2 Things That Are Hurting Your Real Estate Business: Spreadsheets & Outdated Investor Relations

Mike Sebastian has been in real estate technology for 14 years working with many different asset classes including multi-family, office, industrial and retail and other types of assets in real estate. Mike has worked with investment management clients for over 10 years ranging from small offices and syndications to large private equity funds and institutions. Mike has worked with clients to help them leverage state of the art software to streamline business process around the entire lifecycle of real estate starting with fund raising and investor relations, acquisition and underwriting, investment management and reporting, though property management and construction.

Heath Binder manages Investor Relations for LBX Investments. In this role, he oversees investor relationships with both high net worth and institutional capital, financial reporting, and marketing efforts for LBX. Heath has over 16 years of experience in commercial real estate and financial services. Prior to joining LBX, he managed investor relations for Big V Capital, and previously, for RealtyMogul.com. Prior, he worked with ultra-high net worth real estate investors at Barclays Wealth in Los Angeles. Previously, he began his real estate career with Colliers in 2002, then worked as an equity REIT analyst at UBS. Heath has an MS in Real Estate Finance from New York University.

Chris is a Staff Product Manager for Appfolio Investment Management. He owns the roadmap and development of core functionality such as distributions calculations and waterfalls, performance metric calculations, and investor reporting.

Bryan Shaffer is Principal/Managing Director of George Smith Partners where he focuses on delivering solutions to address his clients’ real estate capital requirements. Mr. Shaffer works hard to arrange structured financings for multifamily and commercial properties, including acquisition, refinance, construction, bridge and permanent loans. Mr. Shaffer has successfully structured both debt and equity placements for private entrepreneurs and institutional clients. He has been able to utilize his prior vast and diverse experiences in owning, operating, developing commercial real estate to help him succeed in capital raising for multi-family, affordable, office, retail, industrial, hospitality, data centers, healthcare/medical and senior facilities sectors to provide the best options and structure for his clients. In his career, Mr. Shaffer has been deeply involved in over $8.5 billion in real estate transactions, including the structuring or arranging over $3 billion of debt and equity placements and the repositioning and sale of $2 billion of properties for a Japanese institutional investor, Mitsui Real Estate Sales/Mitsui Fudosan. His focus is understanding the needs of clients large and small, so with his team, they can provide the best solution in the market. Mr. Shaffer closed transactions with every type of capital provider including Banks, Insurance Companies, Family Offices, Private Equity Firms, Bond Funds, CTL Lenders, Funds, Community Development Lenders, and Institutional Investors. He serves on the direct investment committee for Clearinghouse, CDFI and has advised two family offices. Prior to serving as a Principal and Managing Director at George Smith Partners, Mr. Shaffer ran his own global investment advisory company, led dispositions for the world’s largest real estate owner, created a global trade association and operated projects for several development firms. He has served as a contractor for the United States Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC), as an Expert Witness and California Superior Court Receiver.