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Nelson oversees the operational aspects of the company, including accounting, finance, underwriting, construction, legal and risk management. Since co-founding Integra in 2009, he has managed the development of more than $375 million dollars of construction throughout Florida and has grown the company’s portfolio to more than $500 million dollars across 8 different asset classes. Nelson has a Finance and Marketing degree from University of Miami and a Master’s in Engineering from Florida International University.

Javier Herrera is a lending and finance expert specializing in commercial real estate. As Senior Director with Franklin Street’s Capital Advisory division, he specializes in the origination, analysis and placement of real estate debt and equity for a wide variety of investors, developers and occupiers. To his role, Mr. Herrera brings an extensive background in private lending with wide-ranging industry relationships and expertise in a variety of financing solutions, including Bank, Life Company, Agency, CMBS and LP Equity funding options. Prior to joining Franklin Street, Mr. Herrera served as Managing Director with IPKore Funding, the lending arm of IP Capital Partners. He also served as Vice President of a South Florida-based private real estate fund, where he originated nearly $200 million in senior short-term bridge debt in less than two years.

Vice President of Investor Relations, Avi Glikman, joined Bushburg from the technology sector where his work at Juniper Square, a leading software development company serving the real estate and private markets industries, gave him deep expertise in investor expectations and deal structuring. Avi's work at Juniper Square developing new client relationships afforded him the opportunity to meet Joseph Hoffman, Bushburg's Founder & Chief Executive Officer. Avi joined Bushburg with the mandate to build the company’s capacity to raise capital externally to complement our prior success growing organically. Scaling from the company's capital holdings, Avi is expanding opportunities for investors to grow their portfolios in tandem with Bushburg's success. Avi holds a B.S. from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Joe is Chair of our Real Estate Practice Group. Joe's transactional real estate and corporate experience spans over 30 years from his prior career as a real estate and corporate banker throughout his legal career. Joe represents a variety of clients, including real estate developers, financial institutions, private equity firms, high net worth individuals, and public entities in all phases of complex commercial real estate and business transactions. His experience includes acquisitions, development, financing, leasing, joint ventures, and advising clients in connection with raising capital for real estate projects in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean. Joe is also an agent for several national title insurance companies and has handled the resolution of complex title insurance issues involving real property in the United States, Latin America and the Caribbean. Joe's representation of banks and other lending institutions includes lenders providing secured corporate loan transactions, including revolving credit facilities, asset-based lending, and other secured lending facilities. In addition, Joe has extensive experience with representing condominium associations, community associations, developers and investors in condominium projects and groups of unit owners in a variety of condominium law and community association matters. Joe has developed a special niche in representing condominium associations and cooperative corporations which are being pursued by developers for acquisition of all or substantially all of the units and frequently coordinates a multi-disciplinary approach to representing these clients in order to counsel and assist clients in navigating the myriad of legal issues faced by associations and unit owners in these situations. Joe and the condominium law attorneys at the Firm have also developed extensive experience representing condominium associations which are facing a significant casualty or construction defects issues. Prior to joining the firm, Joe served as General Counsel for an asset management firm owned by a large private equity firm which managed several luxury high-rise condominium projects. Prior to that, Joe was the head of the real estate practice group at the Miami office of Hogan Lovells and was also a shareholder in the real estate practice group at Greenberg Traurig in Miami. In April of 2017, Joe was elected as a Fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers (ACREL). Joe is active in the community and was formerly the Chairman of the Board of Junior Achievement of Greater Miami and now serves as a board member. In addition, Joe is an adjunct professor at the University of Miami School of Law and teaches courses in real estate finance in the Real Property Development L.L.M Program.

Mr. Murad joined Meridian in 2018 and currently serves as a Managing Director in the company’s New York City headquarters. He is responsible for the origination and placement of loans across a broad array of property types, including residential condominiums, multifamily, hospitality, and retail in locations including the Tri-State area and nationally. Mr. Murad and his team specialize in the financing of transitional assets including land acquisitions, ground up development, value-add repositioning, and capitalization restructurings. Prior to joining Meridian, Mr. Murad was a Director at Eastern Consolidated, where he managed the execution and placement of new loan originations. Prior to joining Eastern Consolidated, Mr. Murad spent three years at GCP Capital Group where he began his career as an analyst. Over the course of his career, Mr. Murad has negotiated more than $4 billion in financing covering residential condominiums, multifamily, hospitality, office, retail, and other property types across the United States. Notable financing transactions negotiated by Mr. Murad include a $350 million construction loan for a 66-story condominium development at 126 Madison Avenue in Manhattan, and a $68 million bridge loan for the repositioning of a 257-key hotel into the Gurney’s Newport Resort & Marina in Rhode Island. Mr. Murad holds a Bachelor of Science degree magna cum laude in finance and real estate from the University of South Carolina. He is also a member of REBNY and was recognized by Commercial Real Estate 20 Awards as a “Rising Star of Commercial Real Estate- Advisory” in 2019.

Kevin O’Grady is the Managing Director, Co-CIO and Partner of Concord Summit. With over 40 years of commercial real estate finance and related industry experience, Mr. O’Grady provides solutions for commercial real estate transactions of all types of asset classes, including office, retail, multi-family, for-sale residential condominiums, hospitality, industrial and mixed-use developments both urban and suburban. In his combined experience, Mr. O’Grady has been responsible for the development of over 10 million square feet of commercial projects, 23 master planned housing communities, 6 million square feet of commercial leasing and over $22 billion in structured finance closings. Prior to founding Concord Summit, Mr. O’Grady was SVP and Managing Director with Walker and Dunlop. Mr. O’Grady has also served as a founding member of the National Equity Practice Group of Cohen Financial, a division of Guggenheim, a Director at LJ Melody and was a senior officer at various recognized development companies, including Atlantic Gulf Communities, HF Ahmanson, Robert Trent Jones Development, Turner Development, and CSX Development.

Karyl's creative approach to closing a deal includes anticipating future risks when devising her client's acquisition strategy, allowing her to more effectively advise them on their overall development plan. Karyl has experience counseling national and local developers, sellers, purchasers and financial institutions in large complex commercial real estate transactions, which include acquisition, disposition and operation of property, development, financing, loan restructuring, leasing, condominium documentation and general corporate matters. Projects include office buildings, multi-family, restaurants, shopping centers, hotels, aircrafts, schools, condominiums, mixed-use and lot developments. Karyl offers integrated counsel with a sense of each party's ultimate objectives. Karyl is also fluent in Spanish.