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Nelson Rising is a veteran of over 40 years in the real estate industry and the Chairman and CEO of Rising Realty Partners, LP, a real estate investment and operating company. He has led two large publicly traded real estate companies, chaired the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and built some of the most iconic buildings and new communities in California and the West. Mr. Rising has also served as a top political strategist to some of the most powerful elected officials in the United States and has the distinction of having a street named after him in San Francisco, CA: Nelson Rising Lane. Prior to forming Rising Realty Partners, Mr. Rising was President & CEO of MPG Office Trust, Inc., the owner of over half of the institution-quality office space in downtown Los Angeles. From 1994-2005, Mr. Rising served as Chief Executive Officer of Catellus Development Corporation. During his tenure, he oversaw the company’s successful evolution from a railroad land company to a diversified development company and a real estate investment trust. Most notable of the many Catellus developments is Mission Bay in San Francisco, the largest mixed-use development in the history of the city. Catellus merged with ProLogis in September 2005 in a $5.5 billion transaction. From 1983-1994 Mr. Rising was a senior partner of Maguire Thomas Partners. During this time he was the partner-in-charge of the Library Square development in downtown Los Angeles, which included the 73-story, 1.3 million square foot US Bank Tower (tallest office building West of the Mississippi) and the 54-story, 1.4 million square foot Gas Company Tower. He was also partner-in-charge of Playa Vista, located between Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) and Marina del Rey. Playa Vista is one of the largest and most complicated multiuse developments in the history of Los Angeles and it includes the re-use of what was the heart of the Howard Hughes aircraft empire, including the famed “Spruce Goose” Hangar. A former Chairman of the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Mr. Rising is recognized as an authority in corporate and public finance. Mr. Rising is Chairman Emeritus of Washington, DC-based Real Estate Roundtable, which brings together leaders of the nation’s top publicly-held and privately-owned real estate ownership, development, lending and management firms to jointly address key national policy issues relating to real estate and the overall economy. Mr. Rising has also served as Chairman of the Grand Avenue Committee, and real estate advisor to and negotiator for the Joint Powers Authority, which consists of the City of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Community Redevelopment Agency, and the County of Los Angeles. The Joint Powers Authority oversaw the Grand Avenue Project, a 3.6 million square foot, $3 billion development located on Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles. Mr. Rising currently serves on the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of The Irvine Company, which controls over 98 million square feet of commercial, office, residential and resort properties in coastal California. He also serves on the board of Foley Timber & Land Company. Mr. Rising is also a member of the Board of Trustees and Executive Committees of the California Institute of Technology and the W.M. Keck Foundation. Mr. Rising is well respected for his role in advising elected officials at all levels of government and is credited with managing the successful Mayoral campaigns of the late and legendary Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley, who served for twenty years as Mayor. He has chaired campaigns for California Governor and U.S. Senate as well. Mr. Rising received a B.A. with honors in Economics from UCLA and a Juris Doctor from UCLA School of Law, where he served as Managing Editor of the UCLA Law Review. He practiced law at O’Melveny & Myers prior to entering the real estate industry.

A co-founder of MATT Construction with Paul and Al Matt, Steve Matt has been instrumental in setting the company’s vision and in contributing to its growth. Prior to founding MATT Construction, Steve had been responsible for all phases of estimating, procurement, scheduling and construction on a broad variety of projects, many with legendary architects. Steve is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley with a degree in civil engineering. He also has LEED accreditation. His professional organization affiliations and community involvement include World Presidents Organization (WPO/YPO), The Fellows at the Natural History Museum of LA, American Concrete Institute, American Institute of Architects, and Structural Engineers Association of So. California (SEASOC). In addition to his family, Steve’s personal interests include cycling, model railroading, rocketry, snow skiing and hiking.

Jaime Lee is the Chief Executive Officer of the Jamison group of companies, a privately-held, family-run real estate business, which controls over 18 million square feet of commercial office, retail, medical, and multifamily properties throughout Southern California.  Jamison has been one of the largest commercial landlords in Los Angeles for the past twenty-five years. Since 2014, it has quickly become one of the city’s most active multifamily developers as well, bringing to market 5,000 units with an additional 2,500 units currently under construction and 7,500 more in development. Earning both BA and JD degrees from the University of Southern California, the Los Angeles native currently sits on the USC Board of Trustees where she co-chairs the Alumni Affairs and University Development committee and sits on the Executive, Audit Compliance Risk & Privacy, Nominating & Governance, and Academic Affairs committees. She is also a member of the Board of Councilors for the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences and an Executive Committee member of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate. A longtime university volunteer, Jaime previously served as President of the USC Alumni Association Board of Governors and President of the USC Asian Pacific Alumni Association Board of Directors. Jaime is active with her high school alma mater, where she is a member of the Harvard-Westlake Board of Trustees and a founding member of its inaugural Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Council. Jaime is also involved in a number of civic and non-profit organizations at the city, state, and community levels. She has served the City of Los Angeles as an appointed commissioner under three different mayoral administrations. Appointed by Mayor Eric Garcetti, she was elected President of the Board of Harbor Commissioners for the Port of Los Angeles in April 2018, the largest container port by trade volume in the western hemisphere. She also serves on the Mayor’s International Advisory Council and as co- chair of the public-private partnership non-profit Global LA. She previously served for four years as President of the Los Angeles City Employees’ Retirement System Board of Administration, which oversees the City’s $22 billion employee pension fund, and on the boards for the Industrial Development Authority and the Quality and Productivity Commission. She currently serves the State of California as Vice Chair of the California Film Commission and previously spent seven years as a commissioner on the Speech Language Pathology, Audiology & Hearing Aid Dispensers Board. Jaime is active in the community as a board member of the Los Angeles Organizing Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games 2028 where she sits on the Executive, Compensation, and Conflicts committees, the Los Angeles World Affairs Council & Town Hall, and the Korean American Foundation Advisory Board. Recognized for her professional and civic contributions, Jaime has been named one of the 500 most influential people in Los Angeles by the LA Business Journal every year since 2018. She was honored by Asia Society Southern California as their 2020 Urban Visionary, by the USC School of Architecture with their 2021 Distinguished Business Leadership Award, and in 2022 with the LA Parks Foundation’s Rose Award and a Los Angeles Times Woman of Influence Award. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their three children.

Victor MacFarlane is chairman and chief executive officer of MacFarlane Partners, a real estate investment management and development firm he founded in 1987 that acquires, develops and manages properties on behalf of institutional investors and its own account. He has primary responsibility for the firm’s investment management and development activities, chairs its investment committee and serves on its senior management committee. Career Overview: Victor has 40 years of real estate experience, during which he has worked extensively in property development, acquisitions, asset management and portfolio management on behalf of some of the world’s largest pension plans and institutions. Under his leadership, MacFarlane Partners pioneered the urban investment concept among institutional real estate managers in the 1990s and today is an industry leader in urban/smart-growth development.

Rob shares overall leadership for the firm with his brother and Co-CEO, Mike Lowe. Rob focuses on operations both at the corporate level and across its real estate activities. Additionally, Rob and Mike co-chair the firm’s wholly owned hospitality affiliate, CoralTree Hospitality Group. He is a past Trustee and President of the Palisades Presbyterian Church, is currently on the Board of Managers at the Palisades-Malibu YMCA, and is an active member of Urban Land Institute. Rob is an avid surfer and enjoys travel with his family. Education: Stanford University, AB; University of California, Los Angeles, MBA

Jason Gannon is the managing director of SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park. In this role, Gannon has primary oversight over Hollywood Park and its operational components, which includes SoFi Stadium, YouTube Theater, as well as the retail, office and parkland that form Hollywood Park, the near 300-acre mixed-use development being built in Inglewood, CA, by E. Stanley Kroenke.SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park are transforming the site of the former Hollywood Park Racetrack to a year-round sports and entertainment destination for the enjoyment of people throughout Southern California, as well as visitors to the region. This will be the new must-see entertainment destination and gathering spot in the center of the Los Angeles basin. This monumental project is located two miles off the I-405, one-and-a-half miles off the I-105, and four miles from Los Angeles International Airport. The centerpiece of the district is a 70,000-seat stadium that is the home of NFL’s Los Angeles Chargers and Los Angeles Rams. SoFi Stadium features sporting events, including the Super Bowl LVI in 2022, the College Football National Championship game in 2023, and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the 2028 Olympic Games,as well as major concerts and other entertainment year-round.As managing director of SoFi Stadium and Hollywood Park, Gannon is leading a world-class team that includes Turner, AECOM Hunt, Wilson Meany and Legends. He is responsible for all business matters regarding the project, including business development, marketing, sales, communications, government affairs, finance and legal. He also oversees all the contractors, including the thousands of workers, that built SoFi Stadium and are continuing to build Hollywood Park. Gannon has been with the Kroenke Organization for more than 12 years. During this time, he has served in executive, project management, and legal capacities for various platforms and projects.

Over his 30-year career, R. Todd Doney, Vice Chairman at CBRE’s headquarters in Los Angeles, has completed commercial real estate transactions encompassing over 86 million square feet of office space. Todd is a preeminent broker in the greater Los Angeles area. His success on behalf of tenants, investment clients, and landlords is unparalleled. He has represented such major institutional tenants as Nestle, KPMG, GE/NBC, AT&T, Southern California Edison, AECOM, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Cigna and Northern Trust. During his career, Todd has received numerous real estate awards and accolades. Every year since joining CBRE, Todd has been awarded the Colbert Coldwell Circle Award, an award presented to the top 3% of producers in the U.S. In 2006, Todd was the most successful office broker for the company in the entire U.S. excluding the New York Metropolitan area. In 2009, Todd was recognized as the most successful broker in the Western United States and the ninth most successful broker in the entire world. He was recognized by The Los Angeles Business Journal as a “Top Los Angeles Broker” numerous times. He was further singled out by receiving the prestigious Edward S. Gordon Memorial Award for his relentless drive to be the best, challenging himself and those around him. Also, he was a member of CBRE Americas Advisory Board as well as the CBRE Foundation Board. Prior to joining CBRE, Todd was an Executive Managing Director with Insignia/ESG, Inc. in Los Angeles for four years, and prior to that a Senior Vice President with Cushman Realty Corporation for fifteen years. He has published articles and lectured at national real estate conferences, U.C.L.A. Graduate School of Management, and U.S.C Master of Real Estate Development program. Todd maintains a high level of community and charitable involvement. He was on the Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and chaired the Board Development Committee of the San Gabriel Valley Council of the Boy Scouts of America. In 2008, he was awarded the Silver Beaver Award, the highest Boy Scout honor given to leaders who have made an impact on the lives of youth through service given to the Council. Todd is also on the Advisory Board and Development Committee for the Hathaway-Sycamores; is on the Board of the Metropolitan YMCA as well as the Physical Resources Committee of Loyola High School; and served on the Development Committee and Chairman of the Board Affairs Committee of the Board of Directors of the Mayfield Junior School in Pasadena. Todd is a member of the Jonathan Club, the California Club, the Valley Hunt Club, and the San Gabriel Country Club, where he served as President in 2000. Todd is also a member of the downtown Los Angeles Town Hall, CoreNet, the Urban Land Institute, Southern California Development Forum, World Affairs Council, and the Los Angeles Commercial Real Estate Association. Todd is married with three children and resides in San Marino, California.

A name partner of the firm, Anton N. Natsis is Chair of Allen Matkins’ Real Estate Department and is one of the top real estate attorneys in the United States. His practice focuses on development, leasing, purchase and sale, and portfolio investment sales transactions involving office, retail, and industrial projects, as well as arbitrating numerous fair market value disputes, CAM disputes and other significant landlord/tenant disputes. He also has extensive experience in debt, equity, and joint venture workouts, and the purchase of distressed assets and distressed debt. Tony is continually sought out by some of the largest national land owners, such as J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Blackstone Real Estate, Brookfield Properties, HCP, Vornado Realty Trust, Regent Properties, The Irvine Company, Boston Properties, Equity Office Properties, Kilroy Realty, Inc., Beacon Capital Partners, MPG Office Trust, Kamehameha Schools (The Bishop Estate) and Westfield Corporation. He represents many governmental entities, including the LAUSD, State of California, and City of Anaheim. Tony is also frequently retained as counsel for major national office tenants, such as AT&T, Citicorp, the FDIC, AIG, The Walt Disney Company, and the Los Angeles Times. A frequent lecturer and author, Tony is the chief consultant for the California Continuing Education of the Bar Commercial Leasing Series, the legal education reference book on leasing for California attorneys, is an adjunct professor of law at Loyola Law School for a course covering commercial real estate transactions, and has spoken before such national real estate groups as ULI and BOMA. Tony is a founding board member of The Ziman Real Estate Center, which is governed under the joint auspices of the UCLA Anderson School of Business and the UCLA Law School. In the past decade, Tony has closed commercial office leases exceeding 50 million square feet. He has worked on real estate purchase contracts with a total consideration of more than $30 billion and on development transactions with a total consideration in excess of $25 billion. Since 2006, Tony has represented clients in office building portfolio investment sales transactions involving over $75 billion of consideration. One of Tony's most significant transactions is the largest real estate acquisition deal in the history of the United States. He provided extensive real estate services in connection with Blackstone Real Estate's purchase of Equity Office Properties Trust, at that point the largest owner of office space in the U.S. other than the Federal Government, for $43 billion. Subsequently, Blackstone contracted to sell over 50% of the properties it purchased with such sales closing in the first and second quarter of 2007. Tony assisted Blackstone in its acquisition due diligence related to EOP and the subsequent sales of the properties. The transactions related to this deal included Maguire Properties' purchase of Blackstone/EOP in Orange County for $2 billion, Irvine Company's purchase of Blackstone/EOP in San Diego for $1 billion, Morgan Stanley's purchase of Blackstone/EOP in San Francisco for $2.5 billion, and Beacon Capital Partners’ purchase of Blackstone/EOP Seattle for $6.3 billion.

Bob Champion is the Founder, CEO and Managing Partner of Champion Real Estate Company, a family office that specializes in real estate investment with multiple business strategies currently being executed via the company’s platform. Under Bob’s leadership, the Champion platform has generated in excess of a 20 annual return (XIRR) to its investors over the past 20-years. Bob has a Master's of Real Estate Development from the University of Southern California where he also taught real estate investment, development, and urban planning for over 16 years. He has also taught at the graduate level at UCLA, ICSC University, and the CRA University. He is an expert in shopping centers, multifamily, ertical retailing, public-private partnerships and mixed-use development with retail, residential, office, and entertainment components. Bob is a nationally recognized speaker at real estate industry events and has published numerous articles on real estate, the economy, and public policy. He has developed and invested in all of the major real estate product types and has completed over $1 billion in transactions. Moderating/Speaking Engagements:  RealShare Apartments – The Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles: Oct 20, 2016  15th Global Real Estate Private Equity Summit – Sofitel Beverly Hills: Sept 15, 2016  Multifamily Annual Conference West – Omni Downtown, Los Angeles: July 20, 2016  Greater Los Angeles Development Summit – DoubleTree by The Hilton: June 21, 2016  Marcus and Millichap/IPA Multifamily Forum – The Westin Bonaventure, Los Angeles: June 2, 2016  RealShare Los Angeles – LA’s Emerging Neighborhoods – The Beverly Wilshire: March 24, 2016  Bisnow Annual Multifamily/Mixed-Use Event – Montage Beverly Hills: February 24, 201  Lido Wealth Management Event – Intercontinental Hotel, Century City: November 19, 2015  Bisnow’s BMAX West- A Developer’s Outlook on California’s Booming Multifamily Industry – JW Marriot, Los Angeles: July 28, 2015  Bisnow The Future of Hollywood Event – The W Hotel, Los Angeles: April 29, 2015  2nd Annual Multifamily Forum Socal – California Market Center: June 5, 2014.

Gabe Weinert, senior vice president, joined Walker & Dunlop in 2014 through the Johnson Capital acquisition where Mr. Weinert lead the Opportunistic Finance Group, the division of the company which focused on providing structured investment banking services to real estate operators and development projects by raising institutional joint venture equity, structured debt, and co-investment GP equity. Mr. Weinert brings over 15 years’ experience to the capital markets team. Throughout his career, Mr. Weinert was responsible for the asset management and origination of over $2B in structured real estate finance transactions. Prior to joining Johnson Capital, Mr. Weinert managed the west coast office for the Carlton Group. Prior thereto, Mr. Weinert was an investment officer with Emigrant Bank, as well as with a Lehman Brothers sponsored opportunistic investor, TVP Asset, Inc. Earlier in his career, he was part of the acquisitions group of Heitman Capital Management, and also worked at JP Morgan and UBS Warburg in their CMBS and derivatives trading divisions. Mr. Weinert received a B.B.A. in finance from the University of Michigan - Ross School of Business graduating with high honors and an M.B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management.

Mr. Wagman is a Managing Partner at GPI Companies, a Los Angeles-based real estate investment manager and development company. GPI’s current projects across Southern California have a capitalized value of over $1.3B. GPI’s three principals have collectively acquired, operated and developed properties worth more than $6B covering more than 20M sf. Mr. Wagman is a long-time leader in the real estate industry. Prior to co-founding GPI, he served as President and CEO of The Hahn Company and its successor, TrizecHahn Centers. Both were a part of Trizec Properties, a $5B publicly traded REIT. In this capacity, Mr. Wagman headed one of the largest shopping center companies in the United States with 43 regional malls and 1,700 employees. During his tenure, the company developed several precedent-setting projects, including Park Meadows in Denver; Paseo Colorado in Pasadena; West End City Center in Budapest, Hungary; and expansions of Horton Plaza in San Diego and Prudential Center in Boston. In addition, Mr. Wagman served as Vice Chairman of CityView, a leading real estate investment firm focused on urban residential and mixed-use properties through multiple institutional funds; and was the founder, Chairman and CEO of Hycel Properties Company in St. Louis where he developed and owned the Saint Louis Galleria, one of the premier retail properties in the U.S. Mr. Wagman began his career as an attorney at the international law firm Bryan Cave, LLP. Mr. Wagman has been closely involved with ICSC for over 25 years, serving as both a Trustee and Vice President, and with ULI. He is the founding Chair of ICSC’s Mixed-Use Committee and twice chaired its highly successful Mixed-Use Conference and served as Chair of ULI’s Place Making Conference, Chair of ULI’s Entertainment Retail Conference, Chair of the ICSC Spring Convention in Las Vegas, and Chair of ICSC’s Entertainment Conference. Mr. Wagman is a graduate of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and is a founder and Past Chair of YPOG-LA. Throughout his career, he has served on numerous civic, corporate, charitable, and university boards. Mr. Wagman holds a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania, a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School, and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Airport lounge for LAXSUL, 80,000 SF creative space for Team One, 120,000 sf office space for Deloitte, 100,000 sf technical and production space for DirecTV, and multiple buildings in the LinkedIn campus in Carpinteria. Her wide experience managing and building relationships with the consultants and integrators and her deep understanding of the technical and infrastructure requirements, makes her uniquely suited for managing and adding immense value to technical projects. Education and Affiliations Anu holds a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and is a LEED Accredited Professional.

Wayne solves complex business problems for construction and infrastructure programs around the world: large and small, from airports, railways and pipelines, to data centers, hospitals and solar farms. His expertise includes dispute analytics, fraud investigations, program management systems and controls, financial damage analytics, forensic accounting, root-cause analytics, environmental risk remediation, cost estimating, litigation support, and expert testimony. Wayne has hands-on experience with the design, construction, and oversight of capital projects within the energy, power, technology, transportation, water, higher-education, military, institutional, manufacturing, healthcare, health science, and gaming sectors. As a result, he understands why construction projects succeed, how they fail, ways they can improve, and how to translate complicated technical issues into plain English. Wayne is a licensed Professional Engineer (Civil and Structural). He is also a Certified Fraud Examiner, lectures at the University of Southern California, and is a Technical Expert for the California Department of Consumer Affairs and its Board of Professional Engineers, Land Surveyors and Geologists. Wayne is Senior Advisor to a private equity fund in Manhattan, and serves on the Board for an engineering company in South Florida, where he provides operational guidance. He provides expert testimony in Federal and State courts across the United States on issues related to construction defects, financial damages, fraud, business management, financial management, financial controls, and standard of care. While studying at MIT, Wayne wrote about “Skyscraper Technology in Manhattan: 1930 to 1990” for his research thesis. He also engineered the move of an historic lighthouse on Cape Cod National Seashore in 1995, where his construction drawings remain on display at the Highland Light Museum.

John L Waldron, AIA is the Managing Principal of Studio T-SQ’s Long Beach office. He brings over 30 years of experience in the design, planning and entitlement of complex mixed-use infill projects both domestically and internationally. He does this by developing win-win projects for his clients and the communities they build in. Each project is shaped by its environment and formed around unique places for the community and the people they serve. Specializing in the multi-family, mixed use, retail and transit oriented development, John works with clients, cities, agencies and communities to design and entitle complex projects that meet the financial objectives of the client, while at the same time blending and embracing their location and environment. He does this by developing common project goals and objectives among the projects stakeholders and then working towards building a consensus on the project. These projects vary greatly in size and location; however, they all share the common challenge of developing a new project within an established community while adding value through thoughtful design and the development of unique people places. John received a Bachelor degree of Architecture from the University of Southern California. He is actively involved in several professional organizations including the American Institute of Architects, The USC Architectural Guild and The Urban Land Institute, where he chaired the TOD Summit and lead and served on numerous Technical Assistant Panels (TAP’s). He has published articles on TOD, Life Style Centers and Mixed-Use Developments and has been a speaker and panel chair on the topics at ICSD, NAIOP, ULI and Home-X conferences.

Carey is the Managing Principal of the Real Estate Industry. He has close to 20 years of experience providing accounting, assurance, tax, and consulting services to real estate industry owners, operators, family offices, developers and syndicators. Carey has a proven track record of helping clients build and retain capital by leveraging tax- and cost-saving strategies, including a wide range tax credits and incentives.

Jim is the National Head of Retail Investments and Retail Capital Markets for Lincoln Property Company, and co-founder of the retail investment firm, Paragon Commercial Group, Lincoln’s west coast retail investment partner. Jim began his career as a real estate and finance attorney with Latham & Watkins LLP where he represented developers, equity investors and lenders in capital structuring, acquisitions, dispositions, leasing and entitlements throughout the United States. Jim co-founded Paragon in 2009 to capitalize on retail real estate investment opportunities resulting from the GFC market dislocation. Since that time, Jim has been honored by the Urban Land Institute as one of the “Top 40 Under 40” land use and real estate professionals in the United States, by the Los Angeles Business Journal as one of the top 5 retail real estate professionals in Los Angeles, and twice recognized by the Los Angeles Times as a Commercial Real Estate Visionary. Jim currently serves in various industry leadership capacities including the Executive Committee of the Southern Methodist University Folsom Institute for Real Estate, Policy Advisory Board for the Fisher Center for Real Estate & Urban Economics at UC Berkeley, Executive Committee Board of the USC Gould School of Law Real Estate Law and Business Forum, immediate past Chairman of the Urban Land Institute's Small Scale Development Council, and lecturer at the University of Southern California Gould School of Law and the UC Berkeley Masters of Real Estate programs. Jim’s civic involvements include his current service as a Planning Commissioner for the City of Manhattan Beach, California, as well as a founding donor and advisor to the SMU Real Estate Impact Fund, a student-driven investment vehicle focused on impact investing in underserved communities.

Ryan has been with Hackman Capital Partners since 2012 and is responsible for acquisition, development, leasing and asset management for Western US assets. Ryan has overseen numerous marquee projects while at the company, including the development and leasing of The Culver Studios, The Culver Steps and the Beats Campus; and has negotiated lease transactions with Apple, Amazon, Macys and other Fortune 500 tenants. He has acquired and managed company-sponsored investments with over $1B of market value. Prior to joining Hackman Capital, Ryan worked for ten years in acquisitions and asset management for The Archon Group, a fully-owned subsidiary of Goldman Sachs. During his tenure at The Archon Group, he worked on the growth and management of its portfolio in the Western region of the United States. Following his time at The Archon Group, Ryan was Senior Vice President of SCI Properties and was responsible for the sourcing and acquisition of nearly $2B of product. Ryan most recently served as Director of Asset Management at TriCal Commercial Investments, where he was responsible for leasing and asset management of the company’s portfolio throughout the Western United States. Ryan received his Bachelor of Science from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, with a double emphasis in Finance and Marketing.

Jonathan is a member of Avison Young’s Global Leadership Team. Jonathan is the leader of Avison Young’s West Los Angeles, San Fernando Valley, Tri Cities and Ventura County operations in Southern California while continuing his focus on Downtown Los Angeles and maintaining two offices in downtown Los Angeles and West Los Angeles to better serve his clients. In this role, he oversees delivery of all services to clients, develops new business and recruits additional talent to enhance local service offerings. A real estate executive with over 3 1 years of experience, he has been recognized on numerous occasions as a top broker by CoStar and the Los Angeles Business Journal. Jonathan specializes in representing tenants for all their office and industrial real estate needs, and he is an expert in various types of transactions such as leasing, sale/leasebacks and investment sales throughout the United States. Before joining Avison Young, Jonathan was the Regional Managing Principal and served on the Board of Directors for Cassidy Turley. Jonathan also started and oversaw the brokerage group for the West region of Transwestern and served on the company’s Board of Directors. Prior to working at Transwestern, he launched, managed, and operated the profitable Los Angeles office of Trammell Crow Company (TCC) as a Principal, where he consistently ranked in the top 5 percent of TCC brokers nationally. Prior to TCC, he was a First Vice President at CBRE and ranked in the top 10 percent nationally.

Mike provides industrial and investor clients in the Los Angeles region with a full scope of real estate advisory services including but not limited to investment sales, leasing, and redevelopment projects. As Southern California is a broad region with many different geographic regions, Mike utilizes an approach that analyzes the different submarkets based on a variety of factors such as price per square foot, transportation costs, labor force analysis, building specification needs, infrastructure access and pricing, redevelopment costs, and underwriting, as well as many other variables. With his M.B.A. in Marketing, he provides a unique approach utilizing a wide array of tools and techniques to help maximize exposure of his listed properties and to find the right deals for his clients.

Mike Longo is an investment sales professional and part of the CBRE Investment Properties Institutional Group. Mike is responsible for managing the disposition of institutional commercial property across the West Coast. Mike is a member of the CBRE’s Institutional Properties Group, with focus on complex, multi-market dispositions of institutionally owned office, land and industrial in Southern California. Since joining CBRE in 2010 Mike has participated in over $6 billion of office, industrial, development and residential.

Mr. Grossman is a Senior Managing Director at Meridian Capital Group. He opened the firm’s San Diego office in May 2011 charged with expanding the company’s presence throughout the western and southwestern states. In his 10+ years leading the west coast for Meridian, Mr. Grossman has built a team that has originated and closed more than $12 billion of debt and equity transactions spanning more than 600 loans across primary and esoteric asset types. Prior to opening Meridian’s San Diego office, Mr. Grossman was a Structured Finance Analyst Fitch Ratings, a Principal at Mission Peak Capital, and worked in Meridian’s New York City office where he closed in excess of $3 billion. Mr. Grossman attended NYU, where he received a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Management. Industry Recognition: 2013: Named to Commercial Observer’s national list of “Top 20 Commercial Mortgage Brokers under 35” 2015: Named to Commercial Property Executive’s list of 17 national “Stars to Watch” in the real estate industry 2015: Named by Real Estate Forum as one of 20 “Tomorrow’s leaders of Southern California”

Gary M. Tenzer is Co-Founding Principal of George Smith Partners, Inc., (“GSP”). Mr. Tenzer co- founded George Smith Financial Services (GSP’s predecessor company) in 1979. The company was acquired by Grubb & Ellis in 1982 and became their national real estate financing division. After ten years, the firm was re-acquired in 1992 by several of its principals, then establishing George Smith Partners, Inc. Presently, the firm is owned by Mr. Tenzer and four co-principals.  With strong academic credentials and more than 37 years of experience in originating, structuring, underwriting and placing sophisticated real estate financing transactions, he has been personally involved in the placement of over $8.0 Billion dollars of real estate financing throughout the country. Placements have included: construction loans, permanent debt, mezzanine debt and both preferred and joint venture equity. The properties financed were comprised of: residential, multifamily, retail, office, commercial, industrial, mixed use, congregate care, hospitality, land development, large-scale community development and special purpose properties with debt and equity financing as large as $250 Million in debt and equity.  Mr. Tenzer is well qualified to provide expert opinions on real estate financing, feasibility, standards and practices and transaction matters. He has provided expert witness testimony in more than 300 real estate litigation matters and has testified in Federal and State court over 100 times. Unlike many other finance experts, he is not an academic, but an experienced practitioner that who testifies from a real-world perspective.   In 2002, Mr. Tenzer was appointed the real estate financing advisor to The Operating Engineers Pension Trust, $2 Billion Taft Hartley Pension Fund. In 2009, Mr. Tenzer was appointed as the interest rate expert in the General Growth Properties, Inc. (“GGP”), the second largest mall owner in the country, Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The GGP bankruptcy included 158 of its 200-plus U.S. malls.   Mr. Tenzer was a member of the board of directors of a NYSE listed developer of active-adult communities, nationwide. He was also a director of a federally chartered commercial bank, serving on both the bank’s loan and credit policy committees. He is a frequent guest lecturer in Real Estate and Real Estate Finance at the UCLA Anderson School of Management as well as both the graduate and undergraduate programs at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business. For the past three years, he has also served as co-chair of the Crocker Symposium on Real Estate and the Law, jointly sponsored by the LA County Bar and the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate where he is a member of the Advisory Board.  Mr. Tenzer holds a BA in economics (with emphasis in Urban Land Economics), from the University of California, Berkeley. He earned an MBA in both Finance and Entrepreneurship & Venture Management, as well as an MSBA in Real Estate Finance, from the University of Southern California.

Steve Basham is a Managing Analyst for the CoStar Group specializing in the Los Angeles market. He has authored more than 80 reports on L.A. commercial real estate, with an emphasis on targeted, granular analysis of submarkets and micro markets. His work has been featured in regional and national media outlets including the L.A. Times, NPR’s Marketplace, and Bloomberg News.