Keynote Panel

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  Leslie Price

  Senior Policy Advisor

  Mayor's Office of Policy & Innovation

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  John McCullough

  Attorney

  McCullough Hill Leary, PS

Development Panel

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  Paul Keller

  Mr. Keller is the Vice Chairman of MREG and a member of MREG’s Investment Committee. He also serves as the Chairman of MRED, MREG’s development subsidiary, and Senior Adviser to the MRECS Investment Committee with respect to construction and other heavy transitional loans. Mr. Keller has over 40 years of experience in real estate investment, development, and construction, formerly leading Mack Urban, LLC, Urban Partners, LLC, Keller Equity Group, Inc., Keller CMS, Inc., and Keller Construction Company, LTD. Mr. Keller currently holds many board and community leadership roles, including Vice Chair of the Land Use Leadership Committee and Member of the Advisory Board of ULI (Urban Land Institute) Los Angeles, Board Member of the Central City Association of Los Angeles (CCA), Board Member of the UCLA Health System, and member of The Los Angeles Coalition for the Economy and Jobs (The L.A. Coalition). Mr. Keller previously held leadership roles as Chairman of Eimago (formerly Union Rescue Mission Foundation), Chairman of the Board of Directors at Seven Arrows Elementary School in Pacific Palisades, California, Board Member of the L.A. Streetcar Initiative (LASI), member of the stakeholders group board of the DTLA South Park Business Improvement District (BID), Board Member of Friends of Waterfront, Seattle, and Board Member of Friends of the LA River (FoLAR). Mr. Keller attended the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona.

  Vice Chairman, Mack Real Estate Group

  Chairman, Mack Real Estate Development &

  Paul Keller

  Chairman, Mack Real Estate Development &

  Vice Chairman, Mack Real Estate Group

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  Claudio Guincher

  Mr. Guincher is the president of Continental Properties LLC (“CP”), with over thirty years of experience in the real estate industry, and has directed the development of over 3,800 multifamily units over the past twenty-five years in the Puget Sound region. CP has developed the highest quality apartments and condominiums in the Seattle area, setting numerous price per unit and absorption records for the region. Mr. Guincher holds a Bachelor of Commerce with majors in Finance and Real Estate from the University of British Columbia. He has been married for twenty-six years, with two children, ages twenty-two and nineteen.

  Continental Properties

  President

  Claudio Guincher

  President

  Continental Properties

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  Billy Pettit

  SVP

  Pillar Properties

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  Matt Griffin

  Principal

  Pine Street Group

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  Chris Rossman

  Chris is the Senior VP, Development Sourcing at The Wolff Company. He is responsible for site selection, acquisition, entitlements, design and development of multifamily and senior housing assets in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. With more than 10 years experience in the multi-family industry, Chris has been involved in the development of more than $1 Billion of multi-family assets. He received his Bachelor’s degree and MBA from the University of Washington, where he also completed the Commercial Real Estate Certificate Program. He is an active member of ULI, NAIOP, NMHC and is a past board member of the Seattle Architecture Foundation.

  Wolff Company

  SVP, Development Sourcing

  Chris Rossman

  SVP, Development Sourcing

  Wolff Company

• Moderator

  Andrew Hoyer

  Principal

  ENCORE Architects

Finance Panel

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  Jeffrey Ballaine

  I have 20 years of Commercial Mortgage Banking experience. Hunt Mortgage Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hunt Companies, Inc., is a real estate finance company providing financing and investing for conventional and affordable multifamily housing throughout the United States. Hunt Mortgage Group is organized around two business units: Mortgage Banking and Affordable Housing Debt. Under the Mortgage Banking and Affordable Housing Debt businesses, Hunt Mortgage Group partners with developers, owners, and investors to provide them with capital to develop, acquire or redevelop their real estate assets. Hunt Mortgage Group’s core debt products consist of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, or HUD/FHA financing. In addition, through several strategic alliances, Hunt Mortgage Group offers various CMBS executions for multifamily and other commercial properties, proprietary bridge loans and select joint venture equity products.

  Hunt Real Estate Capital

  VP

  Jeffrey Ballaine

  VP

  Hunt Real Estate Capital

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  Mike Taylor

  Principal

  Newmark Realty Capital

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  James Bach

  First VP

  CBRE

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  Greg Piantanida

  President

  GP Realty

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  Craig Russell

  Craig Russell is responsible for originating multifamily and commercial loans nationwide, with a primary emphasis in the Northwest. Mr. Russell is based out of Walker & Dunlop’s Seattle office. Mr. Russell brings over 25 years of real estate industry experience in the Northwest to Walker & Dunlop. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Russell served as vice president at CWCapital LLC within their Agency lending division. Previously, Mr. Russell served as director of Wachovia Multifamily Capital’s Seattle office, where he originated and managed local processing and underwriting of Agency and CMBS loans. His Agency lending experience extends to Lend Lease, Amresco, and at Continental, Inc, when the latter became one of the first Fannie Mae DUS® lenders. Mr. Russell holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Washington.

  Walker & Dunlop

  Senior Vice President

  Moderator

  Craig Russell

  Senior Vice President

  Walker & Dunlop