• Ralph Rosenberg
  • Dean Adler
  • Carletta Ooton
  • Kim Hourihan
  • Sean Bannon
  • Anthony Giordano, Jr.
  • Eric Newman
  • Paul Capurso
  • Michael Eglit
  • Clarke Hitch
  • Joel Traut
  • Paul B. Fine
  • Francis Greenburger
  • Lee Levy
  • Will Milam
  • Alan Todd
  • Abbe Borok
  • Mark E. Hertz
  • Yorick Starr
  • Robert Deckey
  • Philip J. McAndrews, Jr.
  • Diann Hsueh
  • Kelly Souza
  • Alex Schaefer
  • Susan Morth
  • Katie Cappola
  • Curtis Probst
  • Aundre Oldacre
  • Diego Hodara
  • Remy Raisner
  • Nitin Jagga
  • Nicholas Baccile
  • Shaunak Tanna
  • Frederick N. Cooper
  • John Randall
  • Michael R. Negari
  • Craig Deitelzweig
  • Stephen A Woodard
  • Stephen R. Quazzo
  • Peter C. Lewis
  • Thomas J. Henry
  • Bonnie Neuman
  • Mansoor Ghori
  • Nicholas Hoffman
  • David Moss

Speaker Profiles

Ralph Rosenberg

Partner, Global Head of Real Estate, KKR

Ralph Rosenberg (New York) joined KKR in 2011 and is a Partner and the Global Head of KKR's Real Estate Platform. Mr. Rosenberg is Chairman of the Board of Directors of KKR Real Estate Finance Trust Inc., Chairman of the Board of Directors of KKR Real Estate Select Trust, and a member of the Board of Directors of KKR Realty Japan Management. Prior to joining KKR, he was a partner at Eton Park Capital Management and managed his own firm, R6 Capital Management, which later merged into Eton Park. Previously, Mr. Rosenberg was a partner at Goldman Sachs. Mr. Rosenberg is a member of the Board of AFIRE, a Governor of the Urban Land Institute Foundation, and serves on the Brown University Investment Committee and the Investment Committee of the Urban Land Institute. He is a former global and U.S. Trustee of the Urban Land Institute, former chair of the Board of Directors of the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) and a former member of the Board of Directors of the PREA Foundation. He is an Emeriti Member of the Brown University Corporation and is an Honorary Trustee of the Francis W. Parker School in Chicago, Illinois. He is also a former trustee of the Stanford Graduate School of Business Trust and a former trustee and former vice-chair of the Board of Directors of the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, New York. Mr. Rosenberg holds an undergraduate degree from Brown University, where he graduated magna cum laude, and holds an M.B.A from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Dean Adler

Co-Founder & CEO, Adler Companies

Dean Adler is CEO and Founder of Lubert-Adler Partner, L.P., a real estate equity firm with over $7 billion in equity and $17 billion of assets under management. He serves as head of the investment committee and is responsible for leading the strategic direction of the firm.
Adler began his career at Ernst & Young, Baker and Hostetler and CMS. He is an Executive Committee Member and Research Sponsor for the Zell/Lurie Real Estate Center of The Wharton School. He has been a keynote speaker for national real estate organizations such as the Urban Land Institute and the International Council of Shopping Centers. Adler has served on numerous community boards and has served on the City of Philadelphia’s Economic Development Summit.
Prior to founding Lubert-Adler, Adler graduated magna cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He holds a J.D. degree with honors from the University of Pennsylvania Law School and was an instructor at the Wharton School.

Carletta Ooton

Head of ESG & Operating Partner, Apollo Global Management

Kim Hourihan

Chief Investment Officer, CBRE Real Estate Investment

Kim Hourihan is Chief Investment Officer for CBRE Real Estate Investments (“REI”). In this role, she is responsible for the overall investment strategy for REI, including investing CBRE capital into CBRE Investment Management investment programs and Trammell Crow Company development deals.

Kim previously served as CIO – Americas Direct Real Estate Strategies for CBRE Investment Management and Portfolio Manager for one of the firm’s comingled funds. As CIO, Kim was responsible for the product strategy of the Americas. As Portfolio Manager, she was responsible for all aspects of the fund, including strategy, acquisitions, disposition and fund management. She also has served as a Managing Director and the Portfolio Manager for two international sovereign wealth fund clients, with total assets under management of more than $4 billion representing 11.7 million square feet. In this position, Kim was responsible for client relations, portfolio management, asset management, acquisitions and dispositions.

Kim is passionate about strategic thinking, continuous learning and creative problem-solving for her clients. She enjoys the tangibility of real estate, the challenge of launching new entities and the opportunity to support and coach senior talent. 

Prior to joining CBRE Investment Management in 2007, Kim was Senior Vice President at Starwood Capital Group. Previously, Kim was Partner and Regional Director at TA Associates Realty. Prior to that, she was Senior Vice President at the Georgetown Holding in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, directing multiple acquisitions ranging from a bank in Geneva to a magazine in Hong Kong. Kim began her career in 1990 at U.S. Trust Company where she was responsible for construction lending on real estate.

Kim earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Boston College and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from Harvard University. She is a member of the NCREIF Reporting Standards Board and was named one of PERE’s 2021 Women of Influence.

Sean Bannon

Managing Director, Zurich Life

Anthony Giordano, Jr.

Executive Committee, Teachers'​ Retirement System of the City of New York

Mayor Eric Adams appointed Anthony “Tony” Giordano to the New York City Public School Board in January 2023. The School Board appointment includes board membership on the $8 Billion NYC Board of Education Retirement System (BERS). Leveraging his professional experience, Giordano’s colleagues elected him to the BERS Executive Committee & the School Board Chair designated Giordano her proxy to the NYC Teachers Retirement System ($95 Billion).

Professionally, Giordano founded Legacy Partners USA, LLC, a full-service business development consultancy in 2014. Prior to launching Legacy Partners, Mr. Giordano had a distinguished twenty-year career on Wall Street, serving as Director of Sales and Marketing at hedge fund of funds, Larch Lane Advisors; Director of Pension Strategies at Credit Suisse USA; and was a senior vice president at Bank of New York affiliate, Converg Ex. Prior to Wall Street, Giordano was a City Hall lobbyist with Montalbano Initiatives, representing the interests of several labor unions and quasi-governmental agencies.


Brooklyn College (CUNY) prepared Giordano well for his current role as an education policy maker and fiduciary, as he was elected to 2 consecutive terms as chairperson of the University Student Senate (USS) and student member of the City University of New York Board of Trustees, while earning a BA in Political Science.


Giordano currently serves on the board of Bertha Lewis’ action tank, The Black Institute and on the Advisory Board of the New American Alliance. Giordano also directed the mentor program while serving the board of tenant advocacy group, Palante Harlem, and is a supporter of Kentucky-based Sparrow Missions, leading missionary teams of Wall Street professionals to Honduras in 2013 and 2014.


Tony Giordano is most importantly a proud father and husband. His two undergrad daughters, Kira (22) and Devin (20), are respectively preparing for Law and Med school. Mr. Giordano is married to New York City immigration attorney, Aizhan “Aya Baltabek” Yerezhepova.

Eric Newman

Treasury Manager, City of Stamford

Eric is responsible for treasury, investment management, and pension fund accounting. He serves as a Trustee on the Classified Employees Retirement Fund Board, Other Post- Employment Benefit (OPEB) Board, Defined Contribution Retirement Plan Board and City’s Investment Advisory Committee. Eric is a Trustee on the Town of Fairfield Employee Retirement Board and Joint Retirement Investment Board. Prior to entering government finance, Eric held finance positions at Royal Bank of Scotland, IBM Global Financing, Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder, Price Waterhouse and Soros Fund Management. Eric received his B.B.A. in Accounting from Adelphi University; Certificate in Investment Banking from New York University, M.B.A. in Finance from Sacred Heart University and is pursuing a Corporate Finance Certificate at Harvard University. He is a Certified Public
Accountant (CPA) and a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA).

Paul Capurso

President/Assistant Executive Secretary-Treasurer, New York City & Vicinity District Council of Carpenters

Paul has been a union man since he was 17. He worked his way up from journeyman to lead carpenter then to foreman, and super for an interior systems contractor. Paul wasn’t just committed to union values, he also wanted to put that passion to work in leadership. This carried him to a number of positions at the Local 157 and the Manhattan and Queens Rep Centers. In 2020, he was elected to his current position. Paul’s rich experience from every level of the union means he understands the needs and concerns of our members. He puts that experience to use leading the New York City District Council of Carpenters by advocating for union values at all levels of government.

Michael Eglit

Senior Managing Director and Head of U.S. Originations, Blackstone

Michael Eglit is a Senior Managing Director and Head of U.S. Originations in Blackstone’s Real Estate Debt Strategies (“BREDS”) group. Since joining Blackstone, Mr. Eglit has been involved in sourcing, underwriting, negotiating and structuring debt investments across all asset types and geographies.

Before joining Blackstone in 2010, Mr. Eglit was with Wrightwood Capital where he underwrote and originated first mortgages, mezzanine loans and preferred equity.

Mr. Eglit received a BA from Lehigh University and an MBA from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.

Clarke Hitch

Managing Director - Blackstone

Clarke Hitch is a Managing Director in the Blackstone Real Estate Debt Strategies Group, where he is involved in sourcing, underwriting, negotiating and structuring senior loans, mezzanine loans, preferred equity and other debt investments across all asset types and geographies throughout the U.S.

Prior to joining Blackstone in 2013, Mr. Hitch worked at Morgan Stanley in the Commercial Real Estate Lending Group.

Mr. Hitch graduated from Duke University with an AB in Public Policy.

Joel Traut

Partner and Head of Originations, KKR

Joel Traut (New York) joined KKR in 2015 and is a member of the Real Estate team. He serves as Head of Originations for KKR Real Estate Credit and is responsible for business development, the origination process and team coordination across the real estate direct lending business. In addition, he is involved in sourcing, underwriting, negotiating and structuring debt investments across all credit products, asset types and geographies.  Mr. Traut graduated summa cum laude from the University of Kentucky and holds a B.B.A. in Finance and Marketing. Mr. Traut serves on the University of Kentucky Gatton College of Business and Economics’ Finance Advisory Board. Mr. Traut is currently a member of the Urban Land Institute, Commercial Real Estate Finance Council, and National Association of Industrial and Office Properties ('NAIOP') where he sits on its Capital Markets Council.

Paul B. Fine

Managing Director, KKR & Co.

Paul Fine (New York) joined KKR in 2015 and is a member of the Real Estate team. He is responsible for sourcing and executing debt investments across KKR’s real estate credit strategies. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Fine was a director at Cantor Fitzgerald where he helped to set up the real estate finance platform and was responsible for loan originations. He began his career at Credit Suisse in the real estate finance group. Mr. Fine graduated from Cornell University, magna cum laude, with a B.S. in Applied Economics and Management.

Francis Greenburger

Founder, Time Equities Inc.

Francis Greenburger is an American real estate developer, literary agent, author, art collector, philanthropist, and founder of Time Equities Inc., Art Omi, Inc., and the Greenburger Center for Social & Criminal Justice. Francis Greenburger is the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer of Time Equities Inc. Founded in 1966, Time Equities Inc. (TEI) has been in the real estate investment, development, and asset & property management business for more than 50 years. He is also the Chairman of Sanford J. Greenburger Associates (SJGA), a literary agency founded by his father in 1932. He is the Founder and Chairman of Art Omi and Art Omi Pavilions, a sculpture and architecture park, unique museum complex, and arts center founded in 1992, which also provides residencies for visual artists, writers, dancers, musicians, and architects from all over the world. Most recently, Mr. Greenburger founded the Greenburger Center for Social and Criminal Justice in 2014, which advocates for reforms to the criminal justice and mental health systems. He also serves on the board of several not for profit organizations and is an active donor to over 300 charitable organizations. Mr. Greenburger graduated from Baruch College in 1974 with a degree in Public Administration. He is an avid tennis player and traveler. He resides in Manhattan with his wife, Isabelle Autones, and is the proud father of four children: Morgan, Noah, Julia, and Claire.

Lee Levy

Co-Head of US Real Estate Credit Investing and Managing Director, Real Estate Investing, Goldman Sachs

Lee is a managing director in the Real Estate Group within Goldman Sachs Asset Management, serving as co-head of US Real Estate Credit Investing. He joined Goldman Sachs as a managing director in 2017.
Prior to joining the firm, Lee spent seven years at TPG and Deutsche Bank, where he was a managing director and a founding member of TPG Real Estate Finance, a carve out of Deutsche Bank’s Commercial Real Estate Special Situations Group business. Before joining Deutsche Bank, he held positions at Centerbridge, Morgan Stanley and LNR Property Corp.

Lee is a member of the executive committee of the Board of Directors of Jewish Community Project Downtown.

Lee earned a BSBA in Finance, magna cum laude, from the University of Florida in 2002.

Will Milam

Managing Director and Head of US Investments, Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing

Alan Todd

Managing Director/Head of CMBS Strategy, Bank of America

Alan Todd is head of U.S. Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities (CMBS) Research and a member of the CREFC Board of Governors. In this role he is responsible for providing in-depth analysis and macro-level overviews of the CMBS, CMBX and commercial real estate markets. 

Alan brings over 20 years of CMBS experience to this role and is highly regarded for his recommendations and timely market calls. Alan correctly called the recovery of the CMBS market since the 2009 bottom and the decline of the CMBS market in 2008. Alan has been ranked in the top 3 for CMBS strategy in the Institutional Investor All-America Fixed Income Research team survey in each of the last fourteen years. 

Alan joined Bank of America Merrill Lynch in August of 2011 from J.P. Morgan, where he was head of CMBS research since 2005. Previously he spent five years at Bear Stearns, also in CMBS Research. Alan received his Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Syracuse University, his Master’s degree in Finance from Vanderbilt University and is a CFA Charter holder.

Abbe Borok

Managing Director and Head of US Debt, BentallGreenOak

Mark E. Hertz

Head of US Investments, Managing Director, Corebridge Real Estate Investors

Mr. Hertz is responsible for AIG Global Real Estate's U.S. equity investment activities, overseeing various real estate teams that source, underwrite and close new acquisition and development opportunities for all product types, including multi-family, retail, office, industrial, hotel, and senior/student housing. Prior to joining AIG Global Real Estate in 2009, Mr. Hertz was a Managing Director at Amstar Global Advisors, a private equity fund, where he was responsible for all real estate investments and dispositions, with assets in Russia, Turkey and India. Prior to Amstar, Mr. Hertz was a Managing Director at AIG Global Real Estate where he was responsible for U.S. retail property investments. Prior to AIG, Mr. Hertz was a Senior Vice President at Prime Retail, a Baltimore based REIT, where he was mainly involved in acquisitions and development, property dispositions, asset management and structuring lender and equity partner work-out strategies. Mr. Hertz received a Bachelor of Science degree in Real Estate from The Pennsylvania State University and a master's degree in real estate investment from Johns Hopkins University.

Yorick Starr

Managing Director, Invesco

Yorick Starr is Senior Director of Structured Investments with Invesco Real Estate ("IRE"). Based in New York, Yorick is primarily responsible for loan originations covering the East Coast region, with an emphasis on the primary and gateway markets. Loan products are focused on non-recourse, floating-rate, transitional senior and subordinate loans (including mezzanine loans and B-notes) secured by institutional quality real estate. Prior to Invesco, Yorick worked at Wells Fargo for 15 years in Real Estate Merchant Banking division, with experience ranging from opportunistically acquiring commercial real estate loans (single notes & pools) in the secondary market and providing leverage on commercial real estate loans acquisitions (performing loans through NPL pools) as well as leveraging direct originations by debt funds (A/B, senior/sub, note-on-note, & repo structures).

Yorick is a graduate of the University of San Diego (BBA, Finance, Accounting, IT, Computer Science).

Robert Deckey

Managing Director, Invesco

Robert Deckey is a Managing Director with Invesco Real Estate (IRE). In this role, he is responsible for executing IRE’s investment strategy in the East Coast, including industrial, apartments, office, affordable housing, manufactured housing, self storage, and retail. Since joining Invesco, he has completed $6.5 billion in investments, including ground up developments, value-add redevelopments, joint ventures and core. He is a member of the screening committee and investment strategy group. He also is a board member of Homestead Communities, a manufactured housing company based in San Francisco. Prior to joining IRE in 2016, Mr. Deckey was chief investment officer of George Comfort & Sons, Inc., where he was responsible for new acquisitions and capital markets, including a number of large distress office building investments, like Worldwide Plaza in NYC in 2009. Mr. Deckey also worked for over 10 years in real estate corporate finance at Citigroup and JP Morgan. He advised real estate investment trust clients on equity and debt raising, initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and asset sales. Before that, Mr. Deckey worked at AEW and EF Hutton in acquisitions and portfolio management. He has over 30 years of real estate experience. Mr. Deckey earned a bachelor of administration degree in electrical engineering and economics from Brown University, and an MBA in real estate finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Urban Land Institute and the Real Estate Board of New York.

Philip J. McAndrews, Jr.

Chief Strategy Officer, RXR

Diann Hsueh

Deputy Portfolio Manager and Head of Commercial Asset Management, CBRE

Diann Hsueh joined CBRE Investment Management in 2010. Diann is the Deputy Portfolio Manager for CBRE Strategic Partners U.S. Value 8 and 9 and is responsible for driving each fund’s investment performance. She played a key role in prior capital raising efforts, yielding over $4.9 billion in equity commitments for CBRE Strategic Partners U.S. Value 7, 8 and 9.

From 2010 to 2017, Diann was a member of the firm’s acquisitions team, responsible for underwriting, negotiating, structuring and closing transactions throughout the U.S. Diann was directly involved in the acquisition, financing and disposition of over $3.0 billion in investments.

Prior to joining CBRE Investment Management, Diann was a member of the Asset Management team at CenterSquare Investment Management.

Diann earned a Bachelor of Science degree, cum laude, in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the CBRE Women’s Network and the CBRE Asia Pacific Network. Diann previously served as a committee leader for CBRE Investment Management’s Real Estate Network of Executive Women (RENEW).

Kelly Souza

Managing Director - CRE ESG, Wells Fargo

Alex Schaefer

Vice President - Transactions, Real Assets, AXA Investment Managers US Inc.

Alex Schaefer is Vice President, Transactions for AXA Investment Managers. AXA-IM is part of AXA Group, the Paris-based multinational insurance firm.  AXA-IM is the largest real estate asset manager in Europe and one of the largest worldwide.  At AXA-IM, Alex focuses on investments across the risk spectrum and across property types in institutional markets throughout the country where AXA typically invests alongside proven, vertically-integrated sponsors.

Before AXA, Alex worked for TKF Real Estate Investment where he focused on value creating investments in office and mixed-use assets located in urban centers throughout the east coast.  Previously, he was Head of Acquisitions for ALTO Real Estate Funds, a NY based private equity fund that invested in value-add assets across the country alongside veteran local operating partners. Before ALTO, Alex was a Director of Acquisitions for VEREIT, a publicly-traded REIT that owned over 4,000 properties in 49 states. He found himself at VEREIT after working for American Realty Capital in various capacities before eventually transitioning over to a publicly-traded investment vehicle that was merged in to VEREIT. Alex graduated from the University of Connecticut with a B.S. in Accounting before working for Cushman & Wakefield.

Susan Morth

Chairwoman of the Board and CEO, EIC PACE

SUSAN MORTH is the CEO of the Energy Improvement Corporation, a NY State C-PACE program administrator. Ms. Morth leads overall operations, including the development and implementation of OPEN C-PACE, a public/private partnership that provides commercial property owners innovative financing for energy efficiency and renewable measures. Ms. Morth is the Founder and Chair of the EIC Advisory Committee, a national C-PACE working group which includes large commercial property managers and specialty finance companies. Ms. Morth has over 20 years of capital markets experience including the development of new financial products. Prior to EIC, Ms. Morth was a Partner at Empirical Research Partners and Sanford C. Bernstein & CO LLC.

Katie Cappola

ESG Manager, Madison International Realty

Ms. Cappola serves as ESG Manager on the Portfolio & Asset Management team, with primary responsibility for Madison’s ESG initiatives. Prior to joining Madison, Ms. Cappola held positions including Sustainability/ESG Manager at Empire State Realty Trust,  Sustainability Manager at Jones Lang LaSalle, and Associate Sustainability Project Manager at Jones Lang LaSalle.  Ms. Cappola graduated from Freeman College of management at Bucknell University, where she received her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.

Curtis Probst

CEO, NYCEEC

Curtis Probst is CEO of New York City Energy Efficiency Corporation: a green bank that finances energy efficiency and clean energy projects in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions, with a focus on disadvantaged communities. Before joining NYCEEC in 2018, he was a Managing Director and the Head of Sustainable Finance for RMI, a global clean energy think tank. Previously, Curtis worked in investment banking for over 24 years, most recently, as a Managing Director and the Head of Corporate Structured Finance at Goldman Sachs. Curtis has also served as an adjunct lecturer at Columbia University for nine years. Curtis received a BComm from University of Calgary, an MPA from Columbia University, an EdD from University of Pennsylvania, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Aundre Oldacre

Founding Partner, AoRa Development

Aundre, Managing Partner at AoRa Development, is a construction disruptor with expertise in offsite construction and sustainable development. He oversees the firm's portfolio, from identifying undervalued acquisitions to raising capital. His visionary approach to architectural design and holistic view of deal-making have positioned AoRa as a leader in efficient, sustainable development. His commitment to innovation is evident in his use of cutting-edge technologies, ESG friendly building materials, creative financing and acquisitions strategies. AoRa's strategic use of renewable energy, PropTech solutions, and PACE financing not only benefits the environment but also boosts investor returns.

Aundre has certifications from Cornell’s Commercial Real Estate and Columbia’s Construction Finance Management. He also chairs the Offsite Construction Council with the National Institute of Building Sciences and the finance committee for EIC NY PACE. His innovative prowess was recognized when he won the NYC DOB "Hack the Building Code" contest, creating a solution to expedite permit approval and generate significant revenue for NYC. Aundre's disruptive approach and holistic perspective make him a valuable voice in ESG discussions and a key player in the future of sustainable development.

Diego Hodara

Founder and CEO, Titanium Realty Group

Remy Raisner

Founder and CEO, The Raisner Group

Mr. Raisner is the Founder and CEO of The Raisner Group (formerly Proteus Capital Management), a real estate private equity firm headquartered in New York City.

Initially, The Raisner Group purchased distressed apartment buildings auctioned off by banks. Since then, it has made instrumental contributions to the rebirth of Brooklyn.

Under his leadership, Proteus has raised capital domestically and internationally since 2009. It has been active in non-performing notes and fee simple transactions, and focuses primarily on value-add, residential and mixed-use real estate investments in New York City. Most of the firm’s acquisitions have taken place in the outer boroughs, with an emphasis in the emerging Brooklyn neighborhoods of Bushwick and Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Starting 2013, The Raisner Group also became involved in PropTech, through its affiliate Raisner Tech Ventures, and made seed round investments in such startups as TheGuarantors, Enertiv, RealCrowd, LeasePilot, Nooklyn and PlotBox.

Prior to creating his company, Mr. Raisner worked as an equity trader for a hedge fund in New York and as a private equity investor in Argentina.

In conjunction to being an entrepreneur, Mr. Raisner has been a contributor to numerous international and domestic media outlets since 2011. His articles have been featured in publications including Forbes, Le Monde, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Observer and The Huffington Post (U.S., Canada, France, Italy and Mexico editions) and have been published by think tanks such as The Berggruen Institute, The World Economic Forum and The Urban Land Institute.

Mr. Raisner graduated Magna Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business from Fairleigh Dickinson University, where he wrote a thesis on the Economic Impact of Yugoslavia’s Political Evolution.

He holds a MBA from Columbia Business School with Dean’s List honors, and attended Universidad de San Andres in Buenos Aires. He is a CFA Chartherholder, a Foreign Trade Advisor to the Government of France and a Founding Member of the Transatlantic Forum of the French-American Foundation.

He is a frequent lecturer at universities and conferences, and is involved in various New York City organizations committed to ending homelessness and economically empowering lower-income communities.

He grew up in Paris and played professional basketball prior to his career in business.

Nitin Jagga

Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

Nicholas Baccile

Director, Canyon Partners Real Estate LLC

Nicholas Baccile is a Director within the Real Estate Investment team at Canyon. Mr. Baccile joined Canyon in 2018 and primarily focuses on sourcing, underwriting, due diligence, structuring and executing debt and equity investments in the Northeast U.S. region. Prior to joining Canyon, Mr. Baccile worked at RXR Realty, where he was responsible for asset management of equity and debt investments. Previously, Mr. Baccile worked at Ares Management, where he was responsible for underwriting, due diligence and ongoing asset management of new equity investments. Mr. Baccile is a graduate of Cornell University (B.S., Applied Economics and Management with a minor in Real Estate).

Shaunak Tanna

Executive Director, PGIM Real Estate

Shaunak Tanna is an executive director at PGIM Real Estate. Based in New York, Shaunak is responsible for sourcing, underwriting, and structuring real estate investments including senior and mezzanine loans and preferred equity transactions for the eastern U.S. 

Prior to joining PGIM Real Estate, Shaunak was Head of Structured Investments for Basis Investment Group, LLC, where he was responsible for the firm’s mezzanine and bridge lending, and originated a range of investments across stabilized, development and transitional value-add properties. Before Basis, he was with Terra Capital Partners, LLC and its affiliate The Greenwich Group International, LLC. 

Shaunak has a Bachelor of Commerce in accounting and taxation from the University of Mumbai and a Master of Business Administration in real estate from Baruch College. Shaunak is also a Chartered Accountant, and an active member of the Advisory Board for Steven Newman Real Estate Institute of Baruch College.

Frederick N. Cooper

Senior Vice President, Toll Brothers, Inc.

Fred Cooper is Senior Vice President - Finance, International Development & Investor Relations at Toll Brothers (NYSE:TOL).  Toll, a Fortune 500 Company, is the 5th largest U.S. home builder by revenues, the 6th largest multifamily rental apartment developer, and among the largest land and community developers in the U.S. Toll is also one of the nation’s largest urban high-density/high-rise condo and rental tower developers with 50+ buildings and over 7,000 units completed. 

John Randall

Partner, PCCP LLC

John Randall joined PCCP in December 2009 and leads East Coast originations for the Firm out of New York. Since joining PCCP, Mr. Randall has originated over 100 equity and debt transactions aggregating in excess of $2 billion including hotel, retail, office, condo, multi-family and industrial investments and including senior debt, mezzanine, preferred equity and joint venture equity.  Prior to PCCP, Mr. Randall spent six years and invested over $1 billion in real estate debt and preferred equity positions within the Real Estate Private Equity group of Lehman Brothers. Prior to Lehman Brothers, Mr. Randall was a Vice President with Deutsche Bank, originating and underwriting mezzanine investments for the DB Real Estate Mezzanine Investment Funds. Mr. Randall's experience also includes work at Daiwa Securities originating and structuring conduit loans for their CMBS group.  Mr. Randall started his career with Arthur Andersen and Jones Lang Wootton where he valued over $1 billion of real estate in the U.S. and Latin America. Mr. Randall has over 25 years of real estate experience and holds a B.A. in Economics from Bowdoin College, magna cum laude, and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

Michael R. Negari

Executive Vice President - Family Office CRE, Sovereign Capital NYC

Craig Deitelzweig

CEO, Marx Realty & Improvement Co

Craig Deitelzweig joined Marx Realty as its President and CEO in 2017 and has been responsible for growing the company as well as streamlining the company’s strategy by focusing on value-add office investments in three core markets: New York City, Washington D.C. and Atlanta. Craig is also charged with repositioning Marx’s entire portfolio as well as growing the Marx team and profitability. Over his 25-year career, Craig has vast experience in every aspect of the real estate industry and believes in a very hands-on approach.  

 Prior to Marx, he held senior roles at both private equity and private development companies, including redeveloping over 50 assets in major markets across the country with a particular emphasis on NY and DC. Craig’s projects have received various awards from industry groups such as NAIOP, BOMA, Globe St., Crain’s, Washington Business Journal and AIA. He has been interviewed as a thought and innovation leader in several features in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, CNN, CBS, Bloomberg and on CNBC, and was selected as one of the Real Estate Forum’s Best Bosses of 2019. Under Craig’s leadership, Marx was selected to Crain’s Best Places to Work in 2020, 2021, and 2022. 

 Craig graduated Cum Laude from Tulane University’s Freeman School of Business (where he currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Advisory Board) and earned a J.D. at Fordham University’s School of Law. Craig serves on the Mixed-Use Council of the Urban Land Institute as a ULI mentor; on the Strategic Advisory Council of Shadow Ventures, a venture capital firm specializing in PropTech investments; and on ULI's New York Awards Selection Committee. 

Stephen A Woodard

Managing Director, Westport Capital

Mr. Woodard is a Managing Director based in the Connecticut office.

Prior to joining the firm in 2011, Mr. Woodard was a Vice President in the Commercial Real Estate Department at CIT Group, Inc. Before joining CIT, Mr. Woodard was an Acquisitions Associate at Lexington Realty Trust.

Mr. Woodard holds a B.A. in Economics from Union College and an M.P.S. in Real Estate Finance and Investment from Cornell University.

Stephen R. Quazzo

Co-Founder and CEO, Pearlmark

Stephen R. Quazzo is Pearlmark’s Co-Founder, CEO, and Chair of the firm’s Management Committee and the PEP II Investment Committee. From 1991 to 1996, Mr. Quazzo served as President of Equity Institutional Investors, Inc., a subsidiary of investor Sam Zell’s private holding company, Equity Group Investments, Inc. Mr. Quazzo was responsible for raising equity capital and performing various portfolio management services in connection with the firm’s real estate investments, including institutional opportunity funds and public REITs. Prior to joining the Zell organization, Mr. Quazzo was in the Real Estate Department of Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he was a Vice President responsible for the firm’s real estate investment banking activities in the Midwest.

Mr. Quazzo holds undergraduate and MBA degrees from Harvard University, where he has served as a member of the Board of Dean’s Advisors for the business school and as an Alumni Association Director for the college. He is a Trustee of the Urban Land Institute, past Trustee and Chairman of the ULI Foundation, a member of the Pension Real Estate Association, and a licensed real estate broker in Illinois. Mr. Quazzo is a public company director of Marriott Vacations Worldwide (NYSE: VAC) and Phillips Edison & Co. (NASDAQ: PECO). For 22 years (1994-2016), he also served as a director of Starwood Hotels & Resorts (NYSE: HOT), which in 2016 merged with Marriott International (NYSE: MAR). Mr. Quazzo serves on a number of non-profit boards, including: Rush University Medical Center, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Endowment, the Chicago Parks Foundation, and Deerfield Academy.

Peter C. Lewis

Chairman and Founder, Wharton Equity Partners

Mr. Lewis is Chairman, President and Founder of Wharton Equity. Since its inception in 1987, he has overseen the expansion of the firm’s investment reach across different asset classes and strategies. As Chairman of the Real Estate Investment Committee, Mr. Lewis drives the direction of the firm as it executes its disciplined strategy of recognizing and capitalizing on emerging trends.

Among other initiative over the course of his leadership of Wharton Equity, Mr. Lewis established the firm’s industrial, multifamily, self-storage, homebuilding, hospitality and venture capital platforms resulting in $2.5 billion of transactions.

Mr. Lewis has had a diverse career having been employed in investment banking, commercial banking and tax accounting prior to forming Wharton Equity.  Besides his real estate activities, he is an active venture capital and private equity investor.  Mr. Lewis received his Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his Master in Business Administration from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University. He is a frequent guest lecturer in real estate, and is involved in a number of philanthropic endeavors.

Thomas J. Henry

Co-Head, Weil’s Real Estate

Thomas J. Henry is Co-Head of Weil’s Real Estate practice and is based in New York. Tom has been the leading lawyer on some of the country’s largest and most high-profile commercial real estate transactions in recent years. His practice focuses on advising domestic and foreign real estate companies, private equity funds, and institutional lenders and investors in acquisitions and dispositions, financings, joint ventures, restructurings, and leasing and development transactions both in the United States and internationally involving all major real estate sectors.

Tom is recognized as a leading lawyer for Real Estate by Chambers USA 2024 and is recognized nationally as a leading practitioner by The Legal 500 US 2024, where he is described as being “in a class of his own” and “should be considered one of the best if not the best real estate attorney in the country,” further underscoring that “he has a combination of legal precision and a business acumen that is difficult to match.” Additionally, Tom was profiled as a Law360 MVP in 2014, 2015 and 2020 and was previously recognized as a Rising Star in 2012. He is also a former member of the Law360’s Real Estate Advisory Board.

Tom is a member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association and the New York City Bar Association. He is also a member of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT), the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE) and the International Conference of Shopping Centers (ICSC).

Bonnie Neuman

Co-Chair Finance, Head of Real Estate Finance, Cadwalader

Bonnie Neuman is a co-chair of Cadwalader’s Finance Group, head of the firm’s Real Estate Finance practice, and a member of the firm’s Management Committee. She represents global investment banks, financial institutions, investors, and servicers in domestic and cross-border transactions, specializing in mortgage and mezzanine loans, syndication, loan servicing, non-performing loan securitizations, loan restructuring, and bankruptcy-related matters. She also handles inter-creditor arrangements and secondary market sales of mortgage and mezzanine loans.

In 2022, Bonnie was recognized as a Hospitality MVP by Law360 and a leading real estate finance lawyer by Chambers USA. She has received accolades from The Best Lawyers in America, GlobeSt. Real Estate Forum, Lawdragon, Legal Media Group, and Connect CRE. Bonnie was honored as one of Crain’s New York’s "Notable Women in Law" and "Notable Diverse Leaders in Law."  Bonnie is actively involved in professional organizations like the CREFC Women’s Network and serves as the Co-Chair of the Membership Committee.

Mansoor Ghori

Founder & CEO, Petros PACE Finance

Mansoor Ghori is a Founder, CEO, and Board Member of Petros PACE Finance. He leads Credit, Underwriting, and Business Development, and is the Chairman of the Investment Committee. He is integral to underwriting and structuring transactions, leveraging his 30+ years of experience in structured finance.
Prior to Petros, he was the President and CEO of Accent Capital and was responsible for the investment and administrative activities of the firm. He was also a Managing Director at Transamerica Technology Finance Corporation, which was subsequently acquired by GE Capital, and a Principal at Sternhill Partners, a $100 million venture capital firm based in Houston.
Prior to joining Sternhill, he was the Founder and SVP/Regional Manager of Imperial Bank’s Southwest Region of the Emerging Growth Industries Group (acquired by Comerica Bank). He was also a VP in the National Accounts Division of Silicon Valley Bank, focusing on investments in high- technology and biotech companies in Texas.
Mansoor also currently serves on the following boards: Petros, STG Design, PACENation, C-PACE Alliance, as well as the Andy Roddick Foundation.
In addition, he is also an Executive Committee Member of Petros, PACENation and C-PACE Alliance, and a finance committee member of PACENation and the Andy Roddick Foundation.
Mansoor is a graduate of Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California and holds an MBA from Northeastern University in Boston.

Nicholas Hoffman

Partner, Haynes and Boone, LLP

Nick Hoffman is a partner in the Real Estate Practice Group in the New York office of Haynes and Boone. Nick regularly represents investment banks, commercial banks, and foreign and domestic private equity clients in sophisticated real estate transactions, including structured loans, mezzanine loans, construction financing, preferred equity investments and joint ventures. Nick devotes a significant portion of his practice to capital markets and syndication work in the debt space including note sales, intercreditor arrangements and participations. Nick also has experience with debt restructurings work-outs, and single asset and portfolio acquisitions and dispositions.

Before joining the firm, Nick was a senior executive with the Ruben Companies, a Manhattan based developer, and was involved in all aspects of the management and development of its office and residential portfolio in New York, Washington, D.C. and Boston.

David Moss

Partner, Duane Morris

David G. Moss practices in the area of real estate law. Mr. Moss has extensive experience in acquisitions and dispositions, mortgage and mezzanine lending, real estate development and restructuring of distressed real estate transactions. Mr. Moss routinely represents developers, lenders, investors, landlords and tenants in a wide variety of commercial real estate transactions including joint ventures and workouts, as well as disputes and litigation-related matters. 

Mr. Moss is a 1999 graduate of George Washington University Law School and a cum laude graduate of Albion College.

Links

Mailing Address

6 East 43rd St
19th Floor
New York, NY 10017

Contact Information

Tel: (212) 752-7760 Fax: (212) 202-4220 info@iglobalforum.com

© 2022 iGlobal Forum. All rights reserved to the respectful owner.