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David Shanks’ background is in Real Estate and Tax Law. He started his career in Miami working for Gibraltar Private Bank (Iberia) as a Fiduciary Officer focusing on Real Estate and Probate Escrow Accounts. He was recruited by First American Title’s Commercial Division where he worked as Transaction Counsel until eventually moving to Stewart Title. David is now the Florida Operations Manager for Stewart Title’s Commercial Services Division (CS). He has authored articles and classes on Real Estate, Title and Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs). Stewart’s CS Division focuses on larger commercial transactions including multistate, multisite portfolio transactions and complex lending transactions. He supervises an office which closed over $6 Billion in transactions in 2019.

Mr. Feldman has been the president and CEO of Feldman Equities since 1990. From 1997 until 1999, he was the founder of, and served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Tower Realty Trust, a publicly traded REIT (New York Stock Exchange symbol: "TOW"). From 2004 to 2009, Mr. Feldman served as Chairman of Feldman Mall Properties, Inc. a publicly traded REIT. He is also the founder and former Chairman of the Midtown West Association of New York City. Mr. Feldman was formerly a member of the Board of East Woods School in Oyster Bay NY. He graduated from Windham College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics. Mr. Feldman has lectured at the graduate schools of N.Y.U. and Columbia University on commercial real estate development. Mr. Feldman has been directly responsible for the management, development or acquisition of over 11 million square feet of real estate with an aggregate value of over $3 billion dollars during a career spanning over 30 years in the commercial real estate business. Mr. Feldman's primary focus over his career has been on the acquisition and redevelopment of turnaround real estate.

As President and COO, Edward M. Kobel leads DeBartolo Development’s investment strategy, execution and capitalization. Backed by the DeBartolo family and major capital commitments he secured, DeBartolo Development has underwritten a real estate pipeline of over $4.6 billion since 2003. Prior to overseeing DeBartolo Development, Ed was a partner at Fortis Advisors in Scottsdale, an affiliate company of DeBartolo Property Group, where he managed more than $600 million in real estate projects. Before joining Fortis, he founded Trinity Development with offices in Colorado Springs, Denver, Phoenix and Chicago. Trinity Development was primarily engaged in new retail development as well as value-added shopping center renovation and completed over $300 million in retail development. Throughout his professional career, Ed has devoted his time and leadership to multiple non-profit organizations and was awarded the Outstanding Professional and Community Citizenship award from Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio.