New Jersey Multifamily

Zak Klinvex is the Director of Acquisitions for Post Brothers, a Philadelphia-based real estate developer that owns over $1.3 billion of multi-family and retail assets in the Philadelphia region and northern New Jersey. Since joining Post Brothers in August 2013, Zak has played an important role in the acquisition of over 1,500 apartment units and 255,000 square feet of retail space, as well as over $300mm in refinancing on Post Brothers’ existing portfolio. Prior to joining Post Brothers, Zak was an associate at Real Property Capital, a Philadelphia-based mortgage broker. Zak graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2011 with majors in Finance and Management

Jose is a senior managing director and co-office head in the New Jersey office of JLL Capital Markets, Americas. He joins JLL as part of the HFF acquisition and is a member of the firm’s leadership committee. Jose specializes in investment advisory throughout New Jersey, New York and Connecticut and also oversees the day-to-day operations of the firm’s New Jersey office. During the course of his more than 25-year commercial real estate career, he’s been involved in more than $62 billion of office, industrial, retail, multifamily and land sales. Jose started at HFF in March 2010. Before that, he was the executive director of Cushman & Wakefield’s New York area investment sales group where he spent more than 17 years. He began his real estate career as a real estate analyst at PaineWebber, UBS, Inc.

Mr. Witmondt is the CEO of Woodmont Properties, a privately-owned regional real estate investment and development business founded by his father in 1963. Since joining the company in 1993, Eric has transformed the company into a full-service vertically integrated real estate firm that acquires, entitles, finances, develops, constructs, sells, leases and manages a wide range of properties. Woodmont employs more than 190 people in NJ and PA. Since 2007, Woodmont has constructed more than 17 luxury apartment communities throughout New Jersey and Pennsylvania and is currently building 1,000 apartments in Princeton, Roxbury, Ramapo, Secaucus and Upper Macungie, PA. Woodmont, well known for its transit-oriented development, has a development pipeline containing more than 3,000 apartments, 800 luxury homes and one million square feet of industrial space. During the past seven years, the company has acquired, sold or constructed more than 4,600,000 square feet of industrial space in New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and Georgia and continues to actively seek acquisitions of existing buildings or land to develop. Woodmont also owns and manages office buildings, retail space, hotels and four private recreational/golf and tennis clubs in New Jersey and Snowmass, Colorado. In its continuing pursuit of new market opportunities, Woodmont recently entered the senior housing sector with plans to develop super luxury housing in the sectors of Active Adult, Independent Living, Assisted Living and Memory Care in New Jersey. Mr. Witmondt has been recognized by NJBIZ’s Power 50 ranking each year since 2010 and was recently honored as one of the top executives of the year.

David B. Grodnick is a Vice President and the North Atlantic Regional Director for First American Title Insurance Company’s National Commercial Services Division. He has been practicing real estate law and has been engaged in the title insurance industry for over twenty- five years. Having presented and moderated numerous continuing legal education seminars for the National Business Institute and the Mercer County Bar Association, David has also been a guest speaker at the Kislak Real Estate Institute of Monmouth University. He is a member of the New Jersey Bar Association, the American Bar Association, and is a Trustee of the Real Estate Board of Trustees of the Mercer County Bar Association. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Investors Bank. David received his bachelor’s degree from Western Maryland College in Westminster, Maryland and his Juris Doctor from Quinnipiac University School of Law in Hamden, Connecticut. He is admitted to practice law in the State of New Jersey and in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Mimi Feliciano is Founder and CEO of FEM Real Estate, a Real Estate Investment Company, based in Montville, New Jersey. FEM develops, owns and manages commercial real estate nationwide. Currently, Mimi is working on a redevelopment project in Long Branch which will feature 47 luxury beachfront condominiums. Mimi spent 12 years prior as the Owner and CEO of Lincoln Park Healthcare, the largest nursing home complex in New Jersey. Mimi took over and expanded this second-generation family business by building JDT Medical Rehab & JDT Medical Villa, two visionary state-of-the-art buildings for sub-acute, short-term care within a luxury, hotel-like environment.

Gabriel B. Shiff serves as chief operating officer of Roseland Residential Trust, a Mack-Cali company. Mr. Shiff is responsible for managing corporate and project-level analytics for Roseland, focusing on debt and equity financings (over $2 billion in financings since 2007), asset management activities, acquisitions and dispositions, and managing the division’s banking and investor relationships. In addition, Mr. Shiff oversees Roseland’s business plan, forecasting capital and operating needs as well as corresponding cash flow and value generation for the residential portfolio. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Shiff was at Bear, Stearns, & Company’s Real Estate, Gaming and Lodging (REGAL) Investment Banking Group. Mr. Shiff received a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Under Karim’s stewardship, Genesis has fostered community advancement through high-quality multifamily development in urban centers. Prior to founding Genesis, Karim was an investment banker with Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs and an investor with General Atlantic, a private equity firm in Greenwich, Connecticut. Karim earned a BA in Economics and Philosophy from Amherst College. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Master’s degree in Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. A resident of Harlem, Karim serves as Treasurer of the Trustee Board of the First Corinthian Baptist Church, Trustee of the Citizens Budget Commission, Trustee of the Randall’s Island Park Alliance Board, Board Member of the Citizens Housing Planning Council, the New York State Association for Affordable Housing and a Member of the Leadership Council for Habitat for Humanity NYC. He is married to Luz Elena and has two daughters.