Jeff DeBoer is the founding President and CEO of The Real Estate Roundtable. The Real Estate Roundtable represents the leadership of the nation’s top 150 privately owned and publicly-held real estate ownership development, lending and management firms, as well as the elected leaders of the 17 major national real estate industry trade associations. Collectively, Roundtable members’ portfolios contain over 5 billion square feet of office, retail and industrial properties valued at more than $1 trillion; over 1.5 million apartment units; and nearly 2 million hotel rooms.

Mr. DeBoer has served as President and CEO of The Real Estate Roundtable since 1997, and through a variety of positions, he has been at the forefront of legislation affecting the real estate industry during the last thirty years.

In addition to his position at the Roundtable, Mr. DeBoer serves as Chairman of the Real Estate Industry Information Sharing and Analysis Center (RE-ISAC), an organization dedicated to enhancing communication between the industry and federal policymakers on matters relating to building security, terrorist threats, and incident reporting. He also serves as chairman of the National Real Estate Organizations, a coalition of real estate trade associations working to enhance the industry’s overall Washington advocacy efforts. Previously he served as co-chairman of the Advisory Board of the RAND Corporation’s Center for Terrorism Risk Management Policy, and was a founding member of the steering committee of the Coalition to Insure Against Terrorism (CIAT). Mr. DeBoer also serves on the Advisory Board of the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, DC.

Mr. DeBoer has discussed real estate and economic policy issues on FOX News, Bloomberg Television and CNBC; and his editorials have been published in the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. In 2010, Mr. DeBoer was named a “top 10 Industry Newsmaker of the Decade” by GlobeSt.com and in 2013 he was selected by Commercial Property Executive as one of the "30 most influential people in real estate".

He is a member of the Virginia Bar Association and the American Bar Association. Mr. DeBoer holds degrees from Washington and Lee University School of Law and from Yankton College.

Roger N. Simon’s practice encompasses a wide range of transactional matters, including commercial lending transactions, commercial loan syndications, joint ventures, company & asset portfolio acquisitions, commercial real estate transactions (including acquisition, development, financing, leasing and restructuring of large commercial real estate projects) and the acquisition, restructuring and disposition of distressed debt.

Recently Roger has represented institutional real estate investors in connection with permanent loans secured by properties at Infomart – Dallas, Texas, 1101 New York Avenue NW, 801 17th Street NW and the Gallery Place Project. He has also represented an institutional real estate investor in connection with the sale of One Metro Center in Washington, DC.

Prior to attending law school, Roger worked for three years as a Financial Analyst in acquisitions for two major Washington, DC real estate corporations.

Roger’s professional memberships include the Mortgage Bankers Association of the District of Columbia, the Apartment and Office Building Association of Metropolitan Washington, DC, the District of Columbia Building Industry Association (Member, Capital Markets and Distressed Real Estate subcommittees), District of Columbia Bar (Section on Real Estate, Housing and Land Use), the Maryland State Bar Association (Sections on Business Law and Property, Land Use and Zoning), and the American Bar Association (Section on Real Property, Probate and Trust Law).