Blockchain and Tokenization in Commercial Real Estate

Ryan Shear manages the development of a growing real estate portfolio with over $10B in assets, including all acquisitions, financing, construction, design, marketing, sales and operations. Ryan primarily focuses on new construction condo and multifamily high rises in urban cores, including Miami, New York, Orlando, Denver, Atlanta and more. Recent condo projects he’s spearheaded include Echo Aventura, Echo Brickell, Muse Sunny Isles, Sage Longboat Key Residences, E11EVEN Hotel & Residences and the Waldorf Astoria Hotel & Residences Miami. Recent multifamily projects include X Miami, Society Las Olas, Society Biscayne, Society Orlando and Society Wynwood. Ryan graduated with a BA in Business Administration from the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University in Atlanta.

Samuel F. Grossman joined Inveniam in July 2021 as Managing Director, Real Estate Services. Prior to joining Inveniam, Mr. Grossman founded Fairchild Acquisitions in 2018 and is the companies Managing Partner. He has over 20 years of experience in the residential and commercial real estate industry, in development, value-add rehab, management, and brokerage. In 2014, Mr. Grossman founded The Fairchild Group, which focused on smaller value add multi-family building rehabs in downtown Chicago. From 2014-2018 TFG Purchased and rehabbed approximately $10 million of buildings resulting in an overall value of greater than $15 million. Prior to that, Mr. Grossman was a district manager, at Related Management Company from 2008-2013. He oversaw a portfolio of over 2,000 units, managed and successfully completed over $80mm of rehabilitation projects. From 2003-2008 he was a partner in a Boston-based residential, management and development company, where he successfully focused on sales, leasing and development of various types of residential buildings. Mr. Grossman received his BA in finance from Boston University in 2002.

Remy Jacobson personifies the currency he evangelizes—permissionless, innovative, and visionary. When he first discovered Bitcoin, it was the answer to his Libertarian schoolboy dreams. Remy’s appetite for disruption was evident early on. At age 16, he turned his back on the educational system that failed to engage his intellect and nascent entrepreneurial spirit and went to work for his father in the investment industry. There, he cultivated a deep understanding of the global financial ecosystems and institutions whose paradigm of wealth he was born to challenge. He began to focus his energies on real estate, buying and developing commercial and residential properties in the US and Canada. In 2011, he founded J-Cube Development with the aim of ensuring high returns for stakeholders and revitalizing historically disinvested neighborhoods. Remy created community spaces while renovating rental units, foregoing ground floor rents to build environments for people to gather and connect, nurture their dreams, and transform their circumstances. Remy was a blockchain early adopter. In 2011, he founded one of the first commercial Bitcoin mines—Liquid Bits—at a time when Bitcoin was the subject of derision and fear. He became a Bitcoin evangelist, on a grassroots mission to demystify crypto technologies and expand the scope of decentralized finance. In 2013, Remy began building the non-profit Bitcoin Embassy in Montreal with his brother Jean-Marc. A first-of-its-kind brick-and-mortar establishment, the Bitcoin Embassy was a tangible landmark that helped a skeptical community embrace an intangible concept. The building enabled Bitcoin innovators to come together as a community and served as both a startup incubator and a global example promoting the use of a new peer-to-peer currency—one divested of government control and designed to give barrierless access to previously closed asset classes. In 2019, Remy and Jean-Marc founded RealT, a groundbreaking platform for tokenized real estate operating at the intersection of their knowledge of real estate, blockchain, and a core belief in the right of all individuals to own property. By building a platform for tokenized real estate on the blockchain and embracing its inherent transparency, the Jacobson’s have created a frictionless platform for a new and innovative real estate ownership experience. Remy remains dedicated to furthering the integration of Blockchain and DeFi into the traditional real estate ecosystem to embrace the full potential of an accessible, autonomous, and transparent liquid blockchain backed value-exchange.

Mohsin is the CEO & founder of AKRU, a He is an expert in real estate development & tokenomics specifically utilizing dual and three token blockchain architecture for the tokenization of real-world assets. Mohsin has over a decade of experience in Real estate investments, and development & having run a successful Investment company. He has studied at York University, Harvard Business School, Graduate school of Design at Harvard University, and most recently at Said Business School at the University of Oxford with a focus on finance, real estate development, urban design & blockchain.

Madison is the Founder and CEO of Crypto Estate and Realtor in South Florida, with a special niche in cryptocurrency. Madison is responsible for closing the City of Miami's two largest cryptocurrency real estate sales, writing the only two NAR approved Crypto classes for realtors, 10+ years in the crypto industry, and is well on her way to accomplishing her next goal of having closed the most real estate sales paid with cryptocurrency in the state of Florida. She has Management, Psychology, and Leadership degrees from the University of Central Florida that have helped mold her career, bringing a human factor to the business sense. In addition to Real Estate, Madison consults and liaisons for various real estate and billion-dollar market capped crypto projects like celebrity NFTs, metaverses, and creating tokens to marketplaces. She advises real estate developers and investors on how to purchase real estate with crypto and how to tokenize, fractionalize NFT properties. Madison is the Vice President for RETECH, a member of FBBS, and can be seen talking at various crypto events throughout the nation and via publications like Fortune Magazine, theRealDeal, and Traded.

Mark J. Gordon has over 30 years of experience in the hospitality and real estate industry and is widely regarded as an ndustry expert. During his career, he has been actively in development, operations, asset management, acquisitions, renovations, design, construction management, capital raising, financing, sales and advisory. In 2021, Mark co-founded a travel technology platform known as Pinktada. The company has developed game changing technology that uses NFTs and the blockchain to fundamentally enhance the way hotels are marketed and reservations are procured for leisure hotel and resort travel. Mark was most recently Managing Partner of Intrinsic Hotel Capital and Tribeca Associates where he focused on over $1.5 billion of acquisitions and development in Manhattan. Notable projects include the conceptualization, development and ultimate sale of the super luxury Baccarat Hotel & Residences. In addition, he oversaw the adaptive reuse of an office building conversion into the Marriott Residence Inn World Trade Center with destination retail, the development of the 298-key Moxy Hotel Downtown, a mixed-use 30-story hotel and retail tower and the complete renovation and repositioning of two officer towers, 130 West 42 nd Street and 30 Broad Street. Prior to his focus on development and acquisitions, Mark was one of the leading advisors to the hotel industry. He was Managing Partner and Head of the Hospitality Group at Sonnenblick-Goldman, a national real estate investment banking firm. As partner, Mr. Gordon was responsible for overseeing management, sales growth and the ultimate sale of the firm to Cushman & Wakefield. Upon the sale of the company, Mr. Gordon was appointed to head Cushman & Wakefield‘s National Hospitality Practice, a position he held until 2010 when he decided to take his own advice and become a hotel developer and investor. During his advisory career, Mark oversaw many of the hotel industries’ most complex projects including the adaptive reuse and conversion of the Hotel Delmonico to the Trump Park Avenue, creating a joint venture between Loews Hotels and Universal Studios to develop five hotels at Universal Studios Resort in Orlando, recapitalizing Ian Schrager Company, restructuring Denihan Hospitality Group, and the complex sales and financings of hundreds of landmark hotels and resorts located throughout the U.S. Mark has won numerous awards for his accomplishments in the real estate industry including Crain’s “40 under 40”, Americas Lodging Investment Summits “Deal of the Year” and Commercial Property News “Stars to Watch” and is a frequent speaker at hotel and real estate industry events. Mr. Gordon holds a Master’s Degree in Real Estate Finance from New York University and a B.S. in Finance from Ithaca College.

Laura Pamatian, a South Florida resident, has 20 years of experience in the domestic and international marketing and sales of luxury resort and vertical real estate development. Specializing in investment product, she has represented numerous 5-star, globally recognized brands, including; The Ritz Carlton, Mandarin Oriental, Auberge Resorts and Grand Hyatt. A key member of the growing FIBREE Miami Chapter (Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise - fibree.org), Laura is instrumental in branding FIBREE throughout the State of Florida. She is also a member of GBA (Government Blockchain Association - gbaglobal.org), and the Chair of FBBA's Real Estate Committee (Florida Blockchain Business Association - fbba.io). She works closely with thought leaders in the space to organize initiatives and events to create more public and private sector awareness and understanding of the transformative technology blockchain brings to the Real Estate Industry. ​ Her advisory experience in blockchain for real estate strategy and application has grown exponentially across the industry spectrum as this cutting edge tech gains traction. She currently provides consulting and advisory for a number of blockchain companies, including a transformational company developing interconnection that leverages distributed commerce in the real estate vertical. In addition, she has assembled an expert ecosystem to effectively take developers and commercial property owners to the next level... powerful, game changing, web3. ​ With a passion for decentralizing the human identity and returning the value of buying decisions back to the individual, she believes blockchain technology is the 4th industrial revolution. Furthermore, the democratization of real estate, which will contribute to the redistribution of wealth across developed, undeveloped and underdeveloped nations, drives her forward every day. Personally, Laura finds solace in yoga, surfing and hiking. Her passion project creates a safer world for children. She is the Founder of No More Johns, a nationwide coalition addressing the demand side of child sex trafficking by targeting and ending the sex buyer cycle. She would like to create a platform using blockchain technology to support this cause.

Brandon oversees TerraZero business development initiatives across products and services development as well as Metaverse experience fulfillment for $50-100B+ market cap brand partners. Brandon has led creative and execution for clients and projects in blockchain, VR/AR, gaming, animation, film and series television. Brandon has also helmed community development initiatives for freelance platforms and advised on platform product development. Brandon’s vision is to bring elevated interactive experiences to the Metaverse through innovative technologies.

Serving as Director of Avison Young’s Growth Technology Group in New York City, Peter represents both owners and companies in all facets of their real estate needs. With the rise of Covid, Peter was an early adopter of web3 technologies as an alternative workplace strategy and has implemented unique real estate solutions that solve for his clients business & occupancy needs. In partnership with his client Everyrealm, Peter became one of the first commercial office brokers to lease space in both the physical world (Manhattan) and the metaverse (Decentraland). During his tenure, Peter has represented dozens of companies across a multitude of industries, with focus towards those companies across the technology, media/ad tech, and retail sectors. These clients include Everyrealm, Republic, Index Exchange, Tomorrow Health, Dandy, Glean.io, Wonder Media Network, Nadaam, Wonder Media Network, Something Navy, Glowbar, M13 Ventures, Menlo Ventures and more.

John Dean Markunas is a real estate industry blockchain advisor, strategist and business development consultant. He is the Principal Consultant with Power of Chain Global Consultancy LLC. Mr. Markunas’ work covers several distinct real estate sectors; property title insurance, transactional, cryptocurrency use, tokenization and land registry. He has been advising blockchain and real estate startups since 2017. Mr. Markunas is a prominent public speaker on blockchain use in the real estate industry, author of several articles covering a variety of topics on blockchain and its impact on real estate industry processes. He has over 25 years in the commercial real estate industry and has lived and worked in Mexico and Brazil as a real estate industry consultant, broker and appraiser.

William ("Bill") Barlow is a Web3 entrepreneur and crypto lawyer. He is the co-founder of TruMint, a startup that places legal ownership of real world assets, including real estate, permanently onto public blockchains. Bill Barlow is also a founding partner of Barlow & Williams, a boutique corporate law firm that focuses on formations, equity financings, and mergers and acquisitions for technology companies. Bill previously worked at Debevoise & Plimpton, a top Wall Street corporate law firm. Bill graduated from Harvard Law School and Duke University.