Jeff T. Blau is Chief Executive Officer and a partner of Related Companies. For the past 25+ years he has been responsible for directing and overseeing new developments worth over $60 billion in virtually every sector of the real estate industry. In his position as CEO, he is responsible for the strategic direction of the company, overall management of the firm, the pursuit of new development opportunities and corporate acquisitions and financing activities across all business platforms.

Mr. Blau serves on the Board of Directors of Equinox Holdings, Inc., the Central Park Conservancy, the New York City Partnership Fund, Robin Hood, Urban Land Institute, Association for a Better New York, Union Square Partnership, Real Estate Roundtable, The Wharton Graduate School, The University of Michigan, Trinity School, and The Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Over the years, Mr. Blau has received numerous honors for his business, civic and philanthropic activities and was named to Crain’s New York’s New Influentials list of 25 leaders reshaping New York.

Mr. Blau completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Michigan and received a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Mack co-founded MREG in 2013 and MRECS, its affiliated credit business, in 2014. He serves as Chief Executive Officer and is a member of the Investment Committee of each of MREG and MRECS. Mr. Mack also serves as Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of Claros Mortgage Trust, Inc. (CMTG). Mr. Mack was one of the initial employees of AREA Property Partners (founded in 1993 as Apollo Real Estate Advisors) and, prior to founding MREG, was Chief Executive Officer of AREA’s North American business and a member of its Global Investment Committees. For over 20 years, Mr. Mack was involved in the investment of billions of dollars of equity capital in debt and equity real estate transactions on behalf of AREA’s primarily institutional investors and was specifically responsible for creating new business lines to capitalize on evolving market trends, including an in-house development business, a subordinate debt business, and a special servicing and CMBS investment and trading business. Earlier in his career, Mr. Mack worked at Shearson Lehman Hutton in the Real Estate Investment Banking Department.

Mr. Mack currently serves on The Wharton School of Business Board of Advisors and previously served on the school’s Undergraduate Advisory Board. Mr. Mack created a course on Real Estate Disruption, which he co-teaches with Professor Gilles Duranton, at The Wharton School of Business. Mr. Mack serves on the Board of Trustees of Northwell Health, as well as on the Board of Directors of the Child Mind Institute. He is President Emeritus of the HES Community Center in Canarsie, Brooklyn, and a member of the Robin Hood Foundation’s Housing & Homelessness Committee. Mr. Mack also serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Met Council, which serves impoverished New Yorkers. Mr. Mack holds a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Columbia Law School.

Simon Ziff serves as president of Ackman-Ziff, a position he assumed in 1995. Since joining the firm as an

Analyst in 1989, Simon has overseen the arrangement of 100+ billion of debt, mezzanine, and equity

financings for some of the nation’s foremost real estate developers and owners while simultaneously

solidifying the firm’s relationships with key capital sources. He engineered the firm’s unique,

collaborative culture and directed AZ’s evolution as an industry thought leader with over 50

professionals.

Simon received a B.S. in Finance from The Pennsylvania State University and an M.S. in Real Estate

Finance from NYU. He has been recognized on multiple occasions by Penn State and NYU, as well as

being awarded REBNY’s first “Most Promising Commercial Salesperson” award, the “Most Ingenious

Deal of the Year” award six times and winning the prestigious Louis Smadbeck award.

Simon has also been active in many leadership roles for universities and not-for-profit

organizations. Simon has also been involved in teaching at University of Miami and NYU on families in

Real Estate.

Most recently, Simon has been lecturing at many undergraduate and graduate programs including a

course on Family Real Estate Business Management at NYU Schack.