fellow with the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity.

Gary Weiss is one of the founding Principals of L.A. Realty Partners and has been an active broker in the Los Angeles area since 1987. He started his career at Studley, specializing in the West Los Angeles submarket, focusing on tenant representation. After 13 years at Studley as one of their consistently top-producing brokers, Mr. Weiss left in 1999 to start up the commercial brokerage division of Wall Street investment bank, Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, headquartered in Century City. Shortly after DLJ’s takeover by Credit Suisse First Boston, Gary left CSFB in January 2002 and joined the JH Snyder Company as Senior Vice President, concentrating on new development, acquisition, and leasing. From there, he opened Madison Partners in Century City in March of 2004, with three other partners. Gary has made his reputation by representing many high profile tenants and has select high end landlord assignments. He has completed over 8 million square feet of transactions, and to date, has negotiated over 460 separate real estate transactions. Additionally, he has represented over 4 million square feet of law firm, entertainment and media companies, and over 2.5 million square feet of transactions in Century City alone.

EDUCATION AND AFFILIATIONS:

 B.S. in Business Management, San Diego State University (1979);

 Board of Directors, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s LA Chapter (2010 – 2015));

 Chairman, Los Angeles Regional Counsel, San Diego State University (2013 – Present);

 Board of Directors, Wags & Walks(2015 – Present).

Sal LaViña heads the Real Estate and Corporate Departments at Enenstein Ribakoff LaViña & Pham, APC. He has over 27 years' experience closing complex deals and providing strategic advice to his many successful clients. Since 2007, Sal has closed or supervised over $5 billion of transactions, including over $2B in the past two years. His areas of expertise include the following:

Real estate deals, especially complex acquisitions and sales, multifamily, 1031 exchanges and TICs, JVs, real estate funds, and multi-state matters

Corporate transactions, especially mid-market M&A, stock and asset deals, fund formation, syndication, private placements, outside general counsel for family offices, and representation of early stage company entrepreneurs and investors

Strategic advising and business litigation, including complex workouts, crisis management, investor and LLC disputes, construction defect matters

Sal started his career at O’Melveny & Myers after graduating from Columbia Law, and since then he has served in leadership positions, including as a department chair, managing partner of a business law firm, general counsel and a partner in a development company.

Daniel has spent nearly two decades developing integrated brand campaigns for a wide spectrum of clients within the place- making industry. From some of nation’s most prominent homebuilders including The New Home Company and Lennar, to master developers such as Wilson Meany and the west coast’s largest mixed-use development Metropolis in Downtown Los Angeles, Daniel’s role at the agency puts him at the forefront of strategizing high-impact marketing solutions across all paid and earned mediums. In addition to his work with private builders and developers, Daniel has been intimately engaged in resort, travel and destination marketing campaigns for the Mexican Tourism Board and Terranea Resort in Palos Verdes as well as a wide variety of economic development programs on behalf of cities such as El Segundo, Riverside and Redondo Beach. A graduate of University of California Los Angeles, Daniel is a member of the Eagle Scouts of America and resides in Hermosa Beach with his wife Kerry, their little baby girl Elle and the family’s mini-labradoodle Pepper.

Jan Karl spearheads Morley’s project development initiatives and marketing team bringing over 20 years of experience in real estate, development, and construction. Her focus is on guiding the company to its next era of successful high performance building through smart, strategic growth. She serves as Immediate Past President of the Los Angeles Headquarters Association, is a board member of the Los Angeles Business Council and Co-Host of the LABC Architectural Awards. She is a board member of Habitat for Humanity as well as the City of Hope LARE Council and actively participates as a past board member of the Urban Land Institute and CoreNet. She is also an active Host with Women on Boards 2020. Jan holds a Bachelor of Science from Iowa State University and an MBA from Villanova University. She also holds a Masters of Corporate Real Estate designation, is a California Real Estate Licensed Professional and is a LEED AP.