Jason Abel
Principal
Argosy Real Estate Partners
Jason Abel is a Vice President at Argosy Real Estate Partners where he is responsible for acquisitions, dispositions and asset management primarily in the South, Southeast, Mid-Atlantic and Mid-West. While at Argosy he has closed on over $500 million of commercial real estate transactions. Prior to joining Argosy, Jason previously worked for AEW Capital Management, Gibraltar Real Estate Capital and KPMG.
Jason holds a Master’s of Professional Studies in Real Estate from Cornell University and graduated with a Bachelor’s of Business Administration in Accounting from the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Business. Jason currently serves on the Suburban Development and Redevelopme ...
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Eric Abramovich
Co-Founder
Roc Capital Roc360
Eric is co-founder at Roc Capital, a financier/capital provider to private lenders. Roc table funds residential business purpose loans white labeled in the name of the originator. Roc has attractive programs for bridge loans (resi fix/flip, ground up, multifamily/mixed-use) and DSCR/landlord loans (Single Family and Multifamily Rentals). Eric has a B.A. in Finance and Actuarial Science from the Stern School of Business at New York University.
Ashwin Agarwal
CEO
Advocate Technologies Inc
At Advocate Ashwin works with Lenders to manage and monetize their biggest hidden asset, borrower insurance policies. His team helps Lenders manage this hidden asset to maximize value and risk management. Prior to founding Advocate, Ashwin was the lead insurance and technology investor at a multi-billion-dollar private equity fund. In this role he helped to grow the fund as the first investment hire, sourced and executed deals, and worked closely with portfolio companies as a board member. Prior to private equity, Ashwin worked at Goldman Sachs on technology M&A and financings.
Sterling Anderson
Founder & Principal
Aria Capital Partners
Sterling Anderson is Founder & Principal at Aria Capital Partners, a real estate syndication and development company that focuses on residential, multifamily and hospitality properties. Sterling is responsible for the day to day operations of the company, raising capital and working with its group of buyers and investors.
Jeremy Aspen
CFO
Anequim
Kirby Atwell
Founder
Living Off Rentals
After growing up in the south suburbs of Chicago, Kirby served 11
years on active duty in the U.S. military, first attending the United
States Military Academy at West Point and then traveling the world
as an officer in the Army. During his time in the service, he developed
a strong interest in real estate entrepreneurship. He began studying
and reading as much as he could on the topic, and he bought his
first rental property in 2006.
In 2011, he left the service and earned his MBA with a focus on real
estate finance. While attending graduate school, he started his first
real estate investment company, rehabbing over 100 properties
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Mathew Avrhami
Founder
Rockridge Properties and Investments
As President and CEO of Rockridge Properties and Investments, Mathew Avrhami, is responsible launching a regional development firm spanning the western sunbelt states while overseeing and executing development of Build-To-Rent Communities through existing sites, JV investments, and strategic acquisitions. Mr. Avrhami’s experience includes commercial real estate private equity and institutional residential rental experience with the largest SFR investment funds, covering thousands of rental homes and over 38 multifamily projects.
Active in the community, Mathew Avrhami is an associate faculty at Arizona State University’s WP Carey School of Business, teaching real estate investm ...
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Jim Barker
VP, Construction
Roofstock
Demetrios Barnes
Chief Operating Officer
SmartRent
Demetrios Barnes is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of SmartRent, where he leads the support, marketing, field operations, and account services teams. With over a decade of experience in property management operations, he is passionate about helping owners and operators understand the innovations technology can produce, while forging strong interpersonal relationships and thought leadership.Prior to co-founding SmartRent, he was Vice President of Technology for Colony Starwood Homes, Previously, Mr. Barnes was Director of Property Managem ...
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Amy Barricelli
SVP
DLP Real Estate Capital
An out-of-the-box thinker, strategist, national speaker and game changer. Driven For Greatness and Excellence. Rethinking & Revolutionizing the industry. Amy is a seasoned multifamily management, sales, marketing, investment operations, and branding leader with 25 years of experience in fast-paced real estate firms, sales organizations, hospitality, and property management investment companies, holding executive, senior, and vice president positions for the last 15 years, affecting and disrupting the market to create value-add opportunities and new revenue streams. Amy is known for her passion in the industry. Uncovering new marketing techniques and software automations to scalably lease ...
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Marc Bator
-Principal Product Manager-EXOS Close
ServiceLink Company
Marc Bator is the Vice President and Principal Product Manager of EXOS Close. In this role, Marc is responsible for product strategy, implementation, daily operations and roadmap within the EXOS Close division. He leads the continuous improvement of the EXOS Close technology and also contributes to the overall EXOS mission of transforming the consumer digital mortgage experience.
Marc shifted his focus to EXOS Close after more than seven years at ServiceLink, where he held various leadership roles in project and product development. Prior to joining ServiceLink, he focused on business process management for Software AG and Lenders First Choice and worked as a Senior Project Man ...
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Gary Beasley
CEO & Co-Founder
Roofstock
Gary co-founded Roofstock in summer 2015 and assumed the role as CEO to build an Internet marketplace focused on the $2 trillion single-family rental (SFR) sector. Prior to Roofstock, Gary was CEO of Waypoint Homes and co-CEO of its successor company Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust (NYSE: SWAY), where he established himself as one of the leaders of the sector as institutional capital began to transform its landscape. Prior to joining Waypoint, Gary served as both an operating executive and principal investor across a wide range of industries including hospitality, real estate, consumer Internet, and cleantech. After helping orchestrate Geolo Capital's controlling investment into Joie d ...
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Sepehr Bekam
Principal
Bekam Investment Group, LLC
T.J. Bencho
President
CityLife Property Management
Kobi Bensimon
CEO
Showdigs
Kobi Bensimon is a serial PropTech entrepreneur. He is the Founder and CEO Showdigs, a Leasing Automation platform for the SFR space. Prior to funding Showdigs, Kobi was a co-founder and CEO at ActiveBuilding, a real-estate startup that redefined the experience for apartment renters in the US and was acquired by RealPage in 2013. Software engineer in his background, Kobi holds a Mater Degree in Computer Science from MIT, and an MBA from MIT’s Sloan school of Management.
Steve Berneman
Co-Founder and CEO
Blueprint Title
Steve Berneman is the Co-founder and CEO of Blueprint Title. While an Entrepreneur in Residence at Vanderbilt, Steve came up with the idea for Blueprint and self-taught himself the ins and outs of the title industry. Since founding the company in 2017, he’s become a leader in modernizing this antiquated industry, raising more than $25 million, completing the company’s first acquisition, and building a team of nearly 100 to accomplish that goal. In just a couple of years, the company has built a robust technology platform that’s processed thousands of transactions for hundreds of real estate professionals across the country.
Jenelle Berry-Cook
Chief Revenue Officer
MCB Capital
As Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of MCB Capital, Jenelle oversees all revenue driving functions including acquisitions, dispositions, leasing and property management for the SFR platform. In the past year alone, Jenelle has deployed ~$50M of capital, acquiring nearly 200 single family rentals and developing a 65 home BTR community within the Dallas Fort-Worth MSA.
As a licensed Realtor with extensive experience in business development and customer experience strategy, and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School, Jenelle is passionate about both finding solutions that enhance the resident experiences and creating real value to her institutional clients.
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Chinmay Bhatt
Senior Managing Director
Berkadia
Chinmay is Senior Managing Director and founding member of Berkadia’s JV Equity & Structured Capital. Chinmay focuses his time on raising equity and structured capital from international and domestic qualified capital sources. He and the team help match Berkadia clients with the right source for real estate projects in some of the U.S.’s most dynamic markets, ranging from New York to Texas to California. He has strong connectivity to capital sources in the US, Canada, the Middle East, Europe and Asia. Working to bring partners together from different parts of the country and the world, Chinmay has an uncanny ability to capitalize complex deals in a timely manner to help his clients grow ...
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Erik Bildman
VP & Regional General Manager
Sundae
Eddie Blanco
Real Estate Broker
Stratwell
Eddie was born and raised in Miami and is a first-generation Cuban immigrant. He’s stayed in the area because he loves the weather, diversity, and excellent fishing opportunities.
He is the broker and owner of Stratwell, a real estate brokerage which has offices in Miami and Naples, FL. Eddie and his team have closed more than 3,000 real estate transactions since 2008.
Eddie has been selling REO since 2001 and works with the top loan servicing companies. He has experience working with the government-sponsored entities Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. He has also worked with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the ...
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Darren Bordeaux
CTO
New Western
Darren Bordeaux is a senior business and technology executive with more than 30 years of experience and a proven record of delivering business value through technology solutions and process improvements. He is passionate about the power of technology, process and constantly improving the customer experience.
Bordeaux is Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of New Western. He is responsible for all aspects of technology including product management, innovation, development and operations.
Prior to joining New Western, he was the CTO at Invitation Homes (NYSE:INVH) where he led a technology transformation enabling continued business growth and the successful IPO. Prior to hi ...
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Dan Brady
VP Acquisitions
ILE Bluerock
Brady leads the Acqisitions Team for ILE Bluerock, a JV that purchases, renovates, and holds Single Family Rentals in the Southwestern and Southeastern US.
Ryan Broderick
Chief Executive Officer
Darwin Homes
Greg Brooks
Partner & National Director of Business Development
Rocket Station Virtual Staffing
Nathan Brooks
CEO
BridgeTurnkey.com
Nathan Brooks is the CEO at Bridge Turn Key Investments in Kansas City. Bridge is a turnkey provider focused on high quality investment properties serving clients all over the United States and Internationally. In 2018, Bridge is on pace to fix and flip 150+ single family properties.
Brady Bryan
CEO
BRAYN Consulting LLC
I help home builders get tax credits. As founder and CEO of BRAYN, I lead approximately 50 professionals, including lawyers, accountants, engineers, building scientist and HERS Raters. We serve clients all over the country.
Mark Burch
Business Development Manager
Temple View Capital
I work for Temple View Capital which is a nationwide Lender that focuses on investment property financing. Not only do I originate these loans I have used them to create my own portfolio of 22 doors and 15 flips. Our groundbreaking products include Fix & Flip with advance draws to 90% LTV, 85% purchase on DSCR rental loans, Airbnb rent comp qualification for your short-term rental loan, ground-up construction up to 90% LTC, and market-leading rates. We have loan delivery from retail, broker, and table funding to full correspondent. Let’s connect to see how we can fund your next deal! mburch@templeviewcap.com 240-351-5434
Patrick Burns
Co-Founder & CEO
Spruce
Patrick is co-founder and CEO of Spruce, the platform for powering online real estate transactions. Spruce's APIs and services for title insurance and closing make it the best option for forward-thinking mortgage lenders and real estate companies looking to scale their business while becoming more efficient and providing great experiences to their customers.
Prior to starting Spruce, Patrick spent 3 years as Product Manager at Betterment, the largest automated investment service with 400,000 customer and $20 billion under management. He holds an MA in Statistics from Yale, and a BA in Physics from Oxford.
Marti Burrows
Managing Director
Greystar
Marti Burrows is a Managing Director of Real Estate with oversight of the Single Family Home/Build to Rent Real Estate division for Greystar's Property Management business. Prior to taking over as leader of the Single Family Rental Platform, Marti lead the Owned Asset Support division and served as a liaison to support and guide operational excellence on all of the company's owned assets, in partnership with investment and property management leadership. In addition to supporting the Greystar owned asset portfolio, Marti lead several national initiatives to maximize operational performance for Greystar Management Services.
Prior to joining Greystar in 2015, Marti was Vice President ...
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Robert Bygrave
Vice President
Prominence Homes
Robert Bygrave is the Vice President of Prominence Homes, a real estate developer that works with private equity and institutional investors focusing on the build to rent industry. Robert is from Birmingham, AL and is an alumni from University of Alabama. After graduation, Robert worked with Sterne Agee in 2015 before onboarding with Prominence Homes in 2016. Robert advanced his career in 2020 to the position of Vice President. Robert’s primary job functions include the sales & management of $300M+ in sales volume, establishing new and existing market development, identifying talent, and setting pricing strategy for all new communities.
Steve Carroll
CEO
Findigs, Inc.
Rudy Casanova
Owner/Chief Revenue Officer
Global Strategic/Amerisource
Rudy Casanova graduated from St. Mary’s University in 1992 and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance. Mr. Casanova has worked in the mortgage servicing, default services, and real estate industry for the past 29 years working in various Executive Management positions for the following institutions; US Real Estate Services, First American, PHH Mortgage, Countrywide and Fannie Mae to name a few. In 2002, Mr. Casanova co-founded RainMaker Solutions, a marketing and consulting company that provides services to the mortgage servicing, legal default, and real estate industry executives. Currently Mr. Casanova holds the position as Chief Revenue Officer and is a managing partner fo ...
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Brad Case
Chief Economist and Director of Research
Middleburg Communities
Brad Case, PhD, CFA, CAIA is Chief Economist and Director of Research for Middleburg Communities, providing analytical support for C-level buy/sell/develop and market focus tactical decisions. Dr. Case has researched residential and non-residential real estate markets, domestically and globally, for more than 30 years.
Prior to Middleburg Communities he worked as an economist with Fannie Mae, Nareit, and the Federal Reserve Board. His research encompasses investment return characteristics including returns, volatilities, and correlations with other assets; accurate measurement of appreciation in property values; inflation protection; use of DCC-GARCH and Markov regime switching mod ...
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Stephanie Casper
SVP, Head of Sales
Kiavi (Formerly LendingHome)
Stephanie leads the Sales team at Kiavi, formely known as LendingHome. She has been a lender to residential investors since 2015 when she joined CoreVest Finance as Head of Bridge Lending. While at CoreVest, Stephanie worked directly with customers to develop additional loan products to meet the changing needs of the residential investor. Prior roles included operational, marketing and sales management roles at GE, Marriott International and Green Street Advisors. She has a B.S. from The Hotel School at Cornell University, and an MBA from UNC Chapel Hill. Stephanie is a fellow investor in the SFR space with a small portfolio of rentals. She caught the residential investment bug from ...
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John Cate
Field Market Specialist
Finance Of America Commercial
John Cate is the Field Market Specialist for Finance of America Commercial and a frequent speaker and trainer at Realtor, Mortgage Broker and Real Estate Investor Conferences throughout the country. John has over 25 years of Mortgage Lending Experience, holds a Florida Real Estate License and is an active Real Estate Investor.
Frank Cava
CEO
Cava Companies
As CEO of Cava Companies, Frank oversees all real estate investment activities focused on residential properties in Central Virginia. Since inception in 2007, Cava Companies has completed more than 1,000 transactions across Virginia. Our senior leadership team has 80+ years of professional experience developing 3,000+ buildable homesites, constructing 2,500+ homes, and both managing and selling 2,000+ residences. We have closed in excess of a billion dollars in real estate transactions. Frank graduated Magna cum laude from the University of Florida in 1998 with a BAS Degree in Building Construction Management.
Brad Chmura
Chief Operating Officer
CoreVest
Brad Chmura has over 20 years of experience in the real estate and finance industry. As Chief Operating Officer, he is responsible for the design, implementation and oversight of business operations at CoreVest. Prior to CoreVest, Brad spent almost 10 years as a mortgage broker at Miner Kennedy Chmura Associates and also held the role of President of the mortgage banking group at Forthright Funding. In addition to these roles, Brad also spent time at CoreLogic and First American where he was responsible for building and running global sales teams nationwide for some of the largest real estate data providers. Brad holds a B.S. degree in Marketing from Arizona State University.
Noel Christopher
SVP, Portfolio Services
Renters Warehouse
I am responsible for our Portfolio Services Division which caters to institutional investors in property management, multi-channel/multi-market SFR acquisition, construction, and asset management services.
Renters Warehouse manages over 20,000 rental homes in 40 markets. We offer full-service property management, acquisitions, and asset management across all of our markets.
I come to Renters Warehouse with extensive experience in M&A, sourcing, acquisition, and disposition consulting across the single-family rental industry for both institutional and private equity funds. My clients have ranged from hedge funds working at scale to community-minded socially consc ...
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Peter Ciganik
Managing Director
GTIS Partners
Peter Ciganik is a Managing Director of Strategy, Research and Investor Relations at GTIS and leads the Investor Relations and Client Services functions across the Firm’s investment vehicles. In addition, Mr. Ciganik is responsible for the Firm’s macro and investment research, global strategy and new business development.
Mr. Ciganik’s experience in the real estate industry began in 2002. Prior to joining GTIS in 2007, Mr. Ciganik worked with Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds (MSREF) in London, and with Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners (LBREP) in New York.
In his prior engagements, Mr. Ciganik was responsible for the evaluation, financial modeling and due diligence of eq ...
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Tom Clements
Co-Founder, CRO
PestShare
Thomas is the CRO & Co-Founder of PestShare, a SAS operated pest control amenity for property management firms throughout the nation!
Growing up, family and athletics were a core focus of his childhood. Having come from simple means, the support of his family alongside perseverance, grit and determination resulted in his development into a high performing division-1 college athlete earning his seat at Washington State University; all while studying for his Bacholors of Science undergraduate degree in Psychology and Neuroscience. Though a devastating knee injury would end his athletic career, it would be the same charatacter traits that drove his success on the field to propel ...
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Jeff Cline
Executive Director & Principal
SVN | SFRhub Advisors
As the Executive Director & Principal, Jeff Cline leads SVN | SFRhub Advisors, the only dedicated national SFR portfolio platform that is also introducing a first-to-market fully-transactional, digital CRE transaction website, SFRhub.com, changing the way the CRE industry markets, researches, analyzes and acquires SFR (single-family residential) and BFR (Build-for-Rent) portfolio investments.
Cline's 40+ years in commercial real estate has added significant experience to the team of SFR portfolio industry experts to nationally transact commercial investment portfolios comprised of five or more homes. Cline has been involved as a principal in $2+ billion of commercial real es ...
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Jerry Coleman
Co-Founder and Chairman
Elevation
Jerry Coleman, Elevation’s chairman and co-founder, continues his extensive track record of innovation with Elevation.
An early leader in the single family rental industry as co-founder of Invitation Homes (NYSE: INVH), and founder of proptech innovator Offerpad, Coleman has pioneered new real estate solutions throughout his career. In 2012, he partnered with the Blackstone Group, a private equity firm, to co-found Invitation Homes.
During his time with Invitation Homes, the company acquired, renovated and managed more than 50,000 single-family homes, and deployed over $10B in investment capital in the single-family rental space. Invitation Homes went public in ear ...
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Brian Conlon
Business Development
Meridian Pacific Properties
Michael Cook
CIO
MCB Capital
Currently the CIO of MCB Capital, Michael oversees the $50M single family rental portfolio along with the development of two build to rent communities totaling 120 homes in the Dallas Fort Worth area.
Michael Cook is a former Chief Assets Officer at Sylvan Road and a Director of U.S. Asset Management at GTIS. During his time at Sylvan Road, he managed over 2,000 single family homes and acquired over 120 homes per month in seven different markets. While at GTIS, Mr. Cook built a single-family platform to purchase, manage and sell over 4,000 single family homes.
Mr. Cook’s experience in the real estate industry began in 2005. Prior to joining GTIS Partners, Mr. Cook w ...
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Christian Corbitt
City General Manager
Sundae
Jeff Corn
CEO & Co-Founder
Virtuance
With his extensive experience in all facets of real estate including development, brokerage, investing, marketing and property management, Jeff brings a highly refined understanding of the real estate and SFR Investment space to bear on the strategic and operational aspects of Virtuance, the company he co-founded in 2010.
Jeff grew up watching his mother, an architectural photographer, excel at her craft. He soon realized, though, that technology offered incredible opportunities to combine the art of photography with the science of image processing in order to market properties with unprecedented efficiency and efficacy. Jeff is responsible for esta ...
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Trey Cummings
CEO
CS Equities
Trey Cummings is CEO and managing member of private equity firm CS Equites and property management company Omega Realty Group located in Birmingham, Alabama. He holds an Alabama Real Estate Broker’s License and specializes in foreclosure purchases and sales and holds the Short-Sale and Foreclosure Resource (SFR) Designation. He currently owns and manages over 1,600+ rental units throughout the State of Alabama. Trey received both undergraduate and graduate degrees in accounting from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) and was previously employed with a “Big Four” accounting firm for 4 years.
Ryan Curran
SVP, Operations
Northsight Management
Ryan CurranSr. Vice President, Operations
Ryan serves as Senior Vice President of Operations for Northsight Management, overseeing the direction and daily management of Northsight’s global operations. Ryan has over 12 years’ experience in the real property default space with expertise in all facets of a property life cycle. His experience and leadership are focused on developing staff, delivering strategic vision and driving profitable revenue growth.
Prior to joining Northsight over three years ago, Ryan served as a charter member of a startup REO Asset Management and Default Services firm, facilitating the comp ...
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John Curry
Chief Executive Officer
Setanta Development Capital
John is Sétanta’s CEO, responsible for capital market strategies, loan originations, and relationship management. John previously co-founded a platform providing financing options for qualified residential developers. Prior to that, he served as General Counsel at a private equity group focused on single-family residential development throughout the US. A native of Ireland, John holds law degrees from Duke University and University College Dublin.
Meghan Czechowski
Managing Director-Valuation Lead
Apprise by Walker & Dunlop
Meghan Czechowski is the National Valuation Lead and Managing Director of the Midwest Region for Apprise. Ms. Czechowski joined Apprise with over 15 years of experience which includes all asset types and classes throughout the U.S. Prior to joining Apprise, Ms. Czechowski served as Managing Director of Valuation and Advisory as well as the National Multifamily Practice Group Lead at Cushman & Wakefield. Richer data, deeper insights. Apprise team members can help provide meaningful market intel to you and your customers. By leveraging GeoPhy’s data science and analytics technology and Walker & Dunlop’s multifamily experience and data, Apprise’s tr ...
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Doug Dale
Co-Founder & EVP
HomeRiver Group
Doug is a founder and senior member of the HomeRiver team, and oversees the HRG Institutional Accounts Group and Investment Management business. Doug balances strategic insight with the operational expertise amassed while providing market-level guidance to public and private single family institutional investors. Prior to HomeRiver Group®, Doug cofounded one of the largest single family investment firms in the nation, Fortune Acquisitions. Over his career, Doug has overseen the purchase and operation of over 11,000 single family properties, led a team involved in managing 16,000 bank-owned assets, and deployed over $2B+ in the single family space. During the subprime crisis, Doug provided co ...
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Chase Davidson
Manager of Single Family Rental – Capital Markets
RangeWater Real Estate
Chase is the Manager of Single-Family Rental (SFR) within the Capital Markets group at RangeWater Real Estate. He is responsible for working with all divisions in executing the business strategy across RangeWater’s entire SFR platform. This includes coordinating with the Development and Acquisitions teams on the execution and growth of the SFR pipeline in all geographies, managing debt and equity capitalization efforts with the Capital Markets group, and working with RangeWater’s Property and Asset Management teams with respect to all SFR initiatives, programming, and performance. Chase also leads RangeWater’s research and business analytics to help drive RangeWater’s SFR communicati ...
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Malcolm Davies
Founder/Sr. Managing Partner
WAY Capital, Inc.
Malcolm has over 25 years of experience as an award-winning capital advisor and developer, having advised and been involved with over $15B worth of total capitalizations, both in the equity and debt markets.
As an award-winning capital advisor and developer, Davies has utilized his expertise to lead developers and investors to structure and capitalize billions of dollars-worth of commercial real estate ventures. He has extensive experience in structuring transactions across the capital stack, including non-recourse senior and stretch-senior debt, mezzanine and preferred equity financings, and Co-GP and LP equity financing solutions for development, value add and stabilized projec ...
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John Day
CEO
AXCS Capital
John is CEO of Axcs Capital, Inc. John has executed a variety of business, legal and credit functions throughout his 20+ year career in CRE: leading business sales and growth for a specialty lender owned by Goldman Sachs; overseeing legal and credit decisioning for a specialty lender owned by Oaktree Capital; managing acquisitions, dispositions and financing for a $2B+ privately held CRE portfolio; and providing legal representation on a wide array of complex CRE debt and equity finance transactions. John received his J.D. from University of California, Berkeley School of Law, and his Ph.D and MBA from University of Southern California.
Rob DeWald
CEO
Precedent Management
Rob DeWald is CEO and Co-Founder of Miami based Precedent Management, a national provider of real estate services and the industry leader in full-service HOA risk mitigation. Rob is a hands-on leader who focuses on client needs, team empowerment and development. This mindset led to Precedent’s core values of providing clients with efficient, trackable, and customized loss mitigation and compliance products. Under his leadership, Precedent continues to develop and adapt its strategic direction of setting the standard in real estate services.
Rob has over 25 combined years’ experience in the financial and real estate industries. This includes previously serving as Director of Operation ...
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Eric Delgado
Director
MCM Capital
Eric Delgado is an entrepreneur and a recognized leading expert in increasing efficiency
and profitability that lead to quicker monetization events. With 20+ years of start-up,
fundraising and leadership experience, he has been a part of and currently involved with
8 active businesses. These businesses were either founded, co-founded, or in early
stages of growth when Eric joined.
These 8 early stage companies ranged from food and beverage in New Orleans to
leading a national asset management company that managed over $9 billion in US
residential homes, to start-up technology companies. His ability to see an opportunity,
help construct the ...
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Stuart Denyer
CEO
New Western
For more than 15 years, Stuart Denyer has been passionate about investments due to the high energy and fast-paced nature of the industry. He took this passion and applied it to the real estate investment space when he co-founded New Western in 2008.
As co-founder and CEO of New Western, he and his business partner, Kurt Carlton, completely revolutionized the way residential real estate is bought and sold. New Western transformed the typical real estate transaction into something that takes a matter of days to accomplish rather than weeks, months, or years. The New Western portfolio of companies encompasses New Western, HomeGo, and Sherman Bridge Lending. Each of these divisions f ...
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Vincent Deorio
Executive Vice President
Atlas Real Estate
Vincent has extensive experience in acquisitions and development, market expansion and fundraising, with a proven track record in leading the growth of firms backed by both private equity and venture capital. He has deployed in excess of $1b across multiple markets and asset class, for both institutional and private capital partners. He currently leads all growth at Atlas Real Esate, a real estate investment firm based out of Denver, Colorado.
Prior to Atlas, Deorio held the role of Vice President of Corporate Development at Mynd Property Management in Oakland, California. In the role he led all M&A activity, successfully closing 18 acquisitions in 16 markets, accelerating t ...
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William Dickson
President
Marketplace Homes
Lynn Dodson
VP, Sales
Spectrum Community Solutions
Lynn Dodson is Vice President, Sales for Spectrum Community Solutions. Lynn has more than 30 years’ experience in the telecommunications and cable industry. Throughout his career, he has held roles in the multifamily market, working with developers and operators to find solutions that best fit community needs.
As Sales Vice President, a position he has held since 2017, Lynn leads the Southeast Division for Charter’s Spectrum Community Solutions team, which is focused on signing agreements for bulk services, as well as right-of-entry and marketing agreements.
Prior to his tenure at Charter, Lynn spent 20 years at Time Warner Cable, where he was the Director for the Carolina Re ...
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Grace Doering
Head of GTM
Findigs, Inc.
Roey Dor
CEO
Obligo
Roey Dor is the co-founder and CEO of Obligo. A former F-16 fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force, he took his learnings in the military into the world of business. Roey has been a serial entrepreneur, previously focusing on hospitality and real estate development. Born in New York and grew up in Tel Aviv, he returned to the U.S. in 2018 to found Obligo with his brother Omri. Roey and the Obligo team are on a mission to build trust between renters and landlords using financial technology.
Robin Droppa
VP of Solutions & Customer Success
FotoNotes
Robin Droppa, VP of Solutions and Customer Success, has been helping guide the success of FotoNotes since the very beginning. As the business lead of Fotonotes’ Single Family Rental vertical, Robin is able to help companies best utilize mobile and cloud technologies to optimize processes and add huge efficiencies to field work. In addition, Robin focuses on partnering with SFR companies to best configure and apply FotoNotes to meet challenges or solve problems they have. Her experiences have helped her play a major role in keeping FotoNotes at the forefront of the industry for the past decade. Robin has spent 20+ years of her career in the tech industry, originally emerging in the .c ...
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Ezra Dweck
President
IceCap Group
Prior to joining IceCap Group, Ezra was the Head of Private Equity at Safra Asset Management and later the Chief Investment Officer at Brooklyn based Duke Properties. At Duke, he led the acquisition of over 40 properties and developed a keen understanding of the New York City market. At IceCap, Ezra runs the Originations, Underwriting, and Closing teams. Ezra graduated with honors from the Wharton School of Business and Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, with a dual concentration in finance and entrepreneurial management. While there, Ezra was a member of the University’s Ben Franklin Scholars program.
Joe Easton
Channel Partner Manager
Rent Manager
Joe Easton is a Technology aficionado, seasoned networker, and seeker of conversations that go beyond the surface. In his role as Rent Manager's Channel Partner Manager, Joe is focused on providing customers with the freedom of choice that’s delivered through the software’s ever-expanding Integrations Program. You can find Joe on the Beyond Rent Podcast or at an industry event near you!”
Doug Faron
Managing Director-Investments
CIM Group
Doug Faron serves as a Vice President, Investments at CIM Group. He is responsible for sourcing, structuring and executing real estate equity and debt investments across asset classes with a focus on primary markets in the United States.
Before joining CIM, Mr. Faron worked in acquisitions for LNK Partners, a corporate private equity firm. He joined LNK from the mergers and acquisition team at Deutsche Bank.
Mr. Faron earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Economics and International Relations from Brown University and a Master of Business Administration from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Doug resides in Venice, California with his wife and ...
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Eric Feldman
President
Eric Feldman & Associates P.C.
Diligent advocacy and solving the problems of businesses and individuals in a creative and cost-effective manner has been the focus of Mr. Feldman's legal career. As President of Eric Feldman & Associates, P.C.(“EFA”), he brings over 19 years of experience representing all types of creditors, including banks, asset managers, servicers, private lenders, developers and investors with respect to various types of residential and commercial real estate transactions, foreclosures, evictions, and bankruptcy matters in IL, IN, and WI. He is devoted to exceeding clients' expectations by effectively recognizing and assessing their needs and moving swiftly to accomplish their goals ...
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Dominick Felix
CEO
CashGeeks
Dominick Felix is the co-owner and founder of CashGeeks, an off-market single family residential asset provider for investors. He runs a team of over 20 individuals whose sole purpose is to acquire and dispose of SFR assets day in and day out. He works on marketing strategies to zero in on the parameters of the specific asset type needed by the client, as well as team maintenance, enhancements, and growth. He and his company are based out of Jacksonville, FL but they work to acquire SFR's in several markets throughout the United States.
Ben Fertig
President
Constructive Loans, LLC
Ben Fertig currently serves as President of Constructive Loans. Constructive originates, services, and securitizes single-asset rental loans, and originates and services fix-and-flip loans. Prior to Constructive, Ben ran Credit and Asset Management at Finance of America Commercial; and, before that, he served as Chief Operator Officer of Jordan Capital Finance, where he managed originations, credit policy, and capital markets. Ben was instrumental in the sale of the Jordan Capital Finance platform to Blackstone and Finance of America in 2017.
Kathy Fettke
Co-CEO
Real Wealth Network
Kathy Fettke is founder and co-CEO of Real Wealth Network, a real estate investment company that helps its 38,000+ members acquire R.E.A.L income properties nationwide. (R.E.A.L. refers to our renovation standards, as defined on our website)
Kathy is author of the best selling book, Retire Rich with Rentals, and is host of the Real Wealth Show and Real Estate News podcasts on iTunes and Stitcher.
With a passion for researching real estate market cycles, Kathy is a frequent guest expert on CNN, CNBC, Fox, Bloomberg, NPR, CBS MarketWatch and the Wall Street Journal. She was also named among the “Top 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs” by Goldman Sachs two years in a row ...
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Howard Fife
Principal
Westport Capital Partners, LLC
Howard Fife joined Westport Capital Partners LLC in August of 2006 as Principal and Head Trader and is responsible for sourcing investments in the public and private markets. These may be primary or secondary investments. Mr. Fife comes to Westport from the High Yield and Distressed Group of Jefferies and Company, where he covered a number of large hedge funds. Prior to joining Jefferies in 2002, he was a Director at Lazard, Freres and Co. in the International High Yield and Distressed trading department. In 2001, he helped launch Lazard's successful Debt Recovery Fund. Earlier, he worked at both Prudential Securities and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Mr. Fife received his Bachelor of Ar ...
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Mark Filler
Partner
Rice Park Capital
Mark is Partner at Rice Park Capital, a private equity firm. We own hard money lenders. We are looking to invest equity in more private lenders. Mark’s companies have originated over $150 billion of mortgage loans. They acquired 30 mortgage companies. One of the companies he founded was the largest residential renovation lender in the U.S. He was also sole founder/CEO of Jordan Capital Finance (JCF), a lender to residential rehab investors. JCF had 2,000 clients nationwide and became one of the top 3 lenders to fix & flip investors in the U.S. JCF developed sophisticated property valuation/underwriting methodologies that resulted in never losing money on a loan. The business was sold to ...
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Michael Finch
EVP & Principal
SVN | SFRhub Advisors
Michael Finch began his career in commercial real estate over 15 years ago in Phoenix, Arizona. He has developed broad local and national relationships with top-ranked, high density mid to large-scale developers for commercial mixed use & multi-family development. Finch has continued to deliver value-add opportunities as ever-changing market cycles continue to evolve.
With an extensive national network, Finch has experienced continued success in the commercial real estate industry while establishing strong alliance member relationships. He enjoys being an integral partner for client teams focused on large-scale, income-producing portfolios, while specializing in single-famil ...
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Patrick Flynn
VP & Co-Founder
Yellowbird Enterprises
Avi Fogel
Chief Operating Officer
Homeshield
Rich Ford
CDO
Roofstock
Steven Franco
Investments/Acquisitions
The Franco Team / Franco Ventures
Steven Franco has 15 years of experience in real estate with a dynamic portfolio in REO. While Steven has proven to be successful in traditional real estate, he has thrived with investors. He has previously worked as an REO Asset Manager closing over 1500 homes per year (an average of 125 per month). Steven had a portfolio of upwards of 950 properties and has worked for major clients including Fannie Mae, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and more. Most recently acknowledged as a Top Producer at Keller Williams, Steven’s best known for adding value to every venture and working tirelessly through every negotiation and acquistion. By putting your money to the absolute best possible use, Steven live ...
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Rob Fuller
Owner
ROI Property Group, LLC
Rob Fuller’s real estate experience includes deal-sourcing, structuring new transactions, deal flow, raising equity, financing, due diligence, acquisition, operations, development, building, disposition, and financial management.
Rob began investing nearly 15 years ago in residential real estate across many national markets. He formed ROI Property Group in 2015. He has bought and heavily renovated over 400 properties. He has owned and managed over $100,000,000 in projects with an additional $200,000,000 to be completed within the next 3 years. ROIPG develops and builds subdivisions in Colorado, Northern California, and the Southeast.
Frank Furman
Co-Founder & COO
Padsplit
Frank is a co-founder and COO at PadSplit, a marketplace platform for workforce housing that delivers 60-100% higher yields for real estate investors vs. traditional SFR.
Prior to starting PadSplit, Frank was a management consultant at McKinsey & Company and an Infantry Officer in the United States Marine Corps. He has an M.S. in Applied Physics from Johns Hopkins University and a B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the United States Naval Academy. He lives in Atlanta with his wife and two sons.
Karen Gados
Managing Partner
Pikes Peak Capital
Karen is founder and Managing Partner at Pikes Peak Capital (PPC), a boutique real estate private equity company. Pikes Peak Capital purchases deeply-discounted residential houses from banks and resells them near market value to local investors or families who may not qualify for traditional mortgages by replacing traditional bank mortgages with seller financing. The funds PPC manages buy and sell over 500 properties/year.
Ian Gallagher
Director of Bus. Development
Vacasa
Director of Business Development - Institutional
Vacasa is uniquely positioned to provide best-in-class management, marketing, revenue maximization, and support in the sourcing and underwriting of investment opportunities in the vacation rental sector.
Vacasa is North America’s largest vacation rental platform offering comprehensive full-service property management as well as brokerage and other real estate services. Leveraging industry-leading technology, Vacasa maximizes revenue for homeowners and our partners, and provides unforgettable experiences for our guests. Vacasa manages a growing portfolio of more than 30,000 vacation homes in the U.S., C ...
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Don Ganguly
SVP
Mynd
Fintech/Proptech entrepreneur - founded multiple companies. Most recently - Founder of Homeunion, Big Data driven online Single Family real estate investment platform acquired by Mynd Managment- leading national Property Managment firm. . Currently SVP , Mynd Investor Services.
James Gaskin
SVP Corporate Development
Renovo Financial
“My mission is to bring the exceptional customer service, breadth of products, and world class execution of Renovo Financial to new markets across the eastern US. Renovo is not a wholesale or correspondent lender. Through our executive-level lending professionals we bring Renovo's customer-first mindset directly to local real estate investors in each market we enter.
Renovo has been the #1 private lender to real estate investors in the Chicago area for the last 5 years, and we are looking for ROCKSTAR lending talent who’s hungry and wants to build something special with the backing and support of a world class specialty finance company like Renov ...
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Jessica Godwin
Director, Build to Rent
Roofstock
Jessica is the Director of Build-to-Rent for Roofstock, the leading marketplace for single family investment properties. Specifically focused on dispositions of build-to-rent investment portfolios within Roofstock’s portfolio services team, she consults with landowners, developers and builders through all stages of build-to-rent communities. She is a licensed real estate broker in Texas, Georgia and Tennessee and is the Texas designated broker for Roofstock Realty.
Jessica has participated in the sale of institutional-quality real estate investment properties totaling over $1B. With more than 15 years of experience in real estate and finance, she has worked in commercial investme ...
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Lexie Goldberg
Account Executive
Goby
Lexie Goldberg is an Account Executive at Goby where she is responsible for developing and maintaining client relationships through identifying solutions that support their unique ESG goals and efforts. Prior to joining Goby, Lexie was the Director of Global Sustainability at Greystar, where she was responsible for developing programs and initiatives designed to reduce organizational impact as well as coordinating ESG reporting which provided transparency into asset, portfolio, and firm-wide efforts and progress. Lexie earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees at the University of Denver.
John Gordon
Director of National Accounts
The Home Depot Renovation Services
John Gordon is currently Director of National Accounts for The Home Depot. John has been with The Home Depot since 1992 in a variety of positions including assistant manager, store manager, District Manager, Divisional Pro Sales Manager, Director of Pro Business Operations, Director of Pro Marketing and Director of Strategic Accounts.
John lead The Home Depot’s first engagement with Single Family Investors over 11 years ago
Prior to joining The Home Depot, John spent 12 years with Eighty-Four Lumber in positions ranging from Salesperson to Vice President of Regional Purchasing.
John has been active in the Home Improvement Industry beyond his responsibi ...
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Chris Griego
COO
TaskEasy
As Chief Operating Officer, Chris Griego is responsible for helping accelerate growth through strategic initiatives and by optimizing existing processes.
Chris brings deep experience in home and commercial services and real estate internet and technologies. Before joining TaskEasy, he was a Vice President at Closetbox, a venture-backed valet storage business where he established a partnership and BD function, tripled the service pro network and secured a series B round. Prior to that, he was helping a seed-stage mobile job management software company raise capital and framework, staff and execute the operational side of the business. Before that, he was at HomeAdvisor (ANGI HomeService ...
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Derrick Gruner
Chief Investment Officer
Aureus Finance Group
Derrick B. Grüner, Esq. is a dual-role member of the C-Suite with hands-on senior executive management at all levels and in all lines of the company’s business. Mr. Grüner is a frequent nationwide public speaker on topics ranging from innovations in capital formation and deployment to best practices for in-house counsel. Mr. Grüner possesses almost three decades of real estate and finance industry experience. Prior to the previous decade as General Counsel and later Chief Operating Officer, he was a partner at a large AV-rated east coast law firm where he represented private equity, investors, lenders, borrowers, owners, developers, operators, and contractors. He is also a 2005 Alumni of hig ...
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Stephen Hagerman
President
Easy Street Capital
Mr. Hagerman is the President and founder of Easy Street Capital. Mr. Hagerman’s efforts focus on capital structuring, strategy, and overall economic performance of the company. Easy Street Capital has completed over $2.5 billion in residential investments and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Mr. Hagerman began his career with Buchanan Street Partners, a commercial real estate private equity firm based in Newport Beach, CA. While at Buchanan he was involved in the structure and placement of over $1 billion worth of multi-family, retail, office, industrial, and hotel transactions.
Mr. Hagerman has over 20 years of structured finance experience and has arranged all t ...
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Corey Hanker
Managing Partner
Fortus Partners
Bob Hansen
Head of Sales
Second Nature
Experienced executive in the Real Estate indurstry, currenly serving as Head of Sales at Second Nature providing the industry with the best-in-class fully managed Resident Benefit Package.
Prior to Second Nature, I was SVP of Operations at Home Partners of America overseeing Pathlight Property Mangement. My intro into Real Estate started while I was at Apartments.com / CoStar. In my last role at Apartments.com, I served as Regional VP of Sales.
Sam Harrity
Head of Capital Markets
Mynd
Alex Hemani
CEO & President
Ninety9 Capital
Alex Hemani is a visionary entrepreneur and a pioneer in the Single Family Rental (SFR) market. He has previously built and sold successful companies in the financial and travel industries, and in 2006, recognizing the burgeoning opportunities created by systemic changes occurring in residential real estate, he began investing in SFR before it became a recognized asset class for serious and institutional investors.
Alex founded Alna Properties as his SFR investment vehicle, and quickly built it into a portfolio of several hundred SFR properties. He followed that up with Alna Management to provide property management services for his portfolio, and for other SFR investors. ...
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Tim Herriage
Executive Director
RCN Capital
Tim joined RCN Capital as an Executive Director, focusing on Retail Loan Development. Tim Herriage is a professional real estate investor and entrepreneur. For two decades Tim has been on the leading edge of the Real Estate Investor (REI) space. This includes being the Founder of 2020 REI Group, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Blackstone’s B2R Finance, Founder of the REI Expo, and a Franchisee and Development Agent for HomeVestors® of America. Tim has completed well over $1 Billion in real estate investment transactions, including the acquisition of more than 2,000 houses in his twenty-year career. Tim currently purchases and repositions approximately 50 homes per year in the Dallas, ...
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Clay Hertel
VP of Underwriting
Aureus Finance Group
Clayton has extensive experience in all facets of residential real estate acquisition and disposition. He possesses the rare ability to analyze each asset from the vantage points of buyer, seller, investor, lender and developer. Working alongside his brother, Clayton has been involved in the acquisition, disposition and management of hundreds of single family properties in multiple markets. Specifically in the lending industry, Clayton has dealt with all of the major private lending companies including Civic, Lending Home, Genesis, RCN, Corevest, Arbor, Lima One, and several smaller regional lenders.
He previously developed a valuation tool for single family homes, along with ...
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John Hirschfeld
Chairman & CEO
HomeRiver Group
John D. Hirschfeld is the Chairman and CEO of HomeRiver Group, one of the largest property management platforms for single and small multifamily family rentals in the US, with over 35,000 homes under management in 30 states. As a complementary vertical to its property management business, HomeRiver also invests in assets directly on behalf of itself and institutional investors.
John has executed over $10 billion of transactions in his career, which has included running Citigroup‘s Global Real Estate Equity and Structured Finance Group, running Eastdil Secured’s Corporate Real Estate Group, holding other senior real estate finance and investment positions, and practicing law. Immediate ...
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Wes Homeyer
Managing Director
The Nehemiah Company
As Managing Director, Wes is responsible for overseeing TNC’s Build to Rent business. Prior to joining TNC, Wes worked at David Weekley Homes as Land Acquisition Manager where he was responsible for site selection, land acquisition and design for over $467 MM in development. Before David Weekley Homes, Wes gained early career experience at Pulte Group in multiple roles including land acquisition, resource planning, sales and marketing, and purchasing.
Wes received his B.B.A. from the University of North Texas and his M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University. He is an active member of the Urban Land Institute and the Folsom Institute at SMU Cox School of Business. He and his wife, Kac ...
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Hayato Hori
Owner
RocketOffr
I own a wholesaling real estate company and we operate in the Midwest markets - mainly Cleveland, OH, Memphis, TN, St. Louis, Missouri, Detroit, MI.
We are looking to expand nationwide and our goal is to be known as the wholesalers who do it 'right'. We average 15 deals a month and are looking to grow!
Taylor Hou
Chief Happiness Officer
APM Help
Taylor is the Chief Happiness Officer at APM Help where they are helping property managers who use AppFolio, Buildium, Propertyware, Rent Manager and Rentvine clean up their books, keep them clean, and get back to growing their business.
James Howley
Chief Investment Officer
Quinn Residences
James Howley brings more than a decade of institutional real estate and financial experience. Prior to joining Quinn, he served as a Director of Strategic Planning and Investments for QTS Realty Trust (NYSE: QTS), where he supported QTS’ corporate and strategic finance function including financial planning and analysis, budgeting, capital markets, investor relations and strategic initiatives. Prior to QTS, he was a Senior Investment Analyst at Real Estate Management Services Group, where he was responsible for originating and underwriting investments in publicly traded real estate, with a focus on the residential and hospitality spaces, among others. Mr. Howley leverages his extensive financ ...
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George Huang
Managing Partner
Bridge Tower Partners
Anthony Hughes
Director, Field and Project Management
Pathlight Property Management
Anthony joined Home Partners and Pathlight Property Management in October 2015 as the Lease Marketing Manager. In that role, he worked with agents across the nation that marketed and listed homes for the company. In 2017, he transitioned to the Field and Project Management Team. After navigating through multiple positions within the department, he now serves as Director of Field and Project Management managing and developing the teams that oversee the rehab and renovation work for new acquisitions and turn properties within the company’s portfolio. As a licensed broker in Illinois, Anthony has over 10 years of real estate experience, also spending time in multifamily as an advertising co ...
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Steve Iannaccone
Principal
Halstatt Real Estate Partners
Steve Iannaccone is a Principal of Halstatt Real Estate Partners and has been with Halstatt since 2014. Prior to joining Halstatt, Steve spent five years in Philadelphia working for GoldOller, a real estate private equity firm, and Resource Real Estate, a REIT, where he was a member of acquisition teams that transacted over $750 million in multifamily real estate assets. He brings to Halstatt an extensive background in all aspects of commercial real estate analysis, due diligence, acquisitions and operations.
Kate Ivey
Head of Marketing
inspectify.com
Paul Jackson
President & CEO
Residential Capital Partners
Paul Jackson is a founding partner and principal of Residential Capital Partners. He has over 25 years of experience in the finance and real estate industries. Paul’s focus at RCP is in the capitalization and structure of each operating business and partnership initiated by the firm. Paul is also actively involved in the commercial real estate industry and the debt-buying industry through the portfolio companies Spyglass Equities and CFAM Financial Services, respectively. Prior to RCP, Paul was a Vice President with Staubach Capital Partners focused on the acquisition and structure of single-tenant, sales-leaseback transactions with investment-grade corporations, governmental entities and ...
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Mike Jansta
CMO
Altisource
Mr. Jansta serves as Chief Marketing Officer of Altisource. Previously, he led the marketing team of the online real estate auction platform Hubzu.com, a business unit of Altisource. Since 2006, Michael has facilitated over $45 billion in closed sales by bringing sellers and buyers together in residential and commercial real estate auctions. His passion is creating data-supported technology solutions to better market and enable transparency in real estate transactions.
Robert Jayne
Chief Construction Officer
Genesis Capital
Robert is the Executive Vice President of Construction and Development for Genesis Capital, a national finance provider to leading real estate developers. He provides company leadership for Construction underwriting, Fund control, and operational infrastructure growth to scale. His teams are Industry leaders in construction and development performance.
Brent Jenkins
Senior Vice President
PIMCO
Brendan Joyce
President / Acquisitions Head
Haystacks.ai
President & Head of Acquisitions at Haystacks.ai, an institutional SFR owner in top markets across the US.
Umair Kabani
VP of Business Development
Inspectify
Umair Kabani is the VP of Business Development at Inspectify. He formerly helped lead the launch of Uber, and most recently led the launch of Peerspace nationwide. He has been in real estate for over 15 years, brokering, financing, and investing in SFR properties.
David Kadleck
Managing Partner
FuseOn
Justin Kain
Managing Partner
HPP Equity LLC
Justin Kain is the Managing Partner of HPP Equity LLC and oversees all aspects of acquisition, financing,
investor relations, business development and management across a diverse group of portfolio’s located
near Notre Dame in South Bend Indiana. The HPP family of companies have acquired $32M in assets
across more than 400 single family homes (SFR’s) in the Michiana area. This growing regional enterprise
is on track to acquire $100M in assets across 1,000-1,500 units by 2024.
Justin began his career as a 5th grade band teacher in Plainfield, Illinois. He and his wife Kristina
co-founded Over the Rainbow Enterprises, Inc. in 2006, went full time in 2007, an ...
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Martin Kay
CEO
Entera
Martin Kay is the Founder & CEO of Entera, the leading technology + services platform for Institutional & Mid-Market Single Family Investors. Entera is the all-in-one solution to intelligently find, buy and operate single-family homes across 26 markets, enabling speed, control and maximum returns. Many of the largest residential investors in the world use Entera’s marketplace to buy & sell 1000+ homes per month. Entera was founded in 2018 and has raised $40M of venture capital from several tier 1 investors including Goldman Sachs, Craft Ventures & Bullpen Capital.
Martin is veteran of the single-family investment space. Prior to Entera he founded Greenlet Invest ...
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John Keeton
Owner
JKMD Homes LLC
John Keeton has worked exclusively for real estate focused firms (hedge fund and private equity) since 2003. Since 2009 he (and his affiliated firms) have bought over 1,300 homes primarily in Arizona and Florida. He also has been the head trader for a REIT focused RIA whose assets were in excess of $900 million. His career also includes an internship at Lehman Brothers in New York and Dallas and a position in Boston with Atlantic Trust Company (formerly Pell Rudman Trust Company), a wealth management company with over $12 billion in assets. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Texas at Austin and a MBA in Finance from the McCombs School of Business at the University ...
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Bob Kembel
Principal
The Nehemiah Company
Robert Kembel graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a Finance Degree and began his career in Banking in 1986. In 1997, Bob began his career in developing master-planned communities and homebuilding in Colorado, when he joined McStain Enterprises as Chief Operating Officer and then joined John Laing Homes as President of the Denver Metro area until the company was sold.
In 2004, after returning to Texas, Bob was hired as President of Huffines Management Partners and VP of Huffines Advisory Services. Bob successfully converted an entrepreneurial land brokerage and development operation into an institutional platform for master-planned community development and multifamily ...
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Zach Kinloch
COO
Darwin Homes
Evan Kinne
President & CSO
AXCS Capital
Mr. Kinne joined AXCS Capital as President & CSO and brings captial markets expertise that is predominantly focused on institutional real estate projects. Prior to AXCS, Evan worked at George Smith Partners, a well-known boutique capital markets advisroy firm. At GSP, Evan's deal track record topped $4BB in total captialized value. Prior to GSP, Evan was a Vice President at Watertower Group, a boutique advisory focused on dynamic and innovative companies shaping technology, consumer internet and digital media. Evan has advised over 20 internet, technology, and media companies on series A-D equity capital formation and M&A. Evan’s other experience includes: Director of Business Dev ...
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Tom Kinslow
Managing Director
Dune Real Estate Partners
Mr. Tom Kinslow is responsible for sourcing, underwriting and structuring new investment opportunities and executing value creation strategies at Dune and is a Member of the Investment Committee at Dune.
Prior to joining Dune in 2017, Mr. Kinslow was an Associate at Centerbridge Partners focused on public and private commercial real estate investments from 2013 to 2016. Prior to that, Mr. Kinslow was an Associate at Ranieri Real Estate Partners focused on acquisitions from the firm’s inception in 2010 to 2013. From 2009 to 2010, Mr. Kinslow was an Analyst with Deutsche Bank’s Real Estate, Gaming, Lodging and Leisure Investment Banking Group.
Mr. Kinslow received a ...
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Joel Kirstein
Managing Director
Berkadia
Gabe Knox
Vice President
InsideMaps
Gabe specializes in the practical applications of 3D technology and BIM data for inspection, scoping, collateral valuation, asset management, and marketing in the Real Estate and Mortgage industries.
In addition to VP of InsideMaps, he co-founded Floravista Realty, a large real estate brokerage in Texas.
Prior to joining InsideMaps, he led acquisitions and BD for one of the first and largest Single-Family Rental (SFR) investment funds pioneering in the use of cloud-based management tools and AVM's to underwrite, acquire and operate thousands of homes across broad geographic areas.
Gabe got his start in the Real Estate industry as an engineering ...
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Steven Kollar
Managing Principal
Cash Flow Properties
Steven Kollar purchased his first house at the age of 15 and continues to buy, sell and renovate single and multi family homes today. He still owns that house today. His team has renovated and sold 1486 single family homes excluding packages one by one during this time and countless multifamily complexes. He not only talks the talk he walks the talk, as he maintains a full-time career of purchasing and solving complex real state problems around the country.
Over the past 30 years he has learned a lot from the school of hard knocks of life first hand. Steven is a sought-after speaker in solving complex problems in real estate, with his experience and his thinking outside th ...
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Kyle Kotake
Managing Partner
Brock & Scott, PLLC
Matthew Krac
Owner / Broker
Sellstate Partners Realty and CS3 investments
Eric Krauss
Director, Sales & Partnerships
Rhino
Eric is Area Vice President at Rhino working with enterprise organizations to eliminate the need for cash deposits in renting. In his 3.5 years at Rhino, he's been an integral part of the company expanding to being offered in over 2M homes and growing from 5 employees to over 200. Prior to Rhino, Eric worked at Yardi as a Regional Manager. Eric currently lives in San Diego and enjoys golfing and spending time with his wife.
Aaron Kraut
CEO | Co-Founder
BrrrrLoans
Geoffrey Kristof
Head of Single Family Rental
Asia Pacific Land
Mr. Kristof is Head of Single-Family Rental at Asia Pacific Land (APL), a global multibillion-dollar investment firm. APL’s SFR platform focuses on building purpose-built rental communities across growth markets in the Southeast and Midwest and currently has over 4000 units owned or contracted. Prior to joining APL, Mr. Kristof was an investment professional at Bridgewater Associates, where he worked on a 12-person team managing a $150 billion currency book. Mr. Kristof received an A.B. in Economics from Harvard University.
Isaac Kyle
Founder & CEO
REALTY LOGIX, LLC
Isaac is currently the Founder and CEO of REALTY LOGIX.
REALTY LOGIX is a vertically integrated owner-operator focused on building single-family rental (SFR) communities, property management, and developing real estate technology to improve processes and user experience.
Isaac is also Co-Founder (current shareholder) of GOAL Property Services, LLC (GOAL) and its former CEO. While serving as the CEO of GOAL, Isaac developed the strategic business plan for the start-up, taking the organization from inception to managing ~5,000 single-family rentals (SFR) in 13 markets.
Before GOAL, Isaac worked for American Homes 4 Rent (AH4R), leading the ground ...
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Steve LaTerra
CEO
Terralane Communities
Steve La Terra helped found TerraLane Communities (“TLC”) in 2019 and was the first CEO of the company. He is responsible for all aspects of company’s operations and is a member of the Investment Committee. He focuses his efforts on the evaluation of new opportunities, portfolio management and investor/partner relations. Prior to joining the company, Mr. La Terra was the Managing Director of Meyers Research, where he was the lead analyst on horizontal apartments opportunities throughout the US for builders, developers and capital providers. Mr. La Terra’s background includes senior executive and principal-level positions within real estate private equity, land banking and lot development ...
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Pini Lackner
Director of Sales Operations
Rently
Pini Lackner - Director of Sales Operations at Rently
Rently pioneered and introduced our patented self-showing technology to the industry in 2011. Our focus is to automate the leasing process in order to reduce overhead and increase organizational efficiency. Since then, Rently has added keyless and smart home systems to its array of services. Pini is an expert on the implementation of self-showing and automation to help add doors, increase revenue, and drive more efficiency.
Andrea Lane
Founding Member
Coast 2 Coast Turn Key LLC
Faran Latafat
President, Single Family Developments
Core Development
Faran serves as President for Single Family Developments. Responsible for operations, business development, and acquisitions of income generating assets, Faran manages all aspects of her divisions including full P&L responsibility, setting strategic direction, business planning, and developing resources and strategic partnerships.
Faran brings over 18 years of experience in the areas of construction, mergers and acquisitions, growth, marketing and corporate development. Prior to joining Core, Faran held various leadership roles, including leading mergers & acquisitions, business development, and sales for Brand-Aluma, the world's largest concrete formwork and scaffolding firm w ...
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Henchman LeMaistre
CEO
Picket Homes & Inertia Realty Services
Henchman LeMaistre has spent a decade and a half reshaping the residential real estate
industry. Before becoming CEO of Picket Homes and its subsidiaries, Inertia Realty Services
and ElaraOne (“Elara”) Home Management, Hench co-founded PR3 after serving as Chief Operations Officer of Progress Residential from 2015 to 2018. There he oversaw the significant and fast-paced growth of the company, propelling it from an externally managed portfolio of 10,000 homes (~$2.2B in assets) to more than 40,000 homes (~$10B).
Prior to his leadership role at Progress Residential, Hench was co-founder and Executive Vice President of Operations for Colony American Homes. While at Colony, Hen ...
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Ryan Letzeiser
CEO & Co-Founder
Obie
Ryan is the CEO and Co-Founder of Obie, a leading digital provider of landlord insurance for single family rental properties. Obie's digital quoting platform and instant rate options make it the easiest and most transparent way in the market today for investors to obtain coverage.
Prior to co-founding Obie, Ryan spent many years in the real estate private equity space where he bought and sold over $1B in residential real estate assets. In addition to his work building a residential portfolio, Ryan has acquired assets across the office, retail, and industrial real estate sectors.
Jia Li
Vice President
Credit Suisse
Jia is a member of the Securitized Products Mortgage Finance group at Credit Suisse, involved in warehouse financing and capital markets securitization for residential mortgage and real estate related assets.
David Lichtenger
Managing Partner
Intrepid Capital Investments
David is an active real estate investor as well as a proven entrepreneur and executive with over 25 years of real estate and construction experience. He is currently the Managing Partner of both U. S. Residential Opportunity Fund LP and Intrepid Capital Investments. David has been involved in various capacities in the planning, design, development, and construction of over 5 million square feet of commercial and residential projects.
The primary objective of U. S. Residential Opportunity Fund LP, a private real estate investment fund, is to engage in the business of acquiring, renovating, and owning residential rental properties nationwide. The fund has acquired well over 1,000 ...
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Ethan Lieber
CEO
Latchel
Ethan Lieber has a background in software
applications and product management. He
specializes in building easy to use software
products that are accessible to all types of users.
He was the Director of Product at One Planet Ops
before starting Latchel
Evan Linkner
Principal
Ackman-Ziff
Evan Linkner is a Principal at Ackman-Ziff and the Head of its SFR/BFR Group. Founded in 1926, Ackman-Ziff is a global leader in developing creative capital solutions for institutional investors and operating companies. At Ackman-Ziff, Evan leads the structuring and placement of equity, debt and mezzanine capital stacks
Evan has been an active financier of institutional SFR debt and equity since 2013, integral to the structuring and creation of numerous pioneering capital products in the sector. Over the past year, Evan has led over $10 billion of SFR capital mandates.
In 2006, Evan founded First Atlantic Capital Management, a contrarian investment fund that successfu ...
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Misty Linn
Vice President
Core Ohio Realty Advisors
Misty is a Real Estate and Design Expert with 16 years of service in the Central Ohio market. She specializes in residential sales and new builds, as well as top dollar design services. In addition to her own flips, Misty owns her brokerage, Core Ohio Reality Advisors, along with a local restaurant in Grandview, Ohio called Rudy’s, and the all-inclusive show bar, District West, located in downtown Columbus, Ohio. Both Rudy’s and District West have become staples in the Columbus community.
Lily Liu
CEO
Piñata
Lily Liu's career started out by straddling the lines of technology and government founding PublicStuff, which she sold to Accela that was then acquired by Berkshire Partners. As the CEO of Piñata, Lily has brought to life her vision of creating financial equality for renters. In 2017, she was recognized as Forbes’ 30 under 30 Top Entrepreneurs and Business Insider’s People to Watch. Her entrepreneurial leadership allows Lily to address glaring systemic issues in the financial and real estate industries. Learn more at www.lily-liu.com.
Brad Long
Director of Sales and Marketing
HomeRiver Group
Brad is the National Director of Business Development for HomeRiver Group. He has over 30 years of sales, marketing, media and operational management experience. He has held leadership positions and been responsible for building, coaching and mentoring sales teams for companies such as apartments.com, G/O Digital, Careerbuilder, Knight Ridder Digital and the Chicago Tribune. In 2014, Brad was instrumental in the sale of apartments.com to CoStar Group for $585,000,000. From 2014 to 2016, Brad was the President of apartments.com with responsibility for sales, marketing, operations and technology. He led apartments.com during a period of rapid growth in revenue, and site traffic. Throughout ...
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Steven Ludwig
President
Coastline Real Estate Advisors, Inc.
Mr. Ludwig is the founder and President of Coastline Real Estate Advisors, Inc. a full service, California real estate investment and management firm focused on multifamily and industrial properties. To date, the firm and its affiliates have acquired assets with total costs exceeding $1 billion, and focus on value-add and land entitlement and development investments. Currently, the firm is entitling 450 multifamily units in SoCal.(www.coastlinerea.info) Mr. Ludwig is also the co-founder and CEO of Turnaround Solutions, a CA general contracting firm focused on apartment renovation projects that services over 200 clients. (www.turnaroundsolutions.com) as well as Tasoro Products, a luxury bui ...
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Alex Lugovoy
General Manager
Dobrin Homes
Alex Lugovoy has extensive management experience as an founder and operator of real estate development company managing 250 singe family houses and 300 apartments within a mile radius of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA.
Alex was formerly a managemetn consultant and pharma executive with 15 years of experience working in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries and is highly valued for his pharmaceutical strategy expertise. Prior to starting Dobrin Consulting, Alex started and led the business development, strategy and M&A department at Reckitt Benckiser Pharmaceuticals, a leading global addiction p ...
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Micaela Lumpkin
Chief Credit Officer
CoreVest
Micaela Lumpkin is Senior Vice President, Head of Term Loans at CoreVest Finance. She is responsible for managing the operations of term financing products. Prior to joining CoreVest, Ms. Lumpkin was a Senior Associate at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, practicing in the Real Estate and Finance group, where she focused on the acquisition of distressed debt, as well as both mortgage and mezzanine financing. Ms. Lumpkin received her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and her B.A. from the University of Virginia.
Bryan Lysikowski
CEO
ZVN Properties Inc.
Bryan Lysikowski is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of ZVN Properties Inc, A nationwide field service company specializing in real estate that offers a suite of services to the SFR community such as inspections, renovations, turns, and tenant-occupied maintenance. As an expert in the Mortgage Field Servicing & SFR industries, Bryan is a proven visionary and strategic leader who effectively translates business strategies for the maximum benefit of customers, employees, and the public. Streamlining efficiency and developing strategic servicing initiatives have been paramount to the steady growth of his business. Bryan’s track record of implementing the necessary controls to ensu ...
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Sara Maffey
Head of Corporate Strategy and Business Development
Local Logic
Sara Maffey is the Head of Corporate Strategy and Business Development at Local Logic, where she combines her passions for real estate development and placemaking with data analytics and PropTech. She has deep experience throughout the built environment lifecycle from site selection and economic development, to construction management and commercial asset strategy. This background allows her to provide strategic real estate insights and develop interconnected ecosystems of
Lino Maldonado
President
BeHome247
Lino Maldonado is the President and Managing Partner at Behome247, the industry leader in smart home technology, workflow automation and energy management. Lino Joined the team at Behome247 in November 2019 and has been instrumental in leading the charge and development of cutting-edge hospitality, multi-family and real estate solutions. Partnering with leaders in the industry like, Airbnb, Wyndham Vacation Ownership, VRBO and VRM Intel.
In his previous role, as VP of Operations for Wyndham Vacation Rentals, he led business development and ownership strategy across North America. He worked for the company for 23 years, beginning his hospitality career in 1996 at Mainsail in Miramar Bea ...
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Vishrut Malhotra
CEO
InspectHOA
Seth Markum
Vice President of Business Development
National Real Estate Insurance Group
Seth Markum, Vice President of Business Development, has over 10 years’ experience in the property and casualty space. He co-founded one of the first national online commercial P&C agencies that harnessed the internet as a distribution channel before its mainstream acceptance. He has extensive experience developing innovative sales and service solutions. He brings this experience to National Real Estate Insurance Group to continue his efforts streamlining processes and distribution channels, developing strong relationships with industry partners, and educating investors on proper coverage for their investment properties.
Chris Mataja
COO
Lafayette RE
COO of Lafayette, a New York-based private equity firm dedicated to the single-family rental industry in the U.S. Lafayette owns and manages more than 3,000 single-family rental homes, provides loans to fix & flip investors in the markets it operates its rental strategy and is actively growing its build-for-rent and scattered-site SFR portfolios.
Whit McCarthy
SVP, Correspondent Lending
CIVIC Financial Services
Justin McCarty
COO
Bungalow Living
Justin McCarty is Bungalow’s co-founder and COO. Justin was previously the General Manager at Sprig where he led cross functional efforts focused on improving unit economics. Prior to Sprig, Justin was a business operations manager at Uber where he built and led international teams advising city managers and launchers across the globe on diagnosing root issues and scaling core operations. Before Uber, Justin was an associate at Goldman Sachs and an Analyst at Bank of America, where he specialized in structured debt transactions. He has a B.S. in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University and prior to University he was an infantry soldier in the U.S. Army.
Heather McClure
Director
Walker & Dunlop
Heather McClure is responsible for nationwide structured finance executions on multifamily, single-family build-to-rent, industrial, retail, office, and hospitality properties at Walker & Dunlop. Structures include joint venture equity, preferred equity, programmatic GP co-investments, stretch seniors, construction, and mezzanine.Prior to joining Walker & Dunlop, Ms. McClure was Senior Vice President of Capital Markets at Behringer, an investment management firm. There, she structured, executed, and managed $1.9 billion in debt financings on 14,000 apartment units, 1,000,000 SF of office space, a large ...
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Anthony McGill
Managing Director, Head of Advisory & Capital Markets
Zelman & Associates
Jim McGinley
Executive Vice President
MORE Residential
Jim McGinley serves as Executive Vice President – Development & Capital Markets and is a founding member of MORE Residential. Mr. McGinley is responsible for overseeing the firm’s development investments and sourcing and managing the firm’s capital markets activities. He has over 30 years of lending, financing, development and real estate investment experience.
Prior to forming MORE Residential, Mr. McGinley was Senior Vice President and Chief Development Officer of Monogram Residential Trust, a NYSE listed apartment REIT, where his responsibilities included overseeing and managing all new multifamily development projects throughout the United States, as well as l ...
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Joshua McLeod
SVP – Management Operations
American Homes 4 Rent
As Senior Vice President of Management Operations and Strategic Initiatives, Josh McLeod is focused on identifying, evaluating and deploying property management innovations that will increase the value that AMH delivers to our residents, clients, and stakeholders. Mr. McLeod previously led the company’s Texas market region for two years, during which time he was responsible for leading the growth and performance of the Texas Team and a portfolio of over 10,000 homes.
Mr. McLeod comes to American Homes 4 Rent from senior leadership positions in sales, operations and general management across all facets of real estate, including his most recent role as Senior Vice President of Op ...
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Mike McMullen
CEO
Prominence Homes
Mike McMullen is a real estate entrepreneur and has been personally investing in real estate, specifically single-family rentals, for over twenty years. Mike is the founder and CEO of Prominence Homes, America's Rental Managers, and Mike McMullen & Associates. Mike is one of the early pioneers of what is now known as “Build to Rent” single family rentals.
Prominence Homes is a residential construction company that will build 750-1000 single family homes in 2022, the vast majority of which will be sold to real estate investors. America’s Rental Managers is a property management company and currently manages over 1500 single family rentals around the Alabama market. Mike M ...
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Shayla McMurray
SVP of Investments
Swift Homes
Shayla McMurray is the Director of Investments at Invest with Swift where she oversees operations and investments. Prior to joining Invest with Swift, she held positions in single and multifamily development and acquisitions. She graduated from the University of Southern California summa cum laude.
Paul Megler
Executive Vice President
Walton Global
Paul Megler is Executive Vice President, Portfolio Management & Strategic Partnerships for the Walton Global. He leads the growth of the company’s homebuilding and build-to-rent (BTR) partner relationships working with the asset management team on new acquisitions and sales within the exisiting Walton portfolio. In addition, Mr. Megler assists with institutional capital raising efforts for the Walton funds globally.
Prior to joining Walton, Mr. Megler served as Vice President, Real Estate & Business Development at KB Home (NYSE: KBH) where his focus was mergers and acquisitions, national land strategy and strategic relationships. He was also a Managing Director with JMP S ...
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Andy Melvin
Managing Director
Information Management Network
Julius Mendoza
Regional Director
Kiavi
Shawn Miller
CEO
Archwest Capital, LLC
Shawn Miller is the chief executive officer of Archwest Capital and was most recently a managing director of Redwood Trust. Mr. Miller was a founder and the chief executive officer of 5 Arches, LLC (acquired by Redwood Trust), the parent of a national originator of business purpose mortgage loans and a national asset management company. Prior to this, Mr. Miller founded and served as the chief executive officer of Arch Bay Capital, LLC and the chief executive officer of 3 Arch Financial Services. He also co-founded the law firm of Miller & Clark, LLP, specializing in bankruptcy, real estate and corporate matters, and was a partner at a prominent Los Angeles-based bankruptcy firm. ...
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Bayan Misaghi
VP of Capital Markets
VCREF
Bayan Misaghi is a Vice President of Capital Markets at Invictus Capital Partners and the SFR Portfolio Program Manager for Verus Commercial Real Estate Finance. Prior to joining the VCREF team, Mr. Misaghi held positions in Capital Markets and Portfolio Management for the Verus Mortgage Capital Residential Transitional Loans Program, facilitating the purchase and management of over $1 billion of short-term residential loans (e.g., fix-and-flip, ground-up construction, etc.). Additionally, he led the operational and reporting efforts for Invictus Capital’s first four securitizations, totaling over $900 million in issuance. Before his seven years at Invictus / Verus, Mr. Misaghi was a Strateg ...
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Liya Mo
Vice President
Lafayette RE
Liya Mo is a VP of Origination and Acquisitions, focused on the build-for-rent strategy. She is in charge of building the BFR pipeline and presenting opportunities to our Investment Committee.
Prior to joining Lafayette, Ms. Mo worked at Deloitte Consulting in Real Estate & Location Strategy, helping companies find optimal space for geographic expansion and relocation. Before that Liya was with Rockefeller Group, FortBridge Capital Management and Goldman Sachs in real estate development, real estate acquisitions and asset management, respectively.
Liya graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in accounting and finance from Washington University in St. Louis, and an M ...
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Noah Molnar
President
POPIC, LLC
Noah Molnar is the Managing Director, a Partner, and one of the Co-Founders of Property Owners Protection Insurance Company, LLC (POPIC). Noah has been in the alternative risk management space since 2013. Since 2013, he has specialized in the formation and management of captive insurance companies for privately held middle market companies with a heavy emphasis on real estate. Since entering the alternative risk management space, Noah has been involved in the structuring, formation, and management of over 50 captive insurance companies.
In 2015, Noah, alongside his partners, founded POPIC. Noah has been instrumental in transforming POPIC from one client with 6,500 units to over ...
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Adriana Montes
Owner
Florida Dreams Capital Group
Brittany Murphy
Head of Data Science
Spruce
Brittany Murphy is the Head of Data Science at Spruce, the proptech company powering online real estate transactions. At Spruce, Brittany oversees the company’s dynamic risk optimization models and underwriting algorithms, further driving Spruce's automated offerings. Prior to joining Spruce, Brittany led the research team for HouseCanary, a real estate data and analytics company, and was a lead data scientist at Allstate Insurance. She received her Masters in Statistics from Purdue University.
Matt Neisser
CEO
LendingOne
Mr. Neisser is the CEO and Co-Founder of LendingOne. He has scaled the platform into one of the largest and fastest-growing private lenders in the country and has worked across all facets of the firm. Mr. Neisser has focused his career in real estate and finance. He served as the Principal at a regional commercial real estate firm that handled office, industrial, retail, multi-family and land. Mr. Neisser also gained valuable experience in residential real estate and land development throughout his career. Mr. Neisser brings to LendingOne years of knowledge in technology and finance and has coupled this with his range of experiences in the real estate market from owning, selling, and leasi ...
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Stacie Ngo
Vice President, Commercial Servicing
PHH Mortgage
Stacie Ngo is the Vice President of Commercial Servicing at PHH Mortgage and has nearly 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. Stacie’s professional experience includes successfully leading a servicing team in all facets of commercial servicing, including CMBS, MBS and RBS portfolios; third party servicing; single family rental (SFR) and bridge loans; SFR portfolio loans; securitization contracts; risk and compliance monitoring; investor relationships; non-performing asset management and REO dispositions. She has held various management positions at Litton Loan Servicing, Goldman Sachs, Ocwen Loan Servicing and PHH Mortgage and is a regular panelist at industry conference ...
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Matt Nicholas
Vice President
Alliant Insurance Services
Matt Nicholas began his insurance career in 1999, and is currently a Vice President of Alliant’s Real Estate & Hospitality Group. He has specialized in real estate & construction risks for the last 18+ years, and although he is qualified to work with companies across many industries – his expertise and choice, is to work solely with real estate and construction companies. Matt has spent 20+ years working in the placement, underwriting, service, and administration of insurance programs for clients spanning multiple geographies and risk areas. Prior ...
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Michael Nunziata
Division President
13th Floor Homes
Beth O'Brien
Chief Executive Officer
CoreVest
Beth O’Brien is the Founder and CEO of CoreVest American Finance (“CoreVest”), the leading private lender to residential real estate investors. CoreVest was founded in 2014 to address the unique needs of investors in the single-family rental and bridge loan space who were not served well by either commercial or residential products. Under Beth’s leadership, CoreVest has closed over $3.5B in loans in that market and have issued over $1B in single-family rental bonds including the inaugural deal with Freddie Mac. Previously, Beth was Executive Vice President at Auction.com, where she ran residential capital markets, and was President of AuctionFinance.com, where she ran the financing strateg ...
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Alex Offutt
Managing Director
Constructive Loans
Laura Orr
VP Leasing & Resident Services
Roofstock
Tim Orscheln
Senior Investment Portfolio Advisor
SVN | SFRhub Advisors
Kevin Ortner
President & CEO
Renters Warehouse
President and CEO of Renters Warehouse, Kevin Ortner first joined the company in 2009 as a franchisee for the Phoenix region. After the retirement of founder Brenton Hayden, Ortner went on to take the reins of the company, helped see it through monumental growth and helped double their total number of franchisees in the country since 2013. In 2015, Kevin was honored with both an American and International Stevie Business Award for his achievements as Executive of the Year. With Kevin at the helm, Renters Warehouse secured elite honor roll status on the prestigious Inc. 500|5000 list of fastest growing privately held companies in America for its sixth consecutive year.
Kevin’ ...
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Eddy O’Brien
Managing Partner and Co-Founder
Blaze Capital Partners
Eddy O’Brien, CFA is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blaze Capital Partners, a rental housing investment and development firm focusing throughout the Southeast US. Mr. O’Brien is responsible for the strategic growth of the Company and sits on the Investment Committee. In this capacity, he helps oversee all key company activities including the creation of investment strategies, debt and equity capital market activities, acquisitions, development, and asset management.
Prior to co-founding Blaze Capital Partners, Eddy was previously a Managing Director of Investments at Greystar Real Estate Partners where he was actively involved in the creation and capitalization of multiple ...
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Sarah Pallatroni
Resident Services Marketing Manager
Buildium
As a senior member of Buildium's Customer Marketing team, Sarah spends her time focusing on ways property management companies can drive value for both their businesses and residents through targeted digital resident campaigns. With a unique focus on research and technology, Sarah spends time educating Buildium customers on how to improve their resident engagement strategy by driving adoption of features or processes that ultimately benefit the resident experience while supporting key property management business objectives like revenue, growth, retention, and profitability.
Ketan Parekh
Managing Director, Head of Capital Markets and Lender Relations
Toorak
Ketan Parekh is Managing Director and Head of Business Development .
Ketan has over 25 years of experience in residential structured products, mortgage and real estate banking. Prior to Toorak, Ketan was a Managing Director at Invictus Capital Partners, an alternative mortgage credit fund, where he was in charge of the business purpose loan business which included sourcing loans, managing credit and operations and portfolio and asset management. Prior to Invictus Ketan was a Partner & Managing Director at Window Rock Capital Partners, a mortgage credit fund which acquired residential mortgage loans -- specifically non-owner-occupied business purpose loans. Previously Keta ...
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Justin Parker
Chief Financial Officer
RCN Capital
Justin Parker, Chief Financial Officer, joined RCN Capital in 2017. Since joining the company, Justin has taken over all Treasury, Credit, and Capital Market functions. He is responsible for day-to-day loan funding, portfolio oversight, cash management, cash flow forecasting, FP&A, and banking and funding relations. Justin also manages RCN’s short and long-term forecasting, loan sales, credit facility relationships, and asset-based analytics in regards to liquidity, income generation, and portfolio performance. Additionally also leads product creation and implementation for RCN. Justin has previously worked at Ally Financial, Inc. and Finance of America, where he supported the Finance, A ...
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Natalie Passerini
SVP-Growth
PlanOmatic
While digital marketing has been a buzzword for more than a decade now, Natalie is a true holistic marketer who believes that an effective marketing strategy should include various tools to be successful from digital marketing and public relations to events, advertising, social media marketing and content marketing. A self-proclaimed “scrappy marketer,” Natalie is an expert at crafting effective and data-driven marketing campaigns based on smart spends and strategic partners that generate impactful results and business leads. Her smart marketing strategies and creative campaigns helped PlanOmatic achieve its highest-ever annual revenue in the company’s 16-year history, marking a 63% incr ...
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Sal Patalano
Executive Vice President - North America
Plentific
Sal began his career a Director at the University of Miami where he co-founded the Microcomputer Institute. A serial entrepreneur, he founded his first software publishing company delivering innovative solutions for the Macintosh. As one of IBM’s first channel partners in the mid-90's, he delivered solutions ranging from mainframe to distributed platform. He went on to build, lead and sell a succession of software/services businesses prior to joining IBM as an executive hire in 2007. As worldwide VP, he held sales, channel, operational and transformational roles. As VP Global Marketing for CA Technologies in 2014, he headed up global channel marketing. Following CA Technologies, he was ...
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Pat Patterson
Director of Multifamily
Petscreening
Pat comes to PetScreening with tremendous success and over 20 years in multifamily and single family rental operations, leasing and marketing. She is recognized as an innovative leader and strategic visionary, who has a unique ability to identify and understand customer’s needs in order to achieve specific goals.
Mark Peterson
Director of Build-for-Rent Division
SVN | SFRhub Advisors
Mark Peterson is the Director of the Build-for-Rent (BFR) division at SVN | SFRhub Advisors in Phoenix, Arizona. In this capacity, he leads all activities associated with BFR activities at SVN | SFRhub Advisors. These activities include leading a team that has analyzed BFR portfolios around the country. The portfolios analyzed have been in association with listing engagements for builders and developers and consulting assignments for capital and development groups.
Mr. Peterson and the BFR team have consulted extensively with investors and potential investors of BFR portfolios. Consultations have included multinational real estate private equity groups down to family offic ...
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Joe Petrusky
Director of Acquisitions
TCS Anika Homes
I lead the sourcing, analysis, contracting, and closing of all the single-family property transactions for TCS Anika Homes, a real estate investment fund. This fast-growing company is working to institutionalize the single-family residential asset class. We are in the process of scaling to buy 400 units in 2021, and thousands thereafter throughout the country.
We are building beautiful homes to benefit this vastly underserved demographic. All of our homes are gut renovated properties with brand new plumbing, electrical, and HVAC and boasting quality finishes seldom afforded to the more financially challenged tenants in the neighborhoods we serve. We like to think that we are more ...
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Brian Pidgeon
VP, National Sales Executive
ServiceLink
Brian Pidgeon currently serves as SVP, Business Development for ServiceLink, directly responsible for maintaining existing relationships for some of ServiceLink’s largest accounts, and developing new client relationships. Pidgeon is responsible for product strategy, working with clients to develop custom valuation programs, new product development, and enhancement of existing products on all of his client accounts.
Pidgeon's background includes significant client relations and management experience, including integrated corporate marketing strategies, corporate communications, multi-million dollar system implementations, and global technology strategies for a variety of clients r ...
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Thomas Poe
VP, Business Development
PCCP, LLC
PCCP invests equity capital in joint ventures with third party real estate investors and operators. Investment opportunities in the single family for rent space typically include development and recapitalization investments with build-to-rent partners. PCCP's strategy in the BFR space is agnostic to property type (detached, townhomes, cottage) and we typically target equity investments of $10MM+. To date, PCCP has closed 12+ BFR JVs with ~2,000 units build or in development across the country.
Thomas Poe joined PCCP in May 2021. Mr. Poe is responsible for Business Development for PCCP’s single-family build-for-rent business across the United States. Prior to joining PCCP, Thom ...
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William Powers
President
RTO Property
Founder and President of RTO Property LLC. RTO Property provides a single source solution for real estate investors to purchase local real estate for Buy-N-Hold portfolio as well as Flip investments. RTO Property will identify investments, redevelop property, prepare the property for rental or sale, and manage the property or sell it. RTO Property has managed the purchase, redevelopment and disposition of more than 300 properties. We are expanding our rental portfolio in SWF with BTR units in 2022.
Domonic Purviance
Subject Matter Expert
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
Mr. Purviance serves as a Senior Financial Policy Analyst within the Supervision and Regulation division at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. In this function, Mr. Purviance is primarily responsible for conducting an ongoing assessment of risks associated with residential real estate markets and the potential impacts they may pose to the financial system. This includes analyzing conditions within individual markets as well as the impacts of external forces on real estate. In addition, Mr. Purviance is responsible for developing real estate related analytical reports and tools utilized throughout the Federal Reserve System to aid in risk surveillance and banking supervision. Prior to joini ...
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Casey Quinn
Chief Executive Officer/Owner
CityLife Realty Group
Casey is a certified public accountant with over fifteen years of accounting, consulting, and real estate experience. His passion has always been in process improvement and scalability. He began his career in real estate in 2018 as the CFO of a small residential investment and management company in his hometown of Pittsburgh, PA. After one year in the role, Casey joined his now current partner, Brian Kirchner, to create an investment and management company of their own, Citylife Realty Group.
Since launching in May 2019, CityLife has grown to over 700 units under management, 450+ of which are directly owned. Growing the Company to over 65 employees has allowed CityLife to qu ...
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Celeste Quraishy
VP of Procurement and Pro Development
PunchList USA
Celeste Quraishy has over 20 years of progressive leadership experience in the real estate industry with a proven track record of scaling vendor operations, building and managing cohesive multidisciplinary teams, and driving growth for both startups and publicly traded companies. Prior to joining PunchListUSA, she was the District Manager for American Homes 4 Rent where she grew and managed the field, leasing, and property management teams responsible for a portfolio of over 2,500 properties. Prior to that, she held Director-level positions at Altisource and The American Home, where she implemented strategic business development, procurement, and vendor management initiatives that supported ...
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Jamie Rey-Hipolito
Vice President, Single Family Rental
ServiceLink
Jamie Rey-Hipolito is Vice President for ServiceLink’s Single Family Rental division. In this role, Jamie leads a passionate team of associates to deliver a suite of products to meet investor and client needs. She is responsible for helping clients and investors navigate this growing space and delivering unparalleled service and solutions to meet their portfolio needs. Jamie is an industry trailblazer – bringing a wealth of knowledge, experience, and a strong passion for delivering first-rate customer service.
Prior to joining ServiceLink, Jamie held positions at Archstone, Invitation Homes and most recently Zillow Offers.
Jamie graduated from the University of Pho ...
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Chris Riley
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Blaze Capital Partners
Chris serves as Co-Founder and Managing Partner, responsible for strategic planning of day-to-day operations including investment strategies, debt and equity capital market activities, acquisitions, development, and asset management in real estate private equity.
Prior to co-founding Blaze Capital Partners, Chris was a Managing Director of Investments at Greystar Real Estate Partners, where he spent 14 years serving in multiple key leadership roles across the company. He served as the Portfolio Manager overseeing Greystar’s flagship, value-add acquisition fund series, an aggregate real estate portfolio totaling over $4.5 billion in assets across the United States. As a Portfolio Manag ...
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Mackinley Robinson
Director
Berkadia
Mackinley Robinson is a Director of Berkadia’s Seattle Mortgage Banking office. He provides debt and equity financing for all property types to facilitate acquisitions, refinances, and recapitalizations across the United States. Mr. Robinson represents capital partners Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, HUD, Life Companies, CMBS, and private capital including debt funds. Throughout his career, Mr. Robinson has worked on the closing of more than $1 billion in loans for clients. He has placed capital for build-for-rent communities, scattered site SFR portfolios, multifamily, hotel, office, retail, industrial, affordable housing, and a number of other property types.
Mackinley is an active member o ...
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Matt Rodak
Founder & CEO
Fund That Flip, Inc.
Matt Rodak - Matt is the Founder and CEO of Fund That Flip, a venture backed real estate investment marketplace specializing in short-term loans for residential real estate investors. As an active real estate investor, Matt became frustrated with the inefficiencies and lack of transparency offered by traditional lenders.
Fund That Flip’s technology provides ease-of-use, speed and transparency to professional real estate investors. For accredited and institutional investors, the platform automates sourcing, underwriting and loan origination providing unprecedented access to this desirable asset class.
Prior to founding Fund That Flip, Matt led sales and marketing f ...
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Lee Rogers
President
realprotect
Lee Rogers serves as the President of realprotect, a division of The Norton Agency, a third generation Real Estate and Insurance Brokerage. realprotect was formed in 2014 to address the emerging opportunities in residential real estate investment. Lee works with real estate investors, lenders, property managers, and marketplace platforms to provide insurance and risk management solutions. Lee and the realprotect team insure over $7 billion dollars of residential real estate throughout the United States, and he is regularly a panelist and contributor, providing insight into the insurance industry's view on the risks associated with residential real estate investment. He resides in Gainesvil ...
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Marc Romito
VP, Enterprise Solutions
Elevation
Marc Romito is one of the foremost experts in utility grid operations, maximizing renewable energy solutions, and meeting customer needs with innovative, industry-leading distributed energy resources. He currently serves as the Vice President of Enterprise Solutions for Elevation, a fully integrated residential energy solutions provider serving residents, institutional landlords, and electric utilities in multiple states. In this role, Marc helps Elevation customers strategically deploy energy technology and establish the most beneficial partnerships possible with their utility companies.
Previously, Marc served as Director of Customer to Grid Solutions at Arizona Public Service ...
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Amy Rosellini
Chief People Officer
New Western
Amy Rosellini is passionate about building strong company networks that connect people through culture and opportunity. She believes the best way to build customer and employee loyalty is through two-way trust and collaboration.
As the Chief People Officer of New Western, Rosellini is responsible for designing and implementing leadership development programs, succession planning and talent management to maximize the company’s growth and expansion. She also leads knowledge management, organizational development, recruiting, change management and engagement strategies.
Previously, Rosellini served as the Chief People Officer at Park Place Dealerships, where she led orga ...
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Mitchell Rosen
Managing Director, Head of Real Estate
Yieldstreet
Mitchell Rosen is a Senior Director, Head of Real Estate at Yieldstreet. Mitch joined the company in October 2018 after spending the previous 5+ years at Brigade Capital, a $23B alternative asset manager where he led the firm's efforts in investing in real estate securities and debt instruments. Prior to Brigade, Mitch spent just under 9 years at Marathon Asset Management, an NYC-based alternative asset manager working in the debt lending business as well as the CMBS underwriting & trading business. He entered the real estate investment space as an analyst at Capital Trust, at the time a publicly-traded mortgage REIT specializing in subordinated debt lending. Mitch joined J.P. Morgan in ...
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Jared Rossean
Director of Technology
ROI Property Group Management
John Ryan
Chief Strategy Officer
Genesis Capital
As Chief Revenue Officer, John oversees Genesis Capital’s growth strategy, originations, sales, marketing, business development technology and geographic market expansion initiatives. His goal is to approach each client with the understanding that we will be partners for many years.
Prior to joining Genesis, John spent his career in institutional fixed-income sales and trading. At both Goldman Sachs and Bear Stearns, he specialized in trading residential mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and their derivatives – providing liquidity to institutional investors, managing risk, and developing new products.
John also held senior sales roles and responsibility for the develop ...
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Polina Ryshakov
Sr. Director, Research & Econ
Sundae
Polina is dedicated to understanding the future of residential real estate focusing on the factors that affect market dynamics, the evolving behaviors, and the needs of stakeholders in the real estate market, including homeowners, agents, and property investors. She generates insights that drive Sundae's corporate, product, and marketing strategy and produces insights that help Sundae's key stakeholders navigate important decisions.
As a Real Estate Economist with more than 15 years of experience across commercial and residential real estate, Polina has expertise in research, demand/supply analysis, profitability analysis, and feasibility studies. Prior to joining Sundae, Polina built ...
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Martin Saenz
Managing Partner
Bequest Funds
Martin founded a Federal Government contracting company in 2005 he later sold in 2013. He has been a buy and hold real estate investor and hedge fund operator since 2009. He began investing in mortgage notes in 2013 and currently co-manages a hedge fund that buys distressed mortgage debt nationwide. Additionally, Martin and partner launched Bequest Funds as a 50MM 506c Reg D Income Fund early 2020. Martin holds an MBA from Drexel University & an MS in Project Management from George Washington University.
Ryan Sailor
Head of Strategy
Aureus Finance Group
Ryan Sailor, Head of StrategyAs Head of Strategy, Ryan guides strategic decision making and leads key initiatives across the organization. Prior to Aureus, he was Managing Director at Crestline Advisory Group where he completed over 200 consulting engagements, including due diligence for M&A transactions, equity investments, approval and renewal of large credit facilities, and establishment of mortgage loan purchase agreements. In addition to reviewing over 100 originators and institutional capital providers in the private lending industry, he performed due diligence across several other asset classes, including conventional mortgages, non-QM, institution ...
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Leo Sanchez
Head of Acquisitions
Mynd
- Accomplished real estate executive with over 18 years of diverse, dynamic, & demonstrated success in many facets & asset classes of real estate. Leo has spent the last 10 years in the SFR & PropTech sector, accumulating investment experience working for & with the largest private & publicly traded respected organizations in the sector.
Datha Santomieri
Co-Founder and Vice President
Steadily
Datha Santomieri is the co-founder and vice president of Steadily, a national insurance agency focused on providing a tech-forward experience for landlords to secure a quote for their properties within minutes. Before founding Steadily, Datha spent ten years at Arrowhead in the Brown & Brown National Programs Division leading operations and implementing key programs and acquisitions. Her early career was spent in GEICO's management training program in Lakeland, FL. Datha studied at Richmond American International University in London and American University in Cairo before graduating from the University of Tampa. She is a CPCU and a CIC, so she loves to talk insurance.
Ranajoy Sarkar
Chief Product Officer
Roc Capital by Roc360
Ranajoy Sarkar is the Chief Product Officer at Roc Capital, a middle market focused real estate lender for non-owner occupied residential and commercial real estate. He was a portfolio manager in the mortgage strategies group at Napier Park Global Capital (2007-2016), a multi‐strategy asset manager with $6bn in AUM, and its predecessor Citi Capital Advisors and at Koch Global Capital (2006-2007). He was the Managing Director of Fixed Income Research at Bear Stearns (2003-2006) and an Associate of Fixed Income Trading at Lehman Brothers (1998-2000). He has a Bachelors of Technology in Aerospace Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India in 1996; M.B.A. from the John ...
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Christopher Sayler
Managing Partner
Pikes Peak Capital
Christopher is Founder and Managing Partner at Pikes Peak Capital which creates and manages high-return, opportunistic, distressed single-family real estate funds. Pikes Peak Capital's funds purchase deeply-discounted residential houses and resell them to families who may not qualify for traditional mortgages by replacing traditional bank mortgages with seller financing. This process empowers low-and-moderate-income families to own their own homes while providing a diversified, asset-backed opportunity to investors. Pikes Peak Capital also manages more traditional single-family NPL and distressed REO funds.
Feel free to reach me at christopher@pikespeak.capital or text/call me ...
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Andrew Schaffler
Managing Director
Angelo, Gordon & Co.
Andrew Schaffler joined Angelo Gordon in 2018 and is a Managing Director in the real estate group responsible for the firm’s activities in real estate special situations as well as identifying inefficiencies and providing capital market solutions in the listed property markets in the U.S. and Europe. In addition, Andrew is responsible for nationwide coverage of the single family for rent sector. Prior to joining the firm, Andrew served as the Director of Listed Real Estate Securities for Madison International Realty where he was responsible for all aspects of the firm’s public markets investing activities. He was the portfolio manager for a Listed Property separate account and commingled fun ...
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Brett Scott
Senior Director of Strategic Accounts
Propertyware
Brett has over 20 years of experience working with customers to implement best in class solutions that will create efficiencies in their day-to-day operations as well as have a positive impact on the bottom line. He prides himself on taking a consultative approach that focuses on each customer’s business model, key performance metrics, and long-term initiatives.
Geoff Segal
Cofounder and CTO
TaxProper
Geoff is the Co-Founder and CTO of TaxProper, the leading property tax management software for real estate operators. TaxProper's products manage and forecast property tax liability and assessment data, automate property tax payments and accruals, and identify property tax savings opportunities. TaxProper products cover more than 75,000 units and $15 billion in real estate value, and TaxProper works with industry-leading clients such as Progress Residential, Amherst, Invitation Homes, and American Homes 4 Rent. TaxProper has raised more than $2 million in venture capital from leading investors such as Y Combinator, Khosla Ventures, Global Founders Capital, and Clocktower Ventures. ...
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Rick Sharga
Executive Vice President Market Intelligence,
ATTOM
Rick is the Executive Vice President of Market Intelligence for ATTOM, a market-leading provider of real estate and property data, including tax, mortgage, deed, foreclosure, natural hazard, environmental risk, and neighborhood data.
One of the country’s most frequently-quoted sources on real estate, mortgage and foreclosure trends, Rick has appeared on CNBC, CBS News, NBC News, CNN, ABC News, FOX, Bloomberg and NPR. Rick is a founding member of the Five Star National Mortgage Servicing Association, on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Default Professionals, and was twice named to the Inman News Inman 100, an annual list of the most influential real e ...
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Pratik Sharma
Managing Director
Bridge Tower Partners
Pratik Sharma is Managing Director at Bridge Tower Partners, one of the largest private single-family rental (SFR) asset managers in the U.S. Mr. Sharma is a graduate of Boston University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering. Mr. Sharma started his career as an asset management executive at Atyant Capital Management in India. As co-founder and Managing Director at Atyant, Mr. Sharma was solely responsible for growing a start-up hedge fund by over $350 million in capital. While at the firm, Mr. Sharma managed the research devel ...
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David Shaw
Founder/Director
West Florida Invest
David Shaw has been an industry leader in the Tampa Bay Area and has over 25 years scaled several highly successful Fix and Flip, Buy and Hold and New Home construction entities as principal director. David has exclusively operated within the "Investor" space throughout his career and worked extensively internationally at scale before focusing exclusively on the Florida market. David has teamed up with many national brands and groups to offer trusted strategic partnerships to out of state operators wishing to gain scale and presence within the Tampa Bay Area.
Mahesh Shetty
Chief Executive Officer
ILE Homes
ILE Founder & CEO Mahesh Shetty presented the idea of creating wealth for investors through residential real estate investments approximately four years before ILE was founded.
Raj, a veteran investor, worked closely with Mahesh for four years to design a turnkey operations-driven single-family rental platform. Hundreds of meetings to iron out the strategy, the buy box and risk-mitigation checkpoints ensued, eventually resulting in ILE’s founding.
The DMagazine and many other media outlets have recognized Mahesh as the top corporate finance executive. Mahesh’s leadership, wealth of knowledge, and experience in successfully leading growth, driving profits, ...
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Alex Sifakis
President
JWB Real Estate Capital
Alex Sifakis is a founder and the President of Jacksonville Wealth Builders (JWB), a vertically integrated single family real estate investment company located in Jacksonville FL. JWB provides acquisitions, rehab, and property management services to a wide array of buyers, as well as manage their own rehab-to-rental Fund. With 7 years (and ~700 houses) of single family experience, and an in-house acquisitions department, construction company, and property management company, JWB is able to procure houses that provide superior returns to what is readily available in the marketplace. JWBs experience extends to all types of houses and areas, A-D (although historically have focused mainly in C & ...
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Robin Simon
Partner
Easy Street Capital
Robin Simon is a Partner at Easy Street Capital, overseeing the EasyRent division, which provides long-term financing on business-purpose 1-8 unit residential mortgage loans that are originated for sale on the secondary markets. He is responsible for managing all aspects of the EasyRent line, including the marketing, business development, operations and secondary/capital markets. Prior to Easy Street Capital, he served as Chief Investment Officer of Stronghill Capital, another private mortgage lender, and a Manager in EY’s structured finance advisory group. He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University and the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin and is currently lo ...
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Jerry Slusky
Principal
Picket Fence Communities
Doug Smith
Portfolio Manager & COO
Castle Rock Capital Management
Doug Smith spent 30+ years in Private and Commercial banking and serves as the Chief Operating Officer for Castle Rock Capital Management. Castle Rock started more than a decade ago to manage distressed loans, develop residential real estate, and provide loans to real estate investors and flippers. Doug manages the lending side of the company. He’s always looking to meet new lenders to broker loans through or capital providers to develop new lending programs with. He would also love to chat with capital and asset providers to hook up with our real estate development and flip sides of the business.
Smith started his career with Norwest in the St. Louis market where he cut his tee ...
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Adam Stern
Chief Executive Officer
Strata SFR
Adam has been a fixture in the institutional single-family rental space for over a decade. Adam co-founded OwnAmerica, an online real estate marketplace designed to list and sell SFR portfolios which was aquired by Renters Warehouse in 2018. Adam later founded Strata SFR, the industry's premier single-family rental portfolio and build for rent brokerage. Over the course of his career, Adam has brokered more than $500 million in real estate volume including acquisition programs lead for major REITs, SFR Portfolios, and build for rent projects throughout the US.
Jason Stewart
Chief Investment Officer
FJ Real Property
Jason Stewart served as Chief Operating and Investment Officer of Promise Homes. Prior to Promise Homes, Stewart founded the institutional equity research group of a Washington, D.C. policy- and financial services-focused investment bank, serving as Managing Director and Head of Research. Stewart spent most of his 20+ years in the investment industry as a hedge fund manager overseeing portfolios of real estate, fixed income, equities and derivatives. Stewart received his BS in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from the University of Richmond, and has received the CFA designation. Additionally, he is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Washington, D.C. ...
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Jennifer Stoops
Exec VP Corporate Development
Park Avenue Properties - A PURE Company
Jennifer joined Park Avenue Properties as a Property Manager in June 2007 as their first property manager and worked her way up to ultimately being promoted to Executive Vice President with direct oversight of all areas of the firm’s business. In January 2021, Park Avenue Properties made the decision to become a part of something greater in the SFR industry and joined other industry leaders to form PURE Property Management. Park Avenue Properties and it's team have become Park Avenue Properties, A PURE Company. Pure PM operates across multiple states including NC, SC, GA, TN, TX, CA, WA, with several additional states slated to roll out. Thecompany has some of the best and brightest minds i ...
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Zachary Streit
Founder & Managing Partner
Way Capital
Zachary D. Streit has arranged and closed in excess of $1 billion of debt and equity financings for a broad array of real estate transactions. He has significant experience arranging and closing construction, bridge and permanent financing across all commercial property types. Zachary’s clients recognize him for his relentless focus on execution and responsiveness.
Zachary is an active member of real estate industry groups and related charities and has a number of professional designations. Affiliations include: Urban Land Institute (ULI), International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), City of Hope’s Los Angeles Real Estate and Construction Association, UCLA’s Real Estate Alum ...
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Kelly Stumphauzer
Principal
Prosper Investments LLC
Kelly Stumphauzer has twenty years of experience in the real estate investing industry and throughout her career has created a family of companies centered around Commercial and Residential Real estate services including leasing, sales, property management , title and construction in the northeastern Ohio market.
Misha Sulpover
VP of Artificial Intelligence Product
Cherre
Misha Sulpovar was born in Kiev, Ukraine and has 15 years of experience in product management, data science and AI. Misha's prior roles included heading AI for IBM Watson Advertising and Weather as well as building AI practices at enterprise scale for Fortune 500's such as ADP. Misha has been extremely passionate about finding better ways to unlock value through data science and AI. Misha has been investing in real estate since 2007. He holds a MBA from Emory Goizueta School of Business and lives in Atlanta, GA.
Blair Sweeney
Managing Director
Landmark BTR
Blair Sweeney is a Managing Director in Landmark Properties’ development group and leads the company’s build-to-rent platform. Blair is a veteran of the multi-family industry, where he has spent the majority of his career in a variety of roles in development, asset management, and property management. Notably, his prior experience includes six years as a developer with Landmark’s student housing platform, where he was involved in the development of many of the company’s flagship assets. He is also an experienced developer and former executive in the self-storage sector, both with a public REIT and an entrepreneurial, Atlanta-based developer.
Blair is a graduate of the Univer ...
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Robert Talas
Co-Founder
Flatiron Realty Capital
As Founding Partner of Flatiron Realty Capital, Robert Talas leads the Company’s business development and loan origination efforts, also overseeing many of the day-to-day operations of the firm. In alignment with Flatiron’s risk-based investment philosophy and commitment to prudent credit quality standards, Robert has leveraged his 20 years of industry experience in Agency lending to drive the Company’s infrastructure development consistent with institutional standards and the manufacturing of investment-grade quality assets. Robert is also directly responsible for leading Flatiron’s TPO production channel, which offers table-funded alternatives and line of credit solutions to approved count ...
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Mike Tamulevich
COO
Marketplace Homes
Mike Tamulevich is a President at Marketplace Homes specializing in Asset Management and Investor Services. Mike leads a team of 80+ that manage over $1B in SFR assets in 30+ markets nationwide. Mike and his team work with a diverse client base representing over 5,000 active SFR assets as well as manage inquiries from more than 1,500 investors on a monthly basis. MH can customize a solution for any client from standard Property Managment services to active acquisition and disposition services.
Family Office backed, with deep roots in accounting and legal, MH can service the most complex Real Estate opportunities.
John Tarantino
VP/Lending Team Manager
Genesis Capital
John is the Lending Team Manager for Genesis Capital’s multifamily business line. In his role, he works directly with deal sponsors, brokers and capital advisors on structuring custom construction, bridge and long-term debt solutions across asset classes including traditional multifamily, in addition to build-to-rent projects, SFR rental portfolios and short-term vacation rental portfolios.
Lauren Taylor
CEO
Capaven
We are a full-service operations company and are income-producing experts for Single, Multi-Family, and Commercial investors. We are made up of 3 specialized divisions:
RHC Management: Multi-family + Commercial Brokerage and Property Management ranging from industrial, retail, and land
to multi-family and asset management.
Rent Haven: Single + Multi-family Management specializing in LIHTC, affordable housing, and voucher-based housing
Realty Haven: SFR Brokerage + Acquisitions focused on tertiary southeastern markets.
Since 2018 we have led the acquisition of over 150 million in assets, renovated over 1200 assets, and have active LIHTC developm ...
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Jeff Tennyson
CEO
Lima One Capital
Jeff Tennyson is President and CEO of Lima One Capital. Jeff is responsible for the Company’s overall business strategy and day-to-day operations. Tennyson brings more than 30 years of financial services leadership, operating and executive experience to Lima One. Since joining in 2018, he has led the Company to exponential growth with Lima One recently being recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of America’s Fastest Growing Companies on the Inc5000 list and also led the Company’s recognition as a Top Workplace and Best Place to Work. Tennyson has held various C-level executive roles for both single-family rental and residential mortgage lenders. Prior to Lima One, Tennyson was President of Cl ...
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Jeffrey Tesch
CEO
RCN Capital
Jeffrey Tesch, Chief Executive Officer, is responsible for overseeing the operations of RCN Capital, including sales growth initiatives, underwriting review with compliance oversight and leadership of senior level strategic planning.
Joining the Company in 2010 as Managing Director, Tesch led efforts to develop a national brand in private lending with the best practices and transparent products for a diverse customer base. Since RCN’s inception, Jeff has personally overseen over $1 Billion in originations.
Jeff’s previous real estate experience was as an investor in both commercial and residential properties, ranging from single f ...
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William Tessar
President & CEO
CIVIC Financial Services
With over 30 years of mortgage industry experience, visionary lending leader William J. Tessar joined CIVIC in March 2017.
William previously founded and served as President of three mortgage companies resulting in residential funding volume exceeding $35 billion. On top of his leadership accolades and track record of scaling organizations to new heights, William was formerly one of the nation's top loan originators. Having been in the shoes of the originator, he has a unique vantage point that creates a recruiting, training and management style that sets the gold standard among industry leaders.
His industry knowledge and people-first philosophy have resulted in several personal ...
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Nate Trunfio
Senior Director - Head of Sales
Lima One Capital
Lima One capital is the Nations Premier Private lender for real estate investors of all shapes and sizes. Our product suite includes financing solutions for fix and flips, SFR new construction, rental properties, rental portfolio's, and multifamily assets. Contact Nate directly to find out how you can obtain the best financing options available.
Bio:
Nathan Trunfio has spent his entire career in the lending and real estate industries where he’s had experience as a sales manager, trainer, director of operations, capital markets, credit officer, and is now the Sr. Director of Sales & Marketing at Lima One Capital, a lender offering financing to investors on fix and flip ...
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Samuel Tucci IV
CEO
Resolute Property Solutions LLC
Sam Tucci is the co-founder and CEO of Resolute Property Solutions, a provider of mortgage field services, property maintenance and repairs, and renovation services as a general contractor and construction manager. Tucci is a results-oriented leader with proven success in new market identification and strategic positioning for constructions and field services organizations, increasing sales and growing bottom line while spearheading operational improvements to drive productivity and reduce costs. Tucci is 26 year veteran of the single-family residential construction and maintenance industry. In his leisure time, Tucci enjoys spending time with his wife and son, reading, active sports, and p ...
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Fred Tuomi
Former CEO
Invitation Homes
Frederick C. Tuomi
Mr. Tuomi served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of Invitation Homes Inc, the nation’s largest single-family rental company, from 2017 until his retirement in 2019. Prior to its merger with Invitation Homes, Mr. Tuomi served as Chief Executive Officer and Director of Starwood Waypoint Homes from 2016 until 2017. Prior to its merger with Starwood Waypoint Homes, he served as Co-President and Chief Operating Officer of Colony American Homes, Inc. from 2013 until 2016. Mr. Tuomi was Executive Vice President and President—Property Management for Equity Residential, the nation’s largest multi-family REIT, from 1994 until his retirem ...
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Kris Van Meter
Head of Portfolio Management
Darwin Homes
Paul Viguerie
National Business Development Manager
Altisource
Paul has more than 25 years of experience working in the financial services industry as both an investor and advisor specializing in risk management systems in alternative markets. Paul leads revenue growth efforts across Altisource’s vertically integrated suite of products and services in the Single-Family-Rental Sector. Paul is happily married, has three daughters, a Golden Retriever, and lives in Texas.
Bill Waltenbaugh
Chief Appraiser
Finance of America Commercial
Mr. Waltenbaugh is the Chief Appraiser at Finance of America Commercial. He is a certified appraiser with over 30 years of experience in the real estate appraisal industry. During these years, Bill witnessed and experienced first-hand the many regulatory changes that occurred in the appraisal profession, from the advent of licensing to the passage of the Dodd-Frank Act. With over a decade of experience as a Chief Appraiser and Director of Compliance, Bill has developed a proven track record of implementing necessary policies and procedures to ensure quality and compliance. Bill holds the SRA and AI-RRS designations with the Appraisal Institute and is the father of five boys, with the oldest ...
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John Watt
VP, Program Manager Investor Division
Unitas Financial Services
John Watt, ARM, VP, Product Manager Unitas Financial Services began his insurance career in 1985.
John has a degree in Risk Management and has a wide range of insurance coverage knowledge providing the technical expertise to join the needs of the client together with the very best options available in an ever changing marketplace.
He has developed numerous specialty insurance programs including Real Estate Investors, Property Managers, Aggregators, Apartment Complexes, Self Storage Warehouses, Shopping Centers, Office Buildings and Commercial & Office Warehouses. Essentially, programs to benefit virtually any type of income producing Real Estate based portfolio. ...
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Dan Weitzenkamp
Chief Operating Officer
Apex Asset Management
Dan currently serves as Chief Operating Officers for Apex Homes Management, one of the country’s fastest growing providers of construction, turnkey and maintenance solutions to the SFR community’s largest players. Dan has been in the construction service and renovation business for over 28 years. He personally holds 32 State GC licenses across the United States. Previously, Dan served as VP of Operations for the 5th largest property management and construction services providers in the country. Dan holds an Eagle Award for Business Management and is a Six Sigma Black Belt. He has his MBA from the College of William and Mary. Dan also has an Associate’s Degree in Culinary Art ...
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Dillon White
Senior Account Executive
Rently
Greg White
Principal Broker & Owner
Imagine Home Realty
With over 15 years of professional real estate experience, Greg White and Imagine Home Realty are the best choice for buying, selling, rehabbing and managing investment properties in the Metro Detroit Area. Greg is one of the top 250 agents in the USA according to REal Trends based on transactions completed for multiple years running and is not slowing down. Greg was also given the 5 Star Professional Award in Real Estate and the Distinguished Realtor Designation© as of late. With countless awards and credits beginning to pile up Greg is building and maintaining the fasest growing real estate brokerage in the State of Michigan.
Greg is also the CEO of Wildcat Prope ...
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Adam Whitmire
Director of Acquisitions
The Whitmire Group, LLC
Chris Willard
General Manager | Portfolio Marketplace
Roofstock
Chris Willard is the General Manager of Portfolio Marketplace for Roofstock. Roofstock is the leading online marketplace for SFR investing. Since 2016, Roofstock has completed more than $4 billion in transaction volume.
While at Roofstock, Chris has advised on over $2.5 billion in SFR & BTR portfolio sales containing more than 15,000 properties. Prior to this, he has held roles at Waypoint Homes, Starwood Waypoint and Colony Starwood, where he was responsible for overseeing the acquisition of 3,000+ homes across California. With over 12 years of experience in private equity and commercial brokerage, he has extensive knowledge of SFR and has played a foundational role in growi ...
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Lydia Winkler
Co-Founder & COO
RentCheck
Lydia is the co-founder and COO at RentCheck. RentCheck is Lydia's third tech company she's been a part of. RentCheck is a software platform, which brings transparency to security deposit deductions and helps property managers save time on inspections with easy self-guided inspections that anyone can do from their smartphone. Lydia holds a Juris Doctor and Masters in Business Administration from Tulane University and a Bachelor of Arts from Kenyon College.
Josh Woodward
Chief Financial Officer
Lima One Capital
As CFO, Josh manages all aspects of the firm’s liquidity, capital planning, and financial reporting. Josh is responsible for the company’s loan servicing and product development activities. He played an integral role in the design and implementation of the Rental30 investor loan program and continues to drive product and capital strategy across the firm.
Prior to joining Lima One Capital, Josh worked for Bank of America’s Enterprise Capital Management Group, where he evaluated and advised on the impact of capital regulations on lines of business across the franchise. He held additional corporate finance roles at Bank of America, including positions in Retail Distribution and Supp ...
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Steve Wunch
VP of Marketing & Events
Leap
Steve Wunch is VP of Marketing & Events for Leap (www.leapeasy.com), a FREE Security Deposit Replacement and Rent Guarantee platform that boosts NOI and increases physical and economic occupancy.
Steve is responsible for bringing a deep expertise of the multifamily industry. His role supports all aspects of the business including indirect sales, thought leadership, product innovation, and the presence of the Leap brand in the industry. He leverages that experience to represent LEAP as a thought leader in sales opportunities and product planning, as well as through webcasts and blogs, speaking engagements, and other venues as needed.
Steve is also the founde ...
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Colleen Yeager
SVP - Operations
Quinn Residences
Colleen Yeager is currently the Vice President of Operations for Quinn Residences. Quinn Residences is an institutionally backed real estate operating company focused on acquiring, developing, and operating well located, purpose-built, single-family rental homes located primarily in the SE United States. Colleen was formerly the VP of Operations for Invitation homes and was responsible for the entire South Florida portfolio for the nation's largest SFR platform. She collaborated and facilitated the financial management, acquisition, and dispositions of 5,600 +/- SFR homes.
Prior to, Colleen was the Senior Regional at Equity Residential and managed EQRs largest MF portfolio in S ...
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David Young
VP– Correspondent & Strategic Partnerships
Sharestates
David Young has worked in the Private Lending industry since 2014. He successfully built from scratch a boutique financing business for ticket brokers and a wholesale business channel for a nationally well recognized private lender. David is now building out and scaling the Correspondent Program for Sharestates while also sourcing strategic partnerships to support long term growth.
David is also a private investor and enjoys spending time on various projects and activities to include crypto, fitness, art, and enjoying time with his family. David resides in Boston, MA with his wife and daughter.
Andy Zhu
Director of Business Development
Pentagon Holdings
Andy Zhu is a Gen Z Real Estate Developer, Broker, and Affordable Housing Advocate focused on creating purpose-built spaces for the current and future generations. He is passionate about discovering innovative uses of our resources to provide accessible, safe, and healthy homes for all.
Andy is currently the Director of Business Development for Pentagon Holdings, a build-for-rent, multifamily, and mixed-use company based in Nashville. Andy also is a trusted voice in the development and investment sphere, having amassed a following of over 100,000 on TikTok who listen to his thoughts about markets and the future of investing (@genzrebuilds). He also has been a featured speaker on ...
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Boris Zhuravel
Managing Director
CoreVest Finance
Boris Zhuravel is a Managing Director at CoreVest Finance where he originates and structures construction, bridge and term loans. Prior to joining CoreVest Boris was as Principal at Aristone Capital where he was responsible for origination, structuring, underwriting, closing, and servicing construction and bridge loans. Boris began his career at Credit Suisse and subsequently worked at CIBC, Deutsche Bank and Ten-X where Boris built the capital markets desk and the firm’s European business. Boris has a BA in Economics from Haverford College, and an MBA from Columbia Business School.