Bisnow's Annual Multifamily Conference

Bill Witte

CEO - Related California

Mr. Witte, who joined Related in 1989, oversees all of our multi-family and mixed-use development activity in California. From 1988 to 1989, he was Deputy Mayor for Housing and Neighborhoods and acting Director of the Housing Authority, City of San Francisco. From 1983 to 1988, Mr. Witte was Director of the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Economic Development in San Francisco. Mr. Witte graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master’s degree in City Planning.

Paul Keller

CEO - Mack Urban

Real estate, construction and finance experience since 1978 Paul Keller has over thirty years of experience in real estate and construction industries and is a founding Principal of Mack Urban, LLC. He is involved with the firms’ strategic direction, capital market relationships and tactical management of all Mack Urban investments. Mr. Keller formerly led Urban Partners, Keller Equity Group, Keller CMS and Keller Construction Company. Mr. Keller and Keller-related entities have been responsible for over 2,000 projects in the continental United States and Hawaii and have provided program development, project and construction management oversight services to a variety of clients on projects valued in excess of seven billion dollars. Mr. Keller is highly regarded in the industry for his comprehensive grasp of asset and project management details and his ability to match leasing, construction and financing requirements. Among his activities, Mr. Keller is a member of ULI (Urban Land Institute) Los Angeles Advisory Board; ULI Los Angeles Land Use Leadership Committee; member of The Los Angeles Coalition for the Economy and Jobs; board member of the L.A. Streetcar Initiative (LASI); board member of FOLAR (Friends of the L.A. River) and a member of the Central City Association of Los Angeles and a board member of Friends of Waterfront Seattle. Previous community leadership roles include: Chairman of Eimago (formerly Union Rescue Mission Foundation) and former Chairman of the Board of Directors, Seven Arrows Elementary School in Pacific Palisades, California.

Sean Burton

CEO - CityView

Sean Burton has over 15 years of experience in real estate and equity investments and has been with CityView since 2003. Burton manages CityView’s platform and operations and chairs the investment committees for CityView’s two Blackstone funds and its Los Angeles Urban Fund. Prior to joining CityView, Burton was vice president of corporate business development and strategy at Warner Bros. Before that, Burton was an attorney in the real estate and corporate groups of O’Melveny & Myers, LLP and served in the White House during the Clinton Administration. He is a graduate of University of California, Irvine and New York University School of Law.

Victor MacFarlane

CEO - MacFarlane Partners

Victor began his real estate career in 1979 with Aetna Life & Casualty Company, where he helped acquire and manage more than $1 billion in real estate assets. He later developed and managed, for his own account, an award-winning apartment community in Denver. In 1996, he sold the core separate-account investment management business of MacFarlane Partners to GE Capital and then served for three years as chief executive officer of GE Capital Investment Advisors. During that period, he also spearheaded several global initiatives for GE Capital Real Estate, an affiliate with $20 billion in real estate assets worldwide, overseeing or participating in its expansion plans in Asia, Mexico and Eastern Europe. At the end of his contractual commitment in April 1999, he resigned from GE Capital and began rebuilding MacFarlane Partners as an entrepreneurial firm that focused on urban properties and other high-yielding real estate investments.

Douglas Tymins

CEO - AIG Global Real Estate Investment Corp.

Mr. Tymins is responsible for overseeing the operations of AIG Global Real Estate's investment and development platforms, and for developing and implementing the business strategy to maximize the value of AIG Global Real Estate's assets. He also serves as Chair of the AIG Global Real Estate's Investment Committee. Mr. Tymins served in several leadership roles, previously as President of AIG Affordable Housing (AIGAH) and as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of AIGAH. From 1990 through 2005, Mr. Tymins served in various key senior positions with the SunAmerica companies, including Managing Director, Real Estate Development, and Senior Vice President, Real Estate Acquisitions and Dispositions. During this period, he directed a real estate equity investment platform that invested in excess of $800 million in office, retail, hotel, multi-family, condominium, and mixed-use projects throughout the U.S. He also directed the company's strategy to maximize its investment in a commercial and residential land portfolio located in metro Phoenix, with an expected value at full build out of $1.2 billion. After departing the company in 2005, he continued to work with AIG in a consulting role through his firm 360 Real Estate Advisors. He began his career in real estate with the Trammell Crow Company in 1985. Mr. Tymins received a bachelor's degree in economics from Arizona State University and is a full member of the Urban Land Institute.

Max Yang

CEO - LT Global Investment

As the Chief Executive Officer of LT Global Investment, Max Yang has been actively involved in Real Estate Investment including large commercial real estate developments in Hebei Province in China. Currently he is actively pursuing US Investment Opportunities in building the asset base of LT Global Investment here in California. Max Yang is the son of Mr. Yang, the executive Director and Chairman of LT Holding Limited. Max also serves on the board of HK Parent Company LT Commercial Real Estate Limited in Hong Kong as Executive Director. Max Yang graduated from the University of Southern California, U.S.A. with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and has been actively involved in real estate development business.

Bob Champion

CEO - Champion Real Estate Company

Founder and President of Champion Real Estate Company, Bob oversees division heads and guides the development of the company's overall investment strategy. He is a nationally recognized expert in shopping centers, vertical retailing, public-private partnerships and mixed-use development with retail, residential, office and entertainment components. Bob earned a Master of Real Estate Development from the University of Southern California and has completed over $1 billion in real estate investments comprising over two million square feet.

Michael Cusumano

CEO - Cusumano Real Estate Group

Vicky Schiff

Partner - Mosaic Real Estate Investors

Vicky Schiff is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Mosaic Real Estate Credit, LLC and MREC Management, LLC (Registered Investment Advisor), a firm she launched in early 2015 with Ethan Penner to invest in real estate debt and address the market need for bridge debt on transitional real estate assets, in the wake of the tightening of the US bank regulatory environment. Ms. Schiff is a highly experienced and respected real estate executive whose investment career began in the early 1990s as an acquisitions and diligence executive for Summit Commercial/Highridge Partners in Los Angeles, where she worked on approximately $1 billion in transactions. Ms. Schiff is a career entrepreneur, co-founding five firms over the past 20 years including a real estate investment and development company with over 100 employees in the self-storage industry; an institutional $400+ million real estate fund of funds with a sub-strategy of supporting women and minority emerging real estate firms throughout the US; a national boutique investment banking firm which raised over $6 billion from institutional investors for top-tier real estate and private equity firms around the world. In 2010, she founded Oro Capital Advisors to create value for investors acquiring commercial real estate debt and distressed assets in target markets across the United States. Oro Capital Advisors and its affiliates own and operate industrial, retail, office and multi-family properties across the United States.

Jerome Fink

Managing Partner - The Bascom Group

Jerome A. Fink is a co-founder & Managing Partner of The Bascom Group, LLC. Bascom has completed over $9.5 billion in multi-family and commercial value-added transactions since 1996 including more than 250 multifamily properties and 70,000 units. Bascom’s subsidiaries and joint ventures include the Southern California Industrial Fund, Rushmore Properties, Bascom Portfolio Advisors, Shubin Nadal Associates, Spirit Investors, REDA Bascom Ventures, MHF RM Holdings, Harbor Associates, and the Realm Group. Bascom’s subsidiaries also include Premier Business Centers, the largest privately held executive suite company in the US. Prior to founding Bascom, Mr. Fink acted as Senior Acquisitions and Sales Manager from 1991 to 1995 for Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company. His responsibilities included market assessment, property identification and negotiation, and the acquisition and disposition of real estate investments. Mr. Fink holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Master of Business Administration in Real Estate and Finance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a member of the Institute of Real Estate Managements (IREM) and Turnaround Management Association (TMA). Mr. Fink is a licensed real estate broker in the state of California, a Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM), a Certified Property Manager (CPM), a Certified Mergers & Acquisitions Advisor (CM&AA), and a Certified Turnaround Professional (CTP). He has appeared as a guest speaker at various functions, including those for the Urban Land Institute, University of California Los Angeles and Irvine, University of Southern California, and other assorted industry events. Mr. Fink previously served on the Board of Directors for the Wisconsin Real Estate Alumni Association and is currently a member of the USC Lusk Center for Real Estate Executive Committee.  He is also a member of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO) and serves on the local chapter’s board as well as the Real Estate Network’s Executive Committee.In 2004, Mr. Fink was awarded the Apartment Executive of the Year by the Real Estate Conference Group, the industry's largest and most prestigious multifamily conference on the West Coast, and was later awarded the Rising Star award by the University of California Irvine Center for Real Estate in 2008. Mr. Fink was also recognized in the 2011 Multi-Family Executive Magazine.

Michael Costa

CEO - Highridge Costa Companies

Mr. Costa is responsible for overseeing all activities at Highridge Costa Companies, which include Highridge Costa Housing Partners, LLC (“HCHP”) and Highridge Costa Investors, LLC (“HCI”). The companies specialize in the development, financing, construction, syndication and asset management of affordable and mixed-income housing for families and seniors throughout the U.S., utilizing low-income housing tax credits, as well as other types of public and private financing. The companies were created in 1994 by Mr. Costa initially under the flag of KBHome (Kaufman and Broad Multihousing Group, Inc.) then were sold to Simpson Housing (Simpson Housing Solutions, LLC) in 2000 where Mr. Costa became a partial owner and continued to run the companies. In 2010 in a joint venture between Mr. Costa, President and CEO of the companies, and Highridge Partners, a diversified, privately held investment firm, they acquired the companies from Simpson Housing. Over the past 22 years, Mr. Costa and his team have been responsible for developing and growing a portfolio of over 27,000 housing units in more than 275 communities throughout the U.S. and Puerto Rico, all of which were financed using tax credits. In addition, Mr. Costa is known as a pioneer in the development of affordable independent senior apartments having overseen the development of over 19,000 units since the early 1980’s. Currently HCI/HCHP owns and operates approximately 8,400 units (84 communities) of affordable independent senior apartments making HCI/HCHP one of, if not the largest owner in the U.S. of independent senior apartment communities. Throughout a career spanning nearly four decades, Mr. Costa has supervised the development and financing of nearly 40,000 units of multifamily affordable and market-rate housing through such programs as Section 42 Low Income Housing Tax Credits, Tax Exempt Bond Financing, 501(c)3 Tax Exempt Bonds, Tax Increment Bonds, and numerous state and local financing programs. Through his extensive utilization of both federal and various state tax credit programs over the years, Mr. Costa has gained a wealth of specialized knowledge of the intricacies of tax credit financing and syndication. He is considered an industry expert in tax credit-based development, syndication and asset management, including the myriad of compliance issues associated with owning and operating tax credit properties. Mr. Costa was named the Freddie Mac Multifamily Builder of the Year in 2000 and the 1999 Builder of the Year by Multifamily Executive magazine. He currently serves as a member of the Board of the NAHB Multifamily Leadership Board, the California Housing Consortium, the California Council for Affordable Housing and recently completed a term of seven years as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Community Financial Resource Center of Los Angeles (now R.I.S.E. Financial Pathways), one of California’s most active nonprofit CDFIs. He also holds the CAASH (Certified Active Adult Specialist in Housing) designation from the NAHB. Mr. Costa earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo, and also holds a general contractor's license from the State of California.

Noah Hochman

Senior Managing Director - TruAmerica

Mr. Noah Hochman is the Senior Managing Director of Capital Markets for TruAmerica Multifamily and brings 17 years of real estate investment and private equity experience to his role. Mr. Hochman is responsible for sourcing equity capital, investor relations and debt strategy across the portfolio and oversees joint venture structuring and partnerships. Mr. Hochman is also a member of the firm’s Investment Committee. Prior to joining TruAmerica Multifamily, Mr. Hochman served as Vice President of Acquisitions and Dispositions at Triumph Management Company. Prior to joining Triumph, Mr. Hochman served as Vice President of Acquisitions for Granite Peak Partners. Mr. Hochman holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from UCLA and is a graduate of the Anderson Graduate School of Management Mergers & Acquisitions Program at UCLA.

Jim Silverwood

CEO - Affirmed Housing

James Silverwood, President and CEO, of Affirmed Housing Group, oversees all company financial negotiations, property acquisitions, construction, and asset management. Mr. Silverwood has over 31 years experience in real estate development as a general contractor and developer. Under Mr. Silverwood's direction, Affirmed Housing Group has continued to grow in the field of affordable housing by developing innovative new construction and acquisition / rehabilitation projects across California. Prior to developing affordable housing, Mr. Silverwood's company developed hundreds of single-family homes and apartments throughout southern California. Mr. Silverwood has been active in regional and statewide legislative issues. He has served on numerous Boards and Committees such as the Board of Directors of the San Diego North County Building Industry from 1989 to 1992 and California State Treasurer Matt Fong's Housing Finance Advisory C5mmittee from 1997 to 1998. A past board member of the San Diego Housing Federation, he currently sits on the Board of Governors of the California Housing Consortium. Recently inducted into the California Housing Hall of Fame, private sector, Mr. Silverwood is well known and respected amongst his peers.

Ziv Cohen

President - Resmark Apartment Living

Ziv has more than 20 years of real estate experience and has been involved in financing and developing over 10,000 residential units in the United States and Israel. He launched The Resmark Companies' multifamily platform in 2011. It has successfully expanded beyond its base in Southern California into the Bay Area, Seattle, Washington, DC, Philadelphia, Phoenix, and Denver metro markets. He joined Resmark in 2001 and was instrumental in the growth of its land and housing division. In his native Israel, he oversaw the development of a 1,000 unit master-planned community in a joint venture with the Israeli Ministry of Housing and Construction. As a Major in the Israeli Defense Forces, he led an elite military unit. Ziv has spoken at numerous industry events including the National Multihousing Council’s Annual Meeting; Crittenden Multifamily Conference; PCBC's Housing Forecast Series; RealShare Apartments; Marcus & Millichap/IPA Forums; and at Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management (from where he received his MBA).

Charlie Rose

Senior Director - Canyon Capital Realty Advisors

Charlie Rose is a Senior Director of Canyon Partners Real Estate LLC. Mr. Rose is responsible for originating, underwriting, structuring and executing debt and equity transactions in the Southwest region. Prior to joining Canyon, Mr. Rose worked for The Marcus & Millichap Companies (TMMC) in the Capital Markets and Multifamily Acquisitions groups. Prior to TMMC, Mr. Rose was Vice President at Rosen Consulting Group, where he was responsible for national real estate market research, covering the office, retail, industrial, and residential sectors. Mr. Rose is a graduate of Stanford University (B.A., English) and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (M.B.A., Honors, with a concentration in Real Estate). He is also an active council member of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and serves on the board of the Las Angeles Neighborhood Land Trust.

Ken Kahan

CEO - California Landmark

Ken Kahan is Founder and President of California Landmark (or "CLG"), a real estate development and investment company. Since its inception in 1988, California Landmark has invested in or developed all types of real estate from residential (including single family as well as low and high rise multi-family) to commercial (including hospitality, office and industrial). The company has developed in excess of 3,000,000 million square feet of various products. CLG has distinguished itself in Southern California as an innovative problem solver in both the design and development of dozens of multi-family communities. The firm is currently one of the largest private multi-family developers in Los Angeles with over 500 units in various stages of construction or development. Current projects include three high profile mixed use projects including the bw (Wilshire at Barrington), the hw (Hollywood Blvd. near Crescent Heights) and the LC (Larchmont at Melrose and Camerford). Past projects include modern townhomes and industrial "hard" lofts in the Marina Arts District, high-rise condominiums along the Wilshire corridor, California courtyard buildings in Westwood and Brentwood, art deco apartments in West Hollywood, and Mediterranean style villas in Century City. In the past ten years CLG has expanded its footprint of residential acquisitions by purchasing existing apartment communities throughout Southern California. Projects include townhouse condominium projects converted to rentals, middle income apartments in San Diego, renovations of 1950's apartment buildings in the San Fernando Valley and most recently, low income housing in the San Gabriel Valley. At the same time, the firm has expanded its portfolio to include industrial, office and flex space projects totaling several hundred thousand square feet. Ken is passionate about all aspect of urban planning and development. He is a frequent speaker on matters pertaining to entitlements, zoning, multi family/mixed use projects and urban development. California Landmark has been involved in the City of Los Angeles implementation ordinance of SB1818 and has delivered several mixed income housing projects throughout the region. A native of Los Angeles, Ken obtained both his bachelor of arts and juris doctor degrees from UCLA. Ken currently resides in West Los Angeles with his family.

Kevin Farrell

President - The Fifield Companies

Kevin Farrell joined Fifield as Senior Vice President in the firm's Chicago headquarters and recently became President. Kevin started with Steve Fifield in the 1980's as a construction manager and is currently overseeing FRP's national apartment acquisition program as well as new construction and adaptive reuse projects in Chicago and Los Angeles. Prior to joining Fifield, Kevin was a Vice President at the Related Companies, where he managed several rental and for-sale residential development projects, including Roosevelt Square, a 2,400-unit mixed-income residential community in Chicago's near West Side. Previously, Kevin managed due diligence activities for First Union Real Estate's property investment, acquisition, and redevelopment program in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado. Kevin has an MBA from Illinois Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois. Kevin recently served on the City of Chicago's Green Urban Design Task Force.

Samuel Simone

Senior Managing Director - Mill Creek Residential Trust

As the Senior Managing Director for the Southern California Division of Mill Creek Residential Trust (MCRT), Mr. Simone is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the development cycle from inception through disposition of multifamily rental communities throughout the region. During his career he has been involved in the entitlement, finance, development, construction, asset management and disposition of over 3,500 multifamily homes totaling over $1B in capitalization. Mr. Simone has been with the company or its predecessors since 2000.

Kitty Wallace

Senior Vice President - Colliers International

Over the course of her career Kitty has closed more than 200 multi-million dollar transactions and is recognized as the top multifamily agent in Los Angeles County. She also holds the record for achieving the highest cost-per-unit and cost-per-square foot price in the County. Kitty has been recognized by the media as an expert on the southern California market. She has been quoted in such publications as GlobeSt, the Los Angeles Business Journal, the Los Angeles Times, Multi-Housing News, CA Real Estate Journal, Apartment Finance Today, Multifamily Executive, RE Business, RenTV, BisNow, among others. She has also served as a moderator or panelist at numerous real estate conferences including Crittenden, RealShare, Apartment Finance Today, BisNow, The Casden Forecast, USC LUSK Retreat, and ULI. In addition, Kitty also participates in a leadership capacity on a number of industry organizations including the University of Southern California’s Lusk Center for Real Estate Board, the Urban Land Institute’s UDMUC Silver Council, the Green Pearl Advisory Board, IRETO Advisory Council, and the Upward Bound House Board of Directors.

Charmaine Atherton

Community Development Banking, South California - Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Charmaine Atherton - Senior Vice President, Bank of America Merrill Lynch - Community Development Banking - With a geographic reach from Fresno to the Mexican border. Community Development Banking is dedicated to lending and investing in low and moderate-income communities with a focus on increasing the supply of affordable housing for renters and homeowners, supporting small businesses, and promoting economic development in distressed and underserved communities. Charmaine brings thirty-four years of real estate and finance experience to the task, with the last twenty years focused on affordable housing and economic development. Prior to joining Bank of America in 2002, Charmaine held such divergent roles as portfolio manager for a national syndication firm, asset manager for a regional developer, commercial mortgage banker for a regional business bank, community development lending officer for both a regional and a national bank, director of finance for a national tax credit syndication firm’s development arm, and housing director for a local non-profit development corporation. Charmaine is a past chair of the loan committee of the California Community Reinvestment Corporation, and Past President of the Board of the Los Angeles Conservancy. She currently serves on the Board of EngAGE (formerly More Than Shelter for Seniors), the Executive Committee of the Central City Association and the Advisory Council of the Urban Land Institute’s Los Angeles District Council, where she chairs their Women’s Leadership Initiative.

Scott Croul

Managing Director - Freddie Mac

Peter Albers

Head of Market Development - Google Fiber

Mike Concannon

SVP - Lendlease

Mr. Concannon has spent his entire 24-year career within the construction industry, and brings a well-balanced and diverse background to his leadership positions. His experience ranges from business development and strategic planning to managing large-scale capital programs and overseeing Lendlease’s Environmental Health & Safety for the Americas. He is currently responsible for Lendlease’s Los Angeles operations, including $1.8 billion of construction contracts underway. Born and raised in Chicago, Mike has been based in Los Angeles for the past 10 years and now calls Southern California home.

Brian Good

President - iBorrow

Paul Angle

Managing Director - Hunt Mortgage Group

Laurie Morfin

Senior Vice President - Bellwether Enterprise

Laurie has more than 20 years of commercial real estate finance experience originating debt on behalf of Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, FHA, Life Company and CMBS executions. Prior to Bellwether Enterprise, Laurie was a Director with Prudential Mortgage Capital Company. Before joining Prudential, Laurie was with Well Fargo’s CMBS group and earlier was part of the Nationwide Insurance loan originating team.

Devin Page

VP, Commercial Construction - The Rush Companies

Born and raised in Washington, Devin graduated from the University of Arizona with a Bachelor's degree in Physiology. As a Construction Manager, Devin has overseen over $150MM in commercial construction work in the Puget Sound Region. Devin is an expert in providing cost estimating, value engineering, and project management services for health care, commercial office, multifamily, retail, education, and hospitality markets. His primary focus has been business development, operational practices, overall regional strategy, project execution, and client relations. Devin is actively involved with the Boys & Girls Clubs organization, and enjoys participating in industry and community events. Devin lives with his family in Gig Harbor, WA.

David Harrington

Executive Vice President & National Director - Matthews Multifamily Advisors

David Harrington brings more than 15 years’ experience in finance and brokerage to his role as Executive Vice President and National Director for Matthews Multifamily Advisors™ division. He achieves success for his clients by applying his unrivaled knowledge of the national multifamily market and ability to “make a market” for multifamily assets using aggressive underwriting and pricing strategies that connect buyers with sellers. During his career, David has executed nearly 200 transactions amounting to more than $1 billion in sales, including 24 separate transactions for over $75 million in 2015. David Harrington has executed nearly 200 transactions amounting to more than $1 billion in sales, including 24 separate transactions for over $75 million in 2015. Recently he and his team executed the sale of an apartment building in Los Angeles’ Beach City area at a record-breaking price-per-square-foot. David holds over 15 years’ experience in multifamily brokerage with a background in finance and marketing. Beginning his career at Marcus & Millichap Capital Corporation in 1999, he made his foray into the business underwriting and processing debt for multifamily assets. After a short time in finance he moved into brokerage at Marcus & Millichap’s Encino office specializing in multifamily investments sales. In 2010, David was recruited by and joined Hendricks & Partners, a national multifamily investment sales firm that later merged with Berkadia. In his career, David has earned multiple National Sales Achievement Awards as well as Rookie of the Year while at Marcus & Millichap. Previously a Director at Berkadia, David has demonstrated his unrivaled knowledge of the national multifamily market and brings aggressive underwriting and pricing strategies with him to continue achieving the highest level of success for connecting buyers with sellers.

Paul Zeger

Partner - Polaris Pacific

For over 30 years, Paul Zeger has been the definitive source of information for new construction sales and marketing in the Bay Area. His leadership in identifying and capitalizing on residential development opportunities is unparalleled. Paul’s client relationships include some of the most successful real estate development firms on the west coast – TMG Partners, Emerald Fund, Lennar Urban and Wilson Meany to name a few. Paul believes in making commitments to his clients, and building trust by delivering on his commitments. Paul earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics at Colgate University and a Masters in Business Administration from the Darden School at the University of Virginia.

Peter Sherman

Principal - Avison Young

Peter Sherman, Principal with Avison Young has led or been directly involved in more than $5 billion of multifamily investment sales and financings throughout Southern California. Prior to Avison Young, Sherman was a Senior Vice President at CBRE with notable transactions including the $99 million sale of The Lexington, a Hollywood land site entitled for 695 units to AvalonBay, the $300 million sale of Palazzo Westwood Village, a Class A 350-unit mixed-use apartment property in Westwood Village, the $69.7 million sale of The Vineyards at Paseo Del Sol, a Class A 288-unit pre-stabilized apartment sale in Temecula to The Praedium Group and the $45.1 million sale of Pico Lanai, a 174-unit value-add apartment property in Santa Monica to Raintree Partners. Prior to CBRE, from 2009-2012, Sherman was a founding Partner of Los Angeles based Multi-Housing Capital Advisors (MHCA), where among other successes, he represented CIM Group and Gables Residential in the sale of six Class A apartment properties across Washington DC, Houston, Dallas and Los Angeles. Before co-founding MHCA, Sherman drove the West Coast multifamily efforts as Senior Vice President with Transwestern Multi-Housing Capital Advisors. Sherman earned a dual Master’s degree from the Wharton Business School of the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies in 1996, and a BA from the University of Virginia in 1988. He is proficient in Japanese and Italian, having lived abroad in both countries respectively.

David Senden

Principal - KTGY Architecture + Planning

As part of the new generation of leadership at KTGY Architecture + Planning, David Senden is instrumental to the expansion and increased design profile of the firm. Mr. Senden specializes in urban infill residential and mixed-use developments, with work across the United States and internationally. In addition, he has a substantial portfolio of campus housing and specialty projects including affordable developments and recreation facilities. Since joining KTGY in early 2002, he has led teams in each of KTGY’s offices and often travels where needed to contribute to the firm’s most challenging design opportunities. As member of KTGY’s Board of Directors, Mr. Senden is responsible for setting the big picture, strategic vision for the firm, increasing the firm’s profile and ensuring work at the highest levels. He was named to Building Design + Construction magazine’s list of the industry’s top 40 under 40 and has designed numerous award-winning projects from coast to coast. Mr. Senden is a frequent speaker at various national and regional industry events and has written and contributed to countless articles touching on all aspects of design and the building industry. A lecturer and critic at several universities, Mr. Senden emphasizes the connection between the profession and the academy and values mentorship as key to developing talent and integrating the most current design thinking.

Mark DiNapoli

GM of SoCal & COO - Suffolk Construction

John Finn

President - W.E. O’Neil Construction Co. of California

With over 25 years of construction experience, Mr. Finn has established a strong background and reputation in the construction industry. John has been a key player in the success of the California office’s largest ongoing Multifamily projects and has overseen the strategic growth and management of the Inland Empire office as well as our newly acquired office, ‘Hearne Construction, A Division of W.E. O’Neil’ in San Diego, CA.

Seth Grossman

Managing Director - Meridian Capital

Daniel Nagel

Vice President - Decron Properties Corp.

Daniel Nagel is a Vice President at Decron Properties responsible for finance, acquisitions, and asset repositioning. Decron Properties has been investing in CA real estate since 1955 and owns and manages 6,400 units across the State. Notable highlights for Daniel in 2015 were securing ten year financing fixed at an interest rate of 3.195%, completing $905 million in capital transactions, and logging 171,897 points in Southwest's Rapid Rewards frequent flyer program, securing A-List status for the second year in a row.

Michael-Homeier

Partner - Homeier & Law, P.C.

Michael Homeier practices in the area of general business, corporate, transactional, and business financing law. With nearly 25 years' experience in the corporate and business transactional field, both as in-house corporate counsel and with private law firms, Michael's practice emphasizes the drafting, negotiation, and review of contracts, including commercial contracts, financing agreements, factoring packages, intellectual property licensing agreements, new media, technology, and commercial contracts, and entertainment industry agreements for both production houses and industry professionals. An integral part of Michael's practice includes a comprehensive ""entity practice"" involved with the formation, maintenance, and dissolution of corporations and limited liability companies, both in the for-profit and non-profit sector. Prior to his co-founding of Homeier & Law, P.C., Michael practiced business, contract, corporate, and securities law both as in-house counsel for large public companies (including Countrywide and Herbalife) and private enterprises, and in association or as of-counsel to prominent Los Angeles law firms such as Ball Hunt Hart Brown & Baerwitz (now part of Carlsmith Ball) and Wasserman Comden & Casselman. In the past, Michael has also garnered invaluable experience on the opposite end of the ""size spectrum,"" working with a sole practitioner in a combined business and civil litigation practice assisting small- and medium-sized clients, where Michael authored and then argued two published, precedent-setting appeals cases, Matthews v. Regents of the University of California (34 Cal. App. 4th 598) concerning workplace sexual harassment, and Jenkins v. Inglewood Unified School District (34 Cal. App. 4th 1388) regarding breach of a school district employment contract. In addition to numerous engagements as a university law professor, Michael also actively participates in public speaking engagements, both in the business financing and business law arenas, and as an inspirational speaker to teenaged and young adult cancer survivors on post-treatment life success. Michael received his J.D. from University of Southern California and his B.A. from The University of California, Los Angeles. Michael is a member of the State Bar of California.

Mark Hartney

Partner - Allen Matkins

Mark R. Hartney is the former co-chair of the firm's Construction Practice Group. His practice centers on real estate, construction and business litigation, including contract, partnership, banking, land use, rent valuation, habitability and administrative claims. Additionally, Mark negotiates and drafts complex construction, architect and engineer contracts. By way of his focus on both construction contracts and litigation, Mark is uniquely qualified to provide clients with broad advice and counsel on all aspects of construction projects. Mark represents individuals as well as a variety of business entities, and has extensive trial and alternative dispute resolution experience. His experience includes co-chairing a nine-month $150 million jury trial stemming from the collapse of a high-rise resort hotel, numerous other state court trials, dozens of arbitrations and many cases resolved through mediation. He has represented clients before various federal, state, city and county boards and agencies. He has extensive experience in representing businesses in administrative hearings and writ actions involving contracts with public agencies.

Dean Zander

Senior Managing Director - Berkadia

Dean Zander is the Senior Managing Director in Berkadia’s West Los Angeles office, one of only a handful of senior executives among 75 offices nationwide. For more than twenty-five years he has established himself as the leader in the multi-family arena by creating value for his clients through his extensive market knowledge, resolved work ethic, and strong commitment to excellence. Every year since opening the first Los Angeles office of Berkadia in 1999, Dean has annually been featured among the Top 10 Most Successful Agents company-wide with closings exceeding $4B. Experience and professionalism direct Dean’s efforts toward long-term relationships rather than transaction-oriented business. He is committed to the highest level of client service and ethical standards.

Wesley Hudson

Partner - AGH, LLC

Bill Strang

President - TOTO USA

Bill Strang serves as President of the Americas’ Operations for TOTO USA and Chairman of TOTO Mexico. In these capacities, he is responsible for all of TOTO’s North American operations, including supply chain, design and development engineering, quality, ISO, environmental resource management, and management of TOTO’s five North American plants with 1.8 million sf under roof. Under Bill’s leadership, TOTO has received numerous awards and recognitions for its leadership in environmental resource conservation, including the U.S. EPA’s Water Efficiency Leadership award (TOTO is the only plumbing manufacturer so honored); former Georgia Governor Sonny Perdue’s Water Conservation Leadership award; the South face Sustainable Homebuilders’ Argon* award; the City of Atlanta’s Phoenix Award, and the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper’s River Sustainability award. Recently, the Brookings Institution distinguished TOTO for its leadership in Clean Economy jobs creation.

Richard Schloss

Partner - Liner LLP

Brian Eisendrath

Vice Chairman - CBRE

Brian Eisendrath sources aggressive capital for institutional and high net worth clients. His ranking as one of the top originators in the country has garnered him extensive industry recognition. Brian is able to quickly and effectively meet the needs of his clients by tailoring a financing solution that is unique to their property-specific business plan. By leveraging extensive life insurance company, bank, CMBS, and bridge lending relationships, as well as CBRE’s direct lending relationships with Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, Brian and his team are able to customize capital to maximize return on investment.​​​ After graduating from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a degree in Real Estate and Finance, Brian began his career as an office developer with Hines. Following Hines, he worked for a bridge lender in Chicago whose focus was construction and repositioning opportunities. Brian then decided to become a capital intermediary and joined HFF. In 2005, he joined CBRE.