Fueled by his innate creativity and armed with a diehard entrepreneurial spirit, Harvey Hernandez began his involvement in real estate development as a hands-on investor in the rapidly expanding South Florida market. With more than two decades in South Florida, he has observed first-hand the region’s tremendous capacity for change and progress. Holding firm to excellence from the forefront of the industry, Harvey continues to revitalize the high-end residential market by developing innovative projects that deliver the best in location, cutting- edge amenities, luxury finishes and forward-thinking design. Harvey entered the real estate industry following a successful foray scaling a technology startup that sold in year 2000. The sale provided the initial capital for the $260 million-dollar multifamily development firm, H&H Development Company -- a pivotal catalyst to Harvey’s career. These ventures paved the way for Harvey’s subsequent endeavors, giving him the necessary momentum to launch Newgard Development Group and NGD Homesharing LLC. In 2017, Harvey partnered with Airbnb to create Niido, the first and only residential brand designed to encourage and facilitate home sharing. The partnership includes multifamily developments that are tailor-made to optimize flexible living, with a suite of technology, services and amenities. The first Niido, powered by Airbnb, communities are open in Orlando and Nashville with more locations coming soon. Following Niido’s launch, in June of 2019, Harvey expanded his partnership with Airbnb to create yet another revolutionary new hospitality brand, Natiivo. Purposely designed, built and licensed for home sharing, Natiivo is the first brand to offer ownership with home sharing as an amenity. On the heels of the success of Natiivo Miami and Natiivo Austin, which both sold out before breaking ground, his latest brand LOFTY has debuted its first iteration in Brickell, Miami. Harvey’s other notable projects include Gale Boutique Hotel Fort Lauderdale, Gale Residences in Fort Lauderdale; One Flagler office building, Centro Condominium Miami and BrickellHouse.

Steve Patterson joined Related Development, LLC, in 2010. He is responsible for all of the company’s multifamily rental and mixed use development activities. He also pursues investment in value-add acquisitions in all income property sectors. In the last two years, Related has closed investment transactions totaling over $600 million, and has more than 4,000 multifamily units under construction.

Mr. Patterson’s 30 years of industry experience has included ownership and management positions in the development, investment syndication, asset management, property management, and construction fields. These activities included multifamily, office, retail, condo conversion and hotel properties, primarily in the southeastern U.S. His track record of profitable real estate investment ventures is valued at over $2 billion.

Prior to joining Related, he held executive positions at ZOM Holding, Inc., a multifamily development and management company focusing primarily in the Southeastern U.S., and before that, held management positions for Picerne Development and Huber Hunt and Nichols, overseeing development, property management and construction functions in Texas and Florida. During his tenure, ZOM was recognized by the National Association of Homebuilders as Company of the Year in both the development and property management categories.

Mr. Patterson is a State of Florida licensed real estate broker and building contractor. He served as president of the NAHB Multifamily Leadership Board, he is frequently published in trade journals, and has twice been invited to testify on housing industry matters before the Federal Reserve Board. Mr. Patterson holds degrees in engineering technology and construction management from Oklahoma State University.

Arden Karson is the Founder and Managing Principal of Karson & Co, a real estate advisory, brokerage, and

investment firm. Prior to her current role, Karson held senior leadership positions at CBRE and the Related Group

Karson also partnered with private equity firm Barrow Street Capital and Advenir Real Estate. Earlier in her

career, she worked at Lennar Corporation and Arvida/JMP Partners, where she focused on project management

and operational roles across various asset classes and markets.

Before entering the real estate industry, Karson worked as a commercial lender at Bank of America and at PwC.

She received a BA in International Relations from Tufts University where she graduated summa cum laude and

earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Karson is a designated Financial Expert under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. She holds positions on multiple

advisory boards and committees, including serving on the Board of Advisors, Audit, and Investment Committees

for ECI Group. She also sits on the Advisory Board of the University of Miami Masters in Real Estate + Urbanism

program, the South Florida/Caribbean Chapter of the Urban Land Institute as Treasurer and the Investment

Committee of the Michigan Ross Real Estate Fund. Karson also served as a Board of Directors and Audit

Committee member for Ashton Woods USA LLC and as an Executive Committee member of Friends of the

Underline.

Karson is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and events. She has received many community and industry

leadership awards. She is also a mentor and active in the entrepreneurial ecosystem and is committed to

advancing the next generation of business professionals. She believes in giving back to the community as

evidenced by her active fundraising for the Sylvester Cancer Center.

Karson is also the proud mother of three children and one grandson, who all live in New York City. When she is

not busy with work or family, Arden enjoys traveling with her husband, exploring the local art scene, and hiking

the National Parks and beach trails. She is also a foodie and loves dining at new and exciting restaurants.

Since 2013, Jay Parker has been the Chief Executive Officer of Douglas Elliman Florida

Brokerage where he has capitalized on his extensive brokerage relationships and realtor

contacts to grow Douglas Elliman’s presence in Miami, Miami Beach, Ft. Lauderdale,

Aventura, Delray Beach, Boca Raton, Palm Beach and Jupiter.

Jay has shown a propensity for leadership throughout his career. His fundamental role in

handling over $300 million in mergers and acquisitions at the Law Firm of Gunster

Yoakley Valdez Fauli & Stewart in the Miami and Palm Beach Real Estate Departments

ultimately led his client to an IPO. Then, as General Counsel for LandTel

Communications in New York, he oversaw the implementation of a Pan-European fixed

wireless market. In this role, he raised over $375 million from numerous private equity

firms and restructured the company’s assets after recognizing a funding gap at a time

when the industry was in distress, thereby avoiding bankruptcy.

In late 2001, Jay returned to Miami Beach to form Clear Title Group, LLC a boutique real

estate title insurance company focused on offering closing services to luxury

condominium and home buyers. After strengthening his brokerage roots in South Florida

while also representing Titan Capital as the company’s local counsel, Jay sought a joint

venture, founding Titan Capital Florida, LLC in 2006. Jay continues to serve as

Managing Partner of Titan Capital Florida, a Direct Lender with offices in New York,

Connecticut and Miami. In its first year of operations, Titan Capital Florida closed on

over $100 million in transactions.

In 2010, Jay formed Beloff Parker which grew to Beloff Parker Jacobs, a real estate and

transactional law firm based in Miami Beach. Building off Parker and Beloff’s long-

standing relationships in the Miami market, Clear Title Group quickly distinguished itself

as one of the largest and most successful real estate law firms in the area, representing

many of Miami Beach’s most respected developers, landlords and tenants, as well as

handling some of their most significant real estate transactions.

Jay received a Bachleor of Arts degree from the University of Western Ontario located in

London Ontario Canada. During this time, he spent a year studying abroad in Tel Aviv.

Jay completed his studies at the University of Miami, School of Law, where he earned

his Juris Doctorate in 1998.

Today, Jay lives with his twin boys in Miami where he is a member of the Florida Bar

Association and serves on the Board of Governors for the Miami Beach Chamber of

Commerce. Jay is also President of the Executive Board of Mt. Sinai Medical Center

Foundation and sits on the Miami Association of Realtors Leadership Board.

Jon was a founding principal of ADD Inc Miami, an architecture and interior design practice which grew from two employees to over 100 before they joined Stantec in 2015. With the addition of a structural and civil engineering team, Jon now oversees 130 employees. He also co-develops the overall strategy, business development, and marketing of our growing Commercial Sector practice nationwide.

Our Miami office has realized exponential growth under Jon’s client-focused leadership, designing hundreds of high-profile development projects and towers from the city’s urban core to the shoreline, helping to reshape the South Florida skyline. Recently, Jon has also proudly spearheaded the restoration of seven historic Art Deco hotels along the iconic Collins Avenue, merging each hotel’s timeless qualities with new, modern aesthetics.

As a senior principal and seasoned architect, Jon specializes in commercial building design and project economics, analyzing the overall objectives which developers, public agencies, and neighborhoods envision. He uses that information to uncover additional development cost savings, ongoing operational efficiencies, and marketing benefits for high-profile, large-scale projects.

Drawing from over 20 years of planning and design expertise, Jon organizes building forms, building uses, and sustainable design techniques to create dynamic, multi-faceted spaces which promote enjoyment, wellness, and productivity.

Jeffrey R.Margolis is a partner in Berger Singerman’s Fort Lauderdale office and Co-Manager of the Business, Finance & Tax Team. Jeff represents real estate owners, builders and developers, institutional and entrepreneurial investors, managers, and other stakeholders, and has extensive experience with all aspects of residential and commercial real estate transactions. With a thorough understanding of the real estate market and working knowledge of the procedures and techniques which are critical to understanding, analyzing, structuring and negotiating commercial real estate transactions and real estate development, He counsels clients on a broad range of transactional real estate matters including the acquisition, sale, financing, operation, structuring and development of planned residential and mixed-use projects, condominiums, apartment complexes, hotels and hospitality assets, offices, shopping centers and retail establishments, and manufacturing facilities. Jeff has extensive experience in the acquisition, development, creation and operation of large scale real estate projects. He regularly advises clients in the creation, structuring and operation of condominiums, master planned developments, mixed use projects, and resort and club communities including regulatory matters, planning, development, structuring, restructuring, documentation, registration, marketing, sales, operation and management. Jeff’s experience provides exceptional background for counseling clients on evolving flexible, practical and feasible legal structures for large scale real estate projects, condominiums and planned residential and mixed-use projects, preparation of governing documents, filing documentation with appropriate governmental agencies, and compliance with federal, state and local laws and regulations. Jeff received his B.A. from University of Michigan and his J.D. from University of Miami.

Alberto Milo Jr. leads Related Urban Development Group (RUDG), the

affordable and workforce housing division of the nation’s most prolific

development company, Related Group. In this role, he is responsible for

the overall design, development, construction, financing and budgeting for

each project within RUDG’s portfolio, whether public, affordable,

workforce or mixed-income housing. Under Albert’s leadership, RUDG has

built and rehabilitated more than 5,700 units throughout Florida with over

$1.5 billion in total development costs.

Most recently, RUDG has begun an ambitious new set of projects which are designed to eliminate many

of the drawbacks historically associated with public housing developments. Among these is the $600

million River Parc master plan in Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood, which is cited as the most

ambitious affordable housing development in the county to date, built in partnership with Miami-Dade

County. The development will contain over 2,500 units along with a new Riverwalk and commercial

opportunities. Similarly, a $400 million mixed-income riverfront development is underway in Tampa’s

historic West River district, developed in collaboration with the Tampa Housing Authority. Albert and his

team are also currently working on the redevelopment of Liberty Square, the oldest and largest public

housing development in the Southeastern United States. The project, which also follows the mixed-

income format, will contain over 1,500 units along with commercial and community opportunities. The

project has been lauded as one of the most significant public housing redevelopments in South Florida

and the country, with HUD Secretary, Dr. Ben Carson, calling the project an example to follow around

the nation.

Prior to his tenure at RUDG, Albert owned and operated real estate development, real estate brokerage

and mortgage brokerage companies over the span of 20 years. After developing his first affordable

housing development in 1999, he formed The Urban Development Group in 2002, focused on

revitalizing communities by creating affordable homeownership for underserved markets. As a

committed member of the local community, Albert has served on the Miami-Dade County Industrial

Development Authority since 2005 until 2020 and is a former member of the Greater Miami Chamber of

Commerce’s Workforce Housing Committee. He also served on the board of the YMCA of South Florida

from 2017 to 2019. In 2011, he was the President of the Builder’s Association of South Florida where he

was awarded the President’s Award and was named Builder of the Year in 2009 and 2019.

Rivergate Companies is a vertically integrated real estate investment & development firm with the goal of delivering outsized returns in varying product types, geographies and market cycles to our stakeholders.

The firm is presently engaged in several strategic ventures including: urban in-fill self-storage development, multifamily development & investment, multifamily property management and upscale automotive storage. Rivergate invests its own capital alongside the firm's relationships with high net worth, foreign, family office and institutional investors.

Rivergate embraces technology with active participation in the commercial real estate technology sector with Emerge Americas and CRE Tech.

Jay Massirman serves as founder and managing principal of Rivergate Companies. Jay has over 30 years' real estate experience and has participated in over a billion in principal transactions. He was formerly a Vice Chairman with CBRE global real estate, where he participated in over 10 billion in advisory transactions over a stellar 20 year career.

As founder, President and COO of EDEN Multifamily – Jay S. Jacobson has, over his

30-year career in the multifamily industry developed over 25,000 multifamily units and

invested in/acquired over 40,000 units located in over 30 sub-markets in 22 cities

nationwide. EDEN Multifamily is currently developing over 1800 units throughout South

Florida and the mid-Atlantic including Miami, North Miami Beach, Fort Lauderdale and

Charlotte. Product types range from 3 story walk up to 30 + story high rises. Prior to

forming EDEN Multifamily with Jay Massirman, Mr. Jacobson served as the President of

Stiles Residential Group in Fort Lauderdale and is a former national partner with Wood

Partners. He was also a senior director of multi-family investments for Goldman Sachs

Real Estate Services (fka Archon Group) and a managing director of Archstone

Communities Trust.

Jay also serves as the CEO of EDEN Living – a horizontal and townhome build for rent

company that is engaged in the development of one-story apartment homes and two-

story rental townhomes. EDEN Living is currently developing over 2100 units in the SE

US including Charlotte, Raleigh, Jacksonville, West Melbourne, Orlando, Kissimmee,

Wildwood, Ellenton and other locations. EDEN Living has partnered with a real estate

investment fund managed by Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (“MSREI) to

expand the platform throughout the eastern US.

Jay received a Bachelor of Architectural Design from the University of

Florida and Master of Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Colorado.

Jay grew up in south Florida and learned the development/construction business from

the ground up--literally—starting at the age of 12 digging foundation ditches for his

father’s construction company. Jay lives in Delray Beach Florida where he has served

on the City of Delray Beach Planning and Zoning Board and is a member of the NMHC

Board of Directors. He is a guest lecturer at the University of Miami’s School of

Architecture MRED program. Jay uses his rare spare time flying around the world

chasing any of the 12 types of billfish in the ocean—at last count he is up to 7.

Marc Suarez is a managing director at Lument. Based in Miami, Florida, he originates loans utilizing Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, HUD/FHA, and proprietary programs for multifamily housing.

Since joining predecessor firm Hunt Real Estate Capital and opening the Miami office, Marc and his team have originated more than $600 million in financing.

Previous employment includes serving as an executive managing director at SL Capital, where he originated $300 million in CMBS loans. He also ran his own consulting firm working on distressed debt, was a partner at a boutique development company, and was a general manager at Gables Professional Realty where he established and ran the firm’s commercial real estate division.

Marc was a professional baseball player for the Cincinnati Reds and later held a management position on the scouting and player development department.

Marc is an active member and sits on committees of the Boys and Girls Club of Miami-Dade County, where he spent most of his childhood. He has a Bachelor of Business Administration from Florida International University.

Francis X. Suarez is the 33rd Mayor of the City of Miami. As the first Miami-born mayor, he is committed to working diligently to serve the residents of the community where he was born and raised. Prior to being elected with 86 percent support from Miami residents, Mayor Suarez served as Miami Commissioner for District 4 during eight years. Mayor Suarez had many legislative accomplishments as Commissioner, including implementing ShotSpotter technology in the City, a state-­‐of-­‐the-­‐art gunshot detection system, setting up a transportation trust fund, which allocates funds for current and future transit projects, and passing the Reverse Redline legislation, authorizing lawsuits against several major banks for discriminatory mortgage lending practices. As a result, the City’s lawsuit reached the U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that cities have standing to sue banks under the Fair Housing Act for such discriminatory practices. Mayor Suarez also serves as Vice-­‐Chair of the Miami-­‐Dade Transportation Planning Organization (TPO) and is the former President of the Miami-­‐Dade County League of Cities. In his role at the TPO, Mayor Suarez championed the Strategic Miami Area Rapid Transit (SMART) Plan, which was unanimously approved. The SMART Plan expands mass transit options in Miami-­‐Dade County through six main corridors and new bus routes to ease traffic congestion and support future population growth. Mayor Suarez helped negotiate the Tri-­‐Rail connection to Downtown, offering free ridership to Overtown residents for life. He also ushered in the free trolley system in Miami, which carries an average of 450,000 passengers per month. Mayor Suarez is dedicated to elevating the quality of life of the residents he serves by focusing on transportation and connectivity, resiliency, and job creation by nurturing the growth of technology and innovation. He is also committed to expanding affordable housing, tackling the poverty pandemic and, as a corollary, reducing crime. The oldest of four siblings, Mayor Suarez was born into a family where, as he describes, “being socially conscious was a kind of requirement.” As the son of former City of Miami Mayor, Xavier Suarez, he was also exposed to public service since he was a child, growing up around his father’s office at City Hall, the same one he works out of today. Mayor Suarez earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from Florida International University, graduating in the top ten percent of his class. He went on to receive his law degree from the University of Florida Frederic G. Levin College of Law, where he graduated cum laude. He is currently an attorney with the law firm Carlton Fields, specializing in corporate and real-­‐estate transactions. Mayor Suarez is married to Gloria Fonts Suarez. They have a son, Andrew Xavier, and are expecting their first daughter this year. They consider themselves honored and blessed to be raising their family in the City of Miami.

Greg T. West is President and Chief Executive Officer of ZOM Living and is responsible for all

aspects of the Company with particular focus on development activities nationally. He joined

ZOM in 1997 and since been involved with all aspects of the development process including

identifying new opportunities, compiling due diligence and underwriting parameters. He is also

responsible for project design, permitting, and construction. Mr. West also plays a key role in

business development and investor relations. Presently ZOM has under construction 3,700 units

in Florida, Texas, Chicago, Carolinas and the Mid-Atlantic. Over the next twelve months the

company will start 2,200 additional units bringing active development volume over $1.7 billion

dollars.

Mr. West received a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from Southern Methodist University and has

received two Masters of Science degrees from Texas A&M University in Land Development and

Construction Management.

He serves on the Board of Directors of the National Multifamily Housing Council, is a board

member of the Miami Downtown Development Authority and on the Advisory Board of the

University of Miami Master of Construction Management program. Mr. West is the current Chair

of the ULI Southeast Florida and Caribbean District Council and is a member of the Gold

Multifamily Council.

Neil has a track record of proven success developing and building projects in the Multifamily, Mixed-Use, Senior Living, Hospitality, Retail, Country Club and Self-Storage sectors. At Kaufman Lynn Construction, Neil is responsible for conducting new business opportunity assessments and identifying new trends in Commercial & Residential construction and development. Neil works closely with our entire construction team including Pre-Construction/Estimating Services, Operations and Finance. He regularly interfaces with the team to manage and plan the various efforts needed to support each stage of a construction project including strategic planning, estimating, bidding, contracting, all the way to project completion. Our clients leverage Neil’s experience and industry relationships as a successful development executive with a large national developer to assist their efforts in the areas of land acquisition, project debt and equity funding, land/project due diligence (including entitlement/permitting issues) and thorough market/product analysis. Neil orchestrated the tremendous growth of our entire private sector business by establishing and advancing relationships with major national and regional developers as well as attracting the operational talent to execute the projects. Additionally, Neil’s sales & marketing expertise and brand development has been paramount to the success of our overall strategic planning process. Neil has been instrumental in orchestrating Kaufman Lynn Constructions rise to #6 out of the Top 25 Largest Contractors by the South Florida Business Journal and currently ranked #345 out of the Top 400 Largest Contractors Nationwide by Engineering News-Record.