As founder, chairman, and CEO of Greystar®, Bob leads the Greystar Investment Committee, Operating Committee, and Board of Directors. He is responsible for the strategic planning and growth of the company, and maintains oversight over all aspects of Greystar, working closely with business leaders across the platform while emphasizing the Greystar Pillars of Excellence: People, Customer Satisfaction, Operational Excellence, Profitability, Growth, and Community. Bob believes that the company’s commitment to an evergreen business strategy allows Greystar to mitigate cyclicality, thereby helping to attract and retain the best talent in the industry and provide attractive career growth potential to all employees.

After receiving a bachelor of science degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Oklahoma and an MBA from Harvard Business School, Bob began his real estate career with the Trammell Crow Company and served as a partner in the Charlotte, North Carolina office. In 1991, he co-founded Starwood Capital Partners, LP, a private investment company. In 1993, Bob founded Greystar Real Estate Partners, LLC in Houston, Texas. From February 1996 to December 1997, he founded and served as CEO of Homegate Hospitality, Inc. Bob also served from December 2002 until February 2006 as the South Carolina Secretary of Commerce.

Bob is a member of the National Multifamily Housing Council, the Pension Real Estate Association, and the Urban Land Institute. Bob and his family reside in Charleston, South Carolina.

“From the very beginning of Greystar we have focused on being an ‘evergreen’ company. What do we mean by this? We know the real estate business is cyclical, but our balanced focus on both the service side of the business and the principal side gives us opportunities to grow wherever we are in the cycle.”

Barry Sternlicht is Chairman & CEO of Starwood Capital Group, the private alternative investment firm he formed in 1991 focused on global real estate, hotel management, oil and gas, and energy infrastructure. Mr. Sternlicht also serves as Chairman of Starwood Property Trust (NYSE: STWD), the largest commercial mortgage REIT in the U.S.; and French crystal maker Baccarat S.A.; as well as member of the Board of Directors of Invitation Homes (NYSE: INVH) the largest publicly traded investor, owner and operator of single-family homes in the U.S.

For the past 26 years, Mr. Sternlicht has structured investments with an asset value of approximately $92 billion. Starwood Capital’s funds have invested in approximately 172,500 multifamily/condo units, 2,900 hotels, 74 million square feet of office properties, 54 million square feet of retail and 52,000 lots of land in residential subdivisions. The Firm currently manages approximately $56 billion of assets on behalf of its high net worth and institutional partners. Starwood Capital, its affiliates and externally managed public companies employ more than 3,700 professionals, while approximately 9,000 additional employees are involved with a dozen portfolio operating companies. The Firm maintains offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Greenwich, Los Angeles, Miami, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., and affiliated offices in London, Luxembourg, Amsterdam and Hong Kong.

From 1995 through early 2005, Mr. Sternlicht was Chairman and CEO of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, a company he founded in 1995. During his tenure, he built Starwood Hotels into one of the leading hotel and leisure companies in the world, employing more than 120,000 people with 895 properties in 100 countries. Mr. Sternlicht created W Hotels, perhaps the world’s most successful “boutique” brand, and built the St. Regis Hotels brand from a single hotel to a global brand.

In 2008, Mr. Sternlicht founded SH Group, his new hotel management company. SH Group is the owner and manager of Baccarat Hotels & Resorts and 1 Hotels brands.

In 2016, Mr. Sternlicht was the recipient of PERE’s inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2015, he was named the Global Industry Figure of the Year by PERE, received the Cornell Icon of the Industry Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Hotel Investment Forum. In 2013, Mr. Sternlicht was named the Most Important Person in Commercial Real Estate Finance by The Mortgage Observer. In 2010, Mr. Sternlicht was named Executive of the Year and Investor of the Year by Commercial Property Executive. Mr. Sternlicht was also named America’s Best Lodging CEO by Institutional Investor Magazine. He is a member of the Interior Design Magazine Hall of Fame. He has received the Preston Robert Tisch Distinguished Industry Leadership Award from New York University, the CEO Diversity Award from Diversity Best Practices/Business Women’s Network, the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of Travel Marketing Executives, the Hospitality Heritage Award from the American Hotel and Lodging Association, and the Marketer of the Year Award from Brandweek. Mr. Sternlicht’s humanitarian efforts have garnered prestigious national honors such as JDRF’s Man of the Year, JDRF’s Living and Giving Award and JDRF’s Chairman’s Award.

Mr. Sternlicht serves on the Board of Directors of The Estée Lauder Companies and the Real Estate Roundtable. Additionally, he formerly served as Chairman of the Board and is currently a Board member of The Robin Hood Foundation, and also serves on the Boards of the Dreamland Film & Performing Arts Center, and the Executive Advisory Board of Americans for the Arts. He is a member of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Foundation Trustee Council, the World Presidents Organization and the Urban Land Institute.

Barry Sternlicht received his BA, magna cum laude, with honors from Brown University. He later earned an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.

Willy Walker is consistently recognized as one of the most influential executives in the United States commercial real estate finance industry. He joined the company in 2003 as executive vice president and chief operating officer and became chief executive officer in 2007. Under Mr. Walker’s leadership, Walker & Dunlop has grown from a small, family-owned business with one office and forty-six employees to become one of the largest commercial real estate finance companies in the United States with twenty-five offices and over five hundred employees. Walker & Dunlop has been named one of the "50 Fastest Growing Companies" in the Washington Region every year since 2011, named a "Great Places to Work" in 2012, 2013 and 2015, and named a “Top Workplace” by the Washington Post in 2014 and 2016. Investors in Walker & Dunlop’s IPO saw their stock appreciate 191% in the company’s first five years as a public company. Mr. Walker won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2011.

Prior to joining Walker & Dunlop, Mr. Walker was president of the European and Latin American divisions of TeleTech, a global business process outsourcing company. He previously worked at private equity firm Newbridge Latin America, and was also general manager of a regional airline start-up in Argentina. He currently serves on the boards of the Mortgage Bankers Association, the Federal City Council, the Sustainable Technology Fund, and St. Albans School. Mr. Walker was Chairman of the Board of the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority (DC Water) from 2008 until 2012, and Chairman of the Board of Transcom, a global business process outsourcing company, from 2007 until 2012.

Mr. Walker received his Bachelor of Arts degree from St. Lawrence University and Master’s degree in Business Administration from Harvard University. He has run the Boston Marathon in 2:36, is an avid cyclist, and can likely be found on the ski slopes of Sun Valley when not running Walker & Dunlop.

Based in the New York/New Jersey metropolitan area, Susan Mello heads Walker & Dunlop’s entire Capital Markets platform. Ms. Mello brings over 28 years of experience in real estate investments and joint ventures, and she is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the company’s structured debt and equity transactions through a wide range of capital sources.

Prior to joining Walker & Dunlop, Ms. Mello served as Managing Director and Portfolio Manager at PGIM Real Estate where she oversaw a series of U.S. multi-product closed end equity funds, with direct responsibility for capital raising, investment strategy, portfolio construction and investment selection. During her time at PGIM Real Estate, Ms. Mello held a variety of roles in transactions, portfolio, and asset management, and was directly involved in the structuring, negotiation, and management of more than $5 billion of value-add investments. Prior to PGIM, Ms. Mello was a partner at McCarter & English, LLP law firm where she worked extensively on structuring real estate investments and joint ventures on behalf of owners.

Ms. Mello earned a Bachelor of Science in economics from Rutgers University, an LLM in taxation from New York University, and a JD with high honors from Rutgers University School of Law. She is a member of the National Multi-Housing Council (NMHC); the Urban Land Institute (ULI), where she is on the leadership team for Urban Development and Mixed Used Council, Gold; the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC); and the tax policy committee of the Real Estate Roundtable. Ms. Mello is also active in diversity and inclusion efforts within the industry and is a member of NMHC’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, as well as the Steering Committee for KPMG's Women in Real Estate.

Bruce Toll, who is a resident of Florida, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the

University of Miami in 1965 and attended graduate school of business at the University of Miami in 1966.

In 1967 Bruce Toll co-founded Toll Brothers, Inc. (NYSE: TOL), which went public on the New York Stock Exchange on July 7, 1986 and is today the nation's premier builder of luxury homes. Mr. Toll served as President of the Company from 1967 until 1998, at which time he became Vice Chairman. He resigned as Vice Chairman in March of 2016. Toll Brothers has been honored with numerous awards, including Builder of the Year from Professional Builder Magazine, America's Best Builder from the National Association of Homebuilders and Builder Magazine, and the National Housing Quality Award from the National Association of Homebuilders. In 2017 Mr. Toll was inducted into the Builder Hall of Fame. The Company’s master-planned communities, golf courses, active living communities, and city living properties are located in 51 markets and 20 states across the U.S. and Toll Brothers has sold over 100,000

homes since its beginning in 1967.

Mr. Toll co-founded, served on the Board of Directors, and was the largest shareholder of UbiquiTel, Inc., a publicly traded company which provided Sprint PCS digital communication services to mid-size markets in the western and mid-western United States, until it was acquired by Sprint in 2006. He was also the largest investor and served on the Board of Directors of Fifth Street Capital, a business development corporation founded in 2000. In 2006 Philadelphia

Media Holdings LLC, of which he was Chairman, acquired the Philadelphia Inquirer. He resigned this position in August of 2009. Mr. Toll was the former Chairman and majority owner of Aquilent, a leading provider of web development and IT services to the federal government. Mr. Toll is the owner of BET Investments, Inc. BET and its affiliates own, develop, and manage over 7 million square feet of shopping centers, 2 million square feet of office properties and over 4,000 apartment units in 12 states. He is also the owner and operator of five automobile

agencies, Reedman-Toll Auto World in Langhorne, Pennsylvania, the largest automobile dealer in the country which sells Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep/Ram, Chevrolet, Fiat, and Subaru products; Reedman Toll of Downingtown, Pennsylvania which sells Honda and Subaru products; Reedman Toll of Exton, Pennsylvania which sells Chevrolet products; Reedman Toll of Jenkintown,

Pennsylvania, which sells Dodge/Jeep/Ram products; and Reedman Toll of Springfield, Pennsylvania which sells Dodge/Jeep/Ram, and Chevrolet products. He is also the Owner and Chairman of Puresyn Corp., a biotech company located in Malvern, Pennsylvania. In addition, Mr. Toll is the owner of BET Associates which is a mezzanine lender for various types of businesses.

Mr. Toll is also the lead investor in many private companies. As a board member of

these companies he helps guide strategic development to insure continued growth of shareholder value. Some of Mr. Toll’s current private equity investments include: Premier Kids Care, a provider of specialized pharmacy services pursuant to agreements with biotechnology drug manufacturers relating to the treatment of pediatric growth hormone deficiency; and Colonial Management Group, the second largest chain of outpatient substance abuse treatment centers in

the U.S. Colonial uses methadone to help drug-dependent individuals overcome their addiction to heroin, opium and opiate-based prescription medications. Mr. Toll is also the Chairman of Lehigh Natural Resources, the largest anthracite coal mine in Pennsylvania. In addition, Mr. Toll is a partner in Sidney Kimmel Entertainment which produces movies.

Mr. Toll served on the Chairman’s Advisory Board of the Ben Franklin Technology

Center of Southeastern Pennsylvania; he is a Member and the Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of Abington Memorial Hospital; he is a Member of the Executive Board of the Philadelphia Museum of Art; he is an Honorary Trustee of the Barnes Foundation; and he also served on the Boards of Beth Sholom Synagogue, the University of Miami, and the Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County.

Mr. Toll is also the Founder and President of the Abington Township Industrial and

Commercial Development Authority. He is a former member of the Young Presidents'

Organization and a current member of the World Presidents' Organization and Chief Executives Organization. He is also a former member of the Board of the Pennsylvania Nursing Home Loan Agency, the Board of Directors of Philmont Country Club, the Board of Directors of the Foundation of the Philadelphia Heart Institute, the Fannie Mae Housing Impact Advisory Council, and the Board of the Homebuilders Association of Bucks/Montgomery Counties.

Allina Boohoff, managing director, is the head of asset management’s Multifamily Sector at J.P.Morgan Asset Management – Global Real Assets. An employee since 2003, she is responsible for leading the asset management efforts for the group’s multifamily portfolio in the U.S., a 50,000 unit, 190-property portfolio valued at $14 billion. Allina is responsible for major joint venture partner relationships in the multifamily sector and has significant involvement in client meetings and presentation related to multifamily investments. She has 20 years of real estate experience and was previously the financial controller for the multi-family portfolio and a financial controller for the Alternative Property Fund and transferred to asset management in 2006. Prior to joining the firm, Allina worked for Ernst & Young LLP, where she was a senior accountant in the Real Estate Group. Allina holds a B.S. in finance and economics from the Stern School of Business at New York University, an M.S. in accounting from Mendoza School of Business at University of Notre Dame and is also a CPA. She is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts and is a holder of the CFA designation. She also serves on the board of National Multi Housing Council and is a member of ULI’s bronze multifamily council.

Bob Kettler is the Chief Executive Officer and owner of Kettler, one of the D.C. region’s largest private companies and a leading real estate development and property management enterprise.

Mr. Kettler began his career in the early 1970’s renovating apartments and retail stores, as well as building new homes in D.C. neighborhoods. In 1977 he formed Kettler (under the name Kettler and Scott) as a home building company and later transitioned from home builder to planned community developer in the early 1980’s.

Utilizing capital from institutional investors and banking institutions, Kettler experienced rapid growth and became the leading planned community developer in the D.C. region. In over 25 projects, Kettler has provided 46,000 developed lots to both public and private home builders, 15 shopping centers, 10 million square feet of planned commercial uses, and 8 eight championship golf courses. Examples of these developments in Virginia include Cascades, Brambleton and Piedmont. Currently, Kettler has over 2,000 lots in development, primarily in infill locations, on a total of 10 properties from Baltimore, MD to Fredericksburg, VA.

Kettler has been successful in developing several notable commercial mixed use projects of approximately 5 million square feet including the 1.4MM square foot Village at Leesburg and the 2MM square foot Trinity Center.

Beginning in 1988, Kettler entered the apartment development industry building over 24,000 multifamily units in garden, mid-rise, high-rise and mixed-use properties. These developments also include award winning luxury apartment communities such as Metropolitan Park in Pentagon City as well as 2,500 condominium homes with a gross sales value of nearly $1 billion. Examples of these communities are Midtown Alexandria Station and Midtown Reston Town Center. Additionally, Kettler has developed 7,000 tax credit and bond financed apartments in 40 properties.

Currently ranked as the 16th largest multifamily developer in the nation and the 2015 development firm of the year by MHN, Kettler’s development pipeline includes over 5,000 total units. Projects currently under construction in the D.C. metropolitan area are The Acadia at Metropolitan Park, Element 28 in Bethesda, m.flats Crystal City, 2101 Champlain Street in Washington D.C. and Highgate in McLean, VA.

Additionally in 1988, Kettler established Kettler Management, the property management division of the organization. Recognized for its excellence and named the 2008 Property Management Company of the Year by NAHB, Kettler Management provides best in class management, marketing, and pre-development services to its clients. The company currently manages over 30,000 apartments in 100+ communities throughout the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, South East and Texas for both Kettler affiliates and third-party clients.

Recognized as a leader in the real estate development industry, Mr. Kettler has been the recipient of the Building Industry Association’s Monument Lifetime Achievement Award, the Developer of the Year award given by the National Association of Home Builder’s as well as appearing on the Washington Business Journals Power 100 list for the last three consecutive years.

Currently, Mr. Kettler serves on the board of the Trust for the National Mall, the Tysons Partnership board, the Kennedy Center corporate board and Wesley Seminary board. Throughout his tenure, Mr. Kettler served on boards for George Mason University, Northern Virginia Community College, the Northern Virginia Building Industry Association, and the National Methodist Church. He has also served as a Trustee at St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School in Washington, D.C., and the Potomac School in McLean, VA. Mr. Kettler and his wife, Charlotte, co-chaired a successful $50 million capital campaign to redevelop the Potomac School in McLean, VA.

Kettler also sponsors an annual scholars program at the George Mason University Center for Regional Analysis for the study of multifamily housing. Additionally, Kettler is the official apartment management company of Monumental Sports and Entertainment, and has been the sponsor of the Kettler Capitals Iceplex in Arlington, the state of the art official training center for The Washington Capitals since its grand opening in 2006.

Mr. Kettler has been married to his wife Charlotte for 31 years. The couple has four adult children and resides in McLean, VA.

Monty Hoffman formed Hoffman & Associates in 1993 with a single townhouse conversion and has since then transformed the company into a market leader of real estate development in the Washington, DC, metro area and beyond. With more than 30 years of experience, Monty actively leads the company’s business development and market strategy, as well as the design initiatives for every Hoffman project.

Monty has been recognized in Washington’s SmartCEO’s Future 50 list and the Washington Business Journal’s Power 100. He is a founding board member of the DC Students Construction Trades Foundation, which provides educational and apprenticeship opportunities for District students interested in design, engineering, and construction. He served on the DC Public Schools Engineering Advisory Board and is a current board member of the Federal City Council and Southwest Business Improvement District. Monty graduated from the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown with a Bachelor of Science in Civil/Structural Engineering Technology. He is married with three children and lives in Potomac, MD

David M. Brickman is the Chief Executive Officer of NewPoint Real Estate Capital and

Executive Chairman of Meridian Capital Group, a leading commercial real estate

services firm. He also serves as a Senior Advisor to Stone Point Capital, a leading

private equity firm in the real estate and financial services arenas.

At the end of January 2021 David stepped down as Chief Executive Officer of Freddie

Mac, one of the largest providers of mortgage financing in the U.S. Prior to that, he

served as President and as a member of the Board of Directors. During his tenure he led

the $2 trillion company through a period of significant growth, change, and disruption as

the firm successfully navigated the challenges of the COVID crisis.

Brickman spent most of his career at Freddie Mac leading and transforming the

multifamily business, presiding over a remarkable period of growth. Production rose

from $16 billion in 2010 to almost $80 billion in 2018. He also established the

company’s flagship K-Deal securitization program as one of the leading securitized

products in the structured finance market. He drove significant innovation by expanding

Freddie Mac’s products and offerings – particularly those serving the growing need for

affordable and workforce housing.

Brickman’s educational accomplishments include doctoral coursework for a Ph.D. in

economics and real estate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a master’s

degree in public policy from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree from the

University of Pennsylvania. He’s been a professorial lecturer at George Washington

University, an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University and is a non-resident

Fellow at the Urban Institute. He also holds a US patent for a unique mortgage-backed

security structure.

Chris Czarnecki joined Broadstone in 2009 and became CEO in 2017; in this role he is responsible for leading the overall Broadstone organization, including Broadstone Net Lease and Broadtree Residential. In previous roles at Broadstone, Chris served as the firm’s President and Chief Financial Officer. In these roles he oversaw various functions, including capital markets activities, accounting, property management and operations. His responsibilities included raising new debt and equity capital for investment, managing investor relations, conducting industry research, board and investor communications and portfolio analytics.

Prior to joining Broadstone, Chris was a commercial real estate lender and credit analyst for Branch Banking & Trust Co. (BB&T). Based in Baltimore, MD, he was responsible for the underwriting of new commercial construction projects, portfolio management and credit analysis.

Other highlights:

• BA degree in economics from the University of Rochester

• Diploma in Management Studies from the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge

• MBA in Finance and Corporate Accounting from the Simon Business School at the University of Rochester

• Member of M&T Bank’s Rochester Regional Advisory Board

• Guest lecturer in real estate courses at the Simon Business School

• Graduate of BB&T’s Leadership Development Program

• Member of NAREIT

As Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Bainbridge Companies, Mr. Schechter has been in real estate development since 1976. A third generation multifamily and commercial property owner, manager and developer, Mr. Schechter’s family has been in the business since 1927. Mr. Schechter developed his first mixed-use office and retail project in 1976 and his first mid-rise apartment project in 1978. Since starting Bainbridge in 1993, Richard has been involved in the supervision, acquisition, development and management of $5 billion in multifamily rental housing, including over 29,000 multifamily units.

He formerly served as chief operating officer of R.M.S Partners, a developer, owner and manager of office buildings and apartment rental communities in Florida and Washington D.C., and as president of Bainbridge Financial Corporation, an investment, asset and property management advisory group based in Washington D.C.

In addition to his expertise in commercial and multifamily ownership, acquisition, management and development, Mr. Schechter has extensive experience structuring large scale real estate financing, including REIT programs.

Mr. Schechter holds a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from Clarkson University and a Juris Doctorate from the Syracuse University College of Law.

Flanagan is President of Elm Street Development. He oversees development opportunities for Elm Street Development. He is also a partner in the Craftmark Group, homebuilding companies, and Legend Management, a real estate management company. He is on the Executive Committee for the Urban Land Institute-Washington, is past President for the Maryland National Capital Building Industry Association and is past Chairman of the Smart Growth Alliance. Prior to joining Elm Street Development in 1978, Flanagan graduated from Georgia Tech and received an MBA from the University of North Carolina.

Her real love for hospitality design and her passion to create fabulous yet functional spaces was the true motivator to establish RD Jones & Associates in 1996. Rebecca has more than 30 years of specialized experience in Hospitality, restaurant and multifamily interior architecture and design. A true Texan at heart, she received her BFA degree from Texas Tech University and studied at Parsons School of Design in NYC. She spent 12 years working in New York with a sole focus on Hospitality before starting her name sake firm. As owner and principal of the firm, she continues to set the design direction and tone for all interior projects. Her experience in all types of renovation and new construction influences not only the creative process but the functional and operational process which she believes are the essential foundations of good design. Rebecca strives to create cutting edge design that is timeless. She has chosen for the firm to be sized appropriately so she can maintain her hands on style in oversight and development of RDJA projects. Her personal attention allows the firm to retain the high level of design and detail that the company is noted for. Rebecca desires to individually craft each environment, creating captivating architecture and décor. Most important to RDJA¹s mission is to create value for each project, embrace the clients needs, adhere to the projects budgetary constraints and build long term working relationships.

Bob Iber is currently serving as Senior Advisor in the Office of Multifamily Housing

Programs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. He has served in an

acting capacity in several positions in the Department’s Headquarters including Program

Advisor to the FHA Commissioner; Director Office of Asset Management; Director

Office of Multifamily Development; Director of Multifamily Counterparty and Asset

Oversight Division and most recently the Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Office of

Multifamily Housing Programs.

He began his career in the Department of Housing and Urban Development in 1987 as an

Attorney Advisor in the Maryland State Office. He moved on to supervisory functions in

the Loan Management Branch in 1989, becoming the Branch Chief in 1993. He was

reassigned to the position of Multifamily Housing Director in the Baltimore Multifamily

Hub in March 1998. He has been on the Department’s National Loan Committee since

its inception, stepping down after two years as the Chair. He has been a designer and

trainer in several Departmental initiatives including the 1997 Reorganization,

Compliance and Monitoring, Risk Mitigation, Breaking Ground Production Initiative,

and the 2014 Transformation.

Mr. Iber has a Bachelor of Arts degree from Western Maryland College and a Juris

Doctorate from the University of Baltimore School of Law. He is a member of the

Maryland Bar Association. He also has been a member of the Baltimore County Rental

Housing Task Force and the Baltimore County Multifamily Housing Advisory Group. In

2004, Comprehensive Housing Assistance, Inc. (CHAI) recognized him as its Public

Servant of the Year.

Polly Donaldson has served as the Director of the DC Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) since January 2, 2015. As Director, she oversees 180+ employees, 14 program areas and manages an operating budget of over $250 million to preserve and produce rental and homeownership opportunities for District residents while leading the charge of revitalizing underserved neighborhoods.

The Director is well-known in DC affordable housing circles and has had great influence throughout the city. Her nonprofit career spans over 27 years, with senior management experience in homelessness, affordable housing and international community development.

Prior to joining DHCD, Donaldson served as the Executive Director of the Transitional Housing Corporation (THC) for over 10 years and THC Affordable Housing, Inc., since its founding in June 2005. Under Donaldson’s leadership, THC was on the front lines addressing the city’s housing crunch, working with churches, charities and other nonprofit groups to produce and support affordable units for the formerly homeless.

Donaldson served on the DC Interagency Council on Homelessness in 2009 and was re-appointed in 2013. She is the former board president of the Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development, an umbrella group of affordable housing developers. In 2012, she also served on the Comprehensive Housing Strategy Task Force assembled by former Mayor Gray. In 2014, Mayor-elect Muriel Bowser named Donaldson as the co-chair of the Transition Team’s Affordable Housing Committee. Donaldson served as the chair of Mayor Bowser’s Affordable Housing Preservation Strike Force.

Donaldson has lived in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood in Ward 1 for over 24 years. In the late 1990s, she was elected and served as the chair of the Mt. Pleasant Advisory Neighborhood Commission (ANC) 1-E. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in social and behavioral science from The Johns Hopkins University.

Richard Lake is a founding Principal of Roadside Development. Roadside was formed 20 years ago as a Washington, DC-based

development company, focused on the creation of retail and mixeduse environments. Roadside has become one of the leading experts

in urban and town center development throughout the metropolitan Washington, DC region.

Mr. Lake has been responsible for overall acquisition, entitlement, development, leasing, and property management of more than 25 million SF over the past three decades. Notable recent projects include City Ridge located at 3900 Wisconsin Avenue, NW which occupies 550 feet of frontage

along Wisconsin Avenue NW, the site includes approximately 9.71 acres of land that is bound by a residential neighborhood to the south, Glover-Archbold Park to the west, and a private office building to the north; City Market at O & 880P, a million square foot, urban infill project in the

heart of the Shaw neighborhood in Washington DC, which spans two city blocks and featuresnearly 90,000 square feet of retail, 550 luxury rental apartments, 90 affordable senior rental units, a 182-room key hotel, a 500-car parking garage, and incorporates the historic preservation of the

nationally registered landmark O Street Market; Stonebridge at Potomac Town Center, a 105-acre mixed-use retail town center and residential community in Woodbridge, Virginia; and Cityline at Tenley, which preserved and transformed an abandoned historic Sears building into an award-winning mixed-use project that attracted Washington, DC’s first Best Buy and Container Storeretailers while also incorporating a contemporary addition of 204 luxury condominium units.

Mr. Lake’s talent for working with development teams and optimizing a project’s full value potential throughout all stages of the real estate cycle is one of his greatest assets. He has also served as a consultant on several real estate projects throughout the country, with an expertise in

place-making, by creating successful retail environments and public spaces that amenitize and enhance residential, commercial, and cultural uses to become vibrant mixed-use communities. Mr. Lake is a native Washingtonian and has been an active member of the business community

for over 30 years. Prior to co-founding Roadside Development, he was the founding partner of The Retail Group and led Madison Retail Group, a full-service retail brokerage firm that was the dominant leader in the DC and Mid-Atlantic markets. He began his career in real estate as a

broker with Smithy Braedon ONCOR International. He is a graduate of Boston University.

Mr. Lake currently serves on the board of directors for several non-profit and economic development organizations, including Co-Chair of the Washington DC Economic Partnership, Iona Senior Services (also previously President of the Board), Executive Committee Member for DCBIA, Prince William County Economic Advisory Board and Trustee of Federal City Council. Mr. Lake is also a member of ULI and ICSC

Mr. Hertz is responsible for AIG Global Real Estate’s equity investment activities in the U.S. He oversees the acquisition or development of all product types, including multi-family, retail, office, industrial, hotel, and senior/student housing, and the oversight of various real estate teams that source, underwrite and close new investment opportunities.

Prior to joining AIG Global Real Estate in 2009, Mr. Hertz was a Managing Director at Amstar Global Advisors, a private equity fund, where he was responsible for real estate investments and dispositions, with assets in Russia, Turkey and India. Prior to Amstar, Mr. Hertz was a Managing Director at AIG Global Real Estate where he was responsible for U.S. retail property investments, managing a portfolio of approximately 7 million square feet of stabilized and under-development properties. Prior to AIG, Mr. Hertz was a Senior Vice President at Prime Retail, a Baltimore based REIT, where he was mainly involved in acquisitions and development, property dispositions, asset management and structuring lender and equity partner work-out strategies.

Mr. Hertz received a Bachelor of Science degree in Real Estate from The Pennsylvania State University and a master’s degree in real estate investment from Johns Hopkins University.

Jonathan Slager serves as Co-CEO of Bridge Investment Group and CIO of Bridge Multifamily Fund Manager LLC, and has 31 years of experience in the real estate, finance, and software industries. Mr. Slager has been involved in underwriting, acquiring and managing over $3.5 Billion in assets including all ROC fund assets, and has been a key driver of asset executions and returns.

From 2005 to 2009, Mr. Slager was with The Pacific Group USA, Inc., and with Bridge Loan Capital Fund. He was responsible for major acquisitions, development, and entitlements and financing of major real estate projects.

For nearly a decade prior to that, Mr. Slager worked at The Koll Company and then Wells Fargo Bank. At these leading institutions he was responsible for the acquisition, development, asset management and disposition of commercial real estate assets. Mr. Slager played the leading role on large institutional commercial real estate projects ranging from resort, residential, office, industrial and retail projects.

While at Wells Fargo, Mr. Slager negotiated purchase agreements, performed feasibility analyses, coordinated resolution of zoning and entitlement issues, arranged debt financing, oversaw construction, managed assets, and performed leasing and marketing services. During that period, his team acquired land and buildings valued in excess of US$700 million; managed multiple development projects of over 1.6 million square feet of commercial office, industrial, retail, residential, and resort real estate; and formed joint ventures with private and institutional partners, such as Aetna and John Hancock.

Mr. Slager earned his Master in Business Administration in Finance and Marketing from New York University in 1985. He earned his Bachelor of Arts in English, Phi Beta Kappa and cum laude, from the University of Utah in 1981.

Mark Caplan, is a Baltimore native active in real estate investment and management as well as

equipment and vehicle financing in the region. He is the President and CEO of The Time Group,

a real estate equity firm where he has worked since the mid-1970s. The Time Group has interests

in approximately 7,500 units of multi-family, manufactured housing, and senior living. He is also

a founder and is currently the Chairman of WPM Real Estate Management, a manager of multi-

family properties as well as other property types currently comprising in excess of 23,000 units.

In addition to his real estate activities, Mr. Caplan is Chairman of the Management Committee of

Madison Capital, an independent vehicle and equipment financing firm. Mr. Caplan is a member

of the Board of Directors at Capital Bank, (NASDAQ, CBNK). Mr. Caplan is active in the non-

for-profit community in Baltimore, having served or currently serving on the Boards of The

Walters Art Museum, Downtown Partnership of Baltimore, The Bryn Mawr School, The Enoch

Pratt Free Library, The Gilman School, Center Stage, B.E.S.T., Charles Street Development

Corp., Real Estate Advisory Board of Columbia Business School, and St. Ignatius Loyola

Academy. Mr. Caplan graduated from Gilman School in 1976 and Johns Hopkins University in

1981 where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Social & Behavioral Sciences. He

received his Master of Business Administration from the Columbia Business School in 1983,

which he attended as a Dean’s Fellow.

Ms. Butcher is an Executive Vice President responsible for overseeing residential and retail asset and

property management at JBG SMITH. She joined the JBG Companies in 2007 and has 15 years of

real estate and private equity experience.

Prior to joining JBG, she worked in private equity at Thomas H. Lee Partners in Boston and Morgan

Stanley in New York. Ms. Butcher currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors for The

House D.C.

Ms. Butcher received her B.S. in Commerce with distinction from The McIntire School of

Commerce at The University of Virginia and a M.B.A. with high distinction and Baker Scholar from

Harvard Business School.

Richard K. Devaney has over 31 years of institutional experience in the investment,

development and operations of multifamily housing and commercial real estate. In

2015, Mr. Devaney, along with two other seasoned multifamily rental lending

professionals, launched EagleBank’s FHA Multifamily Lending Division. This business

compliments EagleBank’s highly successful commercial real estate lending line of

business and has become a major contributor to the bank’s profitability, CRA and

affordable housing activities and objectives.

From 2006 through 2015, Mr. Devaney co-founded Crossbeam Capital, an institutional

real estate investment advisory firm, and launched its first private equity real estate

fund in 2007. As Chairman and CEO, Mr. Devaney had comprehensive company

responsibilities for investment strategy, capital markets, portfolio and asset

management, and investor relations with over $1 billion in assets under management.

Prior to forming Crossbeam Capital, Mr. Devaney served as National Vice President for

Equity and Mezzanine Debt Investments with the American Communities Fund at Fannie

Mae (“ACF”), and authored ACF’s five-year strategic plan. From 2001 to 2006, Mr.

Devaney managed a team that was primarily responsible for all of ACF’s equity

investments, generating $971 million in investments over 188 transactions, spanning

40,504 units, with a total market capitalization in excess of $5 billion.

Prior to joining Fannie Mae, Mr. Devaney was Senior Vice President of the Community

Development Lending Division at the Bank of America.

Mr. Devaney holds a B.A. from Belmont Abbey College, with majors in Economics and

Business Administration.

Tony Williams, the former Mayor of Washington, D.C. (1999 – 2007), is the current Chief

Executive Officer of the Federal City Council, an organization focusing the creative and

administrative talents of Washington’s business and professional leaders on major problems

and opportunities facing the District.

He is widely credited with leading the comeback of Washington D.C. during his two terms as

Mayor, restoring the finances of our nation’s capital, and improving the performance of

government agencies, all while lowering taxes and investing in infrastructure and human

services.

In addition to his duties with the Federal City Council, Mayor Williams is a Senior Advisor to King

and Spaulding, LLP. He serves on several company boards as well as the boards of Urban

Institute and the National Geographic Society.

Prior to Federal City Council, he led the Global Government Practice at the Corporate Executive

Board in Arlington, Virginia. He also taught public finance and urban leadership as the William

H. Bloomberg Lecturer in Public Management at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of

Government while coordinating programs for the Municipal Innovation Program at the Ash

Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation.

Before his election as Mayor, he was the independent Chief Financial Officer of the District from

1995 to 1998, working with and on behalf of local officials, the D.C. Financial Control Board, and

the U.S. Congress. Before his service in local Washington, Tony worked in a variety of positions

in federal, state, and local government, including as the first CFO for the U.S. Department of

Agriculture, appointed by President Bill Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.

He holds a BA from Yale, an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a J.D. from the Harvard

Law School, as well as a number of awards and honorary degrees, including Governing

Magazine Public Official of the Year in 1997. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Public

Administration and former President of the National League of Cities.

As an owner and Managing Principal for Streetsense, Eric has established himself as a contributing member in the company’s growth and expansion to its current marketplace status. With over 25 years of executive-level experience, Eric takes a visionary and collaborative approach to every project, leading his team to produce truly innovative results for his clients. A creative entrepreneur with a passion for branding, marketing, architecture, interior design and placemaking, Eric has extensive knowledge of real estate and a passion for holistic marketing strategy and brand management. After leading his own firm for over a decade, Eric merged Burka Studios with Streetsense, where he offers his clients — from local and national real estate firms to international hotel brands — an unparalleled breadth and depth of insights, strategy, and results.

James J. Consagra , Jr. is President & CEO of United Bank, as well as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of United Bankshares, Inc. He is responsible for overseeing the global areas of risk management, credit administration, finance, operations and corporate audit.

Consagra has over 25 years of banking experience and has served in various roles, including Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of United Bank. Prior to joining United, he served as both Treasurer and Director of George Mason Bankshares, Inc., and Executive Vice President of George Mason Bank. Prior to joining George Mason Bank, he worked as a Certified Public Accountant.

Consagra received a Bachelor of Business Administration in accounting from James Madison University. He currently serves as a Trustee on the Board of George Mason University Foundation.

As Chief Information Officer, Scott Moore identifies, captures, and delivers on great ideas while successfully driving innovation and performance throughout the organization to ensure thoughtful, efficient, and effective growth for Cortland. Scott joined Cortland 2011 as a Director of Investments. In this role, Scott oversaw the acquisition and redevelopment of 15 communities, before assuming his role as Executive Vice President of Strategy & Innovation in 2014. His experience includes identifying development opportunities, managing the acquisitions process, securing entitlements, overseeing construction, and governing the marketing and lease up of multifamily assets.

Prior to joining Cortland, Scott was Development Manager with The Medallion Group, where he managed the development and redevelopment of apartment communities totaling more than $85 million in value. Previously, Scott worked with Accenture, specializing in complex transactions, business case development, financial analysis, and operational analytics for the global management consulting firm.

Scott holds two degrees from the University of Florida: a master’s degree in Real Estate and a bachelor’s degree in Finance and Economics.

Jack Boarman founded the multi-discipline and award-winning firm, BKV Group, in 1978 and over the last 40+ years has expanded the company to be national student housing leader with over 190 design professionals working on projects throughout the United States. Jack is a Senior Practice Leader of Housing at BKV Group, focusing his work on the development of residential environments that utilize trend-setting ideas with a creative effort that translates client’s vision into a reality. Jack embraces a vision of growth and quality, which he incorporates in each of his designs. Jack is a renowned student housing expert, and speaks frequently at national and regional events and conferences including Interface, NMHC, Bisnow, and more. Recent and notable student housing projects Jack has designed include WaHu Student Apartments and The Marshall, both in Minneapolis, MN; Georgia Heights Apartments in Athens, GA; The Standard at New Brunswick in New Brunswick, NJ; The Standard at Raleigh in Raleigh, NC; and, The Standard at Auburn in Auburn, Alabama.

Jason Gerstein is the founding principal of both LGA Capital CRE, an SEC registered FINRA member private placement broker dealer, as well as LGA Capital Advisors. Jason actively leads the companies’ business development and investment strategies.

For more than 20 years and prior to the founding of LGA Capital in 2010, Jason worked in multifamily development for developers, lenders, and investors.

Jason is a graduate of Franklin and Marshall College with a bachelor’s degree in Biology and Psychology. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Dayton, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a concentration in finance from The Kogod School of Business at American University and a Master of Law (LLM) in Taxation from the Georgetown University Law Center. Jason is licensed to practice law in the State of Maryland, the United States District Court for the District of Maryland and is a member of the United States Tax Court and the United States Supreme Court.

Jason Fudin is the CEO and Co-founder of the hospitality living platform, Placemakr. He is a well-

respected entrepreneur in the industries of real estate, hospitality, travel, and business. Before co-

founding Placemakr, Jason was the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives at Vornado Realty Trust. At

Vornado, Jason worked on large asset repositioning and developing innovative commercial real estate

concepts for the organization. Over his career at Vornado, Jason has managed commercial real estate

development projects valued at over $2 billion.

Fueled by a desire for disruption, Jason co-founded Placemakr, an innovative, venture-backed, tech-

enabled real estate company. Here Jason has emerged as a pioneer in the urban, high-rise real estate

space, raising over $350M in capital to develop his vision of a flexible real estate model, one that blends

multifamily and hospitality use into one property.  Throughout his career, Jason has become a voice for

change in the real estate sector, often turning to his vision of the future in institutional real estate

development and investment, proptech, alternative lodging, homes, and hospitality space.

Felicite Moorman is an attorney turned multi-exit technology

entrepreneur. She’s received EY’s Entrepreneur Of The Year®

Award and has earned an international reputation as a go-to IoT

industry expert, developing pioneering strategic partnerships and

unprecedented technology strategies and initiatives for the Internet

of Things.

Moorman is the CoFounder of STRATIS, a RealPage Company,

and SaaS Platform for large-scale Internet of Things installations.

STRATIS was named a top ten “Best Company in America” by

Entrepreneur Magazine and ranked in the top twenty percent of Inc

Magazine’s “Fastest Growing Companies” three consecutive years

prior to acquisition. Moorman was simultaneously CEO of BuLogics,

which designed, built, and certified hardware, software, and

ecosystems for the Internet of Things.

Moorman is an international speaker and columnist, and has been featured as a thought leader in dozens of mass media outlets and publications including: U.S. News & World Report, Fast Company, Inc Magazine,

Entrepreneur Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, Yahoo! News, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Boston Globe, the Huffington Post, and others. She’s also a frequent writer, speaker, and presenter on the Internet of Things

and has been featured at CES, SXSW, Samsung DevCon, Eric Ries’ Lean Startup Conference, Smart Cities Innovation Summit Asia, NMHC OpTech, NAA Apartmentalize, Greystar’s Innovation and WAM Summits,

and more.

Prior to STRATIS and BuLogics, Moorman launched the Emerging Technologies Division for GE’s Consumer and Home Electronics brand. Moorman quickly established her reputation in technology,

engaging eight Fortune 500 companies in less than eighteen months, entering new vertical channels, and creating and beginning execution on the strategic plan to dominate the Internet of Things lighting

peripherals market. Today the GE lighting line is a part of nearly every home automation and security platform offered in the United States.

Early in her career, Moorman led a team that became the most sought after marketing and management partnership in Baltimore real estate. She expanded the companies to include nationwide finance, brokerage, legal, and insurance offerings. Moorman oversaw $1.5 billion dollars of transactions in less than five years, including property acquisition management for the $500 million dollar expansion of Rutgers University.

Moorman recognizes the importance of giving back, especially within the Philadelphia community, and volunteers her time and expertise to the following organizations: NAA & NMHC’s Real Estate Technology

Alliance (IoT Committee Co-Chair), Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs Accelerator (Lead Mentor), SXSW (Mentor), Lean Startup Conference (Mentor), Philly Startup Leaders (Mentor), Dreamit Ventures (Mentor),

and Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce (Small Business Board Member). She is also a community activist and Chair of East Falls Forward, a Philadelphia Registered Community Organization focused on the

revitalization of the Riverfront Business District. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland School of Law and a Law School Club Founder.

Robin Williams is executive vice president and co-director of the

Transwestern Mid-Atlantic Multifamily Group with a focus on multifamily

brokerage and business development in the Washington, D.C./Baltimore

metro areas and Northern Virginia.

Robin has been directly involved in the sale of over 63,000 apartment

units accounting for more than $6.5 billion in sales volume. Among the

noteworthy assets Robin has sold are Eaves Gaithersburg in Gaithersburg,

Maryland (684 units for $117 million); Chatsworth Park in Manassas,

Virginia (576 units for $115 million); The Hanover in Greenbelt, Maryland

(320 units for $49.6 million); Lynnhill Condominiums (219-unit bankruptcy

sale); The Chase at Bethesda ($467,000 per unit); Springhill Lake

Apartments in Greenbelt, Maryland (2,877 units); and Padonia Village

portfolio in Baltimore (1,169 units).

Some of the companies Robin has represented include AvalonBay, Harbor

Group International, Continental Realty, Foulger-Pratt Companies, DLJ Real

Estate Capital Partners, EQR, Home Properties, AIMCO, Fairfield

Residential, Pantzer Properties, The Bozzuto Group, UDR, Prudential and

many more.

Before joining Transwestern in 2008, Robin held senior investment sales

positions with both national and local brokerage firms in the Mid-Atlantic

region. Prior to 1998, Robin worked as a commercial real estate appraiser

in the Washington metro region.

As CEO, Michael Pestronk heads all property development and operational activities of the company. Post Brothers Apartments was founded in early 2007 and since that time Mr. Pestronk has focused exclusively on creating a best-in-class enterprise with a current portfolio of in excess of 1,100 class-A apartments throughout Philadelphia, with a total capitalization of approximately $165,000,000. Michael has 12 years of experience in the multi-family real estate industry, having previously worked for NWJ Companies and Historic Landmarks for Living, as well as being a principal of Iron Stone Real Estate Group, where he was collectively responsible for the repositioning, operations and capitalization of over $300,000,000 of real estate. During this time his responsibilities encompassed all aspects of apartment ownership including acquisitions, financing, development, construction, management, and leasing. During 2004-5 he was fully engaged in the property and asset management leadership of Historic Landmarks and was instrumental in the operational turnaround of a large portfolio of urban Class A apartments, where he increased NOI without capital spending, and facilitating a $200mm recapitalization of the portfolio. Michael takes great pride in his focus on identifying the right product to build, building simultaneously with high quality and cost effectiveness, and rapidly renting all of our units at top of the market rents.

Zach is the co-founder and Chief Investment Officer of Pender Capital. Zach co-founded Pender in 2015 and brings over 16 years of experience in both commercial real estate finance and capital markets expertise. Zach oversees the firm’s Investment and Research program which includes deal sourcing, research, and structuring and is a member of the Investment and Research Committee and the Management Committee. Prior to Pender, Zach served as Managing Director/ Senior Vice President for Liberty SBF, a commercial finance company based in Philadelphia, where he was responsible for establishing Liberty’s Western Regional HQ in Los Angeles and directed West Coast originations and operations. Zach personally originated over $60 million of commercial loans during the first year of operations on the West Coast. In 2008, Zach joined Silver Point Capital, LP in New York, a Goldman Sachs partner fund, where he was responsible for commercial real estate loan originations and insurance-linked securities trading. During his tenure at Silver Point, Zach traded more than $500 million in distressed commercial real estate debt, insurance-linked securities, and assets in the capital markets. From 2004 to 2008, Zach served as Senior Vice President/Division Director of Velocity Commercial Capital where he was the company’s highest grossing originator in e

As a Vice President in Whiting-Turner’s Washington DC office and a leader of our national residential

industry excellence group, Jason Spicer provides our teams with his expert problem-solving skills to

determine the best approach to our projects. Jason is a leader whose enthusiasm and passion hasn’t

wavered from when he began his career, over 20 years ago. He offers his knowledge and expertise on

residential and mixed-use projects including market rate and affordable apartments, dormitories, and

student housing. In addition to Residential and Mixed Use projects, Jason and the Washington DC office

team specialize in hospitality, higher education, K-12, institutional, senior living, office, aviation, mission

critical, and historic renovation. When Jason isn’t with his Whiting-Turner family and clients, he enjoys

time with his wife, Kathleen, and seven children………….yes seven children. Together, the family operates a small farm in Maryland where they raise beef cattle

and sheep.

Bachelor of Science, Civil Engineering, University of Maryland College Park. Go TERPS!

Matthew Pestronk is co-founder of Post Brothers, a real estate investment, development and management company with singular and unique expertise in urban real estate development. Matthew serves as President of the company, engaged in the sponsorship of Class-A multifamily, mixed-use and retail development projects comprised of over 7,000 units that are operating, under development or disposed plus, over 400,000 sf of commercial space, with a total capitalized cost in excess of $2.5 billion. Matthew shares strategic leadership of the company with his brother, Michael, and is engaged in asset management, financing, and project and capital formation. Matthew has worked in real estate capital transactions for his entire 20+-year career and was previously a real estate financing executive in New York City prior to forming Post Brothers. Matthew is also very active in his community and has board service experience for multiple charitable organizations including the Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation, Beat the Streets Philadelphia, West Nottingham Academy, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and is the Immediate past Chair of Jewish Federation Real Estate.

Since joining the Martin Architectural Group in 2007 Dan has focused his efforts on Multi-Family Residential and Mixed-Use projects. His responsibilities include: client representation, project proposals, conceptual designs, construction documentation, coordination and on-site construction administration. From concept meeting to project close out, Dan works directly with the client and the design team to integrate building design. He regularly attends industry events, is jointly responsible for business development and is an active public speaker. Prior to joining The Martin Architectural Group, Dan led a twelve-person team as a Studio Leader at Toll Brothers, primarily on residential and clubhouse projects. He is a graduate of Drexel University and a member of ULI, NCARB, NAHB, Delaware Green Building Council and ICSC. Two of Dan’s passions are supporting and more often than not, judging the “Build a House...Build a Dream" event for Habitat for Humanity and getting a team together and raising awareness and dollars for the “The Dude Hates Cancer” event.

Jason Bonderenko specializes in the acquisition, asset management and disposition of FCP’s apartment properties. Since joining FCP 11 years ago, he has been involved with acquiring or investing in approximately 23,000 apartments valued at over $3.0 billion as well as with the investing of all four of FCP’s real estate funds. Prior to joining FCP, Mr. Bonderenko worked with the Capital Markets group of CB Richard Ellis, where he was involved with financing $3 billion of commercial real estate transactions throughout the mid-Atlantic region. Mr. Bonderenko began his career with a mortgage REIT, where he focused on the asset management of lender-owned commercial real estate and non-performing commercial real estate loans. Mr. Bonderenko is a member of the National Multi-Housing Council and a graduate of Ithaca College, where he earned a BS in Economics.

Derrick LaRosa was appointed Executive Vice President of RESIDE Worldwide, Inc. in January 2018.

Derrick brings over 15 years of experience in real estate and corporate finance specializing in acquisitions, asset management and strategic business development. Over his career, he has participated in the acquisition and development of nearly 500,000 square feet of residential and hospitality assets in addition to asset management and portfolio oversight of over 2,000,000 square feet of residential, student housing and hospitality product.

Prior to joining RESIDE, Derrick was Director of Real Estate at BridgeStreet Global Hospitality where his responsibilities included management of the North American real estate portfolio, leading all leasing activities across 10 target MSA’s and overseeing a 3,500-bed student housing portfolio.

Prior to BridgeStreet, Derrick worked for Railfield Partners, a real estate investment and advisory firm based in Chevy Chase, Maryland. Having held senior roles in private equity and corporate finance, Derrick’s career spans investment, capital markets and business development expertise. Foundational jobs at J.P. Morgan and Bank of America in Investment Banking honed a diverse skill set in leveraged finance and mergers & acquisitions.

As Head of Client Strategy for Intersection’s Consulting division, Max Oglesbee helps brands bring digital services to life in physical space.

Since 2007, Max has nurtured and shaped Intersection’s consulting practice, leading long-term engagements, driving compelling opportunities forward, and enabling our team’s extraordinary work creating great experiences for people.

In the past several years Max has established the Digital Master Plans for developments such as Hudson Yards, The Grove, Port Covington and Lake Nona. Working across Cities, Mixed Use Real Estate Developments, Retail and Airports, Max and his team create responsive technology architectures to support differentiated user experiences in shared spaces.

Max holds a BFA in Music Composition from the New School University’s Jazz and Contemporary Music program. He lives in Lower Manhattan.

As part of the new generation of leadership at KTGY, David Senden is instrumental to the expansion and increased design profile of the firm. Mr. Senden specializes in urban infill residential and mixed-use developments, with work across the United States and internationally. In addition, he has a substantial portfolio of campus housing and specialty projects including affordable developments and recreation facilities. Since joining KTGY in early 2002, he has led teams in each of KTGY’s offices and often travels where needed to contribute to the firm’s most challenging design opportunities.

As member of KTGY’s Board of Directors, Mr. Senden is responsible for setting the big picture, strategic vision for the firm, increasing the firm’s profile and ensuring work at the highest levels. He was named to Building Design + Construction magazine’s list of the industry’s top 40 under 40 and has designed numerous award-winning projects from coast to coast.

Mr. Senden is a frequent speaker at various national and regional industry events and has written and contributed to countless articles touching on all aspects of design and the building industry. A lecturer and critic at several universities, Mr. Senden emphasizes the connection between the profession and the academy and values mentorship as key to developing talent and integrating the most current design thinking.

Michael Cohen serves as Vice President, Advisory Services with CoStar Group

(CSGP), the leading provider of commercial real estate information, analytics

and online marketplaces. Founded in 1987, CoStar conducts expansive,

ongoing research to produce and maintain the largest and most

comprehensive database of commercial real estate information. Our suite of

online services enables clients to analyze, interpret and gain unmatched

insight on commercial property values, market conditions and current

availabilities. CoStar Group's websites attracted an average of approximately

40 million unique monthly visitors in aggregate in the second quarter of 2018.

Headquartered in Washington, DC, CoStar maintains offices throughout the

U.S. and in Europe and Canada with a staff of over 3,800 worldwide, including

the industry's largest professional research organization.

With views on markets in the United States, Canada and Europe, CoStar’s

Advisory Services supports clients with independent expertise in real estate

market analysis, real estate portfolio analysis, capital market conditions,

investor communications and the design of actionable real estate investment

strategies. Under Mr. Cohen’s leadership, Advisory Services provides a range

of bespoke research services to a client list that represents a “Who’s Who” of

global real estate market participants including commercial banks, insurance

companies, Wall Street firms, government agencies, pension funds,

investment advisors, real estate investment trusts, and private investors. Mr.

Cohen regularly speaks to industry organizations, is often quoted in the

national press, and has appeared on both CNBC and Bloomberg Television.

Professional associations include the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA),

National Multifamily Housing Council (NMHC) and National Apartment

Association (NAA).

Prior to joining CoStar Group, Mr. Cohen worked for leading analyst

organizations in both the real estate and technology industries. He received

his B.A. from SUNY at Buffalo, J.D. from Cornell Law School, and M.B.A. from

the Carroll Graduate School of Management at Boston College.

Mr. Cohen can be reached by e-mail at mcohen@costargroup.com.

Rohit Anand brings industry leading thought-leadership to the design of multifamily and mixed-use

development projects. With experience that includes the design of over 35,000 market rate, for-rent,

for-sale, affordable multifamily residential units Mr. Anand counts, among his clients, many of the

nation’s top multifamily residential and retail developers including JBG SMITH, Kettler, The Bozzuto

Group, AvalonBay, Gables, Lincoln Property Company, Wood Partners, TCR and Gables.

Mr. Anand and his team advise developers on product trends and positioning and are adept at providing

efficient construction systems that help ensure successful projects. The work of Mr. Anand and his team

has been honored with multiple national awards.

Laurel is president of Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., one of the nation’s leading social enterprises. Laurel leads the organization’s national programmatic and policy work, including the teams working in Enterprise’s local markets across the United States, and Enterprise’s groundbreaking initiatives focused on connecting people and communities to opportunity. She also leads the policy team, which focuses on policy change at the national, state and local levels; Enterprise Advisors, the organization’s consulting and technical assistance platform; and the organization’s knowledge, impact and strategy functions.

Enterprise is a proven and powerful nonprofit that improves communities and people’s lives by making well-designed homes affordable. We bring together the nationwide know-how, partners, policy leadership and investments to multiply the impact of local affordable housing development. Over 35 years, Enterprise has created 529,000 homes, invested $36 billion and touched millions of lives.

Laurel is a member of the Enterprise executive team, reporting directly to the CEO. She brings a wealth of experience toward helping Enterprise meet its ambitious goals. Prior to joining Enterprise in 2014, Laurel held a number of senior positions in government and the private sector, including leadership roles at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and in the administration of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

From 2009 to 2013, Laurel served as chief of staff to HUD Secretary Shaun Donovan. In this capacity, she served as a member of the agency’s executive management team and worked closely with the secretary and the White House to develop and execute a wide range of policy and management priorities. In December 2012, President Obama and Secretary Donovan asked Laurel to serve as executive director of the Hurricane Sandy Task Force, an interagency team created by Executive Order to lead the long-term recovery effort and to set a new course for recovery by defining principles for investing $60 billion in federal funding dedicated to Sandy response and recovery.

Prior to joining the Obama Administration, Laurel was vice president of development and project director for the South Street Seaport Redevelopment at General Growth Properties (GGP), a Chicago-based real estate investment trust. Before her tenure at GGP, Laurel spent six years working for New York City Mayor Bloomberg, first as a senior policy advisor to Deputy Mayor for Economic Development and Rebuilding Daniel L. Doctoroff, then as a member of the senior team at the city’s Department of Housing Preservation and Development.

A New York native, Laurel graduated cum laude from Williams College and received a master’s degree in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School. She currently serves on the board of the National Housing Trust, the National Housing Council, the District of Columbia Green Bank and on the National Resource Network governing board. She lives with her husband and daughters on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.

Scot Patrick O’Brien serves as office managing partner of the Akerman’s Washington, D.C. office. Scot helps his clients in the corporate life cycle to raise capital, structure corporate ventures, resolve conflicts, acquire/develop assets and real estate, manage operations and ultimately sell, refinance or reposition the business enterprise or real estate development. He represents public and private companies and private equity and real-estate based funds in corporate, securities, debt and equity financing, and M&A transactions.

Working with public companies, Scot counsels on corporate governance and securities offering and reporting requirements. Working with private companies, Scot serves as outside general counsel to numerous corporate entities on a full range of corporate, securities and financing related matters. For those looking to raise capital, Scot creates investment funds for private equity investments in a variety of enterprises as well as for real estate developments (both property specific and discretionary funds).

For owners, developers and investors in real estate, in addition to creating real estate investment funds, Scot assists with real estate financings (working through common, preferred, mezzanine and debt positions), joint ventures, acquisitions, operational and management matters, leases, and dispositions.

For those involved in the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program, Scot also represents real estate companies (primarily developers and regional centers) in the creation of, and investments in, regional centers and new commercial enterprises under the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program.

Notable Work

EB-5 Financing: Represented real estate investment companies and developers in equity investments of over $1.5 billion for regional centers in California, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, New York, Puerto Rico, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and Wisconsin pursuant to the USCIS “EB-5” Immigrant Investor Program.

Real Estate Funds: Represented real estate private equity companies as company counsel in fund formation, portfolio and individual acquisitions, leasing and sales of office, industrial, research and development, and multi-family projects.

General Advisory: Represent Samsung Electronics America Inc. and affiliates in a wide range of corporate, financing, real estate, litigation and bankruptcy projects.

M&A: Represented governmental contractor in its 2017 sale to larger strategic acquirer.

The world’s leading developers and commercial property owners turn to CBRE to provide creative financial solutions for their commercial real estate investment needs. CBRE has long-term, established relationships with more than 400 of the industry’s premier international lenders. As a Vice Chairman with CBRE’s Capital Markets Group, Mr. Webb leads the Company’s Mid Atlantic Debt & Structured Finance Team which arranges senior debt, mezzanine debt and equity for a wide variety of apartment/condominium, office, retail, industrial and other properties and development projects. The Team is comprised of 12 real estate professionals who work collaboratively with the other groups within CBRE to secure funds from a wide range of capital sources including Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac, FHA, pension funds, endowment funds, sovereign wealth funds, family offices, offshore and domestic banks, debt funds, mortgage REITS and other sources. Over the past five years, Mr. Webb and his team have closed over $14 Billion of debt and equity transactions.

After having worked early in his career as an attorney and real estate developer, Mr. Webb has since acted as broker and/or advisor in the financing of over $30 Billion of commercial real estate transactions, including over 100 major development and repositioning deals, and hundreds of refinance transactions of more than 60,000 apartment and condo units and 15 Million square feet of office space.

Notable transactions closed by Mr. Webb include 200 Stovall (Alexandria), The Boro mixed-use project (Tysons), Central Place Apartments (Rosslyn), National Science Foundation headquarters (Alexandria), Portals III recapitalizations (Washington, D.C), Columbia Hospital (Washington D.C.), Highland Park I & II (Washington, DC), Liberty Place (Arlington), The Hepburn Residences (Washington, DC), National Cancer Institute (Frederick), and the LCOR apartment portfolio recapitalization (throughout the US).

Dara Newman Histed represents developers, landowners and investors in commercial real estate transactions. Her clients execute transactions ranging from complex tax credit and affordable housing deals, to market-rate housing and permitting and land use matters. Her practice is focused on Massachusetts and the Washington DC area.

David Kessler serves as Managing Partner of CohnReznick's Real Estate Industry practice. He has over 30 years of experience providing audit, tax, and management advisory services to the real estate and financial services industries, representing clients nationally.

David represents developers, private equity funds, institutional investors such as life insurance companies and pension funds, lenders, asset management companies, property management companies, REITs, and loan funds. His clients operate and develop hotels, office, multifamily, industrial, retail, nursing and assisted living, land projects, military housing, and student housing units.

David's services for commercial real estate clients involve audit and management advisory services including assisting new and existing private equity funds with structures, compliance, and asset or portfolio due diligence. He works with RIA’s, fund managers, and is proficient with real estate accounting and reporting as well as real estate operations. David frequently works with the Firm’s Advisory Practice.

David designed and has taught a real estate accounting graduate-level course at Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies and the University of Maryland’s School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation as part of each university’s graduate degree program in real estate development. He speaks frequently at real estate industry conferences throughout the country. David serves on the Board and is Treasurer of Junior Achievement of Greater Washington and is a Board Member of Barker Adoption Foundation.

Christopher Vasquez, CPA, is a partner in Aronson’s Construction & Real Estate Services Group. He joined Aronson in 2003 and has more than 15 years of industry experience.

Chris specializes in accounting, assurance, and tax services for the real estate and construction industries. He is driven to help his clients thrive and proactively respond to industry forecasts and trends. He works with a wide range of real estate businesses, including Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), property owners, developers, and asset management companies. Additionally, he works with a broad cross-section of construction businesses, ranging from emerging contractors to nationally recognized construction firms.

Chris helps his clients manage the common and complex challenges facing the dynamic real estate and construction industries, including financing arrangements, business combinations, as well as equity structuring. In addition, he has performed cost certifications for submission to HUD and provides guidance and strategies on change order management from both the contractor’s and owner’s perspective.

Chris freely shares his industry knowledge as an author on Aronson’s blogs and has conducted presentations on the latest accounting trends to various sureties and bankers.

Marley serves as the Managing Director of Real Estate at Sonder. Prior to Sonder, Marley led the acquisitions and asset management for a JV fund led by the Kuwait Pension Fund focused on value add and opportunistic deals throughout the US and Western Europe. He also lead acquisitions for the Royal Family of Abu Dhabi and was a Development Manager for John Laing Homes prior to its merger with Emaar.