Bisnow's National Finance Summit

Scott Rechler

CEO & Chairman - RXR Realty

Scott Rechler is the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of RXR Realty LLC (“RXR”), a multi-billion dollar private real estate company which was formed subsequent to the sale of Reckson Associates Realty Corp (“Reckson”) to SL Green in January 2007, one of the largest public Real Estate management buyouts in REIT history. Mr. Rechler served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board during Reckson’s dynamic growth throughout New York City, Long Island, New Jersey, Westchester and Connecticut. Mr. Rechler was the architect of Reckson’s $300 million IPO in 1995 and $6.0 billion sale in 2007 generating over 700% total return to Reckson shareholders. Since its formation in January 2007, Mr. Rechler has led RXR in becoming one of the largest owners, managers, and developers in the New York Tri-State area with interests in 90 commercial real estate properties and investments containing approximately 25.0 million square feet with an aggregate gross value of approximately $15.7 billion. In addition, RXR has a residential development pipeline of approximately 3,200 units. In June 2011, Mr. Rechler was appointed by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo to serve on the Board of Commissioners of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and served on such Board until October 2016. During his Board tenure Mr. Rechler served as Vice Chairman of such Board, and as Chairman of the Port Authority’s Capital Planning Committee with responsibility for the Port’s $30 billion capital budget, including the World Trade Center redevelopment. In May 2013, Mr. Rechler was appointed to represent Governor Cuomo on the Board of The National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center Foundation, Inc. Mr. Rechler prides himself on enhancing the communities where RXR operates. As such, he serves as Chairman of the Regional Planning Association, is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York, a Board member of The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, and a member of the NYU Real Estate Institute Advisory Committee. In addition, Mr. Rechler serves on the Board of many of the regions top cultural institutions such as the Tribeca Film Institute where he serves as its co-Chairman of the Board, the Long Island Children’s Museum, and The National September 11 Memorial & Museum at the World Trade Center Foundation, Inc. He also serves on the Board of Directors for the Drum Major Institute and as Chairman of the Center for Social Innovation. Mr. Rechler is a graduate of Clark University. He also earned a Masters of Science degree in Real Estate at the New York University Schack Institute.

Warren de Haan

Founder & Managing Partner - ACORE

Warren de Haan is a founder and one of the four Managing Partners of ACORE, the Head of Asset Originations and is a member of ACORE’s investment committee. Mr. de Haan has 21 years of experience in the commercial real estate finance industry and capital markets. Prior to ACORE, he was the Chief Originations Officer of Starwood Property Trust (NYSE: STWD), a public mortgage REIT, from October 2010 to September 2014. Prior to STWD he, along with Mr. Fellows, Mr. Tokarski and Mr. Ward, founded Countrywide Financial Corporation’s commercial real estate finance business that was launched in 2004 and grew into one of the largest lending platforms in the United States focused on middle markets, closing over 1250 commercial real estate loans totaling over $11.5 billion. He was co-head of loan originations, overseeing the expansion the division’s footprint to 15 offices across the United States. In 2001 Mr. de Haan was a founding partner of Coastal Capital Partners, LLC, a firm focused on acquiring distressed debt and advising clients on restructurings. Prior to Coastal Capital, he was a member of Nomura Securities’ New York-based large loan group. Mr. de Haan received a B.S. degree from the Cornell School of Hotel Administration. He also graduated from Hotel Institute Montreux, Switzerland, where he obtained his Swiss Hotel Diploma and American Hotel and Motel Association Diplomas.

Jeffrey DiModica

President & Managing Director - Starwood Property Trust

Jeffrey F. DiModica, CFA, has been the Company’s President since September 2014. He has also served as a Managing Director of an affiliate of the Manager since July 2014. Mr. DiModica served as a director of the Company from its inception in 2009 to July 2014. From 2007 to 2014, Mr. DiModica was a Managing Director and the Head of MBS/ABS/CMBS Sales and Strategy for the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS). In that role, he was responsible for the distribution of mortgage-backed securities (“MBS”), asset- backed securities (“ABS”) and commercial mortgage-backed securities (“CMBS”) to institutional clients, including banks, hedge funds, insurance companies and money managers. Previously, from 2001 to 2007, Mr. DiModica headed the Boston sales office for RBS. Prior to joining RBS, from 1993 to 2001, Mr. DiModica sold derivative and MBS products to institutional clients for Merrill Lynch in Boston. Mr. DiModica began his career in the Merchant and Investment Banking Group of the Commercial Real Estate Department at Chemical Bank from 1989 to 1991. Mr. DiModica received a B.S./B.A. degree with a concentration in Finance from Boston University, an M.B.A. degree from the Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College and received his Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1995. Mr. DiModica is an active member of YPO (Young Presidents Organization), serves on the board of Virtual Enterprises International (VEI), a non-profit focused on teaching career and entrepreneurial skills to inner city high school students, and was founding president of www.Mitoaction.org, a support, education and advocacy group for families affected by Mitochondrial Disease.

Peter Ballon

Managing Director and Head of Global Real Estate Investments - Canada Pension Plan Investment Board

Peter is responsible for CPPIB’s global real estate portfolio and is Chair of the Real Estate Investment Committee which has oversight for CPPIB’s real estate investments. Peter is a Board member of Aliansce Shopping Centers, a Brazilian public company, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Urban Land Institute and the International Council of Shopping Centers. Peter has over 20 years of commercial real estate experience. Prior to joining CPPIB in 2007, Peter worked with several leading real estate companies including Canderel, Brookfield and TrizecHahn. Peter holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University, an MBA from the Ivey School of Business and has been granted the ICD.D designation by the Institute of Corporate Directors.

Mark Weiss

Chief Investment Officer - RFR

David Schonbraun

Co-Chief Investment Officer - SL Green

David Schonbraun is Co-Chief Investment Officer of the company with a primary focus on structured finance, residential, and alternative investments, and has been with SL Green since 2002. He is also directly responsible for Green Loan Services, the company’s special servicing arm that serves both SL Green and third-party lenders. Mr. Schonbraun has either led or has been a senior team member in the execution of over $25 billion in equity and debt investments. Prior to joining SL Green in 2002, Mr. Schonbraun was a real estate investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston, where he worked on a variety of mergers and acquisitions transactions, as well as debt and equity financings. Mr. Schonbraun received a Bachelor of the Arts degree in Economics and Politics from Princeton University. He is also an active member of the UJA Real Estate Executives (REX) Steering Committee and the Urban Development Mixed Use Council of the Urban Land Institute (ULI), as well as serving on the Finance and Grantmaking Committees of the Kessler Foundation.

Michael May

COO - CCRE

Dan Farrell

Chairman & CEO - Privos Capital

Dan Farrell is the Chairman & CEO of Privos Capital, a global multi-family office LP (MFO), with offices in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Privos Capital partners with single family offices, multi-family offices, Arab merchant families, and royal family offices, their funds, foundations, and portfolio companies, in all leading international financial centers, as well as in the BRICS, N-11, and the Frontier Countries of the Emerging Markets. Privos Capital's main business is working with our firm's family office partners on all aspects of their world-wide investments and expansionist activities by entering into strategic alliances, joint ventures, direct, and co- investment opportunities with other family offices and royal families around the world. We are active across most sectors, including real estate, financial services, oil and gas, life sciences, biotech, real estate, healthcare, fashion, mining, media, technology, agriculture, infrastructure, and alternative energy. In Los Angeles, we focus on entertainment, new media, and film financing. Our office in London serves as the hub for our European and Arab family offices. In Hong Kong, we serve our Chinese and Asian family offices allocating capital globally. Privos is a fiercely independent and privately held firm. We do not manage money by choice, nor do we sell or market third party investment products, securities, or fund products. Rather, as LP investors, we work globally with our family office partners (SFO, MFO, HNWI, UHNWI) who are invested across diverse classes, including private equity, secondaries, hedge funds, distressed, and venture capital, as well as foundations and philanthropy. As a multi-family office allocator, we are active in ESG and SRI and embrace the principles of UNPRI and US SIF. Mr. Farrell has lived and worked in the US, London, Europe, and the Middle East. He is a thought leader and one of the leading experts on global family offices. Prior to joining Privos, Mr. Farrell was a partner at an international law firm. Mr. Farrell is a thought leader and speaker at global investor private equity, hedge fund and alternative investment conferences around the world, making recent appearances on stage in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore, Amsterdam, London, New York, Chicago, San Francisco and Boston. He has been featured and quoted extensively in Bloomberg.com and the financial press. Mr. Farrell is based in the firm's New York office. He is married with four sons, two of whom attend Phillips Exeter Academy, where Mr. Farrell has served as a mentor and parent club advisor. Mr. Farrell is based in Privos Capital’s New York office.

Sonny Kalsi

Founder & Partner - GreenOak Real Estate

Sonny Kalsi is a Founder and Partner of GreenOak, based in New York. Sonny has oversight responsibility for GreenOak’s US business. He is a member of the firm’s investment committees globally. Sonny was previously the Global Co-Head of Morgan Stanley’s Real Estate Investing (MSREI) business and President of the Morgan Stanley Real Estate (MSRE) funds until his departure from the firm in early 2009. Prior to that, Sonny was the Global Co-Head of MSREI from 2006 to 2008. At its peak, the MSREI platform had approximately $100 billion of assets under management in 33 countries. Prior to managing MSREI globally, Sonny and his team led the formation of Morgan Stanley’s property business in Asia and built it into a leading real estate platform in the region. Sonny was recently named by PERE as one of the 100 most influential people in private real estate from the past decade. Sonny is a graduate of Georgetown University with a bachelor’s degree in business administration. He is a member of the Board of Regents of Georgetown University and a trustee of the Asia Society, an organization formed by the Rockefeller Foundation.

Sean Bannon

Managing Director - Head of U.S. Real Estate Investments - Zurich Alternative Asset Management

Sean Bannon has over 22 years of experience leading and executing commercial real estate investment activity in the United States. He is responsible for Zurich’s US Real Estate businesses, is based in New York, and is a voting member of the Investment Committee of ZAAM, LLC, the firm’s alternative investment platform dedicated to Hedge Fund, Private Equity and US Real Estate investment. He joined Zurich in 1997 to help launch the firm’s US direct acquisition platform, and acquired nearly $2 billion of primarily credit tenanted assets. In 2004, he helped launch the fund of funds program, and invested nearly $1 billion in 40 real estate funds and joint ventures. In 2011, he authored the current USRE strategy, and runs that program, which has directly acquired $600 million of assets in the past 24 months. Current real estate AUM approximates $2.5 billion.

Todd Henderson

Head of Real Estate - Americas - Deutsche Asset Management (Deutsche AM)

Todd Henderson is the Head of Real Estate for the Americas at Deutsche Asset Management (Deutsche AM), based in New York. Todd joined Deutsche AM in 2003 with 12 years of industry experience. Prior to his current role, Todd served as the Chief Investment Officer of RREEF Real Estate in the Americas. Before joining, he was Director of Acquisitions for The J.E. Robert Company. Previously, he worked in restructuring and disposing of nonperforming real estate loans at First Gibraltar Bank Todd holds a BA from the University of North Texas and an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Peter Sotoloff

Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer - Mack Real Estate Credit Strategies

Mr. Sotoloff co-founded MRECS in 2014 and serves as a Managing Partner and Chief Investment Officer. Prior to joining MRECS, he was a Managing Director and Head of U.S. Originations of Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies (BREDS), was a founding member of the Blackstone affiliate that advises such funds, and contributed to the launch of Blackstone Mortgage Trust (NYSE: BXMT). Over 7 years, Mr. Sotoloff helped BREDS become a well-respected platform with $10 billion of equity capital and was closely involved in more than 90 discrete investment transactions representing more than $30 billion in total transaction value. Mr. Sotoloff oversaw structured finance transactions including both loan originations and investments in legacy loan portfolios and CMBS. He also sourced several transactions for the Blackstone Real Estate Partners equity investment program. Mr. Sotoloff served on the Investment Committee for Blackstone Mortgage Trust, the Review Committee for the Blackstone Tactical Opportunities Fund, and the Board of Directors of Landmark Apartment Trust. Prior to joining Blackstone, Mr. Sotoloff was a principal at Tribeca Associates, overseeing the acquisition, financing and development of office, lodging, for-sale residential and mixed-use assets and portfolios, and before that worked for Morgan Stanley, focused on the real estate and special situation funds, and Goldman Sachs, focused on the Whitehall global real estate opportunity funds. Mr. Sotoloff is a member of the Real Estate Board of New York, the Urban Land Institute, the CRE Finance Council and the International Council of Shopping Centers. He graduated with highest honors from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and completed the International Business Strategies Program at the London School of Economics.

Sujan Patel

Managing Director & Co-Head of US Investment Management - Colony NorthStar, Inc.

Gary Phillips

Head of Real Estate Equity, Americas - Allianz Real Estate of America

Gary is Senior Director and Head of Acquisitions and Equity Investments at Allianz Real Estate of America. In this role, Mr. Phillips oversees all facets of the equity originations business for Allianz Real Estate within the Americas, including all direct acquisitions, joint venture programs, and fund investments. Prior to joining Allianz, Mr. Phillips spent approximately eight years at Clarion Partners as a member of its acquisitions team, and he started his real estate career at Deutsche Bank/RREEF in 2000 as a member of its research team. Mr. Phillips earned his BBA in Finance from The George Washington University.

Eric Belman

Partner, US Infrastructure - QIC

Brahm Cramer

Co-Head and Co-Chief Investment Officer - AllianceBernstein

Raphael Fishbach

Principal - Mesa West Capital

Mr. Fishbach is a Principal of the originations team at Mesa West and heads the East Coast origination platform. Prior to joining Mesa West in 2010, Mr. Fishbach spent three years at Ramius LLC, an $8 billion asset management firm based in New York City with a specialty investment platform in real estate. As Director of Ramius’ Real Estate Group, Mr. Fishbach’s responsibilities included deal sourcing, origination and underwriting, negotiation of acquisitions, joint ventures and financings, as well as asset management. Mr. Fishbach was responsible for over $500 million of transactions. Previous to Ramius, Mr. Fishbach was at Wells Fargo Bank in the Real Estate Merchant Banking Group from 2000 to 2006, both in Los Angeles and New York. As a Vice President, Mr. Fishbach’s primary responsibilities included sourcing, structuring, negotiating, closing and managing senior loans, mezzanine loans and preferred equity investments on various types of commercial real estate assets. While at Wells Fargo, Mr. Fishbach was directly responsible for over $1 billion of debt originations. Mr. Fishbach graduated from Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration with a bachelor’s degree.

Jon Chassin

Managing Director - Moinian Capital Partners

David Blum

Managing Director and Portfolio Manager - GTIS Debt Capital Management A GoldenTree/GTIS Joint Venture

Bruce Cohen

CEO - Wrightwood Financial

Prior to forming Wrightwood Financial, Bruce was a Senior Partner in the real estate group of Ares Management, a leading global alternative asset management company. He also served as President and COO of Ares Commercial Real Estate, a New York Stock Exchange publicly traded REIT, where he oversaw more than $1 billion of investment activity. Bruce joined Ares in 2011 upon completing the sale of Wrightwood Capital’s operating platform to Ares. During his tenure, Bruce retained oversight of the Wrightwood Capital portfolio, as well as its third party funds, and continues in this capacity in his role at Wrightwood Financial. Wrightwood Capital was an institutionally capitalized real estate investment firm that provided short-term, floating- rate first mortgage loans and mezzanine and preferred equity financing to owner-operators around the country. Bruce founded Wrightwood Capital in 2004 and served as its CEO. Under his leadership, the firm grew its balance sheet to almost $2 billion with total assets under management of approximately $2.5 billion. From its inception in 2004 until 2011, Wrightwood Capital was responsible for more than $4 billion of investment activity. Bruce earned an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a B.A. from Tufts University. He currently serves on the boards of Wrightwood Capital and Erdman, a preeminent design-build firm focused on healthcare, as well as on the real estate advisory boards of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

David Brickman

Executive Vice President & Head of Multifamily - Freddie Mac

David Brickman is executive vice president and head of the Multifamily Business. He leads all aspects of Freddie Mac's Multifamily business - one of the largest capital providers to the US multifamily rental housing market. He is a member of the company's senior operating committee and reports directly to CEO Don Layton. Brickman has presided over significant growth in the Multifamily business - raising annual production from $16 billion in 2010 to almost $50 billion in 2015 and increasing the organization from approximately 300 staff members in four offices to more than 800 in a dozen locations across the country. He has also firmly established Freddie Mac Multifamily's flagship K-Deal securitization program as one of the leading securitized products in the structured finance markets. Before becoming the head of Multifamily, Brickman served as senior vice president and, prior to that, vice president in charge of our Multifamily Capital Markets business area. In this position, Brickman oversaw all functions relating to Freddie Mac's multifamily and CMBS investment and capital market activities. He is also the key architect behind several of Freddie Mac's innovative multifamily financing products, including the Capital Markets Execution and K-Deal securitization program, Reference Bill ARM, fixed-to-float suite of products, and Performance-Based PC, for which he holds a US patent. Prior to joining Freddie Mac in 1999, Brickman co-led the Mortgage Finance and Credit Analysis consulting group at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Brickman has completed all doctoral coursework for his Ph.D. in economics and real estate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He holds a master's degree in public policy from Harvard University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania. He has held appointments as a professorial lecturer in finance at George Washington University and an adjunct professor of finance at Johns Hopkins University. Freddie Mac was established by Congress in 1970 to provide liquidity, stability and affordability to the nation’s residential mortgage markets. Freddie Mac supports communities across the nation by providing mortgage capital to lenders. Today Freddie Mac is making home possible for one in four home borrowers and is one of the largest sources of financing for multifamily housing. For more information please visit www.FreddieMac.com and Twitter @FreddieMac.

Steve Stuart

Managing Director - Fortress Investment Group

Billy Butcher

Co-Head of Real Estate Acquisitions - KKR

Billy Butcher (New York) joined KKR in 2004 and is Co-Head of Real Estate Acquisitions in the Americas. Prior to helping to establish the firm’s dedicated real estate investment business, Mr. Butcher worked in the Firm’s corporate private equity business, including moving to Tokyo in 2006 and 2007 to assist in developing KKR's pan-Asian operations. Prior to joining KKR, he was at Goldman, Sachs & Co. He holds an A.B., summa cum laude, from Princeton University, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he was the Henry Ford II Scholar and an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Doug Mazer

Managing Director/Head of Real Estate Capital Markets - Wells Fargo

Doug Mazer is a managing director and group head of Wells Fargo’s Real Estate Capital Markets (RECM) group. Based in New York City, he leads a group that includes 140 team members in the U.S. and 28 team members in India. RECM provides a range of real estate fi nancial products to commercial real estate (CRE) operators and investors, such as privately held companies, real estate funds, and public and private REITS. These products include nonrecourse fi xed- and fl oating-rate senior secured debt (CMBS and balance sheet), subordinate debt, and structured debt products. In addition, the group acquires CRE whole loans. Doug has more than 20 years of commercial real estate experience. He started with Wells Fargo in 2002 as an originator in the conduit group in New York covering the Northeast region of the country. He moved to the position of head of originations for the group in 2008. He has been in his current position since August 2011. Before joining Wells Fargo, Doug held capital markets lending positions in the conduit groups at J.P. Morgan, CDC North America (Natixis), and Nomura Securities, all in New York. He started his commercial real estate career as a real estate fi nance attorney in New York, representing lenders at Windels Marx, and then at Thacher Pro tt & Wood. Doug received a B.S. in economics at Northwestern University and a J.D. at Syracuse University College of Law. He is a member of the Mortgage Bankers Association, ICSC, and CREFC.

James Nelson

Vice Chairman - Cushman & Wakefield

Abbe Franchot

Head of Originations - Amherst Capital Management

Seth Pinsky

Executive Vice President - RXR Realty

Seth Pinsky is an Executive Vice President at RXR Realty, where he is leading RXR’s efforts to invest in “emerging opportunities” in the New York region. He focuses on areas with significant growth potential, particularly in the Outer Boroughs and suburban downtowns. Prior to RXR, Pinsky was Director of Mayor Bloomberg’s Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency, which developed a $20 billion plan to protect the City from climate change impacts. Pinsky also served at the New York City Economic Development Corporation, where he was President from 2008 to 2013. While at NYCEDC, Pinsky was lead negotiator for projects such as Yankee Stadium, Citifield, the World Trade Center, and the acquisition of Hunters Point South in Queens. Other initiatives advanced under Pinsky’s leadership were developments in Willets Point, Coney Island, Homeport in Staten Island, Kingsbridge Armory in the Bronx, and the Alexandria Center for Life Sciences. Under Pinsky, NYCEDC also managed the construction of the High Line, launched the East River Ferry and announced plans for the world’s largest observation wheel in Staten Island. In the area of economic modernization, under Pinsky, NYCEDC launched business incubators across the City and oversaw the international Applied Sciences NYC competition, which will result in a new Carnegie-Mellon program in the Navy Yard, a significant expansion of Columbia’s engineering school, and the creation of a new engineering institute in Downtown Brooklyn led by NYU. It will also result in a $2 billion engineering campus on Roosevelt Island launched by Cornell and the Technion of Israel. Prior to NYCEDC, Pinsky was an associate at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and a financial analyst at James D. Wolfensohn Inc. He is a graduate of Columbia College and Harvard Law School, and is an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs.

James Flynn

President & Chief Investment Officer - Hunt Mortgage Group

James Flynn is President and Chief Investment Officer of Hunt Mortgage Group, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hunt Companies. Mr. Flynn is responsible for the management of all the businesses and strategic direction of Hunt Mortgage Group. He joined Hunt Mortgage Group (formerly Centerline Capital Group) in 2007. He is a member of executive management and the investment and credit committees. Mr. Flynn’s prior direct responsibilities at Hunt Mortgage Group include identifying, structuring and pricing new proprietary real estate investments including: bridge and mezzanine debt, preferred equity and JV equity partnership interests. Mr. Flynn’s prior positions at the firm also included: capital raising, business development, and asset management. Mr. Flynn served as portfolio manager for the firm’s commercial mortgage REIT, which included management of CRE CDOs, raised public equity capital for the REIT, and served in various advisory capacities for the firm’s CMBS and high-yield debt funds. Mr. Flynn also led the special servicing, REO and asset disposition units, which comprised 20+ real estate professionals, and an equity portfolio consisting of 1,100 multifamily housing properties with more than 120,000 units. In addition, he directed the special servicing of a $2.5 billion multifamily bond portfolio. Prior to joining Hunt Mortgage Group, Mr. Flynn practiced law at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher (GDC) in its real estate practice group, where he represented lenders, real estate funds, developers, and institutional and non-institutional investors in structuring acquisitions and financings for all commercial real estate classes, and advising in the formation of fund partnerships and joint ventures. Before joining GDC, Mr. Flynn was an investment banker at Lehman Brothers. In 2013, Mr. Flynn was named as one of Commercial Property Executive’s “Stars to Watch” and, in 2014, he was named one of Real Estate Forum’s “Forty under Forty” to watch. Mr. Flynn earned a Juris Doctorate from Columbia University Law School, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and a Bachelor of Science (finance and accounting) from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, magna cum laude. Mr. Flynn is a member of the California State Bar, ULI, CREFC, MBA, and NAREIM.

Ralph Herzka

Chairman & CEO - Meridian Capital Group

Mr. Herzka founded Meridian in 1991, and has served as its Chief Executive Officer since its formation. He is the guiding force behind our firm's growth and success, and has set standards nationally for expertise, vision and reputation in commercial real estate finance. Mr. Herzka has 30 years' experience in real estate advisory work, and has personally negotiated more than $75 billion in real estate financing transactions. Over his career, Mr. Herzka has developed deep and lasting relationships with a broad array of lenders, including banks, agency lenders, life companies and conduit lenders. He has built multigenerational relationships with many of the country's most sophisticated and active real estate owners and operators. Mr. Herzka's stature has been consistently recognized by local and national media, including by the Mortgage Observer in March 2014 as number six on the “50 Most Important People In Commercial Real Estate Finance.” In addition to Meridian, Mr. Herzka was a co-founder of Beech Street Capital, LLC, a mortgage banking firm and Fannie Mae DUS® lender, Freddie Mac Program Plus® Seller Servicer and MAP-approved FHA lender that was sold to Capital One in 2013. He was also a founder of Ladder Capital, a commercial real estate lender and CMBS originator.

Jacob Muller

- TPG Real Estate

Jacob Muller joined TPG Real Estate in 2013 and is based in New York. Prior to joining TPG Real Estate, Mr. Muller spent two years in the Investment Banking Division and Real Estate Private Equity (MSREF) group of Morgan Stanley. Mr. Muller graduated summa cum laude from Yeshiva University, where he received a B.A. in economics. Mr. Muller currently serves on the Board of Directors of Strategic Office Partners.

Christina Lyndon

Managing Director - Angelo, Gordon & Co.

Aaron Appel

MD - JLL

Julie Chon

Senior Fellow, Global Business and Economics - Atlantic Council

Julie Chon is a senior fellow with the Atlantic Council's Global Business and Economics Program. For the past five years, she was also Managing Director and Global Head of Public Investment Strategy at Perry Capital. From 2007-2011, Ms. Chon crafted landmark US policy responses to stabilize the financial crisis as senior adviser to Senate Banking Committee Chairman Christopher Dodd. She played a central role in the enactment of several laws that redefined the powers of the Treasury Department, Federal Reserve, housing agencies, and regulators to support the economy. These included the Housing and Economic Recovery Act, Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Helping Families Save Their Homes Act, Dodd-Frank Act, Foreign Investment and National Security Act, and International Monetary Fund authorization. She was also appointed to the Treasury Department team for the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition Project and Senate Democratic Policy Committee staff. Throughout her career, Ms. Chon has worked with governments globally on economic policy and financing needs. She began at JP Morgan Chase in New York and Salomon/Citigroup in London, advising sovereigns and related entities on debt capital markets access. Ms. Chon is a trustee of the US-Asia Institute and term member at the Council on Foreign Relations. She has provided economic commentary for the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, and CNBC. She graduated from Cornell University, serving as a Member of the Board of Trustees from 1996 to 1998.

Drew Fletcher

President - Greystone Bassuk

Drew C. Fletcher, President of The Greystone Bassuk Group, is primarily responsible for structuring creative equity, debt and mezzanine solutions for clients with multifamily assets, with a particular focus on 80/20 transactions. Drew also provides real estate capital advisory and financial brokerage services to assist clients in evaluating prospective real estate investments and securing the most optimal financing arrangements for their projects. Prior to joining The Greystone Bassuk Group, Drew served in the role of Chief Financial Officer at Edison Properties, LLC where he was responsible for overseeing all aspects of the financial operations of a multi-generational family real estate business with $200+ million in annual revenue and multiple lines of business, including: Manhattan Mini Storage, the largest self-storage operator in Manhattan with over 3,500,000 square feet of space in 18 buildings; Edison ParkFast, a commercial parking operator with 40+ facilities; The Hippodrome, a Class-A commercial office building in midtown; The Ludlow, a 243-unit 80/20 rental building; and a portfolio of other rental real estate properties. During his 14-year tenure at Edison, Drew was directly involved with the over $800 million in commercial property acquisitions, dispositions and development across Edison’s portfolio. Prior to serving as CFO, Drew held a number of leadership positions in finance, operations and real estate within Edison’s business. Drew received his B.S. in Economics and B.A. in Communications from Wake Forest University and his M.B.A. in Finance from New York University. Drew volunteers his time as a guest lecturer at the NYU Real Estate Institute, and is also an active member of the Real Estate Board of New York and the Urban Land Institute.

Riggs Kubiak

CEO / CoFounder - Honest Buildings

Riggs Kubiak is the CEO and Founder of the New York City based Honest Buildings Network, the leading online commercial real estate marketplace that matches top building professionals with building owners, decision makers and project managers. Architects, engineers, contractors and technology providers can quickly create a custom profile and showcase relevant case studies to a network of tens of thousands of real estate professionals, including owners and other decision-makers who are looking to bid out building projects. Prior to founding Honest Buildings, Riggs worked on acquisition, asset management, and sustainability initiatives at Tishman Speyer, a global real estate developer, owner and operator, with over 70 million square feet under management.

Paul McCormick

SVP Investment Sales/Capital Services - Ariel Property Advisors

Paul McCormick is the Senior Vice President of Investment Sales and Capital Services at Ariel Property Advisors. In this role, he is responsible for overseeing the Investment Sales and Capital Services Division’s day-to-day operations and for leading various expansion and recruitment initiatives on its behalf. Prior to joining Ariel Property Advisors, Mr. McCormick was the Assistant Vice President of Sales at Arbor Commercial Mortgage. While there, he supported a 25 person sales division that originated over $5 billion in loans across the company's multifamily and commercial product lines, including Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, FHA, CMBS, Bridge, Mezzanine and Preferred Equity. He also led the development of the Arbor Select Program, which was a fast-track originators program for new hires. Earlier, Mr. McCormick served as a Sales Manager at Sterling National Mortgage and was a Vice President of Sales at Homebridge Mortgage Bankers. In these roles, he led sales teams to successfully originate, underwrite and place both commercial and residential mortgages nationwide. Mr. McCormick holds an MBA in finance from Long Island University, where he was inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma after graduating at the top of his class. He currently resides in Rockville Centre and can be reached at 212.544.9500 ext. 45 or via email at pmccormick@arielpa.com.

Steve Golin

SVP, Strategic Vertical Markets - Xceligent

Adi Chugh

Managing Partner - Maverick CP

Rab Nalavala

Member, Real Estate Group - Cole Schotz, P.C.

Rab N. Nalavala is a member of the firm’s Real Estate, Real Estate Special Opportunities, and Construction Services Departments. Rab’s practice is national in scope and encompasses all aspects of general commercial real estate, with a particular emphasis on development and finance matters. He represents major investment banks, private equity companies, opportunity funds, sovereign wealth funds, REITs, family-owned businesses and various joint venture entities in the acquisition, disposition, development, financing, management and leasing of commercial, retail, industrial and residential properties. Rab also has significant experience representing both lenders and borrowers in connection with real estate finance transactions, including construction lending, bond financing, mezzanine lending, loan workouts, restructures and deed-in-lieu transactions. He specializes in the acquisition, construction and development of domestic and international projects in the hospitality, leisure and gaming industries, including resorts, casinos, sports complexes and golf courses.

David Broderick

Partner - DLA Piper

Alexis Alonzo

Partner - Pircher, Nichols & Meeks

Sanjay Mody

Partner - Windels Marx Lane & Mittendorf

Jeffrey Barclay

Managing Director - Goldman Sachs

Jeffrey is head of the Real Estate Investment Group (REIG), which is a part of the Alternative Investments & Manager Selection (AIMS) Group within the Investment Management Division. REIG invests both in direct commercial real estate and in fund managers on behalf of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and Private Wealth Management clients. He has more than 30 years of real estate investing experience. Jeffrey joined Goldman Sachs as a managing director in 2010. Prior to joining the firm, Jeffrey was responsible for leading real estate investment activity for Clarion Partners, one of the largest US real estate investment management firms and, from 1998 through 2010, a wholly owned subsidiary of the ING Group. He served on the firm’s Executive Board, Operating Committee and led its Investment Committee. Jeffrey has served as chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers (NAREIM) and chairman of the IOPC Gold Council of the Urban Land Institute (ULI). He is a member of the board of the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) and a founding member of the Defined Contribution Real Estate Council. He serves as an adjunct professor in the MBA program at the Columbia Business School. Jeffrey earned a BS in Economics and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from Columbia University.

Jonathan Aghravi

Managing Director - Eastern Consolidated Capital Advisory

Jonathan Aghravi is a Managing Director in the Capital Advisory Division of Eastern Consolidated, a New York City based real estate services firm. Mr. Aghravi launched Eastern Consolidated’s Capital Advisory Division in early 2014 to complement the firm’s thriving investment sales operation. Since its inception, the Capital Advisory group has successfully marketed premium financing solutions to new and recurring clients, expanding Eastern Consolidated’s services nationwide. Mr. Aghravi utilizes his deep capital markets expertise and extensive relationships while working with a diverse range of lending institutions, commercial banks, private investors, and alternative capital sources to develop and deliver optimal financing solutions for his top-tier clients and partners. During his career, Mr. Aghravi has arranged nearly $1 billion of debt and equity facilities for commercial properties nationwide, including an $85 million loan to refinance a prime, 12-story, ±140,000-squarefoot luxury building with 133 residential and eight commercial units at 2030 Broadway in Manhattan; a $57.5 million securitized acquisition loan for a Class A Los Angeles office tower; a $53.8 million stretch-senior construction loan for a market leading mixed-use development in Ann Arbor, Michigan; a $42 million bridge loan for a Flushing, Queens development site with over 500,000 buildable square feet; a $30 million acquisition loan for a 61,000-square-foot commercial property in Beverly Hills, CA; and a $26.38 million bridge loan to fund the recapitalization of a ground lease at 285 Schermerhorn Street in Downtown Brooklyn. Prior to joining Eastern Consolidated, Mr. Aghravi was a Managing Director at Hybrid Capital, which he helped establish as one of the leading boutique commercial mortgage firms in New York. He began his career on Freddie Mac’s Northeast underwriting team. In 2015, Mr. Aghravi was named Eastern Consolidated’s Capital Advisory Broker of the Year, and the Young Jewish Professionals recognized his accomplishments at its Deal Makers Summit. In 2014, the Commercial Observer named him one of the top 25 under 35 Commercial Mortgage Brokers and Lenders on the Rise. Mr. Aghravi received his Bachelor’s Degree in International Relations from Colgate University in Hamilton, NY. He is a member of multiple organizations including the Real Estate Board of New York and Young Mortgage Bankers Association, and he donates his time to charitable causes such as FIDF and American Friends of Rabin Medical Center.

Brian Cohen

Director - Goulston & Storrs

Brian M. Cohen is a Director in the firm's Real Estate group. Brian's practice focuses on representing owners, purchasers, investors and lenders in commercial real estate and other asset-based transactions, including the acquisition, disposition and development of office, retail hotel, and multifamily properties; commercial mortgage, mezzanine and construction financing; joint ventures; loan purchases, sales and restructurings; and secured and unsecured credit facilities and related capital markets transactions. He also represents landlords and tenants in commercial leasing transactions. Prior to joining Goulston & Storrs, Brian was a partner at an Am Law Top 100 U.S. law firm. Brian was previously the general counsel of Kushner Companies, a diversified real estate owner, manager and developer where he also served as general counsel of The New York Observer, a print newspaper and on-line media outlet.

Ronald Kaplan

Partner - CohnReznick

Ronald Kaplan has more than 20 years of professional experience. As a leader in CohnReznick’s Commercial Real Estate Industry Practice, he provides assurance, due diligence, business advisory and tax services to clients in the commercial, residential, retail, and hospitality sectors throughout the United States and internationally. Based in the New York office, Ron regularly provides assistance and advisory services to clients as they negotiate agreements with lenders, equity partners, and fund managers. In addition, he advises clients on accounting and tax matters throughout the agreement process, from initial drafting through completion. Ron’s clients are generally private companies with multistate operations and include real estate opportunity funds, property management firms, partnerships, contractors, institutional lenders, REITs and joint ventures, as well as other corporate and family owners and investors. Ron has a particular focus on real estate opportunity funds with clients ranging from start-ups to established funds. His clients benefit from his experience in critical areas such as fair value reporting, compliance monitoring, investor relations and fund performance. Prior to joining CohnReznick, Ron was in charge of the real estate practice for the New York office of a large national public accounting firm. In this role, he oversaw the practice’s client services, account management, and team development functions. He was also active in the firm’s training activities, leading presentations on the real estate business for professionals both within the firm and at national industry conferences. - See more at: https://www.cohnreznick.com/ronald-kaplan#sthash.OUIBIrTp.dpuf

Dan Spinogatti

SVP Real Estate Services - EBI Consulting