Randall Rothschild joined Tishman Speyer in 2016 and is responsible for overseeing the firm’s global debt financings. In this role, he is also charged with joint-venture and co-investment structuring duties. He is a member of the firm’s global Compensation Committee. Prior to joining Tishman Speyer, Randall was the chief operating officer of Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies, where he was involved in originating, structuring, syndicating, and financing commercial real estate debt investments. He has also held senior real estate investment management roles with Merrill Lynch and began his career as an associate in the real estate groups of internationally recognized law firms in New York. Randall holds a BA in government from Georgetown University and a JD from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

Matt Salem (New York) joined KKR in 2015 and is a Partner and Head of Real Estate Credit. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc (NYSE: KREF). Mr. Salem sits on KKR's Real Estate Investment Committees. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Salem was a managing director at Rialto Capital Management. Before joining Rialto in 2012, he was a managing director and head of CMBS trading at Goldman Sachs. Before joining Goldman Sachs in 2006, Mr. Salem held positions at Morgan Stanley and Citigroup Alternative Investments where he invested in mezzanine debt and other high yield CRE credit on behalf of the Travelers Insurance Companies. He began his career in 1996 at Midland Loan Services in Kansas City. Mr. Salem has a B.A. in Economics from Bates College. He has served on the Board of Governors of the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council and as Chair of the B-Piece Buyer Forum.

Yorick Starr is a Managing Director and Investment Officer at Invesco Real Estate. Yorick is

responsible for originating senior and mezzanine loans for the commercial real estate credit

lines of business a primary focus on the Northeast and Eastern US.

Yorick began his investment career in 2002 and joined Invesco Real Estate in 2017. Prior to

joining Invesco, he was a senior vice president of the commercial real estate group at Wells

Fargo based in New York, where he was responsible for managing a team of relationship

managers focused on institutional clients, overseeing originations, portfolio management and

day-to-day operations of the office. Yorick spent over 15 years at Wells Fargo in a variety

positions, including acquiring and financing sub-performing and performing commercial real

estate loan portfolios, managing commercial real estate loan workouts and working within a

specialty finance group.

Yorick earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of San Diego with

minors in accounting and computer science.

John Gustafson is a Managing Director in the Commercial Real Estate Group of Wells Fargo. He is a coverage banker primarily focused on institutional clients and balance sheet lending, where he has led financings in excess of $15 billion across multiple asset classes and financing types.

Mr. Gustafson received a BA from Lafayette College in political science.

Chris Brown is an audit partner with over 30 years of experience advising a broad range of Fortune 500 companies, institutional investors, and middle-market investment firms in the real estate, private equity, and financial services industries. He provides his clients with services including financial statement audits, accounting advisory, risk management, regulatory compliance, and business performance improvement.

Prior to joining Citrin Cooperman, Chris was a partner and Assurance and Advisory Services Practice leader at Mitchell & Titus, LLP, a BDO Alliance USA member firm, and member firm of Ernst & Young Global Limited (2006 - 2015). He previously served in various leadership roles at the firm, including as managing partner of their New York office, executive committee member, and chair of their quality and risk committee.

Chris' clients include institutional investors, corporate pension funds, private equity funds, real estate companies, investment management and strategic growth companies. Chris has extensive experience assisting his clients with meeting regulatory and financial reporting requirements, including the enhancement of internal controls.

Ty Gerschick is Head of Debt Capital Markets for the Americas Direct Real Estate platform. In this role, Ty and his team are responsible for developing and executing financing and interest rate hedging strategies on behalf of the firm’s U.S. fund vehicles and separate account clients. He also oversees the operational management of the Americas loan and derivatives portfolio.

Ty has held prior roles at the firm, focused on value-add acquisitions and overseeing disposition transactions nationally. Since joining CBRE Investment Management in 2015, he has led or been directly involved in the acquisition, financing or disposition of over $25 billion of investments across all property types throughout the U.S.

Prior to joining the firm, Ty spent eight years at GE Capital Real Estate in various capacities, including equity asset management and debt origination. He began his career in the industry in 2006.

Ty earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree (cum laude) in Finance from Georgia Southern University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Florida.

Mr. Weiner is a Senior Vice President focused on the acquisition and asset management of equity and debt opportunities across all property types through Artemis’ core, core plus, value add and healthcare funds. Mr. Weiner joined Artemis in April 2017 and is based in New York City.

Previously, Mr. Weiner worked at RREEF (DWS), where he was focused on asset and portfolio management of the firm’s flagship core REIT and separately managed accounts, as well as underwriting and project managing the firm’s value add and development investments.

Mr. Weiner earned his BA in Business, Entrepreneurship & Organizations with a concentration in Business & Economics from Brown University.

Bill is a Partner and Head of Distressed Workouts. He has 20 years of professional experience. Prior to Torchlight, Bill worked at Auction.com, LNR Partners, Rockwood Real Estate Advisors and First Potomac Realty Trust. Bill holds an MBA from the University of Florida and a BBA from Roanoke College.

Andrew Dansker is the CEO and founder of Dansker Capital Group, a national mortgage brokerage firm with six U.S. offices and one international office. He oversees a team of 30 professionals originating commercial mortgage debt across all major asset types, with a particular focus on retail and multifamily properties. The firm primarily arranges bank and credit union financing while also executing agency, CMBS, life company, and bridge loan transactions as appropriate. Since its establishment as an independent company in 2020, Dansker Capital Group has placed well over $3 billion in commercial real estate loans nationwide.

Andrew believes the middle-market debt marketplace is under-served by professional, high-quality national firms and sees a significant opportunity for an enterprising company to fill that gap. His leadership vision is to build an organization that delivers institutional-quality service, execution, and results to the national middle-market debt space.

Andrew is a published industry commentator whose writing on the real estate lending market has appeared in The Commercial Observer, Real Estate Weekly, and New York Real Estate Journal. He is also a frequent industry speaker and contributor at conferences and events organized by Bisnow, GlobeSt, Interface, Commercial Observer, ConnectCRE, and other leading commercial real estate platforms. He has more than 15 years of experience in the real estate industry. Andrew earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Chicago and a Juris Doctor from New York University School of Law.

Chris Terry is a partner in the Real Estate Practice Group of Kleinberg Kaplan. He advises a diverse group of clients, including investors, owners, operators, developers, lenders and borrowers, in the areas of real estate and real estate finance law, including joint venture transactions, real estate development, sales and acquisitions, financing, leasing and real estate private equity across the continental United States and Hawaii. He has particular experience in medical office and healthcare development.

Chris is a member of the inaugural Rising Leaders Council (“RLC”) of Revista. In his role on the RLC, Chris, alongside other selected leaders across the healthcare real estate industry, acts as a resource to the Revista Advisory Board and Executive Team. As the sole legal advisor on the council, Chris offers a strong and diverse perspective as it relates to investments, best practices and industry trends.

Mr. Reece has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MJ REIT since its inception. He co-founded AC Capital Partners LLC, a national sponsor of alternative investments, and has over 28 years of experience in the asset management space.

Prior to starting AC Capital Partners and MJ REIT he served as managing director with Arcview Capital, where he focused his efforts on developing relationships with independent broker dealers, regional firms and wires. Prior to joining Arcview Capital, he spent nine years at FS Investments, where he built a team of client portfolio managers focusing on private real estate, private credit and liquid funds. He and his team helped to raise over $10 billion in assets.

Before FS Investments, he spent five years as a Director with Turner Investment Partners (“Turner”), an investment firm that, at the time, managed more than $13 billion of securities for institutions and individuals. At Turner, he was responsible for managing the firm’s largest institutional relationships spread across alternative, domestic and international strategies. In this role, he was also responsible for generating investment research and articulating detailed portfolio analysis of the firm’s strategies to clients. Before joining Turner, he was a Product Specialist with Planco/The Hartford Mutual Funds and was instrumental in successfully building out their registered investment advisor channel.

Mr. Reece received his MBA from Villanova University and his BS in Finance from Drexel University. He is a CFA charterholder.

Mr. Poverni’s expertise encompasses structuring and managing of the development life cycle, from project feasibility studies, to site control, financing, syndication, construction management, asset stabilization and disposition. Mr. Poverni founded the firm in 2011 and continues to be the driving force behinds its growth, and is thankful for the talented people that work at PSG to help make its’ projects and business lines a success day-in and day-out. Mr. Poverni holds a J.D. from the George Washington University, and an M.B.A from the University of Maryland.

Ilya Leyvi chairs Adler & Stachenfeld’s Real Estate Finance Practice, where he facilitates some of the largest and most complex commercial real estate debt deals in the U.S. and internationally.

Recognized as an astute and approachable counsel, Mr. Leyvi represents lenders and borrowers with bridge loans, construction loans, mezzanine loans, commercial mortgage-backed securities loans, and preferred equity investments involving industrial, hotel, multi-family, self-storage, and specialty properties.

As a practice leader, he is responsible for structuring and executing complicated commercial real estate debt platforms and arrangements for lenders, as well as borrowers, and identifying growth opportunities for his clients. Mr. Leyvi excels in this regard in part through his collaborative approach by working closely with his clients and their deal counterparts. He ensures that all parties walk away knowing their positions are heard and carefully considered – ultimately enabling him to make highly intricate structured transactions move forward seamlessly.

Shannon Stotts is the Head of CRE Credit and Asset Management for Saluda Grade CRE. She has 25+ years in commercial real estate finance with an extensive track record in complex debt and equity transactions. Prior to joining Saluda Grade, she was Chief Credit Officer and Head of Asset Management for Real Estate Credit at Manulife Investment Management. Previously, she had various roles at Island Capital and its affiliates, serving as Chief Credit Officer for Exantas, a publicly traded mortgage REIT, and Managing Director in the Island New York City Recovery Fund. Prior to Island, she led Floating Rate Capital Markets at Natixis Real Estate Finance and had various roles in credit, structuring, and distribution at Lehman Brothers, including as a senior member of the team working out the commercial real estate portfolio post-bankruptcy. Ms. Stotts holds a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA in Quantitative Finance from NYU’s Stern School of Business.

Matthew is widely known for closing major deals in New York City and helping clients build real estate portfolios across the United States and beyond. A powerful negotiator who understands the legal and business issues on both sides of a transaction, Matt is respected by his clients, opposing counsel and other parties alike for his result-driven approach. This ability to shepherd complex transactions to a successful conclusion is evidenced by his impressive client list.

As a partner in the firm’s capital finance and real estate practice, Matt cuts a wide swath across the real estate industry by advising owners, developers, investors and lenders, among them REITS, private equity funds and family offices, on a variety of transactions. These include construction and real estate finance, acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, real estate developments, preferred equity investments, mezzanine loan originations, and secondary market purchases, leasing, and loan workouts and restructurings. Well-connected in the real estate world, Matt looks to generate business for his clients by introducing them to potential partners and new deals.

He is active in pro bono work and leads the coordination of the annual NALP/Street Law Legal Diversity Pipeline Program in New York, which brings high school seniors from The Urban Assembly School for Law & Justice into the firm to teach them about the law and legal careers, encourage them to enter the field and support them in their pursuits.

Mr. Kenneth F. Wille, CEO: Professional Engineer licensed in multiple states and based in NY, Building Performance Analyst, LEED AP, Certified Energy Manager, and Green Building Engineer with the Association of Energy Engineers. Mr. Wille was involved in developing HUD Green Mark to Market requirements and qualifications following participation in HUD Green Retrofit Program. A seasoned construction consultant with over 5,000 construction loan monitoring inspections, 1,000+ Property Needs Assessments and 100+ energy audits under his utility belt. Mr. Wille has been numerous boards, podcasts and panels and is a published author with an educational building inspection series available on the KOW YouTube channel.

Ken Wood serves as Regional Manager, Northeast, for Red Oak Capital Holdings

in Norwalk, Connecticut. In this capacity, he will serve as Red Oak’s primary point

of contact for all strategic relationships across multiple states throughout the

Northeast. He will help to generate and grow the company's commercial real

estate lending business by cultivating and maintaining new and existing client

relationships in the region.

Prior to joining Red Oak, Ken ran the Northeast origination operations first for

Money360, and then for Verus CREF. Over a six-year period, he handled an

average of 80 to 100 loan originations annually through a network of national

and local commercial brokers as well as direct clients. Elsewhere in his 30-year

career, he has worked on originations for firms including MC-Five Mile Capital,

Column Financial, Patriot National Bank, and Hometown Commercial Capital.

A certified general appraiser, Ken has authored numerous articles of commercial

real estate analysis for local and national trade publications. He is also a former

Zoning Commissioner for the City of Norwalk and earned a bachelor’s degree in

finance from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut.

Shelah has over fifteen years of experience in commercial real estate. Prior to joining Nuveen Green Capital, Shelah had various lending roles including Commercial Real Estate Lending Specialist for Capitol Bank, VP Commercial Real Estate Loan Officer for Bancorp Bank, and Senior Investment Analyst for PGIM Real Estate Finance. Additionally, Shelah spent many years working as an advisor to commercial real estate developers, aiding in structuring their JV partnerships, and helping raise debt and equity. Shelah received a BS in Economics from the Wharton Undergraduate program at the University of Pennsylvania.

Nailah Flake-Brown is a Managing Partner in Brookfield’s Real Estate Group responsible for the origination, underwriting and asset management of Brookfield’s real estate finance funds.

Ms. Flake-Brown joined Brookfield in 2017 and has over 18 years of real estate finance and capital markets experience. Prior to Brookfield, she was a Managing Director and Head of Originations for the Commercial Real Estate Lending Group at Morgan Stanley.

Ms. Flake-Brown holds a bachelor’s degree from Spelman College.

Drew Fletcher is President of Greystone Capital Advisors where he oversees a team of professionals responsible for arranging creative debt and equity solutions for institutional and private commercial property owners and developers, and provides strategic advisory services for institutions, investors and borrowers. GCA also focuses on large loan mortgage origination across Greystone’s best-in-class Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA, CMBS, Bridge, balance-sheet and special situation lending platforms.

Drew has over 24 years of commercial real estate experience. Prior to joining Greystone, Drew served as Chief Financial Officer of Edison Properties LLC, one of the largest private real estate owners in New York City, with a portfolio of urban self-storage, office, mixed-use, and multifamily assets, as well as substantial land holdings throughout the NY Metro Region.

Drew received a B.A. in Economics and Communications from Wake Forest University; an M.B.A. in Finance from New York University; and a Masters of Accountancy in Taxation from Rutgers University. He volunteers his time as a guest lecturer at the NYU Real Estate Institute and is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York and the Urban Land Institute. Drew also serves as a Member of the Board of Directors of Greystone Housing Impact Investors L.P. (NYSE: GHI), a publicly traded limited partnership that provides debt and equity financing to affordable and market-rate multifamily housing. Drew was named to the Commercial Observer’s 50 Most Powerful People in Commercial Real Estate Finance.

James Murad is a Managing Director at RIPCO, where he leads all efforts relating to underwriting, structuring, and placing commercial real estate transactions with a focus on ground-up and transitional assets.

Throughout his career, James has successfully closed in excess of $6 billion of commercial real estate loans and equity placements. He takes pride in acting as a true advisor for his clients and puts an emphasis on identifying the capital provider that is the best structural fit for the borrower while also providing the most attractive economic terms.

Prior to joining RIPCO, James spent over five years as Managing Director at Meridian Capital Group as well as the prior three years as a Director at Eastern Consolidated.

James received his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance and Real Estate from the University of South Carolina where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.

He is based in St. Louis and is responsible for the origination, structuring and

closing of PACE and tax credit transactions throughout the country.

Andy has significant experience in the PACE industry, joining Petros from Twain

Financial Partners, where he served as Director of PACE Financing and Associate

General Counsel. While at Twain, he started and oversaw the company’s PACE

financing platform nationwide. He also structured and closed some of the first

rated securitizations of PACE assets in the industry. In addition to PACE, Andy

assisted with the origination and closing of Twain’s tax credit, debt and equity

investments throughout the country. Prior to Twain, Andy was a real estate and

structured finance attorney at Husch Blackwell LLP.

Andy holds a B.S.B.A. from the University of Dayton, an MBA from Southern Illinois

University-Edwardsville, and a J.D. from the Washington University in St. Louis

School of Law.

Jack Conboy is a Partner with the law firm of Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf. He represents various financial institutions and real estate operators in connection with acquisitions, sales, financing and refinancing of commercial properties. He also counsels landlords and tenants in the leasing of commercial space. In addition, Mr. Conboy has experience in representing clients in the purchase and sale of residential real estate, including condominiums, cooperative apartments, and single and multi-family homes. Jack has been nominated to The Best Lawyers in America: Ones to Watch in the category of Banking & Finance Law, and has also been named to Super Lawyers - New York Metro Rising Star. He earned a JD from St. John’s University School of Law and a BA from Bucknell University.

I am an investment management executive, with a specialization in private markets and have led transactions in the U.S. Europe and Africa. Over the last 7+ years, I have found ways to use my financial skill set to help others while generating financial returns and have done so in both the private and public sectors.

I am currently responsible for leading the Social Impact & Sustainability investment efforts at a ~$20 billion private equity firm, building an investment platform across real estate, private equity and venture capital with the aim of achieving triple bottom line (i.e. ESG) goals.

Previously, I built one of the only direct investing platforms within a development finance institution in the country. Utilizing tax incentives, debt, equity, and other innovative financing structures, we showed that government can make socially impactful investments - helping millions of people, while generating attractive returns for the City of New York.

We are in an interesting time, where many are thinking about how finance can play a role in addressing global challenges, and I feel privileged to have a voice in that conversation.

Bringing over 15 years of capital markets and debt and equity placement experience, Mo Beler, Senior Managing Director, joined Walker & Dunlop in June 2020 as part of the Beler Advisory Group acquisition. Mr. Beler is a member of the New York City Capital Markets Debt and Equity Team and focuses on sourcing and structuring financing, including debt and equity solutions for all commercial real estate asset classes nationally.

Mr. Beler was the founder and head of Beler Advisory Group, a boutique, real estate advisory firm with a national reach, offering commercial real estate debt solutions, including joint venture equity placement and structured finance. Prior to founding Beler Advisory Group, Mr. Beler served as Vice Chairman of New York City Institutional Investment Sales within JLL Capital Markets. While at JLL, Mr. Beler led the investment sales process overseeing property valuation, marketing, negotiating, and new business development, and was directly involved in commercial transactions totaling more than $2 billion.

Before joining JLL, Mr. Beler was Principal and Head of investments at Innovo Property Group, and earlier served as a vice president within Rockwood Capital’s acquisition group. Throughout his career, Mr. Beler has generated over $6 billion of multi-sector and multi-risk investing and advisory experience across the capital stack.

Mr. Beler received his bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, graduating with high distinction.

Patrick Dowd advises clients on complex joint ventures, platform formations, mergers, acquisitions, mortgage and

mezzanine financing, portfolio transactions, preferred equity investments and other transactions relating to the real estate

industry.

Patrick’s distinctive practice includes the representation of leading private equity funds, pension funds and other

commercial real estate institutional investors developers. Patrick also has broad experience in real estate transactions

involving all aspects of the hospitality industry, including representing owners in transactions with major hotel brands.

Before joining our firm in 2017, Patrick was counsel at another international law firm. Prior to that, he worked for the U.S.

Department of Defense, pursuing the decommissioning and securing of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons in the

former states of the Soviet Union.

Patrick received his JD from Georgetown University Law Center in 2006, his MA from University of Chicago in 2000 and

his AB, magna cum laude, from Cornell University in 1998. He is admitted to practice in New York.