Katie Keenan is a Senior Managing Director in the Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies (“BREDS”) group and Chief Executive Officer of Blackstone Mortgage Trust (NYSE:BXMT), a publicly-traded commercial mortgage REIT managed by Blackstone. Ms. Keenan leads all aspects of BXMT, a real estate finance company that originates senior loans collateralized by commercial real estate in North America, Europe and Australia. Ms. Keenan is also involved in commercial debt investments across the global BREDS platform and is based in New York.

Before joining Blackstone in 2012, Ms. Keenan held positions at G2 Investment Group, Lubert-Adler Real Estate Funds and in the Real Estate Investment Banking Group at Lehman Brothers.

Ms. Keenan graduated cum laude with an A.B. in History from Harvard College. She sits on the Board of Directors of Getting Out and Staying Out and the Advisory Board of Governors of NAREIT, and is a member of WX New York Women Executives in Real Estate.

Michael Eglit is a Managing Director in Blackstone’s Real Estate Debt Strategies (“BREDS”) group. Since joining Blackstone, Mr. Eglit has been involved in sourcing, underwriting, negotiating and structuring debt investments across all asset types and geographies.

Before joining Blackstone in 2010, Mr. Eglit was with Wrightwood Capital where he underwrote and originated first mortgages, mezzanine loans and preferred equity.

Mr. Eglit received a BA from Lehigh University and an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

Mr. Lorenzini is Senior Vice President of Tremont Realty Capital. He is responsible for the Midwest Region and is based in RMR’s Chicago office. He also has served as President of Seven Hills Realty Trust (Nasdaq: SEVN) since 2021. Mr. Lorenzini is a founding member of Tremont’s predecessor business and has over 25 years of experience in the real estate industry and is widely considered one of the leading financing experts in the manufactured housing community and self storage industries. Prior to joining Tremont’s predecessor business in 2000, Mr. Lorenzini was Midwest Regional Director for Finova Realty Capital, where he managed underwriting and loan generation for offices in the Cleveland, Indianapolis, Minneapolis and Washington, DC markets. Previously, Mr. Lorenzini was a Senior Director for Belgravia Realty Capital, where he opened the Chicago office and established their Midwestern business. Mr. Lorenzini earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business from the University of Iowa and a Master Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago.

Mr. Levine joined Meridian in 2004 and currently serves as a Senior Managing Director, overseeing a staff of originators and underwriters in the negotiation and placement of financing for construction, repositioning and transitional asset transactions.

Prior to joining Meridian, Mr. Levine was a Senior Vice President at Westminster Capital, a division of Kushner Companies. His job responsibilities at Westminster included coordinating all aspects of financing for Kushner Companies, including debt and equity financing. Mr. Levine also previously worked as a financial analyst in the real estate investment banking group of CIBC World Markets.

Mr. Levine holds an M.S. in Real Estate Finance from New York University and a B.A. in Finance from Tulane University’s A.B. Freeman School of Business.

Her practice focuses on all aspects of real estate transactional matters, including commercial acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, real estate finance, construction, development and leasing, involving all types of assets.

Susan has extensive experience advising institutional clients, private investors and developers in sophisticated debt and equity financings, counseling both borrowers and lenders in complex transactions involving multistate, multiproperty portfolios; mezzanine financings; securitized loan originations; construction loans; and loan participations.

Marcelo founded Ecosave in 2002 and has grown it into an industry leading energy and water services company. Marcelo has more than 25 years of experience, including as a business turnaround specialist working for a corporate training multinational. Marcelo’s focus is on sales management, financial, and corporate training and development.

Prior to co-founding Greenworks Lending in 2015, Jessica led the design, management, and implementation of the nation’s first successful C-PACE program at the CT Green Bank. In its first two years, the program financed $75 million in clean energy projects and executed the first securitization of commercial efficiency assets – more than doubling the volume of C-PACE transactions between 2013 and 2014. From 2004-2012, Bailey worked at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF), an $800 million foundation based in New York. As the Fund’s program officer for sustainable development, she co-managed a $7 million portfolio of grants focused on mitigating climate change and promoting clean energy.

Jessica has received numerous awards and positive recognition for her work. Most recently, she was selected for Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneurial Winning Women of 2019 program. In 2014, Bailey was named a “Champion of Change” by the White House for solar deployment. For her work designing the successful Connecticut C-PACE program, The Hartford Business Journal dubbed her a “Green Warrior;” and after co-founding Greenworks Lending and scaling C-PACE nationally, Jessica was named to Connecticut Magazine’s 2018 list of “40 under 40.”

Jessica received her graduate degree from Yale University and undergraduate from the University of Notre Dame. She is a member of YPO and sits on the board of PACENation, the League of Conservation Voters, CT and CTNext.

Rafi is a commercial real estate finance veteran with over 15 years of experience in CRE structured finance, loan origination and equity investments. Prior to founding PLG, Rafi spent his career on Wall Street where he was a Managing Director at Ladder Capital, a publicly traded REIT. At Ladder, Rafi focused on CMBS origination, balance sheet and mezzanine loans as well as equity investments. Prior to Ladder, Rafi worked at Gramercy Capital conducting asset management and loan workouts. Rafi began his career at Credit Suisse in its large loan commercial real estate group. Throughout his career, Rafi has originated and closed over $2.5 billion of commercial real estate loans throughout the country. Rafi has a BS from Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York.

Sonu Panda is the CEO of Prescriptive Data, a privately-held SaaS company focused on the intersection of the Internet of Things, big data, and machine learning as applied to built environments of all types. Sonu develops and executes Prescriptive Data’s business and technology strategy, and oversees all functions within the company, including sales, business development, marketing, customer on-boarding and success, engineering, talent management, finance and administrative operations. Prior to Prescriptive Data, Panda most recently served as the co-founder and COO of H.Bloom, a B2B marketplace company, where he developed the company’s operational model, established both product/technology development and process engineering efforts, and managed day-to- day business operations.

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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.

Ian Ross founded SomeraRoad Inc. in 2014 to take an entrepreneurial and creative approach to value-add, opportunistic real estate in non-core markets. Previously, Ian was a Managing Director at Triangle Capital Group, a firm he helped develop shortly after its inception. At Triangle, Ian managed the Acquisitions and Asset Management units, focusing on the purchase of hard asset real estate, non-performing loans, and securitized mortgage products, as well as the conception and execution of value-add business plans. Ian sourced, underwrote and structured investments, in both the CMBS and CRE arenas, and focused on the development of strategic relationships, firm oversight, and risk management.

Prior to joining Triangle, Ian spent two years working as an analyst for Jefferies & Company in its Investment Banking Division where he focused on raising both debt and equity, as well as providing advisory services for companies in the financial services and real estate sectors. Ian initially began his professional career working on Morgan Stanley’s CMBS origination and securitization platform.

Ian received an MBA from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business and graduated with honors from Emory University with a Bachelors in Business Administration. Ian serves on Manhattan’s Community Board 5 and sits on the Public Safety & Quality of Life, and Transportation & Environment committees. Additionally, Ian is the Founder and Chairman of The Asperger’s Awareness Council, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2009 that strives to raise awareness and funding for high-functioning forms of Autism.

Rab N. Nalavala is a member of the firm’s Real Estate, Real Estate Special Opportunities, and Construction Services Departments. Rab’s practice is national in scope and encompasses all aspects of general commercial real estate, with a particular emphasis on development and finance matters. He represents major investment banks, private equity companies, opportunity funds, sovereign wealth funds, REITs, family-owned businesses and various joint venture entities in the acquisition, disposition, development, financing, management and leasing of commercial, retail, industrial and residential properties. Rab also has significant experience representing both lenders and borrowers in connection with real estate finance transactions, including construction lending, bond financing, mezzanine lending, loan workouts, restructures and deed-in-lieu transactions. He specializes in the acquisition, construction and development of domestic and international projects in the hospitality, leisure and gaming industries, including resorts, casinos, sports complexes and golf courses.

Nicole Sermier is an Executive Managing Director and Head of Residential Investments at Sculptor Real Estate. In this role, Ms. Sermier oversees Sculptor Real Estate’s investment activity across various residential strategies, including multifamily, senior housing, and affordable housing. Ms. Sermier's experience includes both debt and equity transactions, and investments in stabilized assets as well as development projects.

Prior to joining Sculptor Capital in 2008, Ms. Sermier worked as a Manager at AIG Global Real Estate. Prior to joining AIG, Ms. Sermier worked at the Local Initiatives Support Coalition and at Lehman Brothers in Fixed Income Research.

Ms. Sermier received a Master of Business Administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, graduated phi beta kappa from Wesleyan University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts in Government and was a Fulbright Scholar. She is a member of the ULI Urban Development and Mixed-Use Council.

Michael Shvo is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of SHVO.

Headquartered in New York City with offices in Miami, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and Chicago, SHVO owns and operates a national portfolio with more than $8 billion in assets under management and over 4.5 million square feet across industry sectors, including commercial office and retail, hospitality, and luxury residential assets.

The firm’s selective portfolio of architecturally significant properties, from innovative ground up new developments to revitalized landmarks that define skylines in the world’s leading cities, includes the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco, The Raleigh Hotel in Miami Beach, 333 South Wabash Avenue also known as, “The Big Red,” in Chicago, Mandarin Oriental Residences at 9200 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills, Mandarin Oriental Residences Fifth Avenue in New York City, and the AMAN New York Hotel and Residences at the Crown building.

Anar Chudgar is a Co-President at Artemis Real Estate Partners and sits on the Firm’s Investment Committee. She is head of the Income and Growth Fund and is responsible for developing and implementing the acquisition and asset management strategies. Ms. Chudgar joined Artemis in 2019.

Prior to joining Artemis, Ms. Chudgar spent 9 years as a Partner at GCM Grosvenor, where she helped co-lead the creation and growth of the $3.0 billion real estate platform, expanding the business in 2012 as well as growing the team. She has closed on $1.7 billion in joint venture real estate transactions in North America and Europe spanning both equity and debt, leading all aspects of investment management including transaction sourcing and execution, asset management, portfolio management and capital raising. Prior to that, Ms. Chudgar was a Principal in Alternative Investments at Credit Suisse Group AG, and held positions at Onex Real Estate Partners, iStar Financial, Inc., and began her career at JP Morgan Chase in investment banking.

Ms. Chudgar graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and continues to be involved with the school. She is on the Board of Advisors of the Annenberg Center, a resource for the performing arts at the University.

Additionally, Ms. Chudgar serves as a board member for the Pension Real Estate Association and SparkYouth. She is also an active council member of the McCombs Real Estate Center at the University of Texas at Austin, New York Women Executives in Real Estate (WX) and the Urban Land institute’s UDMUC Green Council.

Will Nelson joined Columbia Pacific Advisors in 2015 to help lead the loan production and asset strategy for our Real Estate Lending strategy. Since joining Columbia Pacific, Will has sourced and closed over $1.0 billion in transactions and has helped define the funds strategy and image within the market. Previously, he managed the real estate portfolio for Legacy Companies. Will participated in the acquisition, disposition, leasing, project management, entitlement work, and property management of approximately 1.5 million square feet of real estate assets in the United States and Canada. Will graduated from Loyola Marymount University’s business program with an emphasis in Marketing and Management. He earned his MBA from the University of Washington.

Matt Bear founded Bear Real Estate Advisors, LLC in 2018 with one goal – to cater to investors looking for personalized service and real world, battle-tested acquisition and disposition advice. He built the firm on a foundation of genuine sincerity and partnership to foster lifelong friendships that promote personal and financial growth for all.

Before founding Bear, Matt was one of two founding partners of Venture Development Group, which specialized in the development of single tenant buildings, neighborhood and power center projects. The firm acquired, developed and/or disposed of 20 properties totaling $55 million. He led a team of 18 professionals across three regional offices that encompassed development, finance, property management and legal management. Matt was directly responsible for the development and execution of the firm’s investment/development strategies, while leading all aspects of acquisitions, dispositions and leasing of commercial real estate assets.

In the wake of the 2008 global financial crisis, Venture Development Group discontinued operations and Matt resumed his career as one of the leading investment brokerage professionals with international commercial real estate services firms Avison Young and CBRE.

A real estate and finance business leader with a rich history of nearly 30 years of transactional, development and advisory experience, including 10 years of principal investing and retail real estate development, Matt’s experience covers many of the major markets of the United States with clients and key business relationships that span across the real estate, finance and private equity sectors.

Matt is an avid reader, a frequent blogger, a formerly good golfer, and an aspiring guitar player. He and his wife, Kelly, have been married for more than 20 years and are the proud parents of two beautiful, smart teenage girls who offer constant challenges and perplexity to their life, as well as an immeasurable amount of joy.

Michelle Kleger is a Senior Vice President of Business Development at Kensington Vanguard (owned by Truist Insurance Holdings).

KV is one of the largest title insurance agencies in the country, servicing transactions in all 50 states. Michelle has developed strong relationships with hundreds of clients and closed over 1,500 deals in the past few years, providing title insurance for several billion dollars of transactions. Michelle’s clients range from some of the largest institutional owners/operators and lenders in the space to local and regional sponsors and developers.

Michelle is a co-founder of Girl Gang CRE, is on the Founders Council of Cradles to Crayons New York, and is a member of She Builds, WLI, JNF and a REX member of UJA.

Michelle was born and raised in Andover, Massachusetts. She graduated in 2013 from the University of Delaware Alfred Lerner College of Business and Economics. Michelle currently lives in Manhattan.

Chris Lee joined KKR in 2012. He is responsible for KKR's Real Estate business in the Americas, overseeing both equity and credit investing platforms in the region. Mr. Lee serves as Portfolio Manager for KKR Property Partners Americas. He is currently Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc. (NYSE: KREF) where he previously served as Co-Chief Executive Officer and Co-President since October 2015 and March 2016, respectively, through March 2020. Mr. Lee sits on KKR's Real Estate Equity and Credit Investment Committees in the Americas, KKR's Real Estate Equity and Credit Portfolio Management Committees in the Americas, KKR's ESG Committee, KKR's Global Inclusion and Diversity Council, co-chairs KKR's Americas Inclusion and Diversity Council and chairs KKR's Real Estate Valuation Committee. Prior to joining KKR, he spent three years at Apollo Global Management on their global real estate team where he focused on real estate acquisitions. Mr. Lee also worked at Goldman Sachs in the merchant banking division's real estate principal investment area (REPIA) for over five years after spending two years in the investment banking division. He earned his MBA from Harvard Business School and his Bachelor's degree in Economics from Emory University. Mr. Lee is a former trustee of St. Mark's School of Texas in Dallas, Texas. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO) in New York, New York, as a member of the Board of Directors of the PREA Foundation in Hartford, Connecticut, as a trustee of Collegiate School in New York, New York and as a member of the Dean's Advisory Council for Emory College of Arts and Sciences in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Lee is a member of the CRE Finance Council, Pension Real Estate Association, Real Estate Capital Policy Advisory Committee for the Real Estate Roundtable, Real Estate Executive Council, Manhattan Chapter of YPO and Urban Land Institute where he sits on one of its Urban Development and Mixed-Use Councils.

Lauren Hochfelder is a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (“MSREI”) and Head of MSREI Americas. Lauren joined Morgan Stanley in 2000 and has focused on investing in the Americas since then. She has sourced, structured and executed principal investments across all real estate asset classes, transaction structures and return parameters. Lauren serves as a board member of The 92nd Street.

Lauren graduated magna cum laude and with distinction from Yale University with a BA in Ethics, Politics & Economics.

Charlie Rose is a Managing Director and Global Head of Real Estate Credit and President of

the Invesco Commercial Real Estate Finance Trust. Charlie leads the firm’s commercial real

estate credit lines of business globally. In his role as Managing Director, he primarily focuses

on setting strategy, overseeing portfolio management, and leading the firm’s credit investing

initiatives in the US. Charlie is a member of the North American Credit Investment Committee

and the European Credit Investment Committee. Additionally, he chairs the firm’s Diversity,

Equity & Inclusion Taskforce.

Charlie began his investment career in 2003 and joined Invesco Real Estate in 2017. Prior to

joining Invesco, Charlie served as managing director for Canyon Partners Real Estate

(Canyon), where he was responsible for leading the execution of Canyon’s real estate direct

investing strategy in the Western United States. Prior to Canyon, Charlie worked for Pacific

Urban Residential in capital markets and multifamily acquisitions. He started his career with

Rosen Consulting Group, where he was Vice President, responsible for national real estate

market research, covering the office, retail, industrial, and residential sectors.

Charlie holds a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University and a Master of Business

Administration with Honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is

a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO), the Urban Land Institute (ULI) Urban

Development and Mixed Use Council and serves on the board of the Stanford Professionals in

Real Estate (SPIRE) where he is also chair of the Stanford Real Estate Council (SREC)

Committee.

Mr. Kwon is a Partner in Apollo’s real estate private equity business. Prior to joining Apollo, he was a Vice President at Starwood Capital Group where he was responsible for the sourcing and execution of real estate and corporate investments across the lodging sector. Previously, Mr. Kwon was an investment professional at Tenex Capital Management, a mid market distressed buyout firm. Before that, he worked at GSO Capital and Morgan Stanley. Mr. Kwon graduated from MIT with a dual BS degree in electrical engineering and management science. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and AHLA Hospitality Investment Roundtable and serves on the Board of Directors of Inspire Communities.

Mark Silverstein oversees the development and implementation of proprietary lending products for NewPoint. Prior to NewPoint, Silverstein was an Executive Vice President at Arbor Realty Trust, facilitating a proprietary fixed-rate lending product, as well as capital markets and syndication. Previously, Silverstein was a Managing Director at CapitalSource (since merged with Pacific Western Bank) working on capital markets, syndication and origination of commercial real estate loans. Before that, he was a Managing Director in the CMBS group at Credit Suisse focused on securitizations, acquisition of an agency lender (Standard Mortgage), large loan originations, syndication and loan sales. Early in his career, Silverstein worked at Nomura Securities and Cushman & Wakefield.

Silverstein holds a dual Bachelor of Science/MBA from Boston University.

Tom serves as President & Chief Executive Officer of Money360, responsible for leading the company’s sales team, driving strategic growth and broadening its origination network.

Tom is a proven and tenured commercial real estate executive with over 30 years of experience in commercial mortgage banking, lending and related capital markets activities. His previous roles have included President & Chief Operating Officer at ARA Finance, an ARA / Walker & Dunlop joint venture mortgage financing firm, where he was responsible for developing the firm’s national multifamily financing platform; Chairman & CEO at Cushman & Wakefield Sonnenblick Goldman, where he established a more robust and diversified real estate investment and financial advisory platform in the U.S.; and President of GMAC Commercial Mortgage & CEO of North American Operations, where he oversaw real estate capital markets and lending activities for North America, including seven lending platforms and national mortgage banking origination.

Tom holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Commerce degree from Rider University and earned his MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Mr. Holm is a Partner in the Ares Real Estate Group, where he serves as a Co-Portfolio Manager of the U.S. opportunity funds and leads the group’s equity investment activities across the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic U.S. Additionally, he serves on the Ares Real Estate Group’s Global and U.S. Development and Redevelopment Fund II Investment Committees and the Ares Real Estate Operating Committee. Prior to joining Ares in 2013, Mr. Holm was a Principal at AREA Property Partners, where he focused on sourcing and executing real estate investments across asset classes for AREA’s equity and mezzanine debt businesses. Previously, he was an Analyst at Lazard in the real estate investment banking group. Mr. Holm serves on the Board of Trustees of the Ethical Culture Fieldston School. Mr. Holm holds a B.A., summa cum laude, from Harvard College in Government.

Carly is chief investment officer, Americas for Nuveen Real Estate and is a member of the Global Executive Leadership and the Americas Executive Leadership teams.

Carly’s previous roles include managing director and global head of real estate and alternatives for the TIAA General Account and senior director and member of the global real estate portfolio management team focused on the TIAA Real Estate Account where she was responsible for supporting all aspects of the Account including developing strategic objectives and evaluating and approving transactions and investment level strategies. Prior to that, she was an asset manager responsible for overseeing a portfolio of domestic office, industrial, and retail assets. Carly also held a position as a senior valuation analyst in risk management focused on valuation and financial modeling of commercial real estate and mortgage investments. Prior to joining the firm in 2006, she was a financial analyst at LaSalle Investment Management.

Carly graduated with a B.S. in Finance and International Business from University of Maryland and a M.S. in Economics from the University of North Carolina.

Michael (Mike) Corridan is a Managing Director on Kawa’s Investments & Originations team with responsibilities that include originating and structuring CRE loans. Prior to joining Kawa, Mike spent nearly 10 years at Citigroup where he grew to be a Director within its CMBS & Real Estate Finance team. At Citigroup, Mike’s responsibilities included arranging and overseeing the firm’s conduit (CMBS), standalone, and balance sheet lending programs. Mike received his bachelor’s degree in finance and international business from the New York University Stern School of Business.

Marson Cunha joined Inveniam as Managing Director, Brazil and Peru Lead in April 2022. Mr. Cunha is an accomplished finance professional with extensive experience leading and planning structured finance, mergers & acquisitions (end to end cycle), and private equity real estate. For the past 20 years, Mr. Cunha led real estate investments in LATAM and the US for companies such as Midtown Capital, Wtorre, Rio Bravo, PSG Investments, and others.

Mr. Cunha holds a BBA from the Escola Superior de Propaganda e Marketing, an MBA from Insper, and post-graduate courses on Financial Modeling from Harvard University and Capital Markets from Universidade de São Paulo.

Additionally, Mr. Cunha serves on the Board of the Brazilian American Chamber of Commerce of Florida, where he heads the Alternative Investments Committee. The Chamber, engaged in fostering bilateral commercial relations between Brazil and the United States.

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.