Debt Outlook and Impact on Investment

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  Katie Keenan

  Katie Keenan is a Senior Managing Director in the Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies (“BREDS”) group and Chief Executive Officer of Blackstone Mortgage Trust (NYSE:BXMT), a publicly-traded commercial mortgage REIT managed by Blackstone. Ms. Keenan leads all aspects of BXMT, a real estate finance company that originates senior loans collateralized by commercial real estate in North America, Europe and Australia. Ms. Keenan is also involved in commercial debt investments across the global BREDS platform and is based in New York. Before joining Blackstone in 2012, Ms. Keenan held positions at G2 Investment Group, Lubert-Adler Real Estate Funds and in the Real Estate Investment Banking Group at Lehman Brothers. Ms. Keenan graduated cum laude with an A.B. in History from Harvard College. She sits on the Board of Directors of Getting Out and Staying Out and the Advisory Board of Governors of NAREIT, and is a member of WX New York Women Executives in Real Estate.

  Blackstone

  Senior Managing Director

  Katie Keenan

  Senior Managing Director

  Blackstone

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  Melissa Farrell

  Managing Director

  Prudential

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  Sarah Lagosh

  Director

  Eastdil Secured

• Moderator

  Amy Fracassini

  Shareholder

  Davis, Malm & D'Agostine, P.C.

Equity Update and Foreign Capital Influx

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  Scott Jamieson

  Principal

  Avison Young

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  Young Park

  President

  Berkeley Investments

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  Paul Nasser

  Paul J. Nasser is responsible for managing the firm's resources across investment and operating disciplines. As Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Intercontinental, he is a member of the Executive Committee, Investment Committee, Valuation Committee, and oversees Performance Reporting, Investor Relations, Accounting, Finance, Marketing, Human Resources, Technology and Administration. Prior to joining Intercontinental in 2000, Paul Nasser was Senior Vice President and Team Leader in Fleet's Real Estate Finance Group handling a real estate portfolio of over $1 billion. In this capacity, Mr. Nasser managed construction and acquisition loans, private placements, mezzanine debt, retail real estate, REITs and residential real estate development. Before joining Fleet in 1991, he held various senior management positions in the banking industry. Active in many civic and charitable organizations, Mr. Nasser is on the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Chapter of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP); is on the Board of Directors for the Greater Boston Board of Real Estate Finance Association (REFA); and Mr. Nasser serves as the Vice Chairman for St. John’s Preparatory School, Danvers, MA. Mr. Nasser holds memberships with the Treasurer's Club of Boston, National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF), National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers (NAREIM); and the Pension Real Estate Advisory (PREA). Mr. Nasser was the former Chairman of the Advisory Board for St. John the Evangelist School, former Chairman and President of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties Massachusetts Chapter, former President of the Greater Boston Board of Real Estate Finance Association (REFA), former member of the National Board of Directors of the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties (NAIOP), and former member of the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of Eastern Massachusetts. In 2015, Mr. Nasser was named the CFO of the Year for Midsize Private Companies by the Boston Business Journal. Mr. Nasser is a guest lecturer at the University of New Hampshire, Boston University and Roger Williams University. Mr. Nasser received his BA in Urban Planning from the University of Rhode Island in 1983 and his MBA from Suffolk University in 1998

  Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation

  COO & CFO

  Paul Nasser

  COO & CFO

  Intercontinental Real Estate Corporation

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  Peter Merrigan

  CEO

  Taurus Investment Holdings

Opening Remarks

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  Jameson Weber

  VP

  Hightower