David Storch is the Senior Vice President at W5 Group, where he leads real estate investments with a focus on an innovative living strategy. With deep expertise in the multifamily, student housing, and co-living sectors, David has successfully completed over $1.5 billion in transactions across the United States. He combines his passion for real estate with a deep understanding of market trends and emerging housing solutions, bringing a wealth of expertise and leadership to W5 Group. David received a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Miami’s Herbert Business School and is originally from Chicago, IL.

W5 Group, Ralph Winter’s family office established in Switzerland in 2009, focuses on deploying capital across real estate, venture capital, and growth equity. Since expanding its operations to the U.S in 2019., the firm has invested in Innovative Living projects comprised of 2,100 units and 4,800 beds. Since 2024, W5 Group is also investing in the US on behalf of other domestic and international family offices, high-net worth investors and institutions. W5 Group continues to innovate in the industry, with offices in Miami, Zurich, Zug, and Frankfurt.

As Head of Florida for Shawmut Design and Construction, Alexis partners with both national and local leadership teams in sourcing, winning, and executing work in Florida. He leads the team in the diversification of sectors and pursuit of large projects, most notably multifamily, leveraging his vast experience in both the private and public sectors and his technical and design-build expertise.

Alexis has over 30 years of industry experience in the South Florida market, previously serving as a senior leader for ENR 500 construction management firms. He’s worked on complex projects ranging in size, scope, and value—from hotel, mixed-use developments, and municipal work to aviation and seaport terminal expansions. Throughout his career, he has acquired billions of work as part of a portfolio diversification strategy and was an integral part of a team that grew a small, local firm into a large, multinational firm.

Alexis is a past board member of the University of Miami’s School of Construction Management and previously served on the boards of the South Florida Associated General Contractors, Engineering Contractors Association of South Florida, and the Broward County Chapter of the American Red Cross. He graduated from Barry University with a Bachelor of Science and received the university’s highest alumni honor in 2017, The Distinguished Alumni Award.

Sam Reynolds brings more than 30 years of telecommunications experience, with a career centered on strategic partner development and residential market expansion. Having held leadership roles with GTE, Verizon, and Frontier Communications, he has built and strengthened developer relationships while supporting large-scale fiber growth initiatives.

As Director of Sales, Partner Development at Blue Stream Fiber, Sam leads partner strategy across Florida and Texas, focused on accelerating growth and expanding into new markets through strong, long-term developer relationships.

Matthew M. Baron is the President of Baron Property Group. Since 2005, Matthew has acquired and developed over $1.5 billion worth of property in NY and Los Angeles.

Mr. Baron currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Long Island City BID, and is also a member of the Board of Directors of Doorkee, which is a company he helped found. Mr. Baron was also an Adjunct Lecturer at New York University’s School of Continuing and Professional Studies where he taught a course on Real Estate Development.

Mr. Baron holds a BS in Finance from NYU Stern and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Jeffrey Ardizon is Principal at The Estate Companies, a Miami-based full-service, vertically integrated developer, owner and operator of residential communities throughout the tri-county region, and one of the largest and most active multifamily developers in Florida. The firm is best known for its institutionally recognized Soleste brand which features Class A multi-family communities throughout South Florida’s urban core and submarket locations.

Mr. Ardizon has been credited for identifying and evaluating off-market opportunities, temporary market dislocations, special workouts, overall capitalization and general overall direction of the firm. The Estate Companies has implemented its strategic plan is to increase its focus on development in Broward and Palm Beach counties, and has many luxury projects in various stages of development including Pompano Beach, Dania Beach, Riviera Beach, West Palm Beach, three projects in Hollywood, two in North Miami Beach, and Spring Gardens, among others. Mr. Ardizon was instrumental in structuring and executing one of South Florida's first opportunity zone transactions, Soleste Grand Central, a 360-unit Class A multifamily project in Downtown Miami.

Prior to joining The Estate Companies, Mr. Ardizon was the co-founder and principal of ECI, a real estate investment, management and development firm based in South Florida. The firm focused on providing GP/LP equity and debt for multi-family real estate developments and value-add opportunities across a diverse portfolio of asset classes. During that time, Mr. Ardizon was credited for strategically structuring and creating one of the more notable single-family offices in South Florida. Mr. Ardizon began his real estate career with one of the largest nationally ranked advisory firms in the country, where he led the firm's real estate practice for nearly a decade. He represented some of the largest real estate developers, REIT’s, operators and sponsors in the region. Under his leadership, the firm was awarded the top real estate tax firm by various publications. Mr. Ardizon was a top revenue producer for the firm and quickly gained industry recognition as a leading go-to advisor, advising clients on over $3 billion in transactional value.

Steven J. Wernick is an experienced land use attorney and maintains a

multi-disciplinary practice throughout South Florida. He has significant

experience representing real estate developers, property owners, and other

real estate industry clients – skillfully navigating the intricacies of local

government regulations and the development approval process to help

clients deliver on great projects and revitalize urban core neighborhoods.

Steve's work in recent years has been most prominent with projects under

development in Wynwood, Miami's emerging arts district undergoing a

significant transformation into a 24/7 live, work, play neighborhood that has

become an epicenter for global art tourism and expansion of Miami's tech

hub. Starting with his work for Goldman Properties on a portfolio of adaptive

reuse projects and the award-winning Wynwood Garage, Steve has worked

with local and national developers on entitlements for over 7 million square

feet of new retail, office, multifamily and hospitality development constructed

in Wynwood over the past decade.

Previously, Steve worked as special counsel for the Wynwood Business

Improvement District (BID) in the creation and adoption of the Wynwood

Neighborhood Revitalization District (NRD-1), recognized by the American

Planning Association with the 2017 National Planning Award in Economic

Development. Additionally, he has secured zoning and development

approvals on multifamily office, and hospitality projects within the City of

Miami, Bay Harbor Islands, North Miami, Miami Beach and other waterfront

communities in Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach Counties. Steve was

intimately involved in securing entitlements for the Miami Design District

Retail Street Special Area Plan – including infrastructure improvements,

nonstandard covenants and a regulating plan to facilitate over 1 million

square feet of development of luxury retail, art and civic space.

Steve has built a reputation as a trusted advisor for creative zoning tools to

support neighborhood revitalization in South Florida's emerging

neighborhoods. As a trained urban planner and credentialed by American

Institute of Certified Planners (AICP), Steve has the ability to communicate

with diverse community stakeholders, and experience shepherding code

amendments and overlay districts to unlock the potential for mixed use

redevelopment. In 2021, Steve secured approval from City Commission for

adoption of the Wynwood Norte Neighborhood Revitalization District (NRD2), including land use map amendments and rezoning of 140 acres to spur

development of multifamily housing and millions of dollars in reinvestment in

one of Miami's oldest neighborhoods.

Jessica Barnes leads client relations and advisory services for Bozzuto Management Company in growth markets across the southeast. As Vice President of Client Services, she collaborates with real estate leaders to leverage Bozzuto’s strategic insights and decades of experience to deliver transformative places with enduring value.

Before her return to Bozzuto in 2023, Jessica spent more than four years with Strategic Property Partners, the private development firm behind Water Street Tampa, a transformative $4B, 56-acre mixed-use development. As Vice President of Asset Management and Vice President of Marketing, she played a critical role in successfully bringing one of the nation’s largest and most ambitious projects to market. Prior to SPP, Jessica held several leadership roles at Bozzuto, most recently overseeing the brand development and go-to-market strategies for more than 15,000 units across the country as the Senior Director of Brand Development.

Jessica’s unique perspective at the intersection of real estate brand strategy, development and asset management allows her to see projects through the lens of a consumer, an operator, and an owner throughout the entire development lifecycle. With a strong track record of success in her 10+ years of experience in multifamily and mixed-use real estate, she is a trusted strategic advisor to developers, investors and asset managers across the country.

Since stumbling upon my passion for insurance in 2015 (funny backstory on my website), I have dedicated myself to helping real estate owners and developers navigate the complexities of risk management. After 6 years with one of the largest brokerages in the world, I decided to further perfect my business by starting my own firm in 2021. Forever reliable and with endless tenacity, I have created a process to make client lives easier. With Ivy Risk Strategies, I’m on a mission to make insurance less painful and (yes) enjoyable.

Nick Rojo is the Co-Founder and President of Affiliated Development. Mr. Rojo has more than 13

years of experience in the acquisition, finance, management, rehabilitation and development of

residential and commercial real estate.

Nick is a South Florida native and got his start in the real estate industry in 2006 as an investment

banker at Wachovia Securities. At Wachovia, Nick focused primarily on providing capital raising and

advisory services to public and private homebuilders and developers. Nick gained experience

working on a variety of transactions from traditional investment banking – high grade and high yield

debt, credit facilities, common and preferred equity, private placements and M&A – to real estate

asset-specific transactions, such as project finance and facilitation of bulk land sales. Mr. Rojo was

afforded the unique benefit of structuring financings at the peak of the market cycle and then working

with clients to restructure during the recession. He left Wachovia to return to South Florida in 2009 to

opportunistically acquire property at the height of the recession.

After acquiring and rehabilitating property with friends and family capital, in 2011 Mr. Rojo teamed up

with a family office and spearheaded their efforts to acquire residential and commercial property

throughout the state of Florida. During this time, Mr. Rojo met Jeff Burns and began evaluating and

later investing in projects together. Nick and Jeff saw the opportunity to leverage their finance

backgrounds in order to develop mixed-use residential projects in the South Florida market.

In 2014, Mr. Rojo formally teamed up with Mr. Burns to expand Affiliated Development’s presence in

Florida. As a result of the partnership, Affiliated Development has gone on to undertake numerous

mixed-use multifamily projects in various Florida markets and has earned a reputation as one of

South Florida’s most dynamic and impactful development firms. Every project has been a public-

private partnership and has incorporated a substantial public finance component, such as Tax

Increment Financing (TIF), Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) financing, Tax Exempt

Bonds, Low Income Housing Tax Credits (LIHTC), Department of Housing & Urban Development

financing (HUD) and local government general revenue bonds.

Mr. Rojo graduated cum laude with a B.S.B.A. in Finance and New and Small Business

Management from Georgetown University in Washington, DC, where he was also a four-year

letterman and Academic All-American on the Georgetown Hoya football team.

Mr. Rojo is a resident of West Palm Beach, FL, and sits on the Broward County Sheriff’s advisory

council. He is also a board member of Student Aces, an organization that provides leadership

training, coaching, mentoring and scholarships to local high school student athletes.

With over 15 years of real estate, private equity and investment experience, Doug brings a wealth of knowledge to Shoreham Capital across sourcing, capitalizing, structuring, and executing transactions. Doug has overseen the investment in over $10bn of real estate investments and developments across multiple asset classes. He has successfully executed the investment, development, and management of more than 7,500 residential units across prime growth markets. Prior to Shoreham, Doug was most recently a Managing Director at the CIM Group, a $35.0bn AUM real estate private equity firm, where he oversaw the East Coast equity investments for the firm. Before CIM, Doug worked in corporate private equity for LNK Partners and began his career at Deutsche Bank in their Mergers and Acquisitions Group. Doug has a BA from Brown University with a double concentration in International Relations and Economics and received his MBA from the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management.

Amy Blackman, MAI, is a regional managing director at Apprise, a Walker & Dunlop company, and is based in Atlanta, Georgia. In this role, Blackman leads valuation assignments across primary and secondary markets throughout the East Coast. Her work supports lending and reporting needs for Agency and institutional clients, including Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae programs, life companies, CMBS lenders, and balance sheet lenders. She also has extensive experience providing valuations for annual financial reporting. Blackman has more than 20 years of commercial real estate valuation experience. Since 2014, she has specialized primarily in multifamily assets, including garden and mid-rise apartments, urban high-rise and mixed-use properties, fractured condominiums, affordable housing, and student housing. She also serves as Apprise’s national student housing practice lead and has overseen nearly 200 student housing appraisals since the firm’s launch five years ago.

Prior to joining Apprise, Blackman served as a valuation services director at Colliers International and as a valuation specialist at CBRE.

Blackman earned a bachelor’s degree in real estate from the University of Georgia. In 2025, she was named one of GlobeSt.’s “CRE’s Best Bosses.

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.

Bruce Gago heads FCP’s South Florida office as Senior Vice President– Acquisitions, where he sources multifamily investments and works closely with the company’s commercial and structured investment teams on transactions in those sectors.

Danielle Gonzalez concentrates on commercial real estate law. She represents national and local clients in

connection with the acquisition, financing, leasing and disposition of retail centers, office buildings,

industrial parks, multi-family residential properties, self-storage centers, parking facilities, and raw-land

developments throughout the United States. Danielle possesses vast experience advising on commercial

leasing, and represents both landlords and tenants on leases covering all real estate asset classes. She

represents sellers and purchasers with the acquisition and disposition of numerous types of real property.

She counsels borrowers in connection with secured financings, including acquisition loans, refinances and

defeasances. Danielle also has experience counseling retail clients on the development of shopping center

pads for brand-specific uses, including the negotiation of ground leases, CC&Rs, easements and design

guidelines. She also has experience with acquiring, developing and financing self-storage centers. Finally,

she counsels owners and managers in the negotiation of property management, as well as parking facility,

agreements.

I'm Andy Koehler, a seasoned professional in the wireless industry with three decades of sales and management experience. For the past 15 years, I've specialized in Distributed Antenna Systems (DAS), both cellular and ERCES. My previous roles include Director of DAS at AWC and VP of Strategic Partners at Westell. Additionally, I volunteered in the ERCES Codes & Standards subcommittee for the Safer Buildings Coalition.

Residing in Atlanta with my wife and two college-age sons, I enjoy family time, whether it's fly fishing for bonefish in the Bahamas or attending UGA football games.